The Second International Symposium «The Sound Recording Industry of Academic Music» will be held in Moscow on October 15-17, 2021 as part of the International Prize for the Best Audio Recording of Russian Academic Music «Pure Sound». Organizer — Russian Musical Union (RMS).
The upcoming symposium is the largest industry event in the country dedicated to topical issues in the recording industry. Its participants will be leading Russian and foreign experts in the field of sound engineering and music production: they will gather to exchange experience and establish cooperation, discuss the main problems of the industry and opportunities for their solution, as well as develop ideas for the development of the domestic sound recording industry of academic music.
Among the speakers of the symposium are world-renowned professionals: sound engineer of the Elbe Philharmonic in Hamburg Udo Potraz (Germany); director, producer, balance specialist of the record company Polyhymnia International Erdo Groot (Netherlands); Maria Soboleva, professor at the All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography, the Moscow Conservatory, the Institute of Contemporary Art; sound engineer of the Moscow Conservatory Mikhail Spassky; sound engineer of the Moscow Philharmonic, head of the sound engineering department of the Russian Academy of Music named after the Gnesins Viktor Osadchev; sound engineer «Mosfilm» Andrey Levin and others.
«The Symposium is a great opportunity for participants in the recording industry to share knowledge, ideas and thoughts on how to improve sound quality in the 21st century,» says Udo Potraz.
The forum program is very extensive and varied. It includes a business part — a scientific and practical conference «Sound engineering — the profession of the future», following which a collection of materials will be published; round table on vocational education in the field of sound engineering; public discussions on copyright issues, interaction of a sound engineer with a composer, performer, producer and label.
In addition, there will be lectures on classical sound engineering, concert recording, orchestral technology in the film industry, as well as master classes on studio recording, restoration of archival recordings, mastering for vinyl, sound engineering in electroacoustic music. The symposium participants will enjoy interesting technical tours to the halls of the Moscow Conservatory, the Bolshoi Theater, Novaya Opera, Stanislavsky Electrotheatre, Helikon-Opera, Mosfilm studio and CineLab.
A large exhibition of professional and sound equipment will be set up at the World Trade Center site, where the companies Neumann, Nikfi, Oktava and others will demonstrate new products in the field of sound technologies. The program of the symposium also includes a concert by the Center for Electroacoustic Music of the Moscow Conservatory in the Rachmaninov Hall.
The international forum will become a unique platform not only for practicing sound engineers and sound technicians, employees of sound workshops of music and drama theaters, concert halls, recording companies and film studios, but also for teachers and students of higher and secondary educational institutions, since it includes a block on education in the field of sound engineering.
The partners of the Pure Sound Prize and the International Symposium are: National Foundation for site the Support of Copyright Holders, Radio Orpheus, International Music Council (IMC), European Music Council (EMC), Radio Russia, All-Russian Congress of Sound Engineers of Music Programs, Kultura newspaper , information portal «Kulturomania», information agency InterMedia, magazine «Musical life», magazine «Sound engineer», audio equipment store Dr. Head.