THE PRESIDENT’S LETTER
I’d like to welcome everyone to our fall edition, and here we are again—starting up our exciting awards season! Inside these pages, you will find articles of interest to the sound community written by our members, as well as contributions from our corporate sponsors, which we hope you will find interesting as you work and learn in the craft of sound mixing. Your CAS Board has set in motion several ideas and concepts which will expand the reach of the CAS, as well as further our mission to advance the art and craft of sound mixing. Currently on the CAS website, we are posting all the latest CAS Awards news, applications, and online voting information for this year’s awards. Please also note that we have revised three of our categories to now include SCORING MIXERS and ADR MIXERS as nominees. I am very excited to see these and many other changes happening as the CAS grows. Also on the website, you will find our Awards Timeline which dictates our awards season, leading up to the Awards Dinner, held at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles on February 14, 2015. Another positive note—we have announced the inaugural CAS Student Recognition Award. The award comes with a $2,500 grant and is intended to encourage students’ interest in production or post-production sound mixing, and to recognize individual students with exceptional demonstrated passion for the field. One of our founding principles is to foster the next generation of sound mixers and the realization of this award has been a longtime personal goal of mine as a member and an officer of the CAS. The selection criteria will focus on the student’s short essays in response to application questions, along with a professor’s recommendation letter. The finalists will be invited to attend the 2015 Awards Dinner, where the Student Recognition Award recipient will be announced. Very exciting! Again this summer, we had a successful CAS picnic, and are planning more seminars for our members to enjoy in the coming months. Of course, the very well-attended Immersive Sound Conference was a huge success, and we look forward to more in the future. Another goal of ours is to reach out to our national and international sound community, and hopefully bring seminars to the East Coast, and possibly overseas. We are constantly looking for ways to include our ‘out of town’ members, and use the available technology to close the gap of distance, and involve more of our membership in our events. I see no reason to delay! In closing, I’d like to say “THANK YOU” to your CAS Board of Directors, for all its hard work. Nothing can happen without the full participation of many people, and we have a great group working together to move us forward. If you would like to get more involved, just let us know, and you will be welcomed. We have elections coming up very soon so feel free to jump in!
cinema audio society mission statement
To educate and inform the general public and the motion picture and television industry that effective sound is achieved by a creative, artistic and technical blending of diverse sound elements. To provide the motion picture and television industry with a progressive society of master craftsmen specialized in the art of creative cinematic sound recording. To advance the specialized field of cinematic sound recording by exchange of ideas, methods, and information. To advance the art of auditory appreciation, and to philanthropically support those causes dedicated to the sense of hearing. To institute and maintain high standards of conduct and craftsmanship among our members. To aid the motion picture and television industry in the selection and training of qualified personnel in the unique field of cinematic sound recording. To achieve for our members deserved recognition as major contributors to the field of motion picture and television entertainment.
CAS fall 2014 NEW MEMBERS Active
David Barber, CAS Jay Hartigan, CAS Todd Morrissey, CAS Cheryl Ottenritter, CAS Brian Saunders, CAS Blair Scheller, CAS Frank Scheuring, CAS Martyn Zub, CAS
Associate
Happy 50th, CAS! David E. Fluhr, CAS President of the Cinema Audio Society
Kevin Cagnolatti David Griesinger Tim Song Jones David Levine Jeffrey Markham Dirk Stout
Student
John Harton Nikki Myers 4
fall 2014
CAS QUARTERLY