Toronto AES Bulletin
March 1997
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Toronto AES BulletinMarch 1997
Call for Nominations & Bios |
AES Toronto Section Annual Elections
Be it known...
Nominations are now being accepted for positions on the 1997-1998 AES Toronto Section Executive Committee. All interested parties are asked to contact Peter Cook at pcook@toronto.cbc.ca or make themselves known to one of this year's Executive at our next Section Meeting.
In the coming months, the Toronto AES Section will commence another vigorous nomination campaign for the 1997/98 Executive. Over the next three issues of the Bulletin, we will feature a number of this year's Executive. What is more fitting than to start off with...
Anne Reynolds - Editor of the Newsletter. A graduate of the Harris Institute for the Arts Producing/Engineering Program, and the University of Prince Edward Island with a Bachelor of Business Administration. Anne is currently working as Coordinator for Magnetic Music, the music production arm of Magnetic Enterprises.
Peter Cook - Chairman of the Toronto Section. Peter currently works as Music Editor for CBC Records at the CBC Broadcasting Centre in Toronto and teaches in the Masters of Music programme at McGill University. Prior to joining the CBC in 1991, Peter worked at Classic Sound in New York City, and as a freelance recording engineer and editor in Montreal. He is a graduate of the Sound Recording programme at McGill (B.Mus in'84, M.Mus in '91) and taught classes in that programme for several years. His masters thesis investigated using stereo microphone techniques for encoding acoustic music recordings for Dolby Surround-compatible playback.
Peter is a founding member and past president of the McGill Student Section of the AES and is currently Chairman of the Toronto Section.
Earl McCluskie - Past Chair. Earl studied theory and composition at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario and Sound Recording at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. He began his involvement with audio in 1980 as studio and remote recording engineer at the UWO.
Earl worked in post audio production for the CBC Film Services department, he taught Sound Recording at the State University of New York in Fredonia, he was concert production manager and technical director at Wilfred Laurier University's Faculty of Music, and then he worked at the Banff Centre for the Arts on audio and video projects in its new Media Arts facilities in 1989.
Earl has earned credits on many live and studio recordings, including broadcasts for National Public Radio in the US and CBC Stereo, and in dependent CD and LP releases, and is an avid French Horn player. He is currently a systems tester for Open Test Corporation, a developer of Intranet software technologies, and continues to record as a hobby.
Rob Stevens - Secretary. Rob is a principal of HGC Engineering, a consulting engineering firm specializing in acoustics, noise and vibration control. His areas of expertise include room acoustics(lecture halls, theatres, music rooms, worship spaces); R & D assistance for companies developing quieter consumer products or noise control hardware; and environmental noise assessment.
He received his bachelor's degree (BASc, mechanical engineering) from the University of Waterloo, conducting his undergraduate research thesis in methods of low frequency noise control. He is currently completing apart time master's degree (MASc) at the University of Waterloo, studying under professors Vanerkooy and Ismail.
Rob has been an AES member since 1990, and is currently the Secretary of the Toronto Section.
Angelo Pisciottano - Committee Member. Angelo was born and raised in Toronto. He graduated from York University in 1993 with a degree in Political Science. In 1991 he formed his own company, Pisan Corporation(incorporation pending). Angelo's goal with this company is to assist in both commercial and residential applications of both audio and video. He joined the AES Toronto Section in 1991 and became a Committee Member in1995. In volunteering his time to the AES, Angelo has been able to understand the innovations and goals of advanced audio sound. His major goal with his company at this time, is to develop a standard type of home theatre for all types of venues incorporating video, audio and computers. His company is also looking into developing new innovations that will help advance the fields of audio, video and computers. Angelo is also involved with other organizations setting standards in both audio and video into the next millennium.
Paul Reibling - Assistant Treasurer. From his early beginnings as a rock musician, Paul acquired a life-long interest in speakers and sound reinforcement. He owned a woodworking shop where he designed and built cabinets for JBL, Martin Audio, Celestion & Gauss.
Currently, Paul is involved in CAD and computer modeling for sound system installations, while still enjoying his music "behind the board".
Jim Cox - Committee Member. Jim is senior faculty member and a founding father of Sheridan College's Media Arts Program. He has designed and taught courses in film production, audio, sound design and popular music. He has a B.S. in Film and an MBA in Arts and Media Management. His training includes Eastman's Advanced Recording Institute and a teenage daughter who keeps him "with it" in the pop music genre. His years in the classroom have allowed him to indulge his habit as a raconteur and humourist, and he has the unfortunate tendency to judge people by their willingness to laugh at his one-liners.
John Foudraine - Committee Member. John has been a life long audio circuitry and loudspeaker hobbyist/engineer, specializing in home sound reproduction and column loudspeakers. A 30 year career in telecommunications and instrumentation equipment engineering paid the bills. Lately however, John has found himself working on projects outside of audio to make up for the lull in that area. Writing the meeting reviews for the AES Bulletin keeps him busy and very alert at our meetings-as John says "somebody's gotta do it!"
John is convinced that loudspeakers and their environment in the home have the most potential for home music reproduction improvements.
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