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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

CTK 342.001 Audio - Loudspeaker Design

CTK 442.001 Audio - Loudspeaker Design

CTK 490.003 Directed Projects In Creative Technology

CTK 390.005 Directed Projects/Seminar In Arts Technology

CTK 498.004 Professional Practice: Arts Technology

CTK 340.001 Sound Design 2: Advanced Digital Audio

CTK 340.002 Sound Design 2: Advanced Digital Audio

CTK 440.001 Sound Design 2: Advanced Digital Audio

CTK 440.002 Sound Design 2: Advanced Digital Audio

CTK 490.002 Directed Projects In Creative Technology

CTK 390.002 Directed Projects/Seminar In Arts Technology

CTK 481.007 Selected Topics in Creative Technologies

CTK 240.001 Sound Design 1: Beginning Digital Audio

CTK 343.001 Sound to Animation

CTK 211.001 Survey of Sound Design, Acoustics, and Music Production

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.

Creative Works/Broadcast Media

Stephenson, A., & Paolucci, A. Veil/Flame for solo cello (audio recording). Society of Composers CD Series 36