Audio Production

Liz has over 10 years of experience in audio production and multimedia. As an audio systems engineer, she specializes in system commission and integration, premises wiring and custom fabrication. She has served as a project technical coordinator and lead system technician for clients including the New England Aquarium, Sprint Communications, Verité Music, Boston University, Converse and Tewksbury Hospital. Liz also works as a freelance recording engineer, mix engineer, producer and musician; projects range from music production for records to audio postproduction for film to sound reinforcement for concerts where she has worked with acts such as Herbie Hancock, A Perfect Circle and Jonathan Brooke. Liz graduated from Dartmouth College and Berklee College of Music.

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Associate Director: Gabe Herman A formally-trained musician and audio engineer, Gabe has engineered and produced numerous groups in genres ranging from classical string quartets to modern rock to contemporary world beat music. His work has been featured on national television (NBC), radio (NPR’s Fresh Air and Australian National Public Radio), the
Internet (AOL), and The New York Times. His film scores and sound designs have won awards at film festivals around the world including The Black Mariah Film Festival, The Rhode Island International Film Festival, ION International and the Chicago International Film Festival. Gabe is heavily involved with the local music scene in Boston and is a member of AES (Audio Engineering Society). He owns and operates the recording facilities at JamSpot in Somerville, MA, where he has recorded performing acts ranging from Dresden Dolls drummer Brian Vigliano to Blackground/Universal Records pop star JoJo.

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Matt is a mastering engineer with over 1,200 album credits spanning an enormous spectrum of genres. In addition to his mastering work, he is also an active mix and tracking engineer, with a special focus on live to stereo recording. Matt has played saxophone, Theremin and guitar in various bands over the years, and is currently performing and composing with modular analog synthesizers.

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Peter is the composer/producer of the theme to the popular This Old House TV show and hundreds of other broadcast tracks. He has performed/recorded with Bonnie Raitt and Susan Tedeschi and has been a faculty member at Berklee College and Harvard Extension School. His awards include two Emmys and numerous ASCAP Awards.

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Frederick has been involved in a wide variety of music technology applications including composition, audio production, live performance and real time interactivity. His pioneering work with Virtual Orchestra technology has resulted in over 50,000 performances worldwide and includes work on Broadway, Off-Broadway, London’s West End, Cirque du Soleil and theatrical tours in America and Europe. He is a co-founder of Realtime Music Solutions in New York City.

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Dan is a freelance recording and live sound engineer in the Boston area. He has done work for Warner Records, Rounder Records, FSN television network and Kufala/Live Archive, and has engineered and produced many independent releases. Dan specializes in front-of-house and live multitrack recording, wiring and acoustic treatment, and guerrilla recording techniques. 

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Steve is a freelance audio postproduction sound engineer with a focus in sound design. He has been working independently at numerous postproduction houses on national TV and radio commercials, documentaries and 3D bumpers for the video gaming industry. Steve created and contributed as sound designer and independent producer to sound effects collections for Sound-Ideas including Radioactive. He was also a contributing sound designer for The Big Drone and the Sci Fi Series 8000 Warp Three collections. Steve’s sound effects are included in Bias Inc’s Peak audio software (versions 3–5). He also developed preset templates for Waves audio plug-ins. 

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Dana has 30 years experience working with sound, multimedia and performance. He co-founded the 90’s low rock band Morphine with Mark Sandman in 1991 and spent the next decade touring the world. He co-owns and operates Hi-N-Dry recording studio, now in the Armory building in Somerville, MA. He has produced recordings with his own bands Twinemen and A.K.A.C.O.D. and has played as a studio musician on many recordings over the last three decades. Dana is currently involved in the Mark Sandman Music Project, a non-profit organization designed to give kids an opportunity to experience community through musical collaboration in Somerville, MA.

Matthew Girard Matthew is a freelance engineer, producer and bassist. A graduate of the University of Hartford’s Hartt School with a degree in Music Production & Technology, he has affiliations with local companies Jamspot Studios, Bopnique Musique and Digital Bear Productions. Recent projects, clients and artists include the Museum of Fine Arts, Will Dailey, Monique Ortiz, the Daughters of St. Paul in Jamaica Plain and NYC-based filmmaker, Danica Mills. Matthew is also a member of the much-lauded indie band The Motion Sick. Accolades include Grammy Entry #60 in Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal, and Grammy Entry #127 in Best Pop Vocal Album, 49th Grammy Awards. 

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Daniel has worked in several facets of the music industry including technical support for Cambridge-based music technology company MOTU and Framingham-based BOSE Corporation. Recording projects have included the Boston bands Lifestyle and Freezepop, and projects both here and in the UK with members of internationally-known bands The Cure, Psychedelic Furs and Morrissey. Daniel has also taught audio recording at institutions of higher learning in the Boston area. Daniel is also a Pro Tools Certified Operator.

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Ralph studied the newest technological advancements in MIDI and sampling at Berklee College of Music. He then took his education in music and cutting-edge technologies on the road and into the studio as a performer. Ralph later attended UMass-Lowell to study engineering while working at Berklee in the Music Synthesis Department. He currently runs KIP (Kinscheck International Productions), producing local music and various video projects. Ralph is an Apple-certified trainer in Logic and Final Cut Pro.

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Kate interned at Starc Studios in Dublin where she worked with Johnny McEvoy, members of the Dubliners and the Chieftains. Next she went to Powerplay Studios in Zurich, where she worked with the group Wet Wet Wet as a sound assistant, recording two songs, including their hit UK single, Goodnight Girl. She then won a scholarship for voice at Berklee College of Music and studied Music Production and Engineering, later graduating from Tufts University with a BA in Sociology. In 2002 she organized a 20-day American tour for the Irish band Charis, appearing as their opening act as Katie McD. Other recent accolades include the score for Marina Carr’s play, The Bog of Cats, and Music Supervisor to director Stephen Croke’s film The Busker (2007). DVD film production credits include Reservoir Dogs, Rambo, The Graduate and Angel Heart. 

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Gary is a producer for WGBH Radio in Boston. In his 11 years at WGBH, Gary has produced national and regional series and specials for radio, including PRI’s Sound & Spirit with Ellen Kushner, NPR’s Says You, A Christmas Celtic Sojourn with Brian O’Donovan, Live from the Lowell Folk Festival and Live from Tanglewood Jazz. He has also produced classical, Celtic, blues, and folk in-studio performances, and created features and interstitial pieces for local and national broadcast at WGBH’s Culture Desk. Gary also developed the website for NPR’s Says You, curated content for WGBH Morning Stories and A Celtic Sojourn, produced a classical music performance for public broadcasting in the virtual world Second Life and, as assistant editor of WGBH Morning Stories, pioneered the development of podcasting.

Gary’s productions have won the Gabriel Award, the Clarion Award, and recognition from New York Festivals. He holds a MA in Mass Communication from Emerson College.

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Jason is a producer, engineer, composer and multi-instrumentalist. He graduated from Berklee College of Music in 2004 with a dual degree in Music Production and Engineering and Music Synthesis. Since graduating, Jason has worked as an engineer on the records of singer/songwriter Lindsay Mac, harpist/singer Maeve Gilchrist, folk singer Watson Reid, and singer/guitarist Chris McDermott, as well as the PBS Kids show, Postcards from Buster. In addition to his work as an engineer, Jason produced the debut records of artist Charlie Christos and singer/songwriter Liz Stahler. Jason has recently worked with DJ Jefr Tale producing dance mixes for a weekly satellite radio show and partnering to form Talespin Records, a dance music label featuring his original music and remixes.

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Robert is a studio designer, acoustician and systems engineer. As the founder and principal of Rosati Acoustics + Multimedia, Inc., he provides design and engineering expertise, integrating architectural acoustics, sound reproduction, audiovisual systems, electro-acoustics and cutting-edge technology. He has designed professional recording studios, high-tech theaters, auditoriums, museums, conference facilities and houses of worship. Rob has engineered numerous albums and toured as a chief sound engineer for a famed rock group, engineering a Platinum album with over eight million copies sold. 

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A Berklee Music Production and Engineering alum, Corey is currently a staff engineer at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, MA, specializing in jazz and classical recordings. His credits include Dave Holland, Steve Reich, the Borromeo String Quartet and many renowned resident and NEC-sponsored ensembles. Corey also works around Boston as a freelance engineer/producer, mixing and mastering projects by pop and rock artists. 

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Dave is a recording engineer, music scoring mixer, music editor and producer, working with film composers to complete the music underscore for film and television projects. He has worked extensively with composer Mason Daring; his credits include numerous films by John Sayles including Honeydripper, The Secret Of Roan Inish, Lone Star, The Opposite Of Sex and Music Of The Heart, as well as the prime-time TV series State of Mind on Lifetime; many television movies; and several episodes of Frontline, American Experience and Nova. He has also recorded many jazz and folk album projects for Daring Records. Dave holds an AB in Music and Government Studies from Bowdoin College and completed the Audio Recording and Production program at the Institute Of Audio Research.

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Abe is lead sound designer, recordist and mix engineer at Clambake Animation in Watertown, MA. His sound design work can be heard on the Cartoon Network series Assy McGee and in various national television and web-based ads. Prior to working in animation, Abe was a sound designer and mix engineer on The Habitable Planet, a series of educational documentaries focused on current issues in environmental sciences. Some of his other credits include Aqua Teen Hunger Force (dialog recordist), Hit or Miss (sound designer, mix engineer), This is Nollywood (mix engineer), and FSN’s International Fight League Broadcasts (dialog editor). Abe cut his teeth as an audio engineer in Philadelphia, working with engineer Scott Herzog at Third Story Recording Studios.

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Keith Zizza has been a professional audio designer since 1991, and has worked for more than 13 years exclusively in audio for video games, most recently as Audio Director for SimCity Societies (EA), Caesar IV (VU Games), and Children of the Nile (Tilted Mill Entertainment). He is known for his work on the classic, multi-platinum selling City Building Series of games from Sierra, including Pharaoh, Caesar, Zeus, Cleopatra, and Poseidon.

Keith has worked on more than 25 AAA titles. He has written audio articles for Gamasutra.com, as well as contributed to developing game audio curriculum for CDIA at Boston University and Berklee College of Music. Keith is also a Gold member of the Game Audio Network Guild (G.A.N.G.).

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