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TEC Awards Announced
The engineers, mixers, sound editors and other talented audio professionals delivering sound for The Lord of the Rings, and Radiohead's most recent album and tour were among the many winners at the 20th Annual Technical Excellence & Creativity Awards, held on Saturday, 30th October at the San Francisco Marriott.
In addition to 23 awards for Technical and Creative Achievement, the gathering of the pro audio industry's finest creative talents witnessed the induction into the TEC Awards Hall of Fame of visionary filmmaker George Lucas and venerated producer/engineer Elliott Scheiner. Multiple-Oscar-winning film editor and sound designer Walter Murch presented the Hall of Fame Award to Lucas, and Scheiner was awarded by Steely Dan's Walter Becker. In a surprize appearance, multi-talented recording artist Janet Jackson presented The Les Paul Award to platinum producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis.
The engineers and mixers behind Radiohead's Hail to the Thief won in the category of Album Production, as the sound company and engineers orchestrating the band's most recent tour won the award for Tour Sound Production. The sound editors and mixers of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King took home the award for Film Sound Production making this the 3rd win for the film trilogy. Other winners for Creative Achievement were the sound crews of Outkast's "Hey, Ya" (Record Production/Single or Track); Alison Krauss + Union Station Live (Remote Production/Recording or Broadcast); and Late Show with David Letterman (Television Sound Production); as well as the design team behind New York City's Sterling Sound Chelsea Phase III (Studio Design Project).
In the category of Technical Achievement, the 16 winners included the Solid State Logic C200 (Large Format Consoles); both the Yamaha 01V96 (Small Format Consoles) and the PM5000 (Sound Reinforcement Consoles), the Digidesign Accel (Workstation Technology); the Sennheiser Evolution Wireless G2 (Wireless Technology); Waves IR-1 (Signal Processing Technology/Software); the RØDE S1 (Sound Reinforcement Microphones); and the Meyer Sound MILO (Sound Reinforcement Loudspeakers).
For the second time in three years, the ceremony was hosted by actor/comedian Harry Shearer. Larry Batiste and 2Cold Chile Bone TEC Band opened the show, and featured a guitar solo by Dweezil Zappa who thrilled the audience with his rousing rendition of Van Halen's ‘Eruption’.
2nd November 2004
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