Category: Faculty
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Jeremy Caldera receives the 2015 Young AV Professional Award – Nurtures L&IS Student Successes – Featured in “Commercial Integrator”!
Update: Jeremy and his “Audio Visual System Design” course are featured in the latest issue of “Commercial Integrator.” Congratulations Jeremy! AA&A adjunct Instructor, Jeremy Caldera CTS-D CTS-I, received the 2015 Young AV Professional Award during InfoComm’s 2015 annual meeting in Orlando, Florida, June 13-19, 2015. Jeremy is Lead Audiovisual Design Engineer at Zeller Digital Innovations (Zdi Inc.)…
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AA&A In the News!
The Audio Arts & Acoustics Department was featured by Mix Magazine twice in the past several months: a) for its innovative curriculum, b) for its long history of placing graduates in a wide variety of audio professions (page 42). Frank Waln, Audio Arts and Acoustics alumnus and Native American rap and hip-hop artist, has captured…
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AA&A Faculty Spotlight: Prof. Howard Sandroff
Composer and Sound Artist Howard Sandroff is inarguably one of the most celebrated artists among the distinguished Columbia College Chicago faculty. His musical compositions are performed, recorded, published and broadcast throughout the world and have been featured at international festivals including The Aspen Music Festival, The International Association for Electronic Arts, The International Computer Music…
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Excited to welcome Jeremy Caldera and Ed Nykaza, PhD to AA&A’s adjunct faculty
We are proud to welcome two new distinguished members, Mr. Jeremy Caldera and Dr. Ed Nykaza, to our part time faculty, a team of highly accomplished and passionate audio professionals, scientists, technologists, and artists. Welcome Jeremy and Ed and thank you, among other things, for each of you undertaking a rather long commute every week…
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Professor Howard Sandroff makes The New Grove Dictionary of Music & Musicians
Date: 11/17/2014 – The AA&A Department and the College at large are proud to share with the community the inclusion of one of our own, Prof. Howard Sandroff, to the latest edition of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2013 print edition; 2014 online edition). The importance of this accomplishment can hardly be…
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AA&A’s Howard Sandroff presents “The Obsessive Image”, Thursday, May 8th, 7:00 PM, Evanston Art Center
Date: 4/23/2014 AA&A’s Howard Sandroff presents “The Obsessive Image” – a presentation and reflection on the relationship between his sculptures and musical compositions – his obsession to freeze the time and motion of music into static spatial constructions, which are now his welded steel sculptures. Date: Thursday, May 8 Time: 7:00 P.M. Place: Evanston Art…
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Audio Arts & Acoustics’ Benj Kanters makes waves in Hearing Awareness & Conservation worldwide!
AA&A associate professor and associate chair, Benj Kanters, has been teaching, researching, publishing, and offering educational and professional workshops on the topic of hearing awareness and conservation for over 10 years. This is now officially his time! The impact of his accomplishments in the area is exemplified in 1. Two National Hearing Conservation awards recognizing his…
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AA&A adjunct faculty Curt Marolt has been busy!
Date: 2/28/2014 When adjunct faculty member, Curtis Marolt, is not teaching Audio Production III to advanced AA&A students, he keeps busy making career strides in our industries. Just this February, Curt completed a custom hard rock cue for the CBS series “The Amazing Race.” Throughout Fall 2013, he completed original compositions for thirteen episodes of the…
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AA&A Prof. Howard Sandroff’s work performed at Clark University (video)
Date: 11/21/2013 During AA&A Prof. Howard Sandroff’s invited residency at Clark University, Worcester, MA. (10/29-30/2013), flutist Emi Fergusen gave a spectacular performance of Sandroff’s composition “Chant des Femmes”. See/hear it on You Tube!
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AA&A Professor Sandroff Recognized for Artistry, Innovation and Inspiration
Date: 11/2/2013 In a recent Columbia College Chicago faculty profile, Professor Howard Sandroff, Audio Arts & Acoustics, discusses his career as an artist, performer and composer. He currently teaches an advanced courses in Sound Art in the Audio Arts & Acoustics Department. In April, 2009, CUBE Contemporary Chamber Ensemble performed three of his works in the College’s Concert…