Subhir Pramanik, the International Vice President, and with the vision and hard work of Mr. Merchant, a life member, Avinash Oak, Manohar Kunte besides others. It has a growing membership of leading engineers, scientists and audio enthusiasts from the dynamic Indian Media Industry. The AES (India) serves its members by stimulating and facilitating advances in the constantly changing field of audio
. It encourages and disseminates new developments through frequent technical seminars from reputed professionals from India and abroad. It also organizes field visits to Audio facilities within India for its members. Some of the highlights of activities include the seminars held by Roger Quested of Quested monitors and Roger D'Arcy of Recording Architecture UK, Mr.Neville Thiele the then Vice President, International, Mr.Sam Toyoshima, acoustician, Mr. Martin Pilchner of Pilchner Schoustal International Inc. Canada, Dan Lavry of Lavry Engineering USA, Ole Christensen of Denmark etc. The Section also arranged educational visits to Film & TV Institute of India Pune and Ramoji Studios, Hyderabad. In the course of seminars covered, we have touched upon topics like, Noise Pollution, Ear testing, DVD authoring, Temple Acoustics, live sync sound for film, digital mixing consoles and operations for film mixes, optical disk media, comparing digital audio artifacts, SONY super bit CD encoding, technology of DVD-A, Control Room Design, and field visits to Rajkamal digital studio, Opera House of National Centre for Performing Arts, Jet Speed Audio and Rajes Koch replication plants. The section is thriving with the hard work of our members like Uday Chitre, Vinayak Deo,K.J. Singh ,Vipul Patel,Milind Raorane, Daman Sood, Russell Corte-real, Narendra Rane Vijay Dayal,