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 [...]
By David Weiss What’s the common thread that runs through all of Latin America? With diversity abounding throughout this vibrant region, a unifying factor can be hard to identify. And we’re talking about a very sizable chunk of planet Earth: spanning the northern border of Mexico clear to the southern tip of Chile, from easternmost [...]
The famed studio architect will speak about his work creating podcast facilities for Stitcher and Spotify’s Gimlet Media at this year’s The Video Show in Washington, D.C. on Thursday December 5th from 12:15 PM to 1:00 PM. Washington, D.C. (November 13, 2019)—Last year, 61% of the podcast fans who responded to a survey by Discover [...]
RPI Gets Immersive WSDG (WALTERS-STORYK DESIGN GROUP) INTEGRATES AUDIO-VIDEO-3D IN NEW HASS MEDIA CENTER One year ago, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the world’s third largest technological research university, founded in 1824, opened a new fully immersive audio/video/3D production, editing and mixing complex on its Troy, N.Y., campus. The new facility, designed by Walters-Storyk Design [...]
A Boon To Boston’s Underserved Indigenous Live Music Community By Howard Sherman BOSTON MASS. Recording industry gear guru, serial entrepreneur and long-time Boston-based studio owner PK Pandey shuttered his original Mad Oak Studio in 2011 when the building owner decided to monetize the property. A search for new quarters produced a desirable building site, but the [...]
Noted acoustician and architect has improved sports sound, both in-venue and broadcast. By Dan Daley The thought of celebrating a 50th anniversary makes architect/acoustician John Storyk slightly ill at ease, as he approaches the half-century mark of a career that has helped improve the sound of scores of sports and broadcast venues globally. However, when that milestone [...]
BY LARRY CRANE | PHOTOGRAPHS BY LARRY CRANE A young intern fresh out of Full Sail University gets a big break (and a nickname) from Missy Elliott, works alongside producers and engineers like Timbaland, Jimmy Douglass [Tape Op #130], Demacio Castellon, and Polow da Don, and ends up mixing hits for Keri Hilson, Britney Spears, Keyshia Cole, Meek [...]
