Category: Department
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Tenure-Track Faculty Search: “Audio for Visual Media”
Date: 10/17/2011 The Department of Audio Arts + Acoustics, Columbia College Chicago, is accepting applications for a Tenured or Tenure-Track faculty position in Audio for Visual Media (Position #: 100246), beginning autumn, 2012. We are looking for a candidate with extensive experience in one or more of the following fields: Audio/Sound Design for Visual and Dramatic Media, including…
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AA+A Hosts NHI Highway Traffic Noise Course for 3rd Year
Date: 9/13/2011 In August 2011, the AA+A Department hosted the National Highway Institute’s (NHI) Highway Traffic Noise course, a research meeting/workshop administered by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), US Department of Transportation (DOT). The subjects in the course (procedures for noise studies and noise abatement measures to help protect the public health and welfare, to…
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AA+A Acoustics program featured in WGN Channel 9 News
Date: 5/13/2011 WGN Channel 9 featured the AA+A Acoustics program on their Thursday 5/12 and Friday 5/13 news broadcasts as part of a transportation noise measurement and mitigation story. Science, art, and technology were brought together productively at AA+A in the service of a real-world topic with relevance to the wider population: noise in general…
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One-night-only: Man, Woman, and the Beast Within!
Date: 4/28/2011 Man, Woman, and the Beast Within will feature the 55-piece Fulcrum Point orchestra, conducted by Stephen Burns, performing live film scores accompanying classic film scenes from: Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo (composer: Bernard Herrmann) Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island (composer: Krysztof Penderecki) Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood (composer: Jonny Greenwood) as well as a special screening of two short films…
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College launches first B.S. Degree in Acoustics of its kind in the U.S.
Date: 3/10/2011 Following a year of research and administrative reviews, President Carter approved on Wednesday, 3/9/2011, the Audio Arts + Acoustics proposal for a new Degree Major: Bachelor of Science in Acoustics. This is an exciting development that responds to the needs of the acoustics industry and graduate education. It places our College at the…
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Joe Grimm Performance in Collaboration with LAMPO
Date: 11/15/2010 JOE GRIMM FRI Nov. 19 at 8pm Columbia College – 916 S Wabash, Rm 214 Admission $10, Students $5 Epic new solo work from Joe Grimm. Circuit-bent 16mm projectors and screen-mounted light-sensitive audio electronics. If you were on a bus, writing a blurb and your stop was coming up, you might say in…
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AA&A Hosts the U.S. DOT’s NHI Research Workshop – Again!
Date: 10/6/2010 In August 2010, the AA&A Department hosted the National Highway Institute (NHI), a research meeting/workshop administered by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), US Department of Transportation (DOT). This is the second year that we’ve hosted NHI and we’re proud of our continuing collaboration with the United States FHWA and DOT and we look…
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2010 ASAE National Symposium and Retreat
Date: 7/8/2010 The American Society for Acoustic Ecology (ASAE) is pleased to announce: 2010 ASAE National Symposium and Retreat: “Listening for the Future” July 9th, 10th & 11th, 2010 This is the first-ever national gathering of the ASAE membership and the general public. Hosted by the Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology and the World Listening…
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Eddie Kramer’s Eclipse Master Class
Date: 4/21/2010 Thu 4/29, 5:00-7:00pm – Eddie Kramer’s Eclipse Master Class Eddie Kramer will be speaking about his music production and engineering career that spans more than four decades behind the board for some of the biggest names in pop and rock music history, including Jimi Hendrix, Led Zepplin, Kiss, Carly Simon, The Rolling Stones,…
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Three Days with Eddie Kramer
Date: 4/20/2010 Eddie Kramer, legendary music engineer and producer (Hendrix, Zeppelin, Stones, etc.) and Rock photographer, will be at Columbia College for 3 days of events, Thursday 4/29 – Saturday 5/1. Details for all events are outlined below. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to experience this influential music figure at work with Columbia College Chicago students. Events…