Sennheiser Master Class - Telling Your Story with Sound

January 12, 2017

Sennheiser's Master Class series continues, featuring NYU's Jim Anderson

"A podcast can be more than a monologue or an interview; it can be a rich environment for using sound to tell your story. One can use sound in many ways, whether it’s to set the scene, illustrate a concept, or enliven a journalistic endeavor."

Internationally recognized recording engineer and producer Jim Anderson spoke at Sennheiser's SoHo pop-up store, giving a brilliant interactive lecture as part of Sennheiser's Master Class series.

The talk took the audience on an international aural journey from the 'hollars’ of Kentucky to the streets of Grenada in search of sounds. With Jim Anderson’s deep background in broadcasting, he demonstrated the power of sound to illustrate and enrich a podcast.

 

About Jim Anderson:
Jim Anderson is an internationally recognized recording engineer and producer of acoustic music for the recording, radio, television, and film industries. He is the recipient of numerous awards and nominations in the recording industry: his recordings have received ten Grammy and Latin Grammy awards and 26 Grammy and Latin Grammy nominations; his radio recordings have received two George Foster Peabody Awards and two Emmy nominations for television programs.

A graduate of the Duquesne University School of Music in Pittsburgh PA, Jim has studied audio engineering at the Eastman School of Music and Sender Freies Berlin. During the 1970s, he was employed by National Public Radio and engineered and produced many award-winning classical, jazz, documentary, and news programs. Since 1980 Jimhas had a career as an independent audio engineer and producer, living in New York City. He has been a frequent lecturer and speaker for the Audio Engineering Society and master-class guest faculty member at leading international universities and institutes. He is a professor of recorded music with the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded music in the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and was the department’s Chair from 2004 – 2008.

He has served as Vice President for Eastern Sections of the Audio Engineering society (AES), chaired the New York Section of the AES and was Chair and Co-C-chair of many AES Conventions in NYC. In 2006, he was made a Fellow of the AES and has received four AES’ Board of Governors Awards. He was the President of the Audio Engineering Society, 2008-2009.

In 2013, his remix of Patricia Barber’s "Modern Cool," in 5.1 surround sound, won the Grammy for Best Surround Album at the 55th Grammy Awards. “Sixteen Sunsets" by Jane Ira Bloom was nominated for Best Surround Album in 2014.

 

 

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