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The Slate of Candidates is:
Officers
- Chair — Greg Dixon
- Vice Chair — Bob Smith
- Secretary — Gary Louie
- Treasure — Lawrence Schwedler
Committee
- Jess Berg
- Dr. Angela Dane
- Micah Hayes
- Dr. Michael Matesky
- Dan Mortensen
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Slate of Candidates and Biographical InformationThe nominations committee has proposed the following Slate of Candidates:Officers
Section Committee (alphabetical order) There are 5 Committee positions open, and 5 people vying to fill those positions. Our by-laws stipulate that new nominations can occur for any open position at the meeting called for the election: the June meeting. You can self-nominate, with a second needed, or nominate someone else who has agreed to run and serve if elected, also with a second needed. Long time Committee member Steve Malott, recently retired from the Music Technology Department at Shoreline Community College, will become a Committee Member At-Large. The top 5 vote getters are elected to fill the Committee positions. Persons serving must be AES members by the time of the summer planning meeting.
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Greg Dixon teaches courses in Advanced Composition and Sound Design at DigiPen. He holds a Ph.D. in music composition with a specialization in computer
music from the University of North Texas, where he worked as a composition teaching fellow, recording engineer, and technical assistant
for The Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia (CEMI). Greg received his M.M. in Music Composition and B.M. in Music Engineering Technology from Ball State University.
Bob has a BSEE from the University of Washington and has worked in the Biomedical industry for over 30 years.
The last 20 years he has spent developing acoustic research and audio engineering disciplines for Styker/Physio-Control to
improve speech intelligibility for medical device voice prompting and voice recording systems in noisy environments.
He is responsible for voice prompting in 30+ languages. The department now handles acoustic measurements of components such as drivers,
microphone capsules and system measurements including Thiele-Small parameters, polar plots, waterfalls, frequency response, impulse response,
several speech intelligibility methods, etc.
Gary has been the recording engineer for the University of
Washington School of Music since 1979, previously earning his BSEE at the
UW. He has served as AES PNW Section Chair, Vice Chair, Committee, and most
recently, Secretary since 1993. Gary is also the co-author, with Glenn White, of the
Audio Dictionary
3rd Ed.
Lawrence Schwedler is a musician with twenty years of experience in the video game industry as a composer,
sound designer, and audio director. In 1993 he graduated with a Master of Fine Arts degree in classical guitar
performance and electronic music from the University of California at Los Angeles. He was a founding member of
the Modern Arts Guitar Quartet, an avant-garde chamber ensemble which toured Europe, Mexico, Canada and the U.S.
Jess has been working as a live sound engineer for over 17 years, and has been recording sound since she got her first Tascam four-track cassette recorder in 1996.
Born and raised in Minnesota, and being a lifelong musician, Jess decided to pursue her audio engineering and production education at The Institute of Production
and Recording in 2002. She wanted to learn how to better record her own music and fell in love with working behind the scenes. She starting running sound in the
local jazz clubs in 2003, and in 2004 was the assistant engineer for Skywynd's
Escape Plan
album. The next year, while still running sound in the jazz clubs,
she also began working at Voiceworks, one of the top local voiceover studios, as their dub room engineer. In 2006, Jess became the Concert & Event Coordinator
for the Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board, booking over 220 shows at five outdoor venues between June 1-Labor Day. During this time she was also a founding
member of the JLR Foundation, a non-profit to help inner-city youth gain access to real-world recording technology in the parks. In 2009 she left the parks to
work at The Institute of Production & Recording as the Academic Coordinator and co-instructor for their immersive SXSW course. Jess got her BS in Media Business
at a sister school during this time, and continued to run sound at the Dakota Jazz Club. She was also a founding member of the Twin Cities Mobile Jazz Project,
a non-profit aimed at providing under-privileged youth direct access to instruments and mentors from the greater MN music community.
Dr. Angela Dane lives in Seattle, Washington, and teaches Women's
Studies at the local community college. Her book,
Sabina Spielrein: The Woman and the Myth
was selected for the Gold Medal in Adult
Nonfiction by Foreword Reviews in 2017. She is a Staff Writer and
Editor for
Tom Tom Magazine,
the only publication in the world
dedicated to female and non-binary percussionists. She owns and
operates the only female and black-owned drum studio in Seattle
dedicated to empowering women through the drum kit, Atrocity Drums.
Additionally, she is the drummer for the all-female heavy rock band
Atrocity Girl, whose members are recording and engineering their own
debut album through a self-built home studio under the auspices of
their LLC. She is currently enrolled in the University of
Washington's Audio Production Certificate Program in order to learn
the ropes of recording and started Seattle's
Womxn & Audio
Facebook Group to connect to and collaborate with others in the community.
Micah Hayes is the Assistant Professor of Music Technology and Director of Music Production at Seattle Pacific University, a position he began in the fall of
2020. He is a recording engineer and composer who began his musical career as a guitarist in his native Southern California. He began recording and composing
music as a student at California State University, Chico where he completed a BA in Music with an emphasis in Recording Arts. After college, he continued his
audio career with the New World Symphony in Miami Beach, Florida where he was the Recording Engineer Fellow from 2000-2002. After receiving a master's
degree in music composition from the University of Oregon, Micah moved to New York where he worked as the live sound engineer for Redeemer Presbyterian
Church's Upper West Side services, while also freelancing as a composer, recording engineer, and educator for a couple of years before accepting a
teaching position at the University of Texas at Arlington. As a professor at UT Arlington, he helped create the Music Industry Studies area, overseeing
the area's growth from 8 to 70 majors. In the summers, he engineered music at the Banff Centre for the Arts in 2001 and at the Aspen Music Festival where
he was a Senior Recording Engineer from 2003-05.
Dr. Mike Matesky, a PNW AES member for over twenty years and current program committee member, has a Doctorate in Music from the University of Washington,
has been a university professor of music, taught advanced audio engineering and been recorded on over one hundred commercial albums.
Dan is President of Dansound Inc., which specializes in live sound reinforcement. He is currently serving on the Committee, and has previously held the posts of Chair,
Vice-Chair, and Treasurer. After 30 years on the Committee, Dan continues to find that serving the AES PNW Section in one capacity or another is still one of his favorite things.