With Help From Herb Alpert, Letting the Light In at the Harlem School of the Arts Dorothy Maynor never sang at the Met, but the school she founded is glowing anew, thanks to the revitalization of its beloved “gathering place.” Renovations were completed last month at the “Gathering Place” of the Harlem School of [...]
Walk on the Ocean: Composer Carter Burwell Crafts a Stunning Studio By David Weiss Inspiration doesn’t exactly strike Carter Burwell. Rather, he soaks it in. The composer’s distinctive voice has been essential to over 100 productions, in an enviably long career that has made him the top choice for many of film’s most inventive directors. Burwell’s [...]
Let The Rhythm Be The Lead Jackson Browne’s Personal Approach to Songwriting, Recording and Social Activism Download the Entire Article Here (7.3 mb) Jackson Browne smiles as he overhears one of the students in the breezeway at Haiti’s Audio Institute singing the hook of his song “Love Is Love.” [...]
Por Ruben Ortega Romaphonic Studios, testigo de la evolución constante en la historia reciente del rock en Argentina. La industria de la música afronta varios retos con el paso del tiempo. La tecnología, las tendencias y el modo de trabajo son importantes en cada producción y estar a la altura no es algo sencillo. En [...]
Vote for the 36th TEC Awards here! The TEC Awards committee and the National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) have announced the nominees across the 22 Technical Achievement and seven Creative Achievement TEC Award categories. The annual TEC Awards recognizes and celebrates the individuals, companies and technical innovations behind the sound of recordings, live performances, [...]
By David Barbour The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music gets a finely renovated venue Click Here to Download Article (PDF - 1MB) The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music is an eclectic institution, thanks to a faculty gifted with expert knowledge in composition; conducting; ethnomusicology; jazz studies; music education, history, [...]
The LA Chapter of the AES will host "Past, Present, and Future of Recording Studio Design," hosted by WSDG Founding Partner John Storyk, with special guest TBA. August 25. 7 p.m. PDT. This discussion, presented by the AES L.A. chapter at 7 p.m. Pacific time on August 25, will trace the history of innovation that [...]
August 4, 2020 Acoustics pioneer John Storyk and his team built a tool to help them optimize musical recording and performance spaces for low-frequency sounds A room at Sonastério, a studio in Brazil designed by WSDG. Photo courtesy WSDG. Photo: Alberto Andrich By Steven Rosenbush Architect and acoustician John Storyk, known for designing [...]
Universidad Torcuato di Tella Edificio Sáenz Valiente / Josep Ferrando Architecture Curated by Clara Ott UNIVERSITY, BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA Architects: Josep Ferrando Architecture Area: 15000 m² Year: 2019 Photographs: Federico Cairoli, Fernando Schapochnik Lead Architect: Josep Ferrando Associate Architect: David Recio Collaborator Architect: Juan Marcos Feijoó Team: Pep Batlle, Ilaria Caprioli, Joan Casas, Judit Coma, Bia Coimbra, Victoria Della Chiesa, Roger Escorihuela, [...]
THE SOLUTIONIST - Blog by Stefano Bonagura Architect and acoustic expert John Storyk has designed some of the largest recording studios in the world. New and exciting horizons in the reproduction of sound are opened: we are already accustomed to being wrapped in cinemas, since the advent of the first 5.1 Surround systems (1976), up to Dolby [...]
