This week the 127th Audio Engineering Society Convention New York gets underway at New York’s Javitz Center.

“For over 60 years, the AES has been the largest gathering of audio professionals and enthusiasts on the globe, attracting delegates from over 100 countries worldwide.

Workshops, tutorials, technical papers and the trade show floor provide attendees with a wealth of learning, networking and business opportunities.”

Clive Davis Department Professor Jim Anderson serves as the President of AES. And many of our talented faculty and staff including but not limited to Nick Sansano, Jason King, Noah Simon, Michael McCoy will be taking part in this year’s convention events.

Not to mention our students: on for this Friday at 5 pm event, Professor Nick Sansano leads a panel of Recorded Music alums like Jesse Lauter and Carter Matschullat alongside famed producers Bob Power (also a Recorded Music professor), Mark Ronson, Tony Visconti and Jeff Silverman. The event is called “Producing Across Generations: New Challenges, New Solutions – Making Records for Next to Nothing in the 21st Century.”

Get a free download of “Anarchy,” the first single release from Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music alumnus Sam Belkin’s band Nobody Can Dance.

If you prefer to buy your music, the song is available on most digital music stores.  Enter “Nobody Can Dance” in the search bar of a store like iTunes or Amazon.com and choose from 17 different tracks, many of which have titles we can’t repeat here.

Nobody Can Dance plays National Underground for FREE on Sept 29 and for M.E.A.N.Y. Fest 2009 on Oct. 2. To stream music or find out about other upcoming shows, visit Nobody Can Dance on the web.

Sam is in the suit and tie on the left.

“Shoulderpads” comes to us from rioux, the musical project from sophomore student Erin Rioux.

In rioux (yep, all lowercase), Michigan’s long legacy of experimental electronic music lives on, and the baritone vocals over quirky synth-pop also remind us of Remain in Light.

All music is written, recorded, and performed by rioux. The whimsical video is directed and produced by rioux collaborator Josh Cabrido.

Enjoy.

Freshman Clive Davis Department student and Pittsburgh native John Rectenwald goes by the pseudonym John Record – a name that suggests an intriguing cross between neo-soul singer-songwriter John Legend and late Chi-Lites’ frontman Eugene Record.

Not far off: “Money in the Bank,” produced, engineered, and mixed by Uri Djemal of Madpan Productions, captures a chilled-out, retro soul vibe.

John penned the lyrics and handles lead vocals and additional keyboards.

Visit him on Myspace.

Though 2008 Clive Davis Department alum Zach Berkman got voted off early this August from MTV’s reality competition show P. Diddy’s Starmaker, we look forward to bigger and better things from this talented singer-songwriter.

Zach’s updates since leaving the show, via the MTV blog site: “I released a brand new five-song EP called As Far As it Goes to go with the record I already had on iTunes. Watch for my new single, “Never Look Back,” featured on ABC Family’s Make It Or Break It. I’ve also been busy working on the production side of things, which is my second passion. This summer, I engineered and co-wrote the first two singles with Universal Republic recording artist Ron Pope, recorded the YouTube Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall.”

Read more.

Clive Davis Department student/dexterous pianist David McTiernan (pictured above, in the red striped flannel shirt on the far right) will take the helm as band director and arranger for a darkly comic Off-Broadway indie-rock musical called Open the Dark Door, playing at the upcoming New York Musical Theater Festival’s Next Link Series.

The plot sounds positively macabre: a love affair between the local executioner’s son, Skip, and the rebellious Luna, leads to a “crisis of faith” among the residents of fabled small town Mortland, USA. “Festive beheadings” ensue.

Book, music and lyrics are by Yale School of Drama graduate David Lefort Nugent.

David’s recruited his band, The Middle Eight (pictured above), to handle the musical duties. Performances at the American Theater of Actors start October 8th, and you can get tickets here.

Clive Davis Department senior Kaleb Rollins serves as PR chair for The Gentlemen of Quality. Enterprising production-management venture Grand Staff (Kaleb co-helms it along with some of his fellow Clive Davis Department students) provides the DJing/hosting. Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music alum and viral video phenom Nyle makes an appearance as one of the opening acts.

Tickets are $7 for NYU students and $10 for non-students. Proceeds go to the Martin Jackson Scholarship: Martin Jackson was a high school student mentored by Gentlemen of Quality; he was murdered by gun violence in 2008.

Tickets are here.

Clive Davis Department junior and NYU Reynolds scholar Genesis “Be” Briggs (a.k.a. Lo-Key) was featured in yesterday’s Washington Square News.

The article discusses the Biloxi native’s recent collaboration with Tisch graduate / theater director/film director Andrea Wong for her music video “I Don’t Discriminate.”

Looks like the video shoot was bubbling over with NYU alums. From the article: ” The cast and crew principally included people Wong met while at NYU. Head stylist Shaelon Smith befriended Wong as a student at FIT, while production manager Mei-Ling Acevedo met Wong through her theater work. Many of the shoot’s production assistants are current NYU students who volunteered.”

While you wait for that video to drop in late September, you can check out above Genesis’ recent video for the single “More than a Warrior.”