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Neumann U87AiMusic Production Show London : Seminar Announced
The first seminar for Music Production Show London has now been announced.
Tickets for the Arsenal Emirates Stadium Show can be bought @ Ticket Factory
Seminar : Friday 11th November - "Is it Really Just All About Education, Education,
Frazer Mackenzie
Frazer is the Head of School for Applied Production & New Media at Bucks New University in High Wycombe. The University has been offering education and training at undergraduate and postgraduate level in Music Management and Production for fifteen years. He completed his first Degree specialising in Sound and Video Production, at Manchester University in 1989. In 1991, he moved to London to work as a freelance music producer and corporate film maker. He was also employed by Brunel University as Media Services Co-ordinator, where he designed and built a range of commercial video and music production facilities - while also acting as media consultant to the Ballet Rambert and the National Coaching Foundation.
In 1994, he was appointed as Lecturer and subsequently Course Leader for the Commercial Music Production Degree at the University of Chester, where he also managed the in-house label, Resolution Records for four years. He completed a Masters Degree in 1998; the dissertation for which explored the relationship between sound, the moving image and the role of the Sound Designer in contemporary Hollywood cinema.
In 1999 Frazer took the post of Head of Division for the Music & Entertainment Industry Management Degree programmes at Bucks New University. He was subsequently promoted to Head of Department and then Head of School in 2004. More recently , he managed the project team responsible for building the new Audio, Music, Film , TV and performance Facilities at the High Wycombe campus; part a sixty million pound redevelopment project for the University
He is a member Music Producers Guild and the Association of Independant Music (AIM) and he continues to work as a freelance music producer and media consultant.
Dr. Rob Toulson
Rob Toulson is an experienced Music Producer, Recording Engineer and Mix Engineer operating freelance as RT Sixty Limited. Rob's production skills cover a diverse range of music genres and recording projects, from Rock and Pop to Classical and Jazz; in the studio and live or on location. To discuss production, recording or mix projects, please contact Rob by email (rob@rt60.co.uk) or telephone (07795065079).
Rob has recently produced records for Ethan Ash (Tried to Get Rid of Me awarded iTunes 'Single of the Week' 17/11/2010), Eureka Stockade and Under The Streetlamp, as well as recording and mix engineering for The Mediaeval Baebes, Greg McDonald and The Winter Kings.
Rob is a co-founder of Half-Ton Studios and has close links with High Barn Studios in Essex, as well as having his own well equipped recording and mix facilities in Cambridge, UK. He is also Director of The Sound and Audio Engineering Research Group at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge and is a Board Member of The Pleasurize Music Foundation, Santa Cruz, USA.
Rob is a Chartered Engineer with a PhD in Digital Signal Processing and a Batchelor's degree in Engineering. He is founder of the Audio Engineering Society Cambridge UK Section and has presented and published numerous articles for the AES, the Art of Record Production and Sound on Sound. Rob has also produced a number of short educational films on music production, including 'Recording an Orchestra' and 'Recording a Samba Band'.
Andy Brook
Andy studied acoustic composition and composition with electronics at the University of Hertfordshire, graduating with a BA(hons) in Electronic Music in 2001.Whilst professionally active he has gained an advanced C&G in Music Technology with distinction at the City of Westminster College and an MA in Audio Production from the University of Westminster.
He established himself as a producer building Studio Sonic in Wallington, Surrey in 2002 before relocating to larger premises in London's Denmark Street from 2004 - 2009, where he also produced live sessions for Total Rock Radio. He then became the resident producer at Scream Studios, Croydon 2009-2011. Andy currently freelances as a producer, mix engineer and recording engineer and teaches BTEC Levels 2 & 3 Diploma in Music Technlogy whilst building a new Studio Sonic in Surrey.
Andy has produced, engineered and toured with the likes of Status Quo, Uriah Heep, Greg Jackman, Towers of London, Hayseed Dixie, Million Dead, Breed 77, Ginger and is also involved in film and tv, location and media post production.
Dr. Samantha Bennett PGCE MA PhD
Sam spent many years in the music industry as an artist and sound engineer before moving into
education in 2003. She lectured in sound engineering at City of Westminster College, where she was programme leader for the FdA Music Technology course between 2004 and 2007 and is currently Senior Lecturer at the University of Westminster. Sam completed her AHRC-funded Doctorate in recording techniques at the University of Surrey. She regularly speaks at conferences worldwide and currently serves as Editor for the Journal on the Art of Record Production. She has presented and published in the areas of: technology, dissemination and consumption; the history of sound recording practice and technologies; recording techniques; digital audio; and, in particular, uses of technological precursors in contemporary recording practice. Her professional membership includes the AES, MU, PRS, IASPM and ASARP. She continues to work in the live sector in the areas of production, management and tour support and she co-owns a Pro Tools post-production facility specialising in the niche area of live concert mixing.
Moderator - Tony Platt
Tony's career has spanned a few decades and numerous genres. Starting at Trident Studios in London before moving to the now legendary Island Record's Basing Street Studios he mixed the ?Catch A Fire? album for a hitherto unknown Jamaican artist, Bob Marley and recorded and mixed his ?Burnin? album leading to him working with several other notable reggae artists such as Toots & The Maytals, Harry J?s All Stars and Aswad.After becoming freelance he recorded demos that prefaced deals for Thin Lizzy and the Stranglers before becoming engineer for Mutt Lange and working on the AC/DC albums ?Highway to Hell? and ?Back in Black?, Foreigner ? ?4? and Boomtown Rats ? ?Fine Art of Surfacing?As a producer he has worked with a range of artists from Iron Maiden, Motorhead and Gary Moore to Buddy Guy, Soweto Kinch and The Bad Plus and more recently Arun Ghosh, These Furrows, trioVD, Jacqui Dankworth, Peter Edwards Trio and MOBO nominee Denys Baptiste.He shares a small studio called The Shop in Strongroom Studio complex and is co-founder of a small jazz label, JazzLotion, that specialises in direct to stereo recordings.