The Boston section of the Audio Engineering Society Presents
Audio Recording Environments – Past, Present and Future
By John Storyk - Architect, and Principal of WSDG

We will explore the audio recording industry, past, present and hopefully a glimpse of the future – specifically with an eye on the environments that have been designed and engineered, specifically for the creation of audio content.  Recent WSDG projects will be shown as illustrations to this theme.



Thursday April 30th, 7pm
Devlin Hall - Room 026
Boston College

John Storyk, Architect and Principal, Walters-Storyk Design Group (www.wsdg.com), celebrating his 40th year as a leading architect and acoustician of technical architecture, dedicated to critical listening and viewing environments   The Walters-Storyk Design Group with offices in new York, Argentina, Brazil and Switzerland has designed over 3000 media production facilities worldwide.

Credits range from the original Jimi Hendrix Electric Lady Studios to New York City’s Jazz at Lincoln Center performance complex, broadcast facilities for The Food Network, Interlochen Public Radio, CBS and WNET, and corporate clients such as Hoffman La Roche and Sony. Recent credits include private studios for  the Goo Goo Dolls, Jay-Z, Timbaland’s Tim Mosley, Tracy Chapman, R. Kelly, Damian Marley, Bruce Springsteen, film composer Carter Burwell, Aerosmith;  Green Day and Alicia Keys.

WSDG is a six-time winner TEC Award for outstanding achievement in Acoustics/Facility Design.  Mr. Storyk lives in upstate New York with wife and partner Beth Walters and continues to teach and lecture at numerous schools, including Berklee College of Music in Boston.

The past forty years has seen professional audio pass thru changes that were unimaginable in the early 1960’s.  Like the business itself, these changes have rocked the foundations of the media we listen to as well as the way we create and distribute music.  Although, these changes have often caused business dilemmas to our industry, they have also presented and will continue to present challenges and opportunities that will make our industry more democratic and fantastic for years to come. 

Directions can be found HERE.  Devlin Hall is located in the center of the Chestnut Hill Campus.  Parking is available in the Commonwealth Ave Garage for a minimal price. You could also park on Commwealth Ave for free. The entrance for Room 026 is in the rear of Devlin hall.