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Cliff Henricksen is a musician, inventor and audio technologist. He is self-taught as a musician with a graduate degree in mechanical engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Throughout his career Cliff has found innovative ways to apply engineering basics to electro acoustics and to audio technology as it applies to music and in particular to live music performance. He has invented and engineered a wide variety of technologies and products well-known in the world of professional audio. Today he balances work in audio and work as a performing musician.

Cliff Henricksen was born on 12 July, 1943 in Kew Gardens on Long Island NY, the son of Norwegian immigrant Birger (“Bill”) and Alice (nee Totland) Henricksen, and grew up in Elmont Long Island NY. His father’s early career was as first engineer on ocean-going ships for the Moore McCormack Company. He subsequently took a land-based day job as a mechanic and welder in order to participate more actively in home and family life. He also became an accomplished musician, playing accordion, drums and fiddle, and performing as a well-known square dance caller with a country music band called “The Ranch Boys”~~, as well as playing~~ drums at nightclub gigs and ~~with~~ his own “society orchestra” that played events in venues like New York City’s Waldorf Astoria Hotel. It was his father’s facility with all things mechanical, as well as his love of music and his fascination with the technology behind the music, which was the single most important influence in Cliff’s formative years.

Cliff Henricksen was born on 12 July, 1943 in Kew Gardens on Long Island NY, the son of Norwegian immigrant Birger (“Bill”) and Alice (nee Totland) Henricksen, and grew up in Elmont Long Island NY. His father’s early career was as first engineer on ocean-going ships for the Moore McCormack Company. He subsequently took a land-based day job as a mechanic and welder in order to participate more actively in home and family life. He also became an accomplished musician, playing accordion, drums and fiddle, and performing as a well-known square dance caller with a country music band called “The Ranch Boys”. He also played drums at nightclub gigs and was bandleader of his own “society orchestra” that played events in venues like New York City’s Waldorf Astoria Hotel. It was his father’s facility with all things mechanical, as well as his love of music and his fascination with the technology behind the music, which was the single most important influence in Cliff’s formative years.

Microphones, PA systems, home hi-fi systems, and tape recorders were a constant and ever-evolving part of the Henricksen household and played a significant role in shaping Cliff’s technical and artistic sensibilities. By the time he got to graduate school at MIT, Cliff was playing regularly with a Boston-based cover band while still managing to make it to his 8am engineering lectures. He also met his future wife, then Bonnie Zimmermann, and together they started a family that grew to include 9 children (5 boys and 4 girls).

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Cliff is widely-published in a range of well-known and respected [[{{PAGENAME}}#Technical Publications|technical papers]], [[{{PAGENAME}}#Periodical Publications|periodicals]] and [[{{PAGENAME}}#Books|books]].

Cliff was honored as a Fellow of the Audio Engineering Society<ref>[http://www.aes.org/awards/ Fellowship of the Audio Engineering Society 1982]</ref>, appointed a [[Kentucky colonel|Kentucky Colonel]] (by the Governor of Kentucky for his contributions to the amplified musical arts) and included in the Electronic Musician’s “Hall of Fame” for his basic invention of the Bose L1 line array for live performance<ref>[http://www.emusician.com/artists/0767/the-electronic-musician-hall-of-fame/149041 Electronic Musician Hall of Fame July 2012]</ref>.

Cliff was honored as a Fellow of the Audio Engineering Society<ref>[http://www.aes.org/awards/ Fellowship of the Audio Engineering Society 1982]</ref>, appointed a [[Kentucky colonel|Kentucky Colonel]] (by the Governor of Kentucky for his contributions to the amplified musical arts)<ref>[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Photo_of_Cliff_Henricksen%27s_Kentucky_Colonel_Certificate.jpg Cliff Henricksen Kentucky Colonel]</ref> and included in the Electronic Musician’s “Hall of Fame” for his basic invention of the Bose L1 line array for live performance<ref>[http://www.emusician.com/artists/0767/the-electronic-musician-hall-of-fame/149041 Electronic Musician Hall of Fame July 2012]</ref>.

==Education==

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 Cliff Henricksen is a musician, inventor and audio technologist. He is self-taught as a musician with a graduate degree in mechanical engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Throughout his career Cliff has found innovative ways to apply engineering basics to electro acoustics and to audio technology as it applies to music and in particular to live music performance. He has invented and engineered a wide variety of technologies and products well-known in the world of professional audio. Today he balances work in audio and work as a performing musician.
-Cliff Henricksen was born on 12 July, 1943 in Kew Gardens on Long Island NY, the son of Norwegian immigrant Birger (“Bill”) and Alice (nee Totland) Henricksen, and grew up in Elmont Long Island NY. His father’s early career was as first engineer on ocean-going ships for the Moore McCormack Company. He subsequently took a land-based day job as a mechanic and welder in order to participate more actively in home and family life. He also became an accomplished musician, playing accordion, drums and fiddle, and performing as a well-known square dance caller with a country music band called “The Ranch Boys”, as well as playing drums at nightclub gigs and with his own “society orchestra” that played events in venues like New York City’s Waldorf Astoria Hotel. It was his father’s facility with all things mechanical, as well as his love of music and his fascination with the technology behind the music, which was the single most important influence in Cliff’s formative years.
+Cliff Henricksen was born on 12 July, 1943 in Kew Gardens on Long Island NY, the son of Norwegian immigrant Birger (“Bill”) and Alice (nee Totland) Henricksen, and grew up in Elmont Long Island NY. His father’s early career was as first engineer on ocean-going ships for the Moore McCormack Company. He subsequently took a land-based day job as a mechanic and welder in order to participate more actively in home and family life. He also became an accomplished musician, playing accordion, drums and fiddle, and performing as a well-known square dance caller with a country music band called “The Ranch Boys”.  He also played drums at nightclub gigs and was bandleader of his own “society orchestra” that played events in venues like New York City’s Waldorf Astoria Hotel. It was his father’s facility with all things mechanical, as well as his love of music and his fascination with the technology behind the music, which was the single most important influence in Cliff’s formative years.
 Microphones, PA systems, home hi-fi systems, and tape recorders were a constant and ever-evolving part of the Henricksen household and played a significant role in shaping Cliff’s technical and artistic sensibilities. By the time he got to graduate school at MIT, Cliff was playing regularly with a Boston-based cover band while still managing to make it to his 8am engineering lectures. He also met his future wife, then Bonnie Zimmermann, and together they started a family that grew to include 9 children (5 boys and 4 girls).
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 Cliff is widely-published in a range of well-known and respected [[{{PAGENAME}}#Technical Publications|technical papers]], [[{{PAGENAME}}#Periodical Publications|periodicals]] and [[{{PAGENAME}}#Books|books]].
-Cliff was honored as a Fellow of the Audio Engineering Society<ref>[http://www.aes.org/awards/ Fellowship of the Audio Engineering Society 1982]</ref>, appointed a [[Kentucky colonel|Kentucky Colonel]] (by the Governor of Kentucky for his contributions to the amplified musical arts) and included in the Electronic Musician’s “Hall of Fame” for his basic invention of the Bose L1 line array for live performance<ref>[http://www.emusician.com/artists/0767/the-electronic-musician-hall-of-fame/149041 Electronic Musician Hall of Fame July 2012]</ref>.
+Cliff was honored as a Fellow of the Audio Engineering Society<ref>[http://www.aes.org/awards/ Fellowship of the Audio Engineering Society 1982]</ref>, appointed a [[Kentucky colonel|Kentucky Colonel]] (by the Governor of Kentucky for his contributions to the amplified musical arts)<ref>[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Photo_of_Cliff_Henricksen%27s_Kentucky_Colonel_Certificate.jpg Cliff Henricksen Kentucky Colonel]</ref> and included in the Electronic Musician’s “Hall of Fame” for his basic invention of the Bose L1 line array for live performance<ref>[http://www.emusician.com/artists/0767/the-electronic-musician-hall-of-fame/149041 Electronic Musician Hall of Fame July 2012]</ref>.
 ==Education==