Company: Australian Institute of Music (AIM). The leading school for today’s music industry. We are a centre of excellence for performance, sound engineering and entertainment management, open to all who wish to pursue their ambition of a career in the music industry,
Job Title: Head of Audio Department
Job Description: Responsible for the running of the recoding studio facility at AIM, and the education of the audio engineering students.
What’s the best thing about your job? I get to record some excellent musicians, all in a fantastic studio facility. I love sharing the ideas amongst students as well.
What’s your favourite genre of music? Brit pop – Radiohead, Blur, Gomez, Massive Attack
What do you do in a normal day at work? Besides drink lots of coffee, I teach sound engineering in the recording studios, and generally manage the team who look after the Sound Engineering program here at AIM.
Who’s your favourite rockstar? There are so many. Right now I’m hugely into Nine Inch Nails and Trent Resnor, though Muse is up there as well.
What do you think the best live music venue in Australia is? Enmore Theatre in Sydney. Consistently great sound, and great space. Seen some fantastic performances there as well.
What was the best concert of your life? Why? Midnight Oil at the Capital Theatre in Sydney. It was my first concert ever and it totally blew me away. Peter Garret was just this machine of energy. We weren’t allowed to dance though, as there was a chance that the balcony would fall down!! They closed the theatre a short time later for safety reasons.
What was the first Single / Album you ever bought? The Cure “Three Imaginary Boys”. It was before the Cure discovered synthesisers and spoilt it all.
Decks or Guitar? Probably guitar, but I’d be interested in looking at ways you can use guitars like decks!
What do you love most about the world of music and why do you want to work in the music industry? I love the technology. I love tearing apart a sound and making it completely different from how it started, but still fitting in with the context of the music.
Any tips for a budding Sound Engineer. I try and challenge myself every time I’m in the studio to do something I have NEVER done before. I love doing random things in a technological world. I have this great program on my computer called Randomiser. It’s like a spinning wheel and I often consult it when deciding what to do to a certain sound. Most of the time I get this whole different sound that I would never have thought of from a “logical” perspective. I love this aspect, and it helps me stay away from the normal, tried and tested approaches.
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