CUNY TV Piece on my Infrasound Research

CUNYMedia interviewed me and my colleague Dr. Toija Riggins about our work researching infrasound:

Cablevision coverage of Gravesend Inn 2010

Cablevision interviewed me as part of their coverage of the Gravesend Inn 2010.

Hacking for an Audience--The Last HOPE, 2010

My talk at The Next Hope (my conference writeup and photos here) was called Hacking for An Audience, and gives an overview of entertainment technology for live shows, details some of the ways we have "misused" technology in our industry, and also details some reliability strategies that we use to make sure that the show goes on. The conference organizers have now released free audio recordings of all the talks (I've downloaded many of the talks I missed for an upcoming road trip), and you can also buy videos of any of the talks here for a ridiculously low $5, with proceeds going towards conference expenses. I took the audio from my talk, edited the Powerpoint slides in, added a few bonus photos, and a bunch of links. 

You can watch it here, it's just under an hour:

Or download the audio here (clicking that link will download the mp3 file).  I really enjoyed giving this talk and can't wait for the next Hope (2012).



World Voice Day 2010

There is no such thing as "perfect" sound.  That's what I argued back in April, as part of our World Voice Day "Microphone Workshop" at City Tech (my writeup of the event with photos here).  My talk kicked off the day's sessions, and in it I attempted to lay out many of the challenges to getting good live sound.  I targeted the singers and voice teachers in the conference's audience, but my hope is that the talk will be interesting to anyone who is a live music fan or who buys a ticket to a show, as I also proposed some basic, non-technical, objective criteria about what "good" sound is in the first place.

Unfortunately, the video of the event got corrupted, but I did get an audio recording, and today got time to cut the recording against my Powerpoint slides and a couple other photos. It's 30 minutes long, and I hope worth your time:



Reviewed in Australian A/V Magazine

Andy Ciddor at Australian AV Magazine did a nice review of my book here.

Reviewed in Lighting and Sound International

Lighting and Sound International in the UK gave a nice review of my book, you can see a scan here.

Quoted in Live Design

Talking about CAST Software's Black Box:

“BlackBox shows tremendous promise and is part of a larger trend in modern show control, where systems are linked together but not bound by the limitations of synchronizing everything by time only,” says show control guru John Huntington. “I'll be especially excited if Cast can integrate the ability to make short-term predictions about where physical objects are heading and integrate full support of ACN."

City Tech Featured Me On Its Web Page

PLSN Interviewed Me Twice

Interview here.

PLSN Interviewed Me

PDF here.

I Was Interviewed on NY1

NY1 came to the Gravesend Inn in 2007 and interviewed me about the technology.  You can view the segment here.  This is one of the best general press stories we've ever had.

I Spoke at Dorkbot NYC (Twice)

In April, 2006 I spoke at dorkbot NYC, and I spoke again in October, 2007 At that presentation, I was interviewed by the AP, and that video and text travelled far and wide. Click here for more information on the April talk, and here for the October talk.

Interview on WNYC About Critical Mass

I was interviewed on WNYC NY Public Radio about the Critical Mass Bike Ride. Audio here.