“Learning from Electric Lady,” presented by John Storyk, Award Winning Studio Designer

“Learning from Electric Lady”
Noted architect and acoustician John Storyk will be on campus for a presentation on his lifetime career for the professional audio and video recording community, highlighting his work in studio design, including new projects and ideas about where the studio design world is headed.

A registered architect and acoustician, John Storyk and wife Beth Walters are the founding partners of WSDG. The firm has provided acoustic and AV technology consulting and design services since the groundbreaking 1969 design of Jimi Hendrix’s Electric Lady Studios in New York City.

John received his architectural studies from Princeton and Columbia Universities. As an designer, engineer and principal of WSDG he has been responsible for over 3000 world-class audio/video production facilities, including studios, radio stations, video suites, entertainment clubs and theaters. His work includes private studios for Whitney Houston, Bob Marley, Ace Frehley, Stevie Wonder, Paul Epworth, Jack Antonoff, Bruce Springsteen, Alicia Keys, J. Cole, Greenday, Harry Connick, JR, JZ and others. Professional audio video installations include Soundshop (Nashville); Crawford Post (Atlanta); Talking House (San Francisco); Rue Boyer (Paris), Sony (LA), Spotify (LA); Jungle Studios (NYC); KEXP Radio (Seatle); Jazz at Lincoln Center (NYC); UCLA – Lani Hall (Los Angeles); and Berklee College of Music (Boston).

John is a member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA), Acoustical Society of America, Audio Engineering Society (AES) and a frequent contributor to AES convention papers and professional industry periodicals. He is a frequent lecturer at schools throughout the nation and has established courses in acoustics at several universities, including Berklee College of Music, where he is a long time adjunct professor of acoustics and studio design.

He and the 60 person global WSDG team are a 13-time winner of the NAMM TEC award for studio design.

This event is free and open to the public. Students can earn CLE credit for attending.