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Cliff Henricksen is a life-long musician and musical-arts technologist. He is especially aware of the importance of the musical arts and their benefits to the human race. As an experienced player and composer, he knows this from a true artist’s perspective. And as an MIT-educated scientist and engineer he has worked long and hard to become a prolific inventor and innovator in the professional audio and musical sound businesses. | Cliff Henricksen is a life-long musician and musical-arts technologist. He is especially aware of the importance of the musical arts and their benefits to the human race. As an experienced player and composer, he knows this from a true artist’s perspective. And as an MIT-educated scientist and engineer he has worked long and hard to become a prolific inventor and innovator in the professional audio and musical sound businesses. | ||
• Cliff is presently owner of Cliff Innovations LLC in Framingham Massachusetts, where he is developing new electroacoustic technologies and is in the process of bringing a new, advanced ribbon microphone to market, for use in recording and broadcasting. | • Cliff is presently owner of Cliff Innovations LLC in Framingham Massachusetts, where he is developing new electroacoustic technologies and is in the process of bringing a new, advanced ribbon microphone to market, for use in recording and broadcasting. | ||
• He has held key senior technical positions at Altec-Lansing (Anaheim CA), Community Professional Systems, Electro-Voice, US Sound and Bose Corporation, where he has invented and developed key, breakthrough technologies and products that have advanced and inspired the art of live music and professional/engineered sound for over 40 years. In doing so, this has led to enhanced market presence and increased business for his employers. | • He has held key senior technical positions at Altec-Lansing (Anaheim CA), Community Professional Systems, Electro-Voice, US Sound and Bose Corporation, where he has invented and developed key, breakthrough technologies and products that have advanced and inspired the art of live music and professional/engineered sound for over 40 years. In doing so, this has led to enhanced market presence and increased business for his employers. | ||
• He was co-owner of US Sound, a “supercontractor” with a patented and proprietary sound system components and overall system concept of his creation. It was called “Coherent Zone Technology”. Engineered systems were installed, first, in the OMNI Arena (Atlanta) and later at Madison Square Garden and used for many years for normal MSG events of all kinds. A road system was developed for The Judds and for solo shows of Wynonna Judd, mixed by house engineer John Cooper, and for Bruce Springsteen in collaboration with Audio Analysts of Colorado Springs. US Sound was sold at its prime to Bose Corporation where its product line (renamed “Panaray LT”) still is the mainstay of Bose’s large-venue engineered sound business. | • He was co-owner of US Sound, a “supercontractor” with a patented and proprietary sound system components and overall system concept of his creation. It was called “Coherent Zone Technology”. Engineered systems were installed, first, in the OMNI Arena (Atlanta) and later at Madison Square Garden and used for many years for normal MSG events of all kinds. A road system was developed for The Judds and for solo shows of Wynonna Judd, mixed by house engineer John Cooper, and for Bruce Springsteen in collaboration with Audio Analysts of Colorado Springs. US Sound was sold at its prime to Bose Corporation where its product line (renamed “Panaray LT”) still is the mainstay of Bose’s large-venue engineered sound business. | ||
• Cliff’s US patents include 7,936,891 B2, 3,991,286, 4,050,541, 4,187,926, 4,130,023, 4,811,403, 7,260,235 , 7, 319,767, D 249,509 and UK 1,514,007. | • Cliff’s [[{{PAGENAME}}#Patents US patents]] include 7,936,891 B2, 3,991,286, 4,050,541, 4,187,926, 4,130,023, 4,811,403, 7,260,235 , 7, 319,767, D 249,509 and UK 1,514,007. | ||
• Cliff is widely-published via well-known and respected technical papers, magazine articles and books. | • Cliff is widely-published via well-known and respected [[{{PAGENAME}}#Technical Publications|technical papers]], [[{{PAGENAME}}#Magazine Publications|magazine articles and books]]. | ||
• Cliff was honored as a Fellow of the Audio Engineering Society, appointed a 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. | • Cliff was honored as a Fellow of the Audio Engineering Society, appointed a 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>. | ||
==Education== | ==Education== | ||
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==Professional Appointments== | ==Professional Appointments== | ||
* Principal, Cliff Innovations, Framingham MA 2009-present | * Principal, Cliff Innovations, Framingham MA 2009-present | ||
* Senior Engineer, Bose Corporation, Framingham MA, 1993-2009 | * Senior Engineer, Bose Corporation, Framingham MA, 1993-2009 <ref>[http://toonz.ca/bose/wiki/index.php?title=L1%C2%AE_Research_Project_History#Cliff_Henricksen:_L1_Inventor Cliff Henricksen L1 Inventor] | ||
* VP of Engineering/Co-owner, US Sound, Ship Bottom NJ 1987-1993 | * VP of Engineering/Co-owner, US Sound, Ship Bottom NJ 1987-1993 | ||
* Senior Engineer/Manager of Transducer Group, Electro Voice, Buchanan MI, 1983-1987 | * Senior Engineer/Manager of Transducer Group, Electro Voice, Buchanan MI, 1983-1987 | ||
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Altec Lansing Voice of the Highway system for automotive sound systems: Gave it the name, base on the iconic “Voice of the Theater”. | Altec Lansing Voice of the Highway system for automotive sound systems: Gave it the name, base on the iconic “Voice of the Theater”. | ||
== | ==Patents== | ||
Clifford A. Henricksen | Clifford A. Henricksen | ||
# US Patent 7,936,891 B2 (Bose L1 Model2 “articulated array”) | # US Patent 7,936,891 B2 (Bose L1 Model2 “articulated array”) | ||
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== | ==Technical Publications== | ||
Clifford A. Henricksen | Clifford A. Henricksen | ||
# "Loudspeakers Enclosures and Headphones", Handbook for Sound Engineers-The New Audio Cyclopedia, Howard W. Sams Co. 1987 | # "Loudspeakers Enclosures and Headphones", Handbook for Sound Engineers-The New Audio Cyclopedia, Howard W. Sams Co. 1987 | ||
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# "Jammin' in the Rockies- rediscovery of the Ancient Roller Playground" Skateboard Magazine , October 1976 | # "Jammin' in the Rockies- rediscovery of the Ancient Roller Playground" Skateboard Magazine , October 1976 | ||
# Book Review of "Loudspeakers" edited by John Borwick, Sound and Communications Magazine, March 1989. | # Book Review of "Loudspeakers" edited by John Borwick, Sound and Communications Magazine, March 1989. | ||
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