Audio Arts and Acoustics

AA+A Students share Emmy credit for “Freq Out”

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Date: 12/5/2011 Students in the Spring 2011 “College Studio Operations” course, run by AA+A Lecturer, Ron Gresham, were among two student groups and several alumni winning a “Student Production” award at the Chicago/Midwest Emmys in November. The award was in the...

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AA+A Faculty in the News

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Date: 11/30/2011 AA+A alumnus and adjunct faculty-member, Nick Eipers, and his record label, Chicago Sessions, featured in the Riverside-Brookfield Landmark, November 29, 2011. Nick graduated from Columbia College Chicago with a B.A. in Audio Arts + Acoustics in 1994. He...

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Tenure-Track Faculty Search: “Audio for Visual Media”

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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...

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AA+A Hosts NHI Highway Traffic Noise Course for 3rd Year

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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...

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AA+A Acoustics program featured in WGN Channel 9 News

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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...

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AA+A faculty member, Benj Kanters, receives Learning Studio Award

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Date: 5/10/2011 Benj Kanters, associate professor in the Audio Arts + Acoustics Department, was recognized on May 6th for his long standing involvement with the College’s Supplemental Instruction Program (SI). Mr. Kanters has been an active collaborator of the...

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One-night-only: Man, Woman, and the Beast Within!

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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...

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AA+A Celebrates its Graduating Seniors and Student Award Winners

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Date: 4/26/2011 This year’s Manifest Reception for the AA+A Department will be dedicated to our students, recognizing our graduating seniors and their families and honoring the 2010-2011 student Scholarship and Grammy award winners. The reception will be held on Friday, 5/13, 5:30-6:30pm, 624 S. Michigan...

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College launches first B.S. Degree in Acoustics of its kind in the U.S.

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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...

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AA+A Faculty and Students Garner Grammy Nominations and Win

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Date: 2/23/2011 Audio Arts and Acoustics adjunct faculty member Michael Freeman’s “Joined at the Hip” won a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album on February 13, 2011. “Joined at the Hip” is a Telarc album that Michael Freeman mixed...

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