By Howard Sherman CHICAGO, IL: Top mastering engineer and Boiler Room founder Collin Jordan first met WSDG Walters-Storyk Design Group founding partner John Storyk at an AES Convention in 2003. Impressed with Storyk’s genuine interest in his initial studio build out, Jordan put WSDG on the list for his next studio project. By 2013, his client list had grown to [...]
By Jonathan LaMantia Storyk had never designed a recording studio before Hendrix tapped him. Photo by Buck Ennis Fresh out of college, John Storyk was waiting in line for ice cream on a summer day in 1968 when he inadvertently happened upon his big break. As the new architect was killing time flipping through [...]
INDONESIA: The new Jakarta International Theatre at the Jakarta International Expo (JIEXPO) is the largest venue in the Asia Pacific region to be installed with a Meyer Sound Constellation system. Carried out by Kairos Multi Jaya, it is also one of the largest Constellation installations to date worldwide. The solutions were supplied by Meyer Sound [...]
The Mind and Music of Carter Burwell By Tom Kenny Photos by Tycho Burwell A few years back, at age 40 and well into a highly successful career as a music composer across all forms of media and art, Carter Burwell enrolled at NYU to take master’s level courses [...]
Electric Lady Studio's Designer On His 50-Year Career, And Why He's Moving Into the Podcast Space by Nick Williams Photo by: Tycho Burwell. A recent client project of Storyk’s: home studio The Body in Amagansett, N.Y. Five decades ago, John Storyk’s life “changed on a dime” when he met Jimi Hendrix. The then-22-year-old musician-carpenter had [...]
WSDG recently collaborated with studio engineer TC Zhou to create a new recording facility in Beijing, China. Beijing, China — WSDG (Walters-Storyk Design Group) recently collaborated with studio engineer TC Zhou to create a new recording facility in Beijing, China. Zhou had previous experience designing his own original studio in Foshan, Guangdong Province, China in [...]
By Christopher Walsh “I don’t know if I would have been a decent architect,” the film composer Carter Burwell recently mused, sitting in the private studio attached to his house on the Atlantic Ocean, east of Amagansett. “But my interests — design and engineering, art, math — all come together in architecture, so it seemed [...]
UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music receives $3 million to renovate theater Gift from Herb Alpert Foundation names performance space Lani Hall Herb Alpert said he was thrilled to surprise his wife, Lani Hall, by making possible the renovation of a “jewel of a performance space” named in her honor. By Ariel Okamoto [...]
Studio Design for 2070 - 50 Years From Now - Dare We Look? WSDG Founding Partner, John Storyk, Partner and a panel of special guests including award winning producer/ engineer Eddie Kramer and Grammy-winning engineer/Jungle City Studio owner, Ann Mincieli, David Rosenthal, world-renown keyboardist/Musical Director for Billy Joel, Steve Berkowitz, a 5 time Grammy and Double Blues Award winning producer and multi-Grammy-winning [...]
Post Production Studio Of The Year CHENNAI, SOUTH INDIA: Aditya Modii, Awards Director of India’s prestigious IRAA Awards, reports that KNACK Studios, a state-of-the-art audio/video/CGI post-production services complex, in the Tamil District, (the “Bollywood” of South India) has been named IRAA Post Production Studio of the year. Completed in 2018, KNACK Studios was designed to [...]
