Contributors
AudioCookbook.org contributors are professional sound designers, audio engineers, foley artists, and producers dedicated to sharing their techniques and expertise. As more sound professionals start to contribute we will add brief bios and links to their personal websites here.
AudioCoobook.org founder, John Keston is a musician, developer, and instructor currently based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Originally from the United Kingdom, he has been working as a professional in the technology and music industries for around two decades. During that time he has had parallel careers as a musician, composer and producer focusing on electronic music and sound design. His music project Keston and Westdal recently partnered with Unearthed Music who released their third album, One Day to Save All Life, on March 25, 2008.
Simone Giuliani, better known as 4MuLA, is a music composer and producer active in the music industry for the past thirteen years. Born in Florence, Italy, he pursued studies of Jazz Piano & Improvisation with Stefano Bollani and Ray Santisi, piano teacher of Joe Zawinul, Herbie Hancock and Keith Jarrett, at Berklee Music Schools Clinics and later enrolled at The Juilliard School studying Orchestration. He founded Lazybatusu with Corrado Bay and is currently recording and producing “Sambismo” a new project with Ze Luis and Beco Dranoff.
Michael Koppelman is a producer, recording engineer and musician based in Minneapolis. He worked for Prince for years, involved mainly in the Graffiti Bridge, Diamonds & Pearls and [Symbol] Album. He also wrote and produced much of the first (and only) album by Ingrid Chavez. He fronts the elusive band Raintribe and is a partner and the CTO of the award winning interactive agency, Clockwork.net.
Keston and Westdal member, composer, musician, and producer, Nils Westdal (Saronni) finds a mainline output through his nom de plume ten72. In a time of ready-made beats and stock electronic samples being used on a daily basis as well as the typically recycled genres found in the media, ten72 offers up a distinctive quality and honesty within his compositions.
John Burton is the recording artist known as Leafcutter John. Also an educator, one-man-software-house, installation artist, and luthier. Over the last 10 years he has released 4 albums on the influential IDM label Planet-Mu records and German art label Staubgold Records. In 2007 he completed his first solo art show, an interactive sound installation at Beaconsfield in London. He is also a member of the Mercury Prize nominated group Polar Bear.
Tom Player, also known as Lost Track, is a sound designer, producer, musician and sonic branding specialist whose studio is currently in London. Tom has spent the last two years working on feature films such as The Dark Knight, Iron Man, Frost Nixon and other smaller international films. A classically trained cellist, Tom’s mission is to fuse more melodic elements of music together with sound effect design from film and the force of dance music like drum and bass. Due to work being all over the place, Tom has a huge sound bank of original recordings that he delves into for inspiration.
