Radio producer and Recording Arts alumnus Jesse McQuarters, BSOF, AS ’03, will travel to Sweden in August and September 2012 on an award from the Swedish-American Bicentennial Exchange Fund. There, he will conduct musicological research in support of the radio series Vykort fraÌŠn Sverige (Postcards from Sweden), which will air on 98.7 WFMT in Chicago.
Recording Arts alumni Tony Elfers (BS ’06) won a BMI award for his score to the discovery special “Flying Wild Alaska“. Tony composed the music in collaboration with iSpy music and Sonixsphere, where Tony is a staff composer. This is Tony’s second BMI award, he also won in 2011 for the season 2 of Flying Wild Alaska. Check out Tony’s profile on our alumni page.
Recording Arts students Kate Haldrup and Aaron Frazer have each been awarded $2,000 creative activity grants from the Hutton Honors College.
Aaron Frazer will be travelling to Mississippi to collect field recordings of African-American and rural music. His research will focus on the importance of traditional religious and secular musical styles to modern-day communities. His recordings will be deposited at the Archives of Traditional Music.
Kate Haldrup will be developing her music and video blog, Second Kitchen Collective. This blog, created by Kate, Stephen Carlsgaard (another Recording Arts student) and several other IU students, chronicles local musicians as well as touring acts that come to the Bloomington community. The grant will fund audio and video production equipment and website design and programming.
Congratulations to Aaron and Kate. These two grants highlight some of the diverse projects Recording Arts students do outside of the classroom.
For the 2011-12 school year IU Music live had over 74,000 visitors from 106 countries and we served more than 4600 hours of on-demand video. Our top events were the Dec 6 Holiday Celebration with 1109 viewers, the four Nutcracker performances with almost 1700 viewers, and he two La Boheme streams with over 1400 viewers.
On April 21 Jazz Studies alumni Randy Brecker, Robert Hurst, Perter Erskine, and Alan Pasqua visited the Jacobs School to give master classes, clinics, and perform with the David Baker Jazz Band and Latin Jazz Band. Recording Arts students and faculty provided the front-of-house PA, audio recording, and a multi-camera live video stream for the event.
Recording Arts Junior Adam Beck at the M7CL setting levels during rehearsal
Junior Andy Spillman at DM2000 recording the show under the supervision of faculty member Mark Hood. Sophomore Dan Talton is running Pro Tools.
Randy Brecker performing with the Latin Jazz Band
Alan Pasqua, Robert Hurst, Perter Erskine, and Randy Brecker performing “Sing, Sing, Sing” with the David Baker Jazz Band.
All-star guest combo
With David Baker at the reception following the concert.
Director Glenn Hicks, senior Kyle Zucker at the switcher, and faculty member Fallon Stillman in the video booth.
Make sure to catch the film “Student Seven” at the IU Cinema Thursday May 3 at 9:30pm, featuring sound design and audio mix by senior Steve Veldman.
Watch the trailer!
Here’s a photo of the A311 student final projects for Spring 2012. An “Orange” amp, 2 tube mic conversions, pencil condensers from scratch, LA2A, five fish preamp, Tube headphone amp, Tube power amp (Dynaco), Powered studio monitors.
The Department of Recording Arts in the Jacobs School of Music is delighted to welcome Dr. Patrick Feaster as special guest lecturer this coming Wednesday evening, April 18 at 5:00pm in Sweeney Hall, Room M015 of the Simon Building on the IU Bloomington campus. His presentation is entitled “Voices from the Grave (1850s – 1890s): Recent Discoveries in Archeophony.”
A special feature of his presentation will be the unveiling of phonautograms recorded exactly 152 years before, to the day, on April 18, 1860. These recordings remained mute for over one and a half centuries and have never before been heard in a public venue.
Two-time Grammy nominee Patrick Feaster is one of the world’s leading researchers specializing in the early history of recorded sound. His investigations have helped unearth dozens of significant, heretofore unknown historical artifacts containing aural information captured 120 to 160 years ago. He has also developed revolutionary methods to recover these ancient sounds and make them audible, in some cases for the first time since they were recorded in the nineteenth century.
In his presentation, Dr. Feaster will discuss and play examples from several of the recent archeophonic expeditions in which he has played a central role, including:
Patrick Feaster’s rigorous research, technical ingenuity, passion for all things audio and sheer tenacity have combined to unlock a vast wealth of ancient human sonic expression – musical instruments, acting, singing, oration and more – captured well over a century in the past and at last, available again for all to hear, study and enjoy.
For more information on the Department of Recording Arts, visit http://www.music.indiana.edu/departments/academic/recording-arts/index.shtml
Jesse McQuarters (B.S.O.F.’03, audio engineering and double bass) was chosen by the Likachev Foundation and Yeltsin Presidential Center as a 2012 Cultural Fellow. He will travel to St. Petersburg in May to meet with cultural leaders and research a series of radio programs for WFMT-FM in Chicago.
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — The Indiana University Jacobs School of Music announced today (July 20) the addition of two full-time faculty members to its distinguished Department of Recording Arts.
Audio engineers Mark Hood and Douglas McKinnie have each been appointed assistant professor of recording arts, effective this fall.
“I am very pleased to welcome Mark Hood and Douglas McKinnie to the faculty of the Recording Arts Department,” said Konrad Strauss, department chair. “Their diverse backgrounds and knowledge in the areas of live sound and contemporary music production will enable the department to continue as a leader in the field of audio education.”
In addition to their academic credentials, Hood and McKinnie bring significant practical experience working in demanding professional situations. Strauss said he believes that they will serve as ideal role models and mentors as they work alongside Jacobs School students.
About Mark Hood 
Audio engineer and media producer Mark Hood has served as an adjunct lecturer and visiting assistant professor at Jacobs since 2005.
Hood’s body of creative output includes over 500 LP, CD and DVD releases in all genres. He has recorded and mixed the soundtracks for numerous feature, documentary and art films, television series and radio and television specials, as well as jingles and music for advertising for scores of national clients and campaigns.
Hood has collaborated with a wide variety of artists and ensembles, including Bob Dylan, James Taylor, Bob Mintzer, Diana Ross, John Scofield, John Mellencamp, Miss America (several), David Sanborn, Sandi Patty, Stephen Schwartz, Rodney Dangerfield, Richie Havens, George Benson, Odetta, the Cincinnati Symphony and Pops Orchestras, the Washington Pops, the Washington Bach Consort, Canadian Brass, Dallas Brass and many others.
In work for the theater, Hood is the sound designer for the musicals Blast (2001 Tony and Emmy Awards), Shockwave, Cyberjam and Music in Xtreme in their London West End and New York Broadway productions, as well as their ongoing international and U.S. national touring versions.
Hood is managing partner of Echo Park Recording Studios, a commercial audio production facility in Bloomington. Designed and built by Hood and his partner, Mike Wanchic, in 1993, Echo Park has been home to productions by The Fray, Ben Folds, Howie Day, Son Volt, Vedera, Juliana Hatfield, Bob and Tom, Mysteries of Life and many other artists. The studio has also been the venue for Hood’s numerous collaborations with many current and former Jacobs faculty members.
Hood’s primary research interest centers around the education and preservation of audio content originally captured on legacy analog formats such as wax cylinders, lacquer discs, magnetic wire and tape recordings, videotape and optical film.
From 2008 to 2011, he served as research associate and chief engineer of the Sound Directions Project at the IU Archives of Traditional Music in its efforts to digitize and preserve its collection of over 90,000 historic recordings in deteriorating and obsolete formats. He currently serves on the IU Bloomington Media Preservation Task Force in the Office of the Vice Provost for Research.
Hood is a member of the Education and Training Committee of the Association for Recorded Sound Collections, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, and the Audio Engineering Society.
About Douglas McKinnie 
Douglas McKinnie comes to the Jacobs School of Music from Middle Tennessee State University, where he has been an assistant professor in the Recording Industry Department since 2006.
McKinnie holds a Ph.D. from the University of Surrey (U.K.), where his research at the Institute of Sound Recording focused on the influence of spatial envelopment and localization accuracy on the perceived sound quality of surround-sound playback systems.
McKinnie received his master of music degree in sound recording from McGill University, where he engaged in research on techniques for low-bit-rate audio critical listening tests. While at McGill, he assisted in the selection of critical listening materials for the Electronic Industries Association/National Radio Standards Committee, which were used to assess the sound quality of HD radio. This research was carried out at Canada’s Communications Research Centre in Ottawa.
He received his bachelor of arts degree in music from Case Western Reserve University.
Since 1994, McKinnie has been the director of live sound operations at Tanglewood, the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, where he has worked with artists as diverse as James Taylor, Diana Krall, The Boston Pops, the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio and Train. He also was the audio engineer for the Cleveland Institute of Music and a staff engineer at Cleveland’s Commercial Recording Studios.
His recording credits include compact discs for Telarc and McGill Records, radio production and demonstration recordings for the BBC, as well as countless other radio broadcasts and independent releases.
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