Club Minutes and Notes

08.30.11: Meeting #1 of the 2011-2012 Academic Year

  • AES Membership sign-up (~$40) - sign up at https://secure.aes.org/membership/
    • The date of the AES Convention in New York, New York is on 10.20.11
  • We discussed doing sound for campus events, also getting paid for the events.  Currently the student government allots funds to hire an outside sound engineer.  We all agreed not a single one of us had heard a good sounding event on campus.  John said he would look into who to talk to and discuss this issue with.
  • Currently we do not know if Jude or Doc have any plans to take either Audio Engineering classes to a tour of the new Moog factory.
  • We also discussed doing club visits to members' studios, to learn how others do things, what equipment everyone uses, and to offer any tips/help for the member's studio.
    • Mitch volunteered to go first on 09.08.11
    • This was discussed as possibly being a bi-weekly visits to either member studios or spending time as a club in the 003 Studio.
  • Applied Music Hour:
    • David K. offered to set up a Dropbox for UNCA
    • Also, send all finished Live and Applied performances to Matthew Richmond (merichmond@charter.net)
  • AEC now has a Moodle site.
  • It's been agreed upon that the Applied performances in Lipinsky should never exceed 90 dB.  Please use the SPL meter to make sure.
  • Discussed Sound Exchange for online licensing for getting paid for online plays of your work.
  • Future discussions about ways to legitimately and legally copyright and license your work.
First Meeting - 08.30.11;17:00-17:45