The Audio Engineering Society (AES) announced that it has been informed that it will be presented with a Technical GRAMMY Award during the GRAMMY Week celebration in February 2023 in news made public as part of the Recording Academy announcing its Special Merit Awards recipients.
An invitation-only ceremony will be held on Saturday, February 4 at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles. With the presentation of this Technical GRAMMY, AES joins a list of previous recipients that includes such well-known names as Apple Computer, AMS Neve, JBL Professional, Royer Labs, Shure, Sony/Philips, Solid State Logic, Universal Audio, Waves Audio and Yamaha Corporation.
This Special Merit Award is presented by vote of the Producers & Engineers Wing Advisory Council and Chapter Committees, with ratification by the Recording Academy’s National Trustees to individuals and/or companies/organizations/institutions who have made contributions of outstanding technical significance to the recording field.
The Recording Academy’s Special Merit Awards recipients press release states, “The Audio Engineering Society (AES) is the only professional society devoted exclusively to advancing audio technology. Founded in 1948 with the key goals of collecting, collating and disseminating knowledge of audio science and its application, AES facilitates communication and collaboration that unites audio engineers, creative artists, scientists, and students, with hundreds of local sections worldwide. 75 years on, AES’s members continue to set precedents and standards wherever sound and technology meet, from recording and entertainment to scientific research in emerging fields such as Spatial and Game Audio, Networking and Streaming, and Audio for Virtual and Augmented Reality.”
“Receiving this Technical GRAMMY Award is a tremendous honor for the Audio Engineering Society,” says AES president Bruce Olson. “I could not think of a better present to kick off 2023 as AES begins to celebrate its 75th Anniversary.”
