- Henry Kloss
Henry Kloss (1929, Altoona, PA-January 31, 2002, Cambridge, MA) was a prominent audio engineer and businessman who helped advance high fidelity loudspeaker and radio receiver technology beginning in the 1950s. Kloss (rhymes with gross) was a student in physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (class of 1953), but never received a degree. He was responsible for a number of innovations, including the acoustic suspension loudspeaker and the high fidelity cassette deck. - Avery Fisher
Avery Robert Fisher was an audio specialist who made numerous contributions to the field of sound reproduction. - Barbara Kruger
Barbara Kruger (b. 1945) is an American conceptual artist. She was born in Newark, New Jersey and left there in 1964 to attend Syracuse University. After a year at Syracuse, she moved to New York, where she began attending Parsons School of Design. She studied with Diane Arbus and Marvin Israel, who, as a graphic designer and art director for Harper's Bazaar in the 1960s, introduced Kruger to photographers and fashion/magazine sub-cultures. - Russell Haswell
Russell Haswell (born 1970, Coventry, UK) is a multidisciplinary artist. He has exhibited conceptual and wall based visual works, video art, public sculpture, as well as audio presentations in both art gallery and concert hall contexts. Extreme Computer Music is one specialized area of activity. An ongoing collaboration (2003 +) with Florian Hecker working with Iannis Xenakis' graphic-input 'UPIC Music Composing System' is one project, … - Bill Porter
Bill Porter is an American sound engineer who recorded such stars as Elvis Presley and Roy Orbison through the 1960s and 1970s. He also did concert sound for Elvis for seven years in the 1970s. In one week of 1960, his recordings accounted for 15 of Billboard Magazine's "Top 100," a feat no one has ever matched. - Max Mathews
Max Vernon Mathews (* November 13, 1926, in Columbus, Nebraska) was a pioneer in the world of computer music. He studied electrical engineering at the California Institute of Technology and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, receiving a Sc.D. in 1954. Working at Bell Labs, Mathews wrote MUSIC, the first widely-used program for sound generation, in 1957. For the rest of the century, he continued as a leader in digital audio research, synthesis, … - Vance Dickason
Vance Dickason is a loudspeaker designer, consultant to a wide range of loudspeaker manufacturers, and a published author. Dickason has been working as a professional in the loudspeaker industry since 1974, when he founded Speaker Research Associates (SRA). He is well-known in professional audio and audio hobbyist circles as the author of the "Loudspeaker Design Cookbook", which is now in its 7th edition, and "Loudspeaker Recipes: Book 1". - Martin John Callanan
Martin John Callanan, (born 1982, Birmingham) is an English artist and academic who works with digital media, audio, installation, and video. He obtained degrees from both The Birmingham Institute of Art and Design (BIAD) and University College London. Callanan is a Honorary Research Fellow to Susan Alexis Collins, (Head of Electronic Media, and Head of Undergraduate Fine Art Media, for the Slade School of Art, University College London). - Mark Rappaport
Mark Rappaport is an American independent/underground film director who has been working sporadically since the early 1970s. His films are often marked by high camp, melodrama, deadpan humor, ennui, and a rather cavalier attitude towards copyright law and intellectual property, often using music, archival footage, and excerpts from Hollywood films without seeking permission. Central to Rappaport's work is the relationship between the audience and media, … - Don Simmons
Don Simmons (Born 1973 in St. John's, Newfoundland) is a Canadian experimental artist and writer whose work materializes itself as robotics, electronics, audio, installation and performance. Simmons' work addresses problematic concepts like the automation and the psychological effects of simulated processes. He often treats the body as a machine and tool for collecting data/information. Simmons will create situations for 'false' emotional states to occur in the audience, … - Elfego Baca
Elfego Baca was a legendary lawman, lawyer, and politician in the closing days of the American wild west. Elfego Baca was born in New Mexico just before the end of the American Civil War. His family later moved to Topeka, Kansas when he was a young child. Upon his mother’s death in 1880, Baca returned with his father to Belen, New Mexico where his father became a marshal. In 1884, at age 19, Baca stole some guns, bought a mail-order sheriff’s badge, … - Julian Vereker
Julian Charles Prendergast Vereker, MBE (7 May 1945-14 January 2000) was an English audio electronics engineer, and founder of Naim Audio Ltd. of Salisbury, Wiltshire. Vereker was an engineer in the specialist high fidelity audio equipment field. He was a very influentual figure in the manufacture and retail of British audio in the 1970s and 1980s, and was appointed MBE by HM Queen Elizabeth II in 1995. - Jack Mullin
John T. "Jack" Mullin (1913-1999) was an American pioneer in the field of electronic audio and video recording using magnetic tape. In the late 1920s, engineers of the German electronics company AEG, working with the chemical giant I.G. Farben, created the world's first practical magnetic tape recorder, the K1, which was first demonstrated in 1935. During WWII AEG engineers discovered the AC-biasing technique, … - Jim Drobnick
Jim Drobnick is a curator, critic and editor, and has worked in installation, audio, dance and performance. Drobnick is Associate Professor of Contemporary Art and Theory at the Ontario College of Art and Design. He has held research affiliations at the University of Manchester and the National Gallery of Canada. He has published on performance art, video, dance and interdisciplinary practices in catalogues and anthologies such as Crime and Ornament (2002), … - Lynn Scoresby
A. Lynn Scoresby is a psychologist from Orem, Utah, who sits on the Board of Directors for the Legacy Foundation, a nonprofit organization that provides training, information and resources to promote better learning opportunities and healthy development for children and families. Scoresby received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. He has more than 30 years of experience in professional speaking, education, training and organizational consulting. - Etsuro Nakamichi
Etsuro Nakamichi (died November 10, 1982) was a Japanese engineer and founder of Nakamichi Corporation, a high-end audio electronics company based in Tokyo in Japan. The company is most famous for its very high quality sounding cassette decks. - Jon Finn
Jonathan M. Finn (born 1958) is an American rock musician and guitarist. He is the founder and leader of the Jon Finn Group, and is a professor at the Berklee College of Music; he joined the guitar faculty there in 1988. He is also the author of several books on the guitar, and was an instructional columnist for "Guitar" magazine for three years. Finn grew up in Westwood, Massachusetts and began playing guitar at the age of six. He later became a student at Berklee. - Mitchell Sipus
Mitchell Sipus is a multidisciplinary artist whose work engages the viewer by means of performance, installation, and film/video/audio. He is the director of Current Residence, an exhibition platform dedicated to expanding both the practice of contemporary art as well as the means of audience engagement. Current Residence productions may take place within the public, and are not necessarily identified as art by the random passerby. - Audio Two
Audio Two were the Brooklyn, New York hip hop duo of rapper Kirk "Milk Dee" Robinson and DJ Nat "Gizmo" Robinson, most famous for their first hit, the classic "Top Billin'". They are also the older brothers of female rap star MC Lyte. Their debut single "Make It Funky" was released in 1987, but it was the b-side "Top Billin'" that hit, making not only the group instant stars but a deep cultural impact on hip hop. - Mark Gaide
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President & CEO of Expert Executive Search - one of Asia Pacific's best-connected Search, Selection & Recruitment Firms. Also a leading international Headhunter, Neural Networker & Technology Enthusiast; Keynote Speaker; Internet & Web 2.0 Subject Matter Expert; Top 30 LinkedIn 'Power User'.Host of TPN :: The Connections Show, an audio podcast series that puts you ahead of the curve with the latest developments in Social & Business Networking. http://connections.thepodcastnetwork.com - Alan Parsons
Alan Parsons (b. December 20, 1948 in London) is a British audio engineer, musician, and record producer. As a child, he found that his interests lay in music. He studied piano and flute and was always intrigued by gadgetry. He picked up the guitar in his early teens and played as a soloist as well as with various bands at school. - Alex Sadkin
Alex Sadkin (c. 1952-1987) is best remembered as a record producer in the early 1980s, but actually got his start as a saxophonist for the Las Olas Brass. He was first trained as a mastering engineer but eventually moved into recording studio work as a "tape-op" (Assistant Engineer) at Criteria Studios, Miami, Florida. Sadkin got his break after impressing Neil Young with his mixing ability, and he eventually became head engineer at Compass Point Studio in Nassau, Bahamas, … - David Bowie
David Bowie (born David Robert Jones on 8 January 1947) is an English singer, songwriter, actor, multi-instrumentalist, producer, arranger and audio engineer. Active in five decades of rock music, and frequently re-inventing his music and image, Bowie is widely regarded as an influential innovator, particularly for his work through the 1970s. Bowie has taken cues from a wide range of fine art, philosophy and literature. He is also a film and stage actor, … - Joe Meek
Joe Meek (born Robert George Meek; April 5, 1929 in Newent, Gloucestershire — February 3, 1967 in London) was a pioneering English record producer and songwriter acknowledged as one of the world's first and most imaginative independent producers. His most famous work was The Tornados' hit "Telstar" (1962), which became the first record by a British group to hit #1 in the US Hot 100. It also spent five weeks atop the UK singles chart, … - Charlie Adams
Charlie Adams is an American drummer, percussionist, and drum engineer who has been drum lead for Yanni through nine major concert tours. Yanni and Adams have recorded 14 albums that have gone platinum and double platinum. He is widely recognized for his drum solo on the "Yanni Live at the Acropolis" video, the second best-selling music video of all time. - Glyn Johns
Glyn Johns is a recording engineer and record producer. He has worked with such artists as The Eagles, The Beatles, The Steve Miller Band, The Ozark Mountain Daredevils, Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, The Who, Georgie Fame, Family, Eric Clapton, The Clash, Midnight Oil and the Blue Öyster Cult, plus Linda Ronstadt, Emmylou Harris, New Model Army, Belly, Helen Watson and many others. After an ill-fated singing career in the 1960s with the band The Presidents, … - Asgeir Mickelson
"Asgeir Mickelson" (also known as Verdens Beste Trommis and Høvdingen) is a Norwegian musician. Although primarily a drummer, Mickelson has stated that he considers himself a musician above a drummer, and is also a guitarist and bassist. - Mike Dred
Mike Dred is the general pseudonym of experimental techno DJ, producer, and sound engineer Michael C. Cullen, b. 1967, of Lowestoft, UK. He has been a leading DJ since 1983, a producer since 1988, a sound designer since 1992, and is considered an important figure in the development of acid techno and innovative usage of the Roland TB-303, associating him with fellow artists Tom Middleton, Aphex Twin, and Matthew Herbert. - David Rohl
David M. Rohl (born 12 September 1950) is a British Egyptologist and historian who has put forth several controversial theories concerning the chronology of Ancient Egypt and Palestine. He was born in Manchester and currently lives in the Marina Alta, Spain. - Daniel Lanois
Daniel Lanois is a Canadian record producer and singer-songwriter. He has released a number of albums of his own work and has produced albums for a wide variety of artists including Bob Dylan, The Parachute Club, U2, Brian Eno, Peter Gabriel, Emmylou Harris, Robbie Robertson, the Neville Brothers, Chris Whitley, Ron Sexsmith and Nash the Slash. - Steven Wilson
Steven Wilson (born Steven John Wilson on November 3, 1967 in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, England) is the lead guitarist/singer/songwriter and the founder of progressive rock band Porcupine Tree. Wilson is also a self-taught producer, audio engineer, guitar and keyboard player (among other musical instruments). - Norman Petty
Norman Petty (May 25, 1927 - August 15, 1984) was an American musician, songwriter, and pioneer record producer of the Southwest who helped shape modern popular music, including pop and rock. Born in the small town of Clovis, New Mexico, near the Texas border, Petty began playing piano at a young age. While in high school, he was regularly heard on a fifteen minute show on a local radio station. Petty and his wife Vi founded the Norman Petty Trio, … - Mark Heard
John Mark Heard (1951-August 16, 1992) was a record producer, folk-rock singer, and songwriter originally from Macon, Georgia. Mark Heard released 16 records in his lifetime, and produced and performed with many other artists as well, such as Sam Phillips (aka Leslie Phillips), Pierce Pettis, Phil Keaggy, Vigilantes of Love, Peter Buck of R.E.M. (who co-produced VOL's album "Killing Floor" with Heard), John Austin, The Choir, … - Richard James Burgess
Richard James Burgess has been successful as a studio drummer, music-computer programmer, major-label artist, record producer, composer, published author, manager, marketer and inventor. - Phil Thornalley
Philip Carden Thornalley (born 5 January 1960, Worlington, Suffolk, England) is a songwriter-producer and occasional bassist and vocalist who has worked in the music industry since 1978. Best known for the co-writing (with Scott Cutler and Anne Preven) and producing the song "Torn" for Natalie Imbruglia, and for her debut album, "Left of the Middle". Thornalley began working as a recording engineer in 1978, at RAK Studios in St. John's Wood, … - Mark Warner
Mark Warner is a Nashville Tennessee session guitarist, published songwriter and music producer who has contributed to many Rock and Pop music recordings. Warner has received public music industry acknowledgement for his songwriting contributions. In 2001 he won the Paramount Music Summer Songwriting Contest. He was then recognized for his lyrical accomplishments in the October 2001 edition of "ASCAP Playback Magazine". - Alessandro Simonetto
Alessandro Simonetto (b.1974), pianist and sound engineer, is the founder of OnClassical, the independent record label based in Bassano del Grappa, Italy. He is also the founder of Kunst der Fuge website: an exhaustive resource of classical music midi files. - Ralph Peer
Ralph Peer (May 22 1892 - January 19 1960) was born Ralph Sylvester Peer in Independence, Missouri. He died in Hollywood, California. Peer was a talent scout, recording engineer and record producer in the field of music in the 1920s and 1930s. Peer spent some years working for Columbia Records, in Kansas City, Missouri until 1920 when he was hired as recording director of General Phonograph's OKeh Records label in New York.
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