2. What is the Audio Engineer Society?
The Audio Engineer society is a resource/ hub for audio technology.
The website has over 12,000 members that vary from sound engineers, scientists and artists
that are in pursuit of knowledge as well as opportunity in the sound engineering world.
There are over 75 professional subsections that focus on the business and professional end of
the engineering society.
There are also over 95 student sections of the society that focus on consolidating many of the
new findings in the sound engineering realm.
3. Why is the Audio Engineer Society
beneficial? Why should one join?
The Audio Engineer Society helps centralize many resources that are relevant to have in close
proximity.
One can ascertain necessary “niche” knowledge that can help separate him from his peers in the
field of engineering or in the artistry that is in direct correlation with the engineering end.
It also brings seekers of engineering needs as well as esteemed qualified engineers together to
find the appropriate pairing for a given professional task, which is helpful because it is harder to
come across a plethora of esteemed engineers that are recognized as such by other engineers.
4. Audio Engineer Society : Conclusion
This society acts as a valuable consolidation resource that helps bring together individuals that
are from varying levels of qualifications. As well as various areas within the recording and
engineering field itself in order to create a potent resources in the professional Audio world.
5. The Recording Academy
The organization I picked to research was the recording
academy. The recording academy is an academy of musicians,
producers, artists, recording engineers, and other music
professionals. The academy is famous for its grammy awards, which
recognize achievements in the music Industry.
6. Recording Academy History
- The Recording Academy was formally established in 1957
- The first annual grammys was held in 1959 and 28 grammys were given
out
- The second grammys award also held in 1959 was
7. How to join
To join the recording academy you have to get two strong
recommendations from music industry peers. Then they have to go
over your profile after you make one and figure out if they want to
accept you. Just because you got a recommendation doesn't mean
you are automatically going to get in.
8. What happens when you join?
(memberships)
When you join you can join as three different types of members.
- first is a voting member, voting members are for performers,
songwriters, producers, engineers, instrumentalists, and others
that work in this industry. These voting members decide on
who wins the grammys each and every year.
9. Membership
- The next membership is becoming a professional member.
Professional members consist of music business people whose
full time job is to actively support music creators such as an
executive, labels and label distributors, publishers, performers,
and different performing rights organizations
10. Membership
- The last form of membership is a grammy u member. These
are students currently enrolled full time at their college with a
desire to work in the recording industry and want to get help
from the association grammy u to help them grow.
