As the gold (and platinum) dust from the 2017 Grammy Awards settles on the recording industry field, WSDG congratulates the studios, engineers, and artists whose work was recognized this year. Ann Mincieli's showplace Jungle City Studio on New York's Highline hosted numerous "top secret" sessions for Beyonce's critically acclaimed (and multi-Grammy-winning) Lemonade. Electric Lady Studios [...]
By Andrea Shea Uncertainty is the music industry’s new normal as companies and consumers migrate from albums and CDs to downloads and streaming platforms. That got us wondering why the Boston Symphony Orchestra — which wraps up its current season this weekend — has embarked on an ambitious recording project that seems rare [...]
By Marc Loftus The recent opening of Blue Table Post (www.bluetablepost.com) caps six years of planning, along with three years of construction. Located on Dean Street, just five blocks from bustling Atlantic Terminal in Brooklyn, NY, Blue Table Post is owned by Oliver Lief, a veteran documentary and television series editor. Lief (pictured) has worked with [...]
The designers of Jimi Hendrix's Electric Lady Studios and Charles Khabouth's INK Entertainment are involved in the legendary venue's revitalization. The El Mocambo will reopen this summer and house a recording studio overseen by the team that designed Electric Lady Studios for Jimi Hendrix. In 2014, Dragons' Den star and tech entrepreneur Michael Wekerle bought the [...]
A third consecutive TEC Award for Best Studio Design now welcomes WSDG-Walters-Storyk Design Group into the ‘Hat-Trick League’. The 2017 NAMM TEC Studio Design Project Award was presented to WSDG for the Boston Symphony Orchestra Control Room on Saturday January 21st. at the Hilton Anaheim Hotel’s Pacific Ballroom. To date twenty-nine, WSDG studio design projects [...]
Top Engineer Ann Mincieli Rules the NYC Music Scene with Her Jungle City Studios By Leslie Buttonow in Music Creation, NAMM 2017, Pro Mixing GRAMMY® Award-winner Ann Mincieli has traveled the world as an in-demand engineer for top artists, and most notably, as the long-time engineer and studio coordinator for Alicia Keys. In 2011, Mincieli [...]
Behind Brooklyn Walls: A World of Sound By HELENE STAPINSKI Oliver Lief inside Blue Table Post, his postproduction facility in Brooklyn. Editing is currently being done on the new film about Lizzie Borden featuring Chloë Sevigny and Kristen Stewart. Credit James Estrin/The New York Times Some crazy things have been happening behind [...]
HIGHLAND, NEW YORK: Over thirty members of the WSDG Walters-Storyk Design Group global team are convening this week at WSDG’s rustic, Highland, New York world headquarters. John Storyk and Beth Walters, founding partners of the leading architectural/acoustic consultancy, and partners Sergio Molho (U.S.), Dirk Noy (Switzerland), Renato Cipriano (Brazil), Silvia Molho (Argentina), and representatives from [...]
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Click Here to View the Whole Article (PDF - 2 mb) or Read the Digital Version below The lead up to the 2016 Rio Olympics saw the creation of several new athletic venues in Rio de Janeiro, in addition to the renovation of several others. These new and renovated arenas also included a huge amount of [...]
