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Aaron Paolucci

Associate Professor of Creative Technologies
Sch of Theatre Dance and Film
Office
CVA Center For The Visual Arts 206a
Office Hours
M-F 9-5
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Biography

Aaron Paolucci is the Director and Graduate Coordinator of the Creative Technologies Program at Illinois State University. He is a tenured associate professor and has been teaching at ISU since 1999, having taught over 120 full-length courses across a wide range of music and audio-related topics including sound design, speaker design and application, music mixing and mastering, surround sound engineering, microphone theory and application, sound reinforcement, sound for gaming and animation, and so on. He is passionate about designing and prototyping high-end professional and audiophile loudspeakers for live stage, studio, and home applications; always in pursuit of the purest possible reproduction of music and sound. Additionally, Aaron brings a wealth of experience as a theatre sound designer, a live audio engineer, and a mixing/mastering engineer, having worked on over 100 stage productions and recording projects over the last 30 years.

Current Courses

342.001Audio - Loudspeaker Design

442.001Audio - Loudspeaker Design

490.003Directed Projects In Creative Technology

390.005Directed Projects/Seminar In Arts Technology

498.004Professional Practice: Arts Technology

240.001Sound Design 1: Beginning Digital Audio

340.001Sound Design 2: Advanced Digital Audio

440.001Sound Design 2: Advanced Digital Audio

490.002Directed Projects In Creative Technology

390.002Directed Projects/Seminar In Arts Technology

481.007Selected Topics in Creative Technologies

240.001Sound Design 1: Beginning Digital Audio

240.002Sound Design 1: Beginning Digital Audio

343.001Sound to Animation

Teaching Interests & Areas

Sound Design, speaker design, acoustics, and audio engineering

Research Interests & Areas

Dipole open-baffle loudspeaker design and acoustics

Conference Proceeding

Gloor, R., Corness, G., Marshack, R., & Paolucci, A. (2023, July). Can You Feel What I Feel? Leveraging aesthetics in visual and spatial audio VR experience. In Proceedings of EVA London 2023 (pp. 126-133). BCS Learning & Development.