WHO I AM

I am an independent audio professional based in the Chicago area. My areas of expertise and passion include all aspects of live sound, as well as sound and A/V system design, installation and maintenance. I also enjoy recording, and got started making home recordings and eventually working in studios before steering towards live sound and sound contracting. After several rewarding careers with various firms and venues around Chicago, I went on my own in 1998. (And I am proud to have ongoing fruitful relationships with many of the people I worked with before then.)

Here you will find detailed information about the wide range of services I offer, my qualifications, and my professional experience. Contact me anytime with questions, comments, or needs; I always answer E-mails and return calls. Thanks for visiting!

10/27/2011:

Where The Heck Have I Been, You Ask??

Busy busy busy...as the Bokononists in Kurt Vonnegut's novel Cat's Cradle would say. So busy, in fact, that I haven't had much time for updating this here Web site. What have I been doing? My usual variety of gigs for my usual variety of accounts. But it's been exciting as always: Various A/V installs in various corporate facilities, assorted corporate shows and meetings, a few theatrical gigs, doctoring up the occasional house-of-worship sound system... What the heck, if I'm so busy I can't update my Web site, that's not necessarily a bad thing!

5/24/2011:

A Worthy Cause...

So all the cell phone accessories listed on my For Sale page are no longer available. Why? I donated them (along with the cell phones they went with) to an organization called Cell Phones For Life,who refurbish old phones and pass them along to the elderly, the disabled, and shelters for battered women. I realized after dropping them off that cell phones don't need to be the latest and greatest to be useful. If they're still supported by the cellular networks, that's all that matters - for the simple reason that audio is the lowest - but most important - common denominator, regardless of other bells and whistles.

It reminds me of what Doug Jones said when I took one of his classes at Columbia College: Something like 80% of what we learn is learned via sound. It is also (in my view) still the fastest way to communicate, because we can talk faster than we can type (court stenographers aside). After all, if you have to reach emergency responders right away, are you going to call or text 911?

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