I have recently put my name up for candidacy in the northern region of the Association of German Audio Professionals. What better time to reflect on my activities at VDT events and as a representative of German Tonmeister culture đ
- 2004 Accepted into the VDT
- 2006 VDT International Convention / Tonmeistertagung (TMT) (Leipzig)
âObservations by Walter Murch Jr. and their application to recording and working with soundâ - 2007-05 Forsythe Company (Frankfurt am Main)
Workshop on acoustic analysis - 2008 TMT (Leipzig)
âSonic aesthetics by the `balance engineerÂŽ”
âXYtri – From stereo to surround, and back!â - 2010 TMT (Leipzig)
âThe evolution of surround soundâ
âThe return of the album / Appleâs iTunes LP” - 2011 Appointment to the department âNew Mediaâ of the VDT
- 2012 TMT (Köln)
âLive A/V recording with a 1 person crewâ â Including a field recording session
âLess room 4 more music – Applying the ambisonic paradigm to spaced symmetrical mic-setupsâ
âWorking with centralised microphone arrangementsâ - 2013-03 Workshop @ Prins-Claus-Konservatorium (Groningen)
âA/V-recording for musiciansâ - 2014-11 TMT Köln
Goldener Bobby of the VDT – Classical, instrumental
(and 2nd prize in the category âSound for pictureâ)
Appointment to the department âMusic and word productionâ - 2015-10 Convention of the Analog Audio Association (Krefeld)
âHigh quality digital audio recordingsâ - 2016-04 ProLight+Sound (Frankfurt am Main)
âMiking-101â - 2016-04 2-day workshop @ SEA Berlin
âVideo for Audio-Peopleâ - 2016-09 Convention of the World Federation of Amateur Orchestras (Oslo)
âOrchestral recordingâ - 2016-09 @ Convention of the Bund Deutscher Liebhaberorchester (Regensburg)
âOrchestral recordingâ - 2016-10 International Film and Technology Alliance / IFFT convention #1 (Shanghai)
âThe evolution of 3D-Audioâ - 2016-10 ProLight+Sound (Shanghai)âš
âMiking-101â - 2017-04 ProLight+Sound (Frankfurt am Main)
âMiking-101â - 2017-09 CHOR.COM (Dortmund)
âHigh quality sound recordings for choirsâ - 2017-10 IFTT #2 (Shanghai)
âZwischentöne – Details of Recordingâ
Also: Expert reviewer for the âArt & Craft Awardâ of IFTT - 2017-10 China University of Communication (CUC) (Beijing)
2-day RecShop - 2017-12 AV-Alliance (Stuttgart)
âStereophonic recordingâ - 2018-02 ISE (Amsterdam)
âMiking for stereo, surround and 3Dâ - 2018-04 Lectures @ CUC (Beijing) & Shanghai Normal University
- 2018-04 Zhejiang University of Media and Communication (Hangzhou)
2-day RecShop - 2018-05 ProLight+Sound (Guangzhou)
âMiking-101â - 2018-10 IFTT #3 (Shanghai)
VDT-representative - 2018-11 TMT (Köln)
âNo Compromise Sonics – Optimising the recording chainâ together with Attila Czirja’k
âThe DECCA-tree has more than three branchesâ
âChinese Audio roundtableâ – Featuring Chen Chen of CCTV and Prof. Zhang Yilong of CUC - 2019-10 CUC (Beijing)
3 lectures - 2021 TMT (DĂŒsseldorf)
âProducing electronic musicâ â Together with Ströme
âOops – Mistakes in recordingâ
I also joined Ströme with the Continuum at the Get Together music event - 2021 My article on the XYtri was published in Pfanzagl-Cardone: âThe Art and Science of Surround and Stereo Recordingâ (Springer)
- 2023 TMT (DĂŒsseldorf)
Moderation for âElectronic Musicâ, âAI in audioâ, and âSoundâin Chinaâ