Janson Design Group

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The Janson + Tsai Design Group is an American architecture. acoustic and audio video design firm that specializes in the design of media and entertainment facilities that include television studios, film sound stages, music recording studios, post production suites, audio mixing/color correction and editing, screening rooms and theaters. The firm has worked in 22 countries in the past 10 years and maintains a global practice in all practice areas.

Architecture The product and the process of planning, designing and constructing buildings and other structures.

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Acoustics science that deals with the study of all mechanical waves in gases, liquids, and solids including vibration, sound, ultrasound and infrasound

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Founded by Dennis Janson in 1997, the firm is a medium sized specialty firm. Mr. Janson has practiced in these specialty areas since 1979.

The firm specializes in the design of television studios/facilities, film and sound stages, music recording studios, post production suites, screening rooms, production facilities, mixing rooms and specialty interactive and media design for networks, corporations, governments, private individuals and has even worked for the US Broadcast Board of Governors. They are also acoustical and audio video consultants to outside clients and other design firms.

The firm is located in Connecticut and works both in the United States and abroad. Work abroad has included locations in the United Kingdom, Eastern and Western Europe, Southeast Asia, India, the Middle East China and the far East.

Connecticut state of the United States of America

Connecticut is the southernmost state in the New England region of the United States. As of the 2010 Census, it has the highest per-capita income, Human Development Index (0.962), and median household income in the United States. It is bordered by Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, New York to the west, and Long Island Sound to the south. Its capital is Hartford and its most populous city is Bridgeport. It is part of New England, although portions of it are often grouped with New York and New Jersey as the Tri-state area. The state is named for the Connecticut River which approximately bisects the state. The word "Connecticut" is derived from various anglicized spellings of an Algonquian word for "long tidal river".

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The firm and their projects have been published numerous times both in the US and abroad. Their clients include most major broadcasting companies in the US, the Middle East and Europe.

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New York City Largest city in the United States

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American Institute of Architects professional association for architects

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George Massenburg American audio engineer

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Harrison Audio Consoles is an international company based in Nashville, Tennessee that manufactures mixing consoles, Digital Audio Workstations (DAW), audio plugins, and other audio technologies for the post-production, video production, broadcast, sound reinforcement and music recording industries. The company is renowned as an industry innovation for its "inline" mixing console design that has subsequently become the standard for nearly every large format music console. Over 1,500 Harrison consoles have been installed worldwide, presenting a significant percentage of the overall world market share for high-end audio consoles. The company founder, Dave Harrison, was inducted as a Fellow in the Audio Engineering Society for this technical contribution of the recording industry and in particular the first 32-bus "in-line" console.

John Storyk American architect and acoustician

John Storyk, a registered architect and acoustician, is a founding partner of Walters-Storyk Design Group. Soon to celebrate his 50th anniversary as an innovative recording studio designer, he began his career in 1968 with Electric Lady Studios for Jimi Hendrix in New York City. That studio continues to serve as a prolific catalyst for Gold & Platinum hits for stars ranging from Adele to Daft Punk and Ed Sheeran. Storyk and his WSDG associates have provided design, system integration, and construction supervision services for almost 4000 professional audio recording and video production/post-production studios, performance venues, sports, houses of worship and educational facilities. WSDG is an eleven-time winner of the prestigious TEC Award for outstanding achievement in Acoustics/Facility Design. Including, most recently, three consecutive wins: the 30th Annual (2015) for the Berklee College of Music, 160 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston, MA.; The 31st Annual (2016) The Church Studios London for multi-Grammy & Academy Award-winning producer Paul Epworth; and the 32nd Annual (2017) Boston Symphony Orchestra Control Room. To date thirty WSDG studio design projects, have competed for TEC Awards since the event debuted in 1985. Beijing’s 55TEC Studios, WSDG’s 2018 nominee opened in May 2017 and charted nearly a dozen China Top-ten hits in its first ten months including six #1’s. WSDG maintains a staff of fifty designers and engineers, and offices in New York City, Washington, D.C., San Francisco, Los Angeles, Miami, Buenos Aires, Belo Horizonte, Basel, Berlin, Beijing, Barcelona, Mexico City, Mumbai, and St. Petersburg.[1]

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Neil Hillman

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Synchron Stage Vienna is a recording facility specializing in recording large orchestras and film music. The landmark protected building, formerly "Synchronhalle" of the historic film lot "Film City Vienna" in the Austrian capital's 23rd district is operated by Vienna Symphonic Library.

References

  1. "Former TEC Awards Winners". Mix Magazine. September 1, 2004. Retrieved 2011-01-15.
  2. Ruedy, R.; Sato, M.; Lo, K. "Wesleyan University Center for Film Studies and Cinema Archives" (PDF). American Institute of Architects. Retrieved 2012-01-15.[ permanent dead link ]

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