HAPPY HOLIDAYS! Heading into 2019 seems like a good time to pause to review the amazing year we’re wrapping up and to consider what is required to meet our upcoming challenges. We must strive for self-awareness, and the capacity to learn. We must strive for vision, and must keep honing our skills to enable us [...]
Interview by Tricia Williamson John Storyk, registered architect and acoustician, is a founding partner of WSDG. He has provided design and construction supervision services for the professional audio and video recording community since the 1969 design of Jimi Hendrix’s Electric Lady Studios in New York City. Beyond an architect, Storyk is many things, he is [...]
FROM JIMI HENDRIX’S ELECTRIC LADY STUDIOS IN NEW YORK CITY TO GRAMMY-WINNING PRODUCER PAUL EPWORTH’S THE CHURCH STUDIOS IN LONDON, THE ARTIST-DRIVEN RECORDING STUDIO IS AN INTEGRAL PART OF POPULAR MUSIC. Vibrant spaces designed with the artist in mind, studios like these have become commonplace in North America and Europe where the shared appetite for [...]
August 2018 - "Made For You" by Cigar Aficionado (also featuring Matthew McConaughey). Destination recording with a view; a beer growler that purrs; rocking the Hemingway Hat; the right flask for the task; hand-blown rocks glasses; and a gentleman’s pocketknife. Sonastério Studios, a world-class destination recording studio and luxury home in Brazil. In a world [...]
If He Does This Met Opera Job Well, You’ll Never Know He Exists David Frost produces broadcasts of the Metropolitan Opera performances. His typical day requires being a musician, a technician and even something of a diplomat.CreditCreditMichael Kirby Smith for The New York Times By Joshua Barone David Frost’s hands never stop moving. [...]
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By Sherrie Negrea How are higher ed institutions doing in recognizing the importance of acoustics and noise control in new and existing learning spaces? What’s one thing you wish campus administrators understood better about acoustics? “My core belief is that architecture and acoustics could (and should) be thought of at the same moment—and very early [...]
Jackie Chan’s “Nothing Is The Same As Before” Caps 18 Week #1 Chart Ride By Howard Sherman BEIJING, CHINA: How do you follow a track record of nine Top Ten China hits (including six #1’s) in your first six months of operation? If you’re WSDG Walters-Storyk Design Group-designed 55TEC Studios you record an additional Top Ten China Hits over the following [...]
How Being Bored One Day Launched a Legendary Architecture Career Working With Clients Like Bruce Springsteen and Jay-Z Listen in as acoustic architect John Storyk shares the moment that sparked an iconic career. What is the secret ingredient that music legends like Jimi Hendrix, Alicia Keys, Jay-Zand Bruce Springsteen all shared while recording some of [...]
With a modern art collection that had outgrown the collective capacity of their two homes, and unwilling to keep their larger works in storage, American art-collector Nancy Olnick and her Sardinia-born husband Giorgio Spanu found themselves contemplating a 14,000sq-ft steel and concrete former industrial warehouse (c1964) in Cold Spring, New York close to their weekend [...]
