NEW YORK: A former East Village hair salon has morphed into a concise but efficient recording studio thanks to the vision of producer/engineer Michael Croiter and the creative space optimization skills of Walters-Storyk Design Group (WSDG) architect/acoustician John Storyk. Croiter, drummer for the hit Broadway musical Avenue Q, had been searching for workable (and affordable) space for a personal NYC [...]
NEW YORK: Stretching limited resources to the max is a principle that unifies most of NYC's independent creatives. In 2002, when Sound Designer/Re-Recording Mixer, Eric Offin and Composer/Sound Designer Mark Garcia, began collaborating with NY's indie feature film and commercial production community, their initial Ovasen Music www.ovasenmusic.com and Tandem Sound Studios, www.tandemsound.com was in the [...]
Talking House and The Recording Academy© team for MusiCares and Music in Schools benefit at historic Warfield Theater San Francisco -- 1 August 2006 -- Some of California's and the Bay Area's greatest music stars of the past 50 years will gather Friday, Oct. 6 at The Warfield to perform a once-in-a-lifetime concert: "An All-Star Tribute to San Francisco [...]
The MIX FM radio station is one of the leaders in audience in the city of São Paulo and other capitals in Brazil. After 10 years of existence, it is considered to be the strongest reference for the selected young public between 15 and 29 years old.Recently, the radio station moved its facilities to the [...]
NEW YORK: A next generation-Internet2 Distance Learning Facility created by the Walters-Storyk Design Group is about to go on-line at NYC's Hunter College Gene Center. Driven by high-speed Internet2 transmission, the new complex will spearhead real-time collaborative experimentation and teaching projects within the international Gene Research community. Dr. Robert Dottin, Ph.D., Director of the Center for the [...]
WALTHAM, MA. Boston University will add a recording arts program to its curriculum in the fall of 2006. To provide students with the highest level technical training support, Norman Brzycki, Director of Operations for The Center for Digital Imaging Arts at B.U. has retained the Walters-Storyk Design Group to create the new facility.Jeanine Cowen, CDIA [...]
In 1999 the Walters Storyk Design Group created two state-of-the-art video editing suites for Working Pictures. The independent, Avid-based digital video production, editing and graphic design company was then located in Albany's Cotton Hill Studios, a complex WSDG originally designed in 1994. The success of those initial collaborations led to Working Pictures, a 4,400 sq. [...]
by Janice Brown New York, NY--DJ/musician Derek Ferguson's concept for Integrated Studios may seem a bit Utopian to the more business-minded. Rather than focusing solely on investment return, he and his brother created this multimedia production facility as a place in which seminal art could be made; every room, every tool, and every person involved [...]
A Venue for the Anti-Pop by Janice Brown New Haven, CT - As part of a city-wide urban renewal project that began in 1999, New Haven, Connecticut has commissioned one of its nine districts, the ninth, in fact, to become the city's center for the arts and entertainment. Producer/engineer Nick Lloyd is just one of [...]
