The AES Show 2024 in New York will feature a session about NPR’s “Tiny Desk” program.
“Neil Tevault, the NPR audio engineer who turned a colleague’s request into the iconic ‘Tiny Desk Concerts’ series, will present early Tiny Desk concerts to reveal the small recording footprint used before it became a must for artists,” the organization said in an announcement.
“Josh Newell, NPR Music’s current technical director, works to keep today’s standards at the highest level. He will share some recent concerts to demonstrate how the audio has evolved.” He will also discuss increasing efficiencies of the recording process and his vision for the sound of the concerts in the future.
The session will be held Tuesday morning Oct. 8.
AES Show organizers have released more details of the overall program.
Producer and engineer Ebonie Smith will be the keynote speaker at the show, which runs Oct. 8–10 at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City. Smith is senior audio engineer and producer at Atlantic Records.
Sessions on the agenda include “Designing an Immersive Audio Production Studio,” “Adventures in Live Streaming,” “Navigating the Legal Landscape of AI in Music and Tech” and “The Technical Legacy of Dr. Robert Moog.”
This year marks the 60th anniversary of the debut of the Moog modular synthesizer and Moog’s AES paper “Voltage-Controlled Electronic Music Modules.”
The convention is co-located with the NAB Show New York and shares an exhibit floor for two days.
