All-Russian Congress of Sound Engineers of Music Programs
All-Russian Congress of Sound Engineers of Music Programs
About congress
The main focus of the event is
- Sharing real experiences between active sound engineers.
- Professional training of students specializing in sound engineering and upgrading skills of existing sound engineers.
- New professional audio equipment and the latest technologies to work with sound.
- Creating a platform for live communication between representatives of sound engineering community.
Target audience:
- Theatre and live sound engineers.
- Sound engineers working in recording studios, radio and television studios.
- Engineers and sound engineers of rental companies.
- Professors of musical colleges and higher music schools educating future sound engineers.
- Music students enrolled in the speciality "sound engineering".
- Heads of theatre sound departments and concert organizations.
- Personnel responsible for the technical equipment of concert halls, theatres and clubs.
- Sound engineers and sound technicians working at cultural and leisure services.
Speakers
Dmitry Sukhin
Sound engineer; professor at Institute for Modern Culture
Winner of the National professional award in the sphere of show technologies Showtex Awards (nomination Sound Engineer - Live Concert, 2007) for his work at Nikolay Noskov's concert "Po poyas v nebe" (March 2006).
Dmitry Sukhin worked with
Andrey Ivanov
Live show and studio sound engineer
Andrey started his career in 1993 in a band Black Obelisk. He worked in a legendary Moscow studio SNC. Andrey recorded the following albums: "The Wall", "I Will Stay" (Black Obelisk), "Arms Collector" (Splean), "Goroda, gde posle dojdya dymitsa asfalt" (Garik Sukachov), "Good news", "First Snow" (Moralny Kodex).
Andrey worked at live shows with the bands: Garik Sukachov & Neprikasayemye, Moralny Kodex, TOKIO, Nogu Svelo!, Irina Krug, Mumiy Troll.
Maria Soboleva
Sound engineer, professor, Head of Sound Engineers Guild
In 2001-2010 Maria was head of Sound Engineering Department at Gnessin Russian Academy of Music. Since then and now she is a head of Sound Engineering Department at Institute for Modern Culture.
Maria is the author of numerous scientific papers and academic programmes. She is also a regular holder of master-classes for Russian and foreign audiences.
Pavel Babaev
Sound engineer
Pavel was born in Moscow and received his basic music education at a music school on a class of piano accordion.
In 1996, when he was a 1st year student at university he started working for then unknown company “T-Audio”. Before that he had no notion of live sound. In 1998 he started working on a mixing console. Since then he has worked with a big variety of Russian and foreign artists both as a FOH and MON sound engineer.
In 2000 Pavel got acquainted with the theatre “Quartet I” and since 2001 together with the band “Neschastny Sluchai” and company “T-Audio” has taken part in theatre pieces “Den’ Radio”, “Den’ Vyborov”, “Pisma i pesni...” as a technical director.
In 2008 Pavel started working with the band “Neschastny Sluchai” as a FOH sound engineer and continues doing it up to the present.
Nadezhda Rakhmanova
Sound engineer, university professor
Nadezhda graduated from Sound Engineering Department of Nizhny Novgorod State Conservatoire. She is the author of scientific paper on the supremacy of creative element above technical factors in sound recording. Nadezhda has a solid experience of making live sound for various shows: from rock concerts and musicals to symphony concerts and operas.
Today Nadezhda Rakhmanova is a sound engineer at Mariinsky Theatre, senior lecturer at St. Petersburg University of the Humanities and Social Sciences, member of the international association AES.
Bernd Neubauer (Germany)
beyerdynamic engineer
More than 20 years experience of working as a Live Sound Engineer with Depeche Mode, Phil Collins, Genesis, Bruce Springsteen, Eagles, Nickelback, Rhianna, Enrique Iglesias, Shakira and many many more.
A beyerdynamic engineer since 2000. Specializes on wireless systems, frequency coordination, wired microphones and headphones. Project engineer for several projects with a lot of wireless channels (theatres, universities, etc.)
Alexey Buravlyov
Specialist in digital audio equipment
Alexey is a member of MixArt Distribution since 2012. He works with professional audio equipment of the following brands: Allen & Heath, QSC, Audio-Technica and Denon.
Alexey identifies himself as a sound engineer-"theorist" in concert and studio sphere. He holds trainings on digital mixing consoles Allen & Heath of dLive, SQ and QU series.
Alexey is an active musician and leader of a musical project Sunwalter.
Phil Kamp
Head of Sales at KLANG:technologies, monitor sound engineer, keyboards player
After graduating in "Keyboards and Music Production" at Münster’s conservatory in 2008, Phil Kamp started working for several recording studios and live productions. Phil has been mainly touring as a monitor engineer e.g. with Henning Wehland, "Voice of Germany" winner Ivy Quainoo and persian pop star Ebi. As KLANG:technologies’ Head of Sales, he takes care of trainings and workshops. He also stays in regular and close contact with KLANG's world wide user base to support the ongoing development of the company’s immersive binaural audio solutions.
Frazer Gall
Lecturer at Backstage Academy
From an early age, Frazer could be found behind the sound desk at school or church. At the age of 18 he moved to York, whilst working as a logistics manager, he began volunteering for local production companies, soon progressing onto working as a venue technical manager and freelance sound engineer.
In 2010 he took up a full-time position as the Events Department manager at Rock-tech Projects. Working on a wide range of events, conferences and corporate shows, no two days were the same. Throughout this time, he still managed to get in front of a sound desk, working predominantly with UK and African Gospel acts.
In 2014, Frazer was invited to deliver guest workshops at Backstage Academy. These covered a wide range of subjects including Digital Audio Networking, Show Control and Event Planning. This guest role soon became a full-time position, with him now leading the Sound Engineering Modules for all three year groups. In addition to this, he keeps up to date by freelancing as a sound engineer, technical consultant and trainer for venues and organisations all around the UK.
Vasily Filatov
Sound designer, composer, founder of Sound Design Institute, media producer
Vasily is a leading expert in the sphere of sound design. He is deeply involved in scientific and educational activities. He has created sound design for such international brands as YataPhone, Disney Channel, Mercedes, Porsche.
Vasily is an outside advisor on formation of educational systems and a juryman at film festivals in Russia and abroad. He is a winner of many international awards in the sphere of sound design and music including EventS, TagLine, NYF Advertising Awards.
Liliya Gainutdinova
Product manager of L-Acoustics, AVID and SSL in the company “Sonoruss”, working sound engineer
There is no one in our profession who would not know Liliya Gainutdinova. She is a professional who has a big hands-on experience of fieldwork and knows the industry from inside. Now Liliya is developing three top brands: L-Acoustics, AVID and Solid State Logic. She also gives the training courses for sound engineers on working with mixing consoles SSL and AVID.
Igor Rodovsky
Sound engineer. System engineer
Igor is always on the lookout for interesting projects for creative collaborations.
Evgeny Shuev
Head of the Department of Acoustics Calculations (ARIS), DiGiCo expert
Being a professional engineer with higher technical education and also a sophisticated guitarist Evgeny successfully combines his talents and experience as one of the leading engineers at the company ARIS.
Since 2015 Evgeny has been developing the focus area of acoustics calculations. He took special courses at Architon (Russia) and also at ADA and d&b audiotechnik (Germany) studying software EASE, Sound System Optimization and Line Array Theory.
Evgeny was directly involved in several serious projects by ARIS: Astrakhan Opera and Ballet Theatre, Sports Palace n.a. Ali Aliev, Church of St. George in Paralimni (Cyprus), Moscow State Duma and many others.
Besides, Evgeny is an expert specializing in DiGiCo mixing consoles. He has been working with the brand since 2010. Evgeny took two educational courses at DiGiCo Head Office in London and holds trainings on the SD-series throughout Russia himself.
Boris Agapov
Brand manager of Studiomaster/Carlsbro and FONESTAR in the company Dealer Center
Boris graduated from Moscow State Art and Cultural University in 2000, Faculty of Conductors, Musical variety arts department. His speciality is conductor of a jazz orchestra, special instrument - electric guitar.
Boris is an actively performing musician.
Boris Agapov has a longstanding professional experience of working at various concert halls, studios and also in the sphere of Pro Audio equipment sales.
Ruslan Semenov
Head of Coda Audio Russia
According to his own words Ruslan is “single, wealthy beyond the dreams of avarice, reasonably good-looking and smart”. He is always in quest of the one and only sound of highest quality.
Igor Novikov
Technical director of the Installation department (company “Sonoruss”)
Acoustic systems by L-Acoustics are renowned technical means for providing sound coverage in cultural, sport, recreational and business facilities. In early 2000s Igor Novikov and his partners were the first to bring L-Acoustics line array V-Dosc to Russia. For already 6 years Igor has been the head of the Installation department of the company Sonoruss, certified L-Acoustics representative in Russia. He implemented dozens of projects with L-Acoustics equipment in Russian theatres and concert halls. Igor Novikov can entirely cover the topic of the brand and show all L-Acoustics technologies in science terms.
Ivan Medvedenko
Sound Engineer. Drummer
Ivan has been playing the drums since school and believes there is still lots to learn. His sound engineering career started by chance (a real sound engineer of the band where Ivan was playing didn't come to the show and thus he had to do the live mixing himself).
Ivan is sure that music is only 30% of creative work and 70% of knowledge.
Steven Norman
System engineer. Sound Engineer
In 2017 Steven joined the CODA Audio team as head of application. Now Steven heads up the education and training department for CODA Audio International spreading the CODA Audio technology and philosophy around the world.
Rachel Nicholson
Head of Institution, Backstage Academy
Rachel completed a degree in Lighting Design, before being awarded a postgraduate studentship to study an MA in Theatre Practice where she specialised in Lighting and Digital Scenography. After graduating, she enjoyed a freelance career working in a variety of venues and companies including Sadlers Wells and The National Theatre as a Lighting Designer and Technician, before returning to education permanently in 2006 as a tutor and later Programme Director for Technology Led Programmes at Rose Bruford College. She completed her Post Graduate Certificate in Higher Education with the University of Greenwich in 2009.
Over the past 14 years she has designed, developed and managed innovative programmes of study in both Sound and Lighting, working with industry professionals and industry bodies to ensure that students are exploring issues of contemporary practice and train with state of the art technologies.
Rachel has been the Head of Institution at Backstage Academy since 2018.
Gaëtan Grenier
Director of the company WNM, sound engineer
Gaëtan Grenier has a more than 25 years experience of working in the sound industry. His company WNM provides audio-visual services for more than 20 years. Their main speciality is radio and TV projects and also delivery of equipment and top-level engineers for holding high-profile events: the Olympic games, World/European Football Championships, the Champions League, various TV-shows, music festivals and others.
Dmitry Vdovin
Organizer of the Congress
Dmitry started his sound engineering practice within a musical band in 1987. His professional career continued in the studio SMS specializing in on-site orchestra recording. Later Dmitry got the job of the technical director of the Volga region No.1 rental company ALEF where he also doubled as a monitor sound engineer. As the latter he worked with Nazareth, White snake, Ken Hensley, Glenn Hughes, Soul Fly, Jean-Jacques Milteau and many other stars.
Nowadays Dmitry is a Bose Professional division employee and also a professor at the Sound Engineering Department of Samara State Institute of Culture.
Sergey Borzov
Owner of the rental company BBPro Team
Formerly Sergey worked as a SHURE product manager in Sonoruss Group and also product manager of Roland professional product line.
Alexander Lourie
Head of group of companies "Unvis-Pro"
Alexander graduated from Moscow Aviation Institute, faculty of radioelectronics in 1991. Then he worked at a defense plant for some time.
Since 1994 Alexander is in the sphere of professional sound. He is in favour of natural, "uncoloured" sound. Designing his acoustic systems Alexander pays much attention to minimizing frequency and phase distortions and highlights linear phase-frequency response of sound transmission.
Ian Staddon
VP sales at DiGiCo
Ian is one of the most famous professionals specializing in digital consoles.
Ian has been working for a long while for Harman Group, first at Soundcraft and then at Studer as a VP sales.
Beginning from 2011 Ian has been an international VP sales at DiGiCo.
Vitaly Azarov
Sound engineer of theatre and concert projects
Since 2013 Vitaly Azarov has held the position of a technical director in the rental company “Stage Audio”. In 2019 he completed certification training in AVID office in the UK, successfully passed the exam and confirmed his status of an ACSR* specialist providing international support of AVID Live consoles (*Avid Certified Support Representative).
Mikhail Sokolik
Theatre sound engineer
Mikhail graduated from St. Petersburg State University of Film and Television in 2012. Since then he started working in theatre. Essentially he specializes in musical theatre.
In 2012-2014 Mikhail worked in Moscow Musical Theatre with shows «Rastratchiki» (Big spenders), «Vremena ne vybirayut» (You cannot choose the times), «Zhizn prekrasna» (Life is wonderful).
Since 2014 Mikhail Sokolik is part of the theatrical company StageEntertainment. There he worked on musicals "Phantom of the Opera", "Singin' In The Rain", "Cinderella", "Dance of the Vampires", "Ghost", "BatoutofHell" (Germany).
Besides Mikhail worked on musicals "Love Story" (Vladikavkaz, 2013), "O'Henry's Christmas" (Moscow Pushkin Theatre, 2014), concert performance of the "Phantom of the Opera" (State Kremlin Palace, Moscow, 2018), show-cases BroadwayDreamsFoundation (Moscow, 2016-2018).
Igor Gaydarov
Igor is a multi-discipline expert of the whole Shure product line. He is a specialist in RF management and is a teacher of this and many other courses in Shure Audio Institute.
Besides he provides a professional customer support as a technical solutions engineer of the brand.
Ilya Lukashev
Recording and sound mixing engineer, concert sound engineer, co-founder of WaveForum
Ilya has a wide experience of dealing with music of different genres. For the last few years he has successfully cooperated with many outstanding artists as: Therr Maitz, Yolka, Manizha, Zventa Sventana, Polina Gagarina, Noize MC, Guru Groove Foundation, Mariya Tchaikovskaya. He also worked on several movie soundtracks. Apart from working actively with Therr Maitz Ilya also makes sound mixes for various other artists.
Ilya Lukashev enthusiastically encourages different educational initiatives in the musical sphere and gladly shares his knowledge and experience.
Viktor Shopin
Practical specialist in visualization systems development and management of complex objects and show programmes
Viktor is the only certified Dante trainer in Russia and the author of official materials in Russian language for preparing specialists working with protocol Dante by Audinate.
Viktor has a more than 10 years experience of working in the sphere of show technologies. His speciality is system integration of audio-visual systems, development and programming of systems controlling complex objects. One of his activity areas is popularization of visual technologies and creating systems of end-to-end show programme design.
Vladimir Filatov
Council member of Association “MIR-MIO”, co-founder of the company Universal Acoustics
Vladimir Filatov has studied music and electronics since childhood. In 1995 he graduated from Moscow University of Culture and Arts qualified as a choral conductor. In 1996 together with the engineer Sergey Markhay, Vinnytsya Polytechnic Institute graduate, founded a company producing professional acoustic systems. More than 20 years of effective co-operation of “music and physics” allowed them to achieve high results in the industry.
Nowadays apart from business activities Vladimir is involved into public work concerning development of professional audio equipment manufacturing in Russia.
Programme
Congress timetable
Day 1
Programme from the company Unvis-Pro
Programme from the company Aris
Yamaha MON Day
10:00 Registration. Listening to ProTone.
Dmitry Vdovin (Samara)
Brief opening speech introducing the audience to the genuine goal of our meeting and programme timing of the whole event.
Hands-on workshop
Sergey Borzov, BBPro Team (Moscow)
Nowadays questions of organizing radio systems to assure their correct functioning during the show are quite popular thanks to many manufactures who offer corresponding trainings on a regular basis. None the less users still make many mistakes. We invited a renowned specialist in this sphere Sergey Borzov who will give us a closer look at the most typical mistakes occuring at the venues during his workshop.
Hands-on workshop
Ivan Medvedenko, (Orenburg)
All of us can hardly disagree that preparing the drums for the concert is a direct responsibility of the drummer. Yet every sound engineer from time to time gets caught up in a situation when he has to do it himself. For example, you are a guest sound engineer of a concert with several bands playing in a venue with local audio equipment or, vice versa, the drum set is provided by a rental company, but the technician in the best case scenario has just managed to assemble it.
Our colleague from Orenburg Ivan Medvedenko will talk about the operations that have to be done with a drum set before we start hanging it all over with microphones.
13:40. Coffee break. Listening to RCF.
Presentation
Ian Staddon, DiGiCo (UK)
Presentation
Evgeny Shuev, ARIS (Moscow)
During our last year congress the company ARIS presented a revolution in audio mixing for installed sound - the system DiGiCo 4REA4 consisting of powerful signal processing module and connected by network protocols controllers and consoles and input /output modules. 4REA4 can work as an independent system for mixing, processing and routing the audio signals and also along with mixing consoles by DiGiCo and other manufacturers.
This time we are going to assemble on its basis a solution that can be used for big entertainment establishments, theatres, festivals and musical shows. For that purpose we plan to link all equipment from different manufacturers demonstrated in the main (concert) hall into a single system controlled from one hub.
Master-class, show
Dmitry Sukhin (Moscow), Mikhail Sokolik (Moscow)
Traditions are always a sign of a successful event. One of the traditions of our Congress is to place leading sound engineers of the country into “anomalous” conditions. So we’ve had such experience with FOH, MON and even studio sound engineers working on live shows. And now with the increasing popularity of musicals and all-round technical upgrading of traditional theatres professions of a theatre sound engineer and sound engineer of musicals are getting more and more high-demand.
So this time the guest of our show Sound Quest "Meet&Greet!" will be Mikhail Sokolik, a leading sound engineer of many Moscow musicals. And Dmitry Sukhin will be traditionally the one to “throw a little grit in the bearings” by asking various questions, both brainy and foolish.
16:40. Coffee break. Listening to Yamaha.
Presentation
Igor Gaydarov, Shure (Moscow)
Presentation
Maria Soboleva, Sound Engineers Guild (Moscow)
Sound Engineers Guild was established in March 2019 by Russian Musical Union. In truth, it is far not the first attempt to create an organization aimed to unite professional sound engineers of all music genres.
Time will tell if this new structure will become the turn of the tide in development of Russian sound engineering society or good intentions will again just remain ink on paper.
In the meantime Maria Soboleva - Head of Sound Engineers Guild and one of the leading Russian sound engineers - will make a disclosure about the current tasks of the Guild.
Presentation
Dmitry Vdovin (Samara), Dmitry Sukhin (Moscow), Andrey Ivanenko (Orenburg), Svetlana Alasheeva (Samara), Olga Pashinina (Moscow)
Concert Hall
Pushkin Culture CentreDay 2
Questions about everything
Dmitry Sukhin & others (Moscow)
It is going to be a real challenge for both parties and Tuesday daybreak of the Congress will show how good they are at their activity of asking or answering tricky questions!
Presentation
Andrey Fomichenko, Sennheiser (Moscow)
Presentation
Igor Novikov, Sonoruss (Moscow)
Presentation
Steven Norman (UK),Ruslan Semеnov, Coda Audio (Moscow)
13:00. Coffee break. Listening.
Presentation
Hi-Tech Media (Moscow)
Presentation, demonstration
Phil Kamp, KLANG (Germany)
Nevertheless distribution of immersive audio systems and binaural reproduction of sound helped the German company KLANG:technologies to develop a new approach to personal monitoring by creating a hardware-software complex for immersive (or 3D) monitoring. Combination of hardware interfaces and a number of programs and applications produced a full ecosystem for three dimensional reproduction of sound. During the Congress participants will have an opportunity to estimate its possibilities within the conditions of a live show - provided by the company Aris.
15:40. Coffee break. Listening.
Presentation
Christian Gress (Germany), Boris Agapov, Alexander Lepyoshkin, Dealer-center (Moscow)
The brand of Dynacord has been another word for the German reliability and quality since 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. But the present owner of brands Dynacord and Electro-Voice, the company Bosch, decided that having two firms manufacturing a full range of sound equipment was unreasonable and from now all acoustics would bear a name Electro-Voice while amplifiers and system electronics would be called Dynacord.
At our congress participants will be able to estimate the sounding of this “tandem” through the example of a compact line array X-Line.
Presentation
Igor Gaydarov, Shure (Moscow)
Every sound engineer knows the many benefits of in-ear monitors: a quite scene, no feedback and a possibility to take them anywhere with you. But there is still a slight problem - to persuade an artist to equip his ears with ear plugs which is not always that easy. A secret of achieving this will be revealed by the company Shure.
Presentation
Backstage Academy (UK)
Presentation
Day 3
Presentation
Maria Soboleva, Dmitry Sukhin (Moscow)
In response to a popular demand of our participants we are starting a cycle of master-classes on working with a grand piano in the context of a live show - in different ensembles and genres of music.
Considering that the instrument is quite acoustically complicated and there are numerous techniques of miking we will possibly recur to the subject a good many time.
And the ones to start will be Maria Soboleva and Dmitry Sukhin - biggest names in this regard.
Master-class
Vasily Filatov, Sound Design Institute (Moscow)
Master-class
Andrey Ivanov, Toursound (Moscow)
Lecture-discussion
Bose (reserved)
13:20. Coffee break. Listening.
Presentation
Liliya Gainutdinova, Sonoruss (Moscow)
When you are buying a top-class console, common criteria usually do not make much sense. As a rule any mixing console of such level comes with an impressive feature set, sounds magnificently and has so many functionalities that cover all the prompt creative demands of most of our colleagues and even more. Therefore we pay more attention to such special aspects of the mixer that help us to effectively solve the scope of tasks facing our particular object, whether it be a theatre or a large arena and so on. These very capabilities in the context of AVID S6L will be a talking point of the presentation by Liliya Gainutdinova.
Presentation
Alexey Buravlyov, MixArt (Moscow)
It is by now a good tradition that the company MixArt annually presents the latest mixing console by Allen&Heath within our Congress. This year is not an exception. This time we are expecting the brand new Avantis - a new-generation mixing console, designed to become an interposition between SQ and dLive. And traditionally Alexey Buravlyov will be the person to describe all its features and advantages.
Presentation
Nadezhda Rakhmanova (St.Petersburg)
Speaking about sound engineering we usually focus on methods and technologies and sometimes forget that sound engineering is art above all, and equipment will never replace a human being in our sphere.
Therefore we decided to include a number of topics on development of theory of sound engineering style: its conceptual and terminological aspects.
This year the topic will be covered by Nadezhda Rakhmanova, Ph.D. in History of Arts and Senior Lecturer of Sound Engineering Department in Saint-Petersburg University of the Humanities and Social Sciences. She will talk about aesthetics in sound engineering in the context of creating the jazz sound and revealing its differences from rock and pop-music.
15:40. Coffee break. Listening.
Presentation
Igor Rodovsky, ProTone (Krasnoyarsk)
Presentation
Gaëtan Grenier, WNM (Belgium), Alexander Lepyoshkin, TTT GROUP (Moscow)
German company Lawo AG is probably not well-known to Russian sound engineers aside from those working in broadcasting industry. The company specializes in producing top-class digital mixing consoles intended for use in broadcasting TV and radio studios, theatres, high-class international sporting contests, conferences, etc. Yet their product line includes concert digital consoles as well and our participants will be introduced to them through the example of МС2 56 during the presentation by the company Dealer-center.
Competition
Nadezhda Rakhmanova (St.Petersburg), Bose (Moscow)
Round table
Participants of the Congress
18:30. Departure.
Partners
If your company wishes to take part in our programme, please, contact us.
