Aaron Paolucci
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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