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.

John Storyk received his architectural studies from Princeton and Columbia Universities. As an independent designer, engineer and principal of WSDG he has been responsible for over 3500 world-class audio/video production facilities, including studios, radio stations, video suites, entertainment clubs and theaters. His work includes private studios for Whitney Houston, Bob Marley, Ace Frehley, Paul Epworth, Jack Antonoff, Bruce Springsteen, Alicia Keys, J. Cole, JZ and others. Professional audio video installations include Soundshop, Nashville; Crawford Post, Atlanta; Talking House (San Francisco); Rue Boyer (Paris), Sony (LA), screening rooms for NYC’s Planet Hollywood and Technicolor; conference facilities for Mercury (Polygram), EMI, CEMEX, Sumitoma; large scale educational and performance facilities for Full Sail/Platinum Post (Orlando), Jazz at Lincoln Center (NYC), UCLA (Los Angeles) and Berklee College of Music (Boston)

John is a member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA), Acoustical Society of America, Audio Engineering Society (AES) and a frequent contributor to AES convention papers and professional industry periodicals. He is a frequent lecturer at schools throughout the nation and has established courses in acoustics at several universities, including Full Sail and Berklee College of Music, where he is an adjunct professor of acoustics and studio design.

He and the WSDG team are a 13-time winner of the NAMM TEC award for studio design.

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Buildings: My first major studio was for Jimi Hendrix. Imagine how surprised I was when (as a kid of 22) I went to the New York City Building Department (a place I would never go to now) to get the drawings for that building (which was then the basement of the 8th Street Cinema) only to find that this was the same cinema that had been designed by Frederick Keisler in the 1920’s. Keisler was and still is one of my favorite architects/sculptors. I was a fan of his throughout college. The world is a small world. Only two years later I studied with Buckminster Fuller right down the street. Little did I know that while building Electric Lady Studios, a beautiful young lady, Beth Walters was passing this construction site everyday. It would take 20 years for us to meet, fall in love and become partners.

Music: I like to listen to Puccini and Bach – but Duke Ellington , Sting, Otis Redding, Roy Orbison and Nina Simone make me smile too.

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