Walters-Storyk Design Group Company Profile
2012
TABLE OF CONTENTS
COMPANY BACKGROUND AND STRUCTURE ...... 4 Company Background ...... 4 Company Structure ...... 4 SERVICES ...... 5 Acoustic Design and Consulting ...... 55 Acoustic Testing and Measurement ...... 55 Internal Room Acoustics and Surface Treatments ...... 5 HVAC Noise Control Design / Vibration Control ...... 5 Sound Isolation ...... 5 Commercial and Performance Audio/Visual Systems Design and Integration ...... 5 Residential Audio-Video / Home Theater Design ...... 5 RELEVANT EXPERIENCE ...... 66 Project Examples ...... 8 Representative Client List ...... 38 Professional References ...... 4040 KEY PERSONNEL...... 4141
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COMPANY BACKGROUND AND STRUCTURE
Company Background
Walters-Storyk Design Group (WSDG) designs and consults in the fields of architecture, technology, electro-
acoustics,corporation and since advanced 1989, with audio-visual USA headquarters systems integr locatedation. in Highland, The firm Newhas been York, a and New is York an extension State registered of the design career of John Storyk, started in 1969.
Additional WSDG offices are located in Basel, SwitzerlandSwitzerland (Europe Office); Buenos AiAires,res, Argentina (Latin America Office); Belo Horizonte, Brazil (Brazil Office) and Miami, FlorFloridaida (serving southern FloridaFlorida and tthehe Caribbean). WSDG is the corporate entity of a 40-year career, startingstarting with John Storyk's first studiostudio design forfor Jimi Hendrix in 1969. WSDG is the partnership of BethBeth Walters and John Storyk,Storyk, and now includes associates and design professionals in all of the offices, numbering over 50 people.
WSDG has also designed recording and mixing studios for: Alicia Keys, Bob Marley, Bruce Springsteen, Celine Dion, Def-Jam Records, ESPN, Jay-Z, Jazz at Lincoln Center, MTV Latin America to name a few.
Key personnel hold college and university degrees in Architecture, Acoustics, Physics, Electrical Engineering and Management. John Storyk, Dirk Noy, David Kotch and Renato CiprianoCipriano are frequent lecturers and presenterspresenters atat various architectural and audio technology schools as well as specific trade conventions. WSDG is a seven-time winner of the international TEC Award in studio design, as well as the European SINUS System Integration Award. WSDG's work has been extensivelyextensively published and discusseddiscussed in numerous professional audio, broadcasting and systems design media. WSDG has been responsible for the design, construction and success of over 3,000 projects worldwide.
Company Structure
WSDG maintains offices in 5 locations:
USA Highland, New York (1.5 hours north of New York City) USA Miami, Florida Europe Basel, Switzerland Latin America Buenos Aires, Argentina Brazil Belo Horizonte, Brazil
All WSDG offices share rresourcesesources on a daily basis, however all jobs are managedmanaged and represented on a local basis. All work will be coordinated via the Highland, New York office. The Highland office maintains a full-time staff of 15 people as well as four part-time drafting and support professionals.
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SERVICES
Acoustic Design and Consulting
WSDG has collaborated with many of the world’s leading architectural firms to provide innovative solutions and
proceduresourselves in towards participating creating in the excellence collaborative in acoustic design andprocess. electro-acoustic design and installation. We pride
Acoustic Testing and Measurement
WSDG engineers use the most advanced acoustic predictionprediction and analysis software. This providesprovides accurate acoustical data collection and predictive acoustical modeling. Our reports are accurate and along with pre- construction environment auralization, allow our clients and design partners to listen to environments before they are constructed.
Internal Room Acoustics and Surface Treatments
Critical listening spaces, including studios, theaters, conference rooms, home listening rooms and all speech intelligibility sensitive spaces will all benefit from accurate acoustic design. Often the use of variablevariable acoustic treatments is our preferred design approach. By providing design options for surface treatments using absorption, reflection and diffusion, we can accurately enhance the listening properties of these environments. HVAC Noise Control Design / Vibration Control
WSDG establishes noise criteria specifications for all spaces in our designs, while preparing creative design solutions for adherence to these goals. Careful attentionattention is given to HVAC design, building structural systems, and room boundary design. When required, real world listening simulations allallowow careful value engineeringengineering before final design documentation.
Sound Isolation
Critical to virtually all successful acoustic designs is the thorough analysis of external noise, vibration sources (traffic, trains, aircraft, etc.) and environment (i.e. HVAC distribution systems). WSDG provides acoustical measurement, analysis and design services to assure optimal acoustical isolation of existing or new construction, always with an eye towards economy of design and awareness of applicable building techniques for each project.
Commercial and Performance Audio/Visual Systems Design and Integration
WSDG provides technology integration design services for the commercial and performance design communities. Specific services include distributed audio-video, building automation (lighting, HVAC, fenestration control, etc.), telephony & communications, and information technology. All work is always performed with an eye towards state of the art technology future proofing and creative integration with each projects’ architectural goals.
Residential Audio-Video / Home Theater Design
Advanced Residential audio-video design and whole house systems control are no lonlongerger ideas of the future. InIn almost all residences, these systems have now becomebecome integral to the home envenvironment.ironment. WSDG creates creative multi-room and home theater design solutions that are easy to manage, economical, acoustically accurate and most importantly, integrated into the architectural design of the residence.
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RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
Walters-Storyk Design Group and its principals have an extensive body of clients in the fields of architectural acoustical consulting, noise isolation design, facility design and audio-visual systems design and integration.integration. AA list of projects that supports our company profile and credentials follows. For a more extensiveextensive client list, please see www.wsdg.com . Our experience spans over 40 years in architectural design, internal room acoustics,acoustics, advanced noise isolation, and systems design requiredrequired for acoustically sensitive projects of all sizes.sizes. Moreover, WSDG has the ability to work seamlessly within a team design environment.
We have assembled a list of projects that underscore our experience with multiple project types:
Jazz at Lincoln Center Javeriana University - Ático Media Center New York, New York Bogotá, Colombia
Jungle City Studios El Porteño New York, New York Buenos Aires, Argentina
La Rioja Provincial Theater Roche Auditorium La Rioja, Argentina Basel, Switzerland
Le Poisson Rouge (LPR) St. Gallen Train Station New York, New York St. Gallen, Switzerland
Murray Arts Center (Mt. Paran Christian School) Maracanã Stadium Marietta, Georgia Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
New York University - Steinhardt / Dolan Studios Church Los Olivos New York, New York Buenos Aires, Argentina
University of Colorado - ATLAS Building Novartis Auditorium Boulder, Colorado Basel, Switzerland
Swiss Parliament - General Assembly ESPN - Digital Center 2 Bern, Switzerland Bristol, Connecticut
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Project Examples
Jazz at Lincoln Center New York, New York
anJazz educational at Lincoln wingCenter and opened recording/post in the fall production of 2004. This facilities. 100,000-square-foot facility houses performance venues,
The Frederick P. Rose Hall project consists of a 1,200-seat concert hall with movable seating towers. The hall can be set up for dance and opera and can also be reconfigured to provide an intimate jazz setting by surrounding the musicians with the audience seated on three levels. The Allen Room is a 300-600 seat performance space with tiered platforms ascending from the stage level to a dance floor with movable tables and chairs. The Irene Diamond Education Center is 3,500 square feet and contains two state-of-the-art education/rehearsal studios.
WSDG, as partners in the Sound of Jazz Consulting Group, worked closely with the architects and Wynton Marsalis to acoustically design the education, rehearsal and recording spaces. The systems integration design for all performance, educational and listening spaces within this facility are linked together for recording and playback. This facility is the world’s first performing arts center designed specifically for the performance and recording of jazz.
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Jazz at Lincoln Center
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Jungle City Studios New York, New York
Studio founder/engineer Ann Mincieli has invested over ten years of experience as Alicia Keys' engineer/album coordinator/studio director, and works with artists ranging from Coldplay to Usher and Jay-Z. Miss Mincieli has created Manhattan’s first true destination studio. The challenge of creating the signature 11thth floor live studio/control room directly above the two 10thth floor production suites in a newly constructed lightweight, concrete building presented complex isolation challenges.
To maximize the impact of the studios’ expansive North and South picture windows, WSDG floated the custom speakers in an outsized glass speaker baffle. This created a kind of transparent “wall of sound” between the live and control rooms, which provides artists and engineers with the creative advantage of full visual connectivity.connectivity. InIn addition, our isolation details allowed us to install the expansive window wall to expose an impressive view of the Manhattan skyline and the new Highline Park, while maintaining strict isolation requiremenrequirementsts for studiostudio use. Test results show an NC rating of 15, which is very low for a glass wall application.
For more information, please see New York Times article: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/26/arts/music/26studio.html
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Jungle City Studios
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La Rioja Provincial Theater La Rioja, Argentina
The Government of La Rioja City decided to renovate an existing space that was built in 1950, located at the center of La Rioja City in La Rioja Province, Argentina.
The main objective was to turn this space into the principal entertainment center of the city to promote provincial culture. The theatre is equipped with the most modern scenic technologies for performances, livelive shows, audio- video and multimedia production.
WSDG defined the acoustic specifications, the new space applications and the coordination with the system integrators for the correct placement of all the technical equipment. All acoustic modeling and specifications,specifications, as well as interior design, was provided by WSDG. To ensure each patron is able to see and hear with optimal clarity, acoustic panels were installed on the walls, and a series of curved panels were suspended from the ceiling, which provided both diffusion and absorption for the theater.
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La Rioja Provincial Theater
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Le Poisson Rouge (LPR) New York, New York
Le Poisson Rouge (LPR) was built in 2008 at the site of the historic Village Gate venue in Greenwich Village in NYC. The club features a flexible and intimate performanceperformance space with a capacity of 800 peoplepeople (250 seated) as
spacewell as and a 23' measures diameter 28' hardwood x 21' with sprung options dance for increasingincre floor.asing The or stage decreasing itself is thelocated overall in thefootprint. corner The of the 16' performancepe diameterdiametrformanceer trundled round stage can be used in the center of the space as needed, for example to hold LPR's 9' concert grand piano.
In addition to having a fully featured, flexible performance space, LPR also sports two cinema-sized screens, both of which feature surround sound. The lounge directlydirectly adjacent to the performance spacespace can hold approximately 130 customers for concurrent events.
LPR was designed with two elevated VIP Opera Boxes as well as two private entrances for high profile guests or performers. The kitchen boasts a full catering capability, a concert bar menu and a daytime lounge menu. The club has featured a wide range of performers including Norah Jones, Mos Def, Paul Simon, Lou Reed, Moby and many others. WSDG provided all architectural, acousticacoustic and A/V designdesign for this project.
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Le Poisson Rouge (LPR)
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Murray Arts Center (Mt. Paran Christian School) Marietta, Georgia (near Atlanta)
The Murray Arts Center represents a unique addition to Atlanta’s growing commitment to education and live entertainment. Recently purchased by the Mount ParanParan Christian SchoolSchool with the aid of a generous grant fromfrom
Atlanta’ssquare-foot Murray black-box Family theater, Foundation, three dancethe $35 studios, millionmillion acomcomplex cutting-edgeplex features recording a 600-seat600- seatstudio music and hall,a sophisticate an intimated video 2,200-2,200- production/post-production facility. Each of the Center’s components is designed to support the development of the Mount Paran Christian School’s performing arts program. The Center has a dual role as a multi-faceted campus preparing students for post-secondary degrees in dance, theatre, music, choral and digital media and as a professional-level performance venue.
Crowning a pastoral Marietta hilltop, the striking 84,000-square-foot brick and limestone, multi-level building was developed by award-winning Atlanta-based Randall-PaulsonRandall-Paulson Architects. Distinguished by a soaring 5,600- square-foot ‘Grand Lobby’ the complex includes over 8,000 square feet of rehearsal space, dressing and green rooms. The architectural and acoustic design for the Center’s theatrical performance spaces,spaces, state-of-the-artstate-of-the-art rehearsal rooms and high-tech audio/video facilities was entrusted to WSDG.
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Murray Arts Center (Mt. Paran Christian School)
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New York University - Steinhardt / Dolan Studios New York, New York
The James L. Dolan Recording/Teaching complex is the newest flagship installation at the NYU Steinhardt Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions. It is one of the most technically advanced audio teachingteaching
facilities$6.8 million, in the 7,500-square-foot United States and compound was ccreatedreated is devoted to provide to contemporary students with Musican exemplary Technology, learninglearni Theory,ng environment. Cognition, The Informatics, Computer Music, Recording, Production and Immersive Audio.
To create a teaching complex of this magnitude, a master team of architects, acousticians and technologists was formed by an NYU Steinhardt School faculty team. In cooperation with Gensler Architecture, WSDG providprovideded all architectural and acoustical design of the studios and technical spaces.
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New York University - Steinhardt / Dolan Studios
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University of Colorado - ATLAS Building Boulder, Colorado
The $31 million ATLAS (Alliance for Technology, Learning and Society) building is a unique facility designed to focus on the convergence of technology, media and tthehe arts. Located in the heartheart of Boulder’s University of
productionColorado campus, studio, aATLAS large video includes wall a in state-of-the-art the building’s lobby,black-box a film performance screening room, space, a atechnology-enh modern broadcastanced auditorium, videoconferencing rooms and four computer classrooms.
The 75-seat film screening room and black-box theater are on the cutting edge of technology-enhanced performance/venue spaces located anywhere in the nation on a public university campus.
At the center of ATLAS iiss the two-story, 3,000-square-foot3,000-square-foot black-box performanceperformance space. This versatile, high-high- tech theater is designed to provide digital technology for creative digital cinema, interdisciplinary performances that combine musicians, dancers, visual artists and technology, visiting artist webcasts, interactive audio and visual performances and student and faculty video production.production. All acoustic, master planning and systemssystems integration design for technical spaces were provided by WSDG.
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University of Colorado - ATLAS Building
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Swiss Parliament - General Assembly Bern, Switzerland
The Federal Palace in Bern is the building in which the Federal Assembly of Switzerland (federal parliament) and the Swiss Federal Council (executive) are housed. The The Federal Palace has been designed by the architect Hans
ofWilhelm service–the Auer andfirst wasmajor constructed renovation out took of placesandstone with the fromfrom goal 1894 to integrateto 1902. modernFrom 2006 technology to 2008–after2008–afte withinr overa faithful 100 years restoration of the original building structure.
The National Council Hall has three distinctive zones that require sound reinforcement: the main hall, the stage area (with a distinctive presenter position and seats for the Chairpersons and clerks such as vote counters and recorders) and the balcony (for visitors and press). WSDG was commissioned to perform three tasks: •• Study and analyze the installed electro-acoustical systems. •• Make multiple recommendations and specifications regarding upgrading or replacing the installed electro- acoustical systems. •• Upon the installation of the chosen system, we were commissioned to do a system calibration and final measurements of the upgraded or replaced electro-acoustical systems.
WSDG studied various upgrade options by using advanced acoustical computer simulation techniques.
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Swiss Parliament - General Assembly
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Javeriana University - Ático Media Center Bogotá, Colombia
One of the largest universities in the country, the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana caters to over 22,000 students and 3,500 professors in its 1,882,000-square-foot campus in Bogotá, Colombia. The university campus consists
ofand 45 communications buildings, including resource a hospital, center a inradio Latin stat Americaion, libraries for the and development the Ático Center, of education, the first image high-tech and informationdesign.design. This nine-story building is the region’s most ambitious audio/visual project to date.
The Ático Center, with two of its stories being underground and the other seven above ground, has two TV studios with control and post-production rooms, scenery lighting and make up workshops, as well as storage warehouses for live outdoors filming equipment. Two of its floors are completely dedicated to new mediamedia and architecture, animation and 3D drawing. Another three floors will accommodate audio recordingrecording studios, post- production rooms for video, film mixing, mastering, audio classrooms and a main auditorium for digital cinema. Overall, the facility will hold 24 specialized areas and recording studios, all of them designed to the highest international standards using the room within a room concept in regards to acoustics and architecture, and being completely isolated from one another to ensure that all of these rooms are operational at the same time without any interference between them. WSDG provided all mastermaster planning and acoustic designdesign for audio technology spaces.
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Javeriana University - Ático Media Center
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El Porteño Buenos Aires, Argentina
Alan Faena, an audacious Argentine entreprentrepreneur,eneur, summonedsummoned the well-known designer Philippe StarkStark to remodel and redesign an antique building placed at the exclusive area of “Puerto Madero” in Buenos Aires City, Argentina.
thanWSDG 14 providedspaces can facility-wide be found acousticalfor multiple consulting uses, incl udingfor the the hotel Cathedral, and apartment which serves components as the ofentrance the projecproject. hallt. andMore hotel reception, as well as the living room, dining spaces and the cabaret.
WSDG designed a system of distributed music that was capable of administrating different musical programs for each of the public spaces, turning the hotel into a gigantic radio station of 14 simultaneous channels, distinguished simultaneously. Extensive planning andand acoustic isolation detailing enabled the clubs and hotel to operate at the same time. WSDG specified all of the acoustic details for the isolation of the critical sound spaces (Night Club) to ensure the club could operate without affecting the hotel rooms and apartments.
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El Porteño
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Roche Auditorium Basel, Switzerland
Founded in Basel, Switzerland, in 1896 by visionary Swiss entrepreneur Fritz Hoffmann, Roche was one of the world's first pharmaceutical manufacturers. Today RocheRoche is the global market leader in diagnostdiagnosticsics and, as aa
leadingtransplantation, supplier oneof prescription of the top-ten medicines pharmaceutical in selected manufacturers therapeutic areasworldwide. such as oncology, virology and
The Basel site, being Roche's world headquarters, offers meeting and conference facilities for scientific and business events. A key element is the Master Auditorium, a 300-seat upscale auditorium whichwhich now offers full 5.1 cinema style surround sound replay, full broadcast quality video coverage, full video conferencing capabilities and countless other amenities. WSDG provided all acousticacoustic and auaudiodio technology for this educational venue.
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Roche Auditorium
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St. Gallen Train Station St. Gallen, Switzerland
The St. Gallen Train Station hall is an architectural icon constructed in an impressive steel-glass structure that dates back to 1915. The visitor information infrastinfrastructure,ructure, main lighting,lighting, signage and audio systems hhadad been upgraded intermittently since its original opening, more than 30 years ago, but the audio systems were in need of a substantial upgrade to 21st century standards.
The goal was to replace all the existing individual technology components with one unified system, consisting of lighting, signage and audio needs integrated into thethe same structure. WSDG provided allall acoustical consulting, including advanced audio simulations, working with the project architects to design and specify this new electro- acoustic system. The installation provides travelerstravelers with scheduling information, track changes, updates and other vital announcements, with high quality speech intelligibility.
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St. Gallen Train Station
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Maracanã Stadium Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The temple of soccer officially called Estádio Jornalista Mario Filho, known popularly as Maracanã, is the biggest soccer stadium in Brazil. Inaugurated in 1950 for FIFA’sFIFA’s World Cup, it has beenbeen a stage for great moments in Brazilian and international soccer including Pelé’s thousandth goal. The stadium will be hosting the opening and closing of the final match in FIFA’s World Cup in 2014 as well as the 2016 Olympics.
Maracanã is not only famous for soccer games, however;however; it also hosts concerts and otherother events. In 1980, Frank Sinatra sang for 170 thousand fans, 1983 saw KISS perform in front of a crowd of 250 thousand, and a Tina Turner concert in 1988 drew 188 thousand people.
WSDG designed the audio and video systems for the entire stadium and the full renovation is expected to be complete for the Confederations Cup in 2013, one yearyear prior to the World Cup. The complex architecturearchitecture was simulated in detail using advanced electro-acoustic simulation tools. The biggest challenge of the design was to define the final configuration and location of the sound system components, in order to achieve the required STI and SPL coverage as required by FIFA for such complex acoustical conditions.
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Maracanã Stadium
Acoustic Simulation Model
Sound Pressure Level – Full Simulation
STI Speech Intelligibility – Partial Simulation
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Church Los Olivos Buenos Aires, Argentina
This existing church with extremely limited funds presented WSDG with one of its most interesting challenges in many years, namely to design and implement extremely economic surface treatments that would enhance the acoustic experience in the church, both for music and for speech. With a majority of the surface being very reflective and in less than perfect geometric configurations, a thoughtful solution of altar re-configurations, choir re-positioning and select absorptive panel placement accomplished the acoustic goals for the church.
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Novartis Auditorium Basel, Switzerland
Novartis is one of the world’s leading pharmaceuticpharmaceuticalal companies, with its headquarters in Basel, Switzerland.Switzerland. AA highlight of the campus, which aims to offer a well designed and comfortable place for collaboration, is an all- glass building designed by Frank Gehry. Inside is a master auditorium with next-generationnext-generation audio, video, system control and conferencing technology. WSDG teamed up with Virtually Audio to meet Novartis’Novartis’ vision of equipping the room for various user scenarios, such as large media conferences, addresses from the CEO and scientific collaboration.
A moveable partition wall was designed to provide extreme noise isolatisolationion for simultaneous use of both upper and lower auditoria. Although it is below ground, the auditoriumauditorium receivesreceives daylight through a skylight and the sand- blasted glass-ceiling panels. Selected panels are motorizedmotorized to allow the acousticsacoustics to be varied according to different room configurations. The room can be divided, a full auditorium, or splisplitt into an upper auditorium and lower auditorium. The upper and lower auditoria can be used simultaneously and independently.
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ESPN - Digital Center 2 Bristol, Connecticut
As part of a world-clworld-classass design team that includes HLW ararchitectschitects (NYC), WSDG has provided all acoustical consulting for a landmark expansion of ESPN’s campuscampus outside Bristol, Connecticut. The new DigitalDigital Center 2, currently under construction and slated for a late 2012 / early 2013 opening, will house four fully-appointed shooting stages, five audio/video production suites, edit rooms, a 58 station highlight screening room, along with office facilities, conference rooms and support spaces.
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Representative Client List
Alicia Keys (Oven Studios) Long Island, NY Allaire Studios Woodstock, NY Art Institutes United States Atlantic Recording New York, NY audioEngine New York, NY Bearsville Recording Bearsville, NY Berklee College of Music Boston, MA Berklee College of Music - Valencia Valencia, Spain Big Mo Mobile Recording Kensington, MD Bob Marley Kingston, Jamaica Bruce Springsteen (Thrill Hill Studios) United States Camden Yard / Baltimore Orioles Baltimore, MD Carter Burwell New York, NY Celine Dion United States Central Synagogue New York, NY Church Le Noirmont Le Noirmont, Jura, Switzerland Citicorp Credit Services Huntington, NY Credit Suisse Zurich, Switzerland
CrossroadsCuyahoga Community Tabernacle College - Studio - onCenter the Hillfor Innovation in the Arts Cleveland, Bronx, OHNY Diante do Trono Belo Horizonte, Brazil Duke Ellington High School Washington, DC Eddie Kramer Rhinebeck, NY EFE-X Bogota, Columbia El Porteño Buenos Aires, Argentina Electric Lady Studios New York, NY Electronic Arts Vancouver, Canada Elektra Entertainment New York, NY Equiscosa Mexico City, Mexico EUE Screen Gems (Rachel Ray) New York, NY ESPN Bristol, CTCT Fito Paez (Circo Beat Studios) Buenos Aires, Argentina Flughafenkopf – Expansion of Zurich Airport Zurich, Switzerland
FoodFull Sail Network Center for the Recording Arts NewOrlando, York, NYFLFL Goesgen Nuclear Plant – Auditorium Däniken, Switzerland Green Day – Jingletown Recording Oakland, California Hard Rock Cafe New York, NY Hoffman LaRoche Basel, Switzerland Howard Schwartz Recording New York, NY Hunter College New York, NY IMAX Buenos Aires, Argentina IDZI Lab Mexico City, Mexico Interlochen Public Radio Interlochen, MIMI Interim Services Ft. Lauderdale, FLFL Isaac Hayes Westchester, NY J J Records (Clive Davis) New York, NY J.A. Castle Recording Utica, NY James Earl Jones Theater - Poughkeepsie Day School Poughkeepsie, NY Jay-Z (Roc the Mic Studios) New York, NY Jazz at Lincoln Center New York, NY Jim Cramer’s Real Money New York, NY
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Jungle City Studios New York, NY Kimmel Center Philadelphia, PAPA La Rioja Theater La Rioja, Argentina Le Poisson Rouge New York, NY Maracana Stadium Rio de Janeiro Manhattan School of Music New York, NY Martin Scorsese Media Center Bronx, NY Merriweather Pavilion Columbia, MD Mineirao Stadium – FIFA Belo Horizonte, Brazil Minnesota Public Radio Minneapolis, MN MJI Broadcasting / Clear Channel New York, NY MonkMusic Studios East Hampton, NY Murray Arts Center Marietta, GA MTV Latin America Buenos Aires, Argentina National Council of Switzerland Bern, Switzerland National Museum of the American Indian Washington, DC New York University New York, NY Northern Lights New York, NY Novartis Basel, Switzerland NYISO (New York Independent System Operator) Albany, NY
PhilippePeavey ElectronicsMoritz Zurich,Meridian, Switzerland MS Planet Hollywood Screening Room New York, NY Proctor and Gamble Buenos Aires, Argentina Record Plant Los Angeles, CA Restaurant T Buenos Aires, Argentina Richard Gere New York, NY Robert Clivilles (Paradise Garage) Westchester, NY SBK / EMI Records New York, NY Skank Belo Horizonte, Brazil SONY Corporation Teaneck, NJNJ Spank! Music and Sound Design Chicago, ILIL Stanwich Congregational Church Greenwich, CTCT St. Gallen Train Station St. Gallen, Switzerland Stevie Wonder (Wonderland) Los Angeles, CA
SumitomoSunshine Mastering Boardroom Vienna,New York, Austria NY Swiss Parliament Basel, Switzerland Telefé Buenos Aires, Argentina Teleproductions, Inc. Washington, DC The Carpenters Church Port Harcourt, Nigeria The Cosmopolitan Las Vegas, Nevada The Standard Hotel New York, NY Thirteen / WNET New York, NY Union College Schenectady, NY University of Colorado – ATLAS (Alliance for Technology, Learning and Society) Boulder, CO University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MIMI Vassar Chapel Poughkeepsie, NY Video Arts Studios Fargo, ND Village Studios Guangzhou, China Vocomotion Skokie, ILIL Whitney Houston United States WNYC Radio New York, NY Woodrow Wilson Center Theater – Smithsonian Washington, DC
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Professional References
Brian Wick, Owner James Matchack, former Studio Director audioEngine Murray Arts Center New York, NY 10003 1275 Stanley Road (212) 473-2700 Kennesaw, GA 30152 [email protected] (678) 770-0082 [email protected] Jay Kennedy, Assoc. VP for Academic Affairs Berklee College of Music Chris Reda, Project Manager Boston, MA 02215 The Griffin Lounge (617) 747-2382 New York, NY [email protected] (917) 562-8705 [email protected] Pastor Joseph Cortese Crossroads Tabernacle John Mazzoni, President Bronx, NY 10642 The Art Institutes (718) 904-0202 Pittsburgh, PA [email protected] (412) 562-0900 [email protected]
Annand ChiefMincieli, Engineer, Founder, Alicia Jungle Keys’ CiCity tyOven Studios Studios Bill Jarett, VP of Engineering 520 W. 27thth Street, Suite 1002 Scripps Productions NY New York, NY 10001 [email protected] (718) 273-3584 (646) 336-3605 [email protected] (917) 833-4329
Kelly Combs, Project Manager David Greenspan, Audio Resources Coordinator Gensler Architects University of Michigan Rockefeller Center Former Chief Engineer at Interlochen Public Radio 1230 Avenue of the Americas Ann Arbor, MI New York, NY 10020 (734) 936-7659 (212) 492-1400 [email protected] [email protected] David MacLaughlin, Executive Director of Audio
RockwoodKen Rockwood, Music Owner Hall NewEngineering England School of Communications New York, NY 10002 Bangor, ME (646) 229-4172 (207) 973-1025 [email protected] [email protected]
Justin Kantor, Owner Kyle Wesloh, Studio Manager Le Poisson Rouge Minnesota Public Radio 158 Bleeker Street Saint Paul, MN New York, NY 10012 (651) 290-1586 (917) 509-1004 [email protected] [email protected] Shaun Farley, Sound Engineer Eddie Kramer, Engineer and Producer TeleProductions International Jimi Hendrix Chantilly, VA (818) 456-7261 (703) 222-2408 [email protected] [email protected]
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KEY PERSONNEL
John Storyk, R.A. – Founder / Principal
John Storyk, registered architect and acoustician, is a founding partner of WSDG. HeHe has provided facility planning, acoustical and systems design services for the professional audio-video production and performance community since the 1969 completion of Jimi Hendrix's Electric Lady Studios in New York City. John received his architectural studies from Princeton and Columbia Universities.Universities. As an independent designer, engineer and principal of WSDG, he has been responsible for over 3,000 world-class audio-video production facilities, including studios, radio stations, video suites, entertainment clubs and theaters. He is a member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA), Audio Engineering Society (AES) and AcoustiAcousticalcal Society of America (ASA) and is a frequent contributor to AES convention papers and professional industry periodicals. John is a frequent lecturer at schoolsschools throughout thethe nation and has established coursescourses in acoustics at Full Sail (Orlando), Ex’Pression Center for the Media Arts (San Francisco), while maintaining adjunct professor status in Acoustics and Studio Design at Berklee College of Music (Boston) and Stevens Institute (New Jersey). [email protected]
Beth Walters-Storyk – Founder / Principal / Interior Design Beth Walters-Storyk is a graduate of the Fashion Institute of Technology (New York) with two degrees, A.A.S. in Textile Design and a B.F.A. in Product Design. Her construction experience comes with having been a senior installation designer for the Gallery's exhibition and installation staff at the Fashion Institute for over 10 years. From 1982- 1988, Beth also was the display and merchandising director for such noted home furnishing fabric firms as Boris Kroll Fabrics, Greff Fabrics and Design Tex Fabrics. Beth is a founding partner and principal of Walters-Storyk Design Group and leads the interior design services division. [email protected]
Sergio Molho – Principal / Director of International Relations / Director – WSDG Latin America
Sergio Molho is a founding partner of WSDG Latin America.America. He provides the technical,
Latinacoustical America and projects. architectural Sergio supervision has worked as inwell the as au projectdio and management video industry for since all WSDG 1982, beginning as an engineer, composer and producer for international productions for recording labels such as Sony and Warner. As an accomplished keyboard player and vocalist, he was the leader of CASH, a successful funk band that had its fame in Argentina in the 1980's. He is a member of the ArgentineanArgentinean Acoustic Chamber (AAC) and Audio Engineering Society (AES) as well as otherother professional organizations. He is a frequent contributor to technical workshops expanding the knowledge and education of acoustics and electro-acoustics in their relationshiprelationship to architecture. In 2005, Sergio became the CEO and principal of WSDG Latin America. In 2007 he opened the WSDG Mexico Office, and in 2009 the WSDG Miami office. As the Director of WSDG’sWSDG’s International Relations, he contributes to the promotion and acquisition of new business relations worldwide. [email protected]
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Dirk Noy – Senior Acoustician / Director of WSDG – Europe
Dirk Noy, M.Sc. Physics, has a Diploma in Experimental Solid State Physics from the University of Basel, Switzerland and graduated from Full Sail Center for the Recording Arts, Orlando, USA, where he was one of John Storyk'sStoryk's students. After joiningjoining WSDG iinn early 1997 Dirk now heads the WSDG Europe office in Basel, Switzerland. Dirk has extensive experience in applied mathematics, acoustical measurement and calculation techniques, audio engineering, systems design and all facets of Information Technologies. His language abilities include German, Dutch, French andand English. As a publishing member of the Audio Engineering Society (AES) and the Swiss Acoustical Society (SGA) he is a frequent lecturer at trade conventions, recording colleges, as well as architectural education institutions. [email protected]
Renato Cipriano – Senior Acoustician / Director of WSDG – Brazil
Renato Cipriano graduated as a Civil Engineer from the University of FUMEC in Belo Horizonte, Brazil in 1994 and is also a graduate from both The Recording Workshop, Ohio (1992) and Full Sail Center for the Recording Arts, Orlando, USA (1999–also one of John’s students). In early 2000, Renato opened the WSDG Brazil office in Belo
projectsHorizonte, in BrazilBrazil. and Additionally, is responsible Renato for hasthe acoustled thetheical design and architecturalefforts of many supervision of our on all international projects contributing to creative acoustic interiors and integrated lighting design. As an audio engineer he has worked on various projeprojectscts including the most recent album of the most popular rock band in BrazilBrazil – Skank. Renato also teaches Basic Acoustics in the top audio school in the country,country, IAV in São Paulo. In 2004 Renato received twotwo Grammy nominations and won the Latin Grammy for "Best Brazilian Rock Album". [email protected]
Gabriel Hauser – Acoustician
Gabriel Hauser graduated with a degree in electrical engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, in 2000. Analog and digital signal processing and acoustics were his primary focus. His Thesis was titled "Reduction of Nonlinear Distortion of Loudspeakers employing Volterra Filters" (at Studer Professional AG,
becomeSwitzerland). a founding After joiningpartner the at WSDGWSDG Europe.New York His office, specialties Gabriel include returnedreturned AcousticalAco toustical Switzerland to Simulation and Measurement, complex Acoustical Analysis and Methodology as well as Architectural Acoustics. During his studies GabrielGabriel waswas a founding member of Abbaxx Soundsystems Ltd., whose principal field of work is sound reinforcement and loudspeaker technology. While While with Abbaxx, he designed and developed sound systems for concert use, churches and installations. He writes articles for audio magazines and continues to be a performing musician. [email protected]
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Silvia Campos Molho – Interior and Lighting Designer
Silvia Campos Molho has been involved in the video industry since 1987 as an independent filmmaker in Lima. Her degree in Fine ArtsArts comes from the University ofof Peru in Lima and has continued with a degree in Anthropology from the University of Buenos Aires. As a producer, Silvia has developed several cinematographic projects,projects, documentaries, commercials and corporate marketing worldwide. Her areas of expertise include the development of corporate images with the wide use of digital technological combined with traditional film and video. In 1998, together with AVH Inc. in Argentina, she was responsible for the making of the first DVD format in South America. She is an integral part of the design, communication and marketing divisions for WSDG, while acting as co-founder and partner of WSDG-Latin. [email protected]
Joshua Morris – Project Manager
Joshua Morris graduated from the University of North Carolina in Charlotte with two Degrees, a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture and a BachelorBachelor of Architecture. A love of music has led him to seek a combination of architecture and acoustics, beginning with his thesis on acoustics. Additionally, Josh has beebeenn educated in the Suzuki method for
Joshuaviolin since joined age the three, WSDG making team acoustic in January design of 2005, a na turalmov ingchoice from for North a career Carolina path. to New York, and quickly settled into a key role as a project manager, designer and now partner. Since then he has managed dozens of projects from ChinaChina to the United States to Germany, and continues to add more skills to his design vocabulary each day, while refining his already well developed practice as a luthier. [email protected]
Romina Larregina – Project Manager
Romina Larregina graduated from the University of Palermo, Buenos Aires, with a degree in Architecture. Upon graduating, Romina took her skills to an engineering office, while teaching English and helping with the set up of tradetrade shows. She apprenticed at WSDG – Latin for several years befbeforeore moving to the UnitedUnited StatesStates in 1999, to become an integral member and now partner at WSDG (New York). Her multi-lingual skills in
internationalEnglish, Spanish projects. and Portuguese Romina is thehave Latin been liaison, instrumen as welltal asin leadingproject managementnumerous and production coordinator for the New York office. She loves to travel and enjoys the day-to-day clientclient interaction. [email protected]
David Kotch – Acoustician
David Kotch graduated with honors from Lehigh University in 2004 as an architect, and joined WSDG 2006 combining hihiss talents and passion for music, ararchitecture,chitecture, physicsphysics and systems design. David spent 1998-2006 working inin the live sound industry,industry, specifically Broadway Theater, designing and optimizingoptimizing sound systems. David’s experience and expertise include noise isolation control, acoustical measurement, systems optimization, and computer aided acoustical modeling. David is a member of the Audio Engineering Society (AES), Acoustical Society of America (ASA) and has presented multiple times at the AES national conference in addition to guest lecturing at universities. He still mixes audio for large speciaspeciall live broadcastbroadcast events such as the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show and NFL Games. When David is not working, he spends his time climbingclimbing big objectives, ranging fromfrom Yosemite to Alaska to Patagonia. [email protected]
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Judy Elliott-Brown – Systems Engineer
Judy Elliott-Brown has been a professional audio engineer since 1977, with a background in live touring, remote recording, music recording, sound for television, studio maintenance and systems design. She has been responsible for the systems infrastructure design and installation of over 100 projects worldwide. Projects she has worked on include world-class audio recording studios, media/broadcast production studios, educational facilities and multi-use performanceperformance spaces. Judy is a full-time systems design engineer and project manager, and has collaborated on WSDG projects for over 25 years. She is a member of the Audio Engineering Society (A(AES)ES) and National AcademyAcademy ooff Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS). Additionally, she has workedworked on several Grammy nominatednominated albums and TV shows. [email protected]
Howard Schwartz – Strategic Development Director
Howard Schwartz has recently joined WSDG after a long, successful career as the founder and CEO of Howard Schwartz Recording in New York City. Howard is one of the leaders in the professional audio production industry.industry. Born in Buffalo, New York, he attended the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, is a Veteran of the US Army during the Vietnam Era (A Radio DJ for The US Army AFN in Berlin, Frankfort and
HeMunich had ain shortthe 60’s), stint backand a in music Radio mixer at The in CHUMHollywood Grou duringp in Toronto the late and 60’s then and moved early 70’s. to New York in 1972 where he became a mixer in the TV and studio advertising business. Howard Schwartz has relationships in every facet of the motion picture, television, commercial, music, Internet, digital, design and construction worlds. [email protected]
Ilan Weinstein – Director of Operations WSDG – Miami
Ilan Weinstein, born in Israel, grew up in Argentina and Venezuela, and has lived for the past 12 years in Miami, FL with his wife and 3 children.children. He holds an MBA in Business Administration from the University of Miami. He founded and managed opeoperationsrations for the second largest distributor of DIRECTV in the U.S. and oversaw all sales, customer service and information systems functions. Ilan has held many corporate positions in finance, marketing and sales with the Cisneros Group of Companies and has supervised
Ricodifferent for overoperations 10 years. in Venezuela, Since 2008, Colombia, Ilan has Mexicodevoted, Costahis efforts Rica, to Ecuador creating and our PuertoWSDG office in Miami. Ilan is dedicated to design and installation in home automation, professional A/V, and commercial systems integration. [email protected]
Thomas Wenger – Project Engineer
Thomas Wenger studied IT and electronics at the Institute for Software Engineering, Bern with additional studies in Audio Recording and Room Acoustics in East Croyden, England. After several years in the IT world with major project management development, he worked with J+C Intersonic AG for 5 years and became a Senior Project Manager. Mastering the synthesis of the technical aspects of acoustics, broadcast and audio video systems has made him an invaluable member in numerous WSDG projects, including GTRK Kultura (Moscow), HKB Music University Switzerland, and several government related projects for Swiss Television and Radio. He is responsible for the technical planning and integration of all media production facilities, in addition to complex project supervision.supervision. As a member of the Audio Engineering Society (AES) and the Swiss Acoustical Society (SGA), he is a frequent lecturer at HKB (Hochschule der Künste, Bern). [email protected]
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