I won the award for best Sound Design for a short at the Los Angels Film Festival of Hollywood this past year for the psychological thriller “Reverie”. Recently the Director Chris Dawson has been making his way around the world on the film festival circuit and stopped in Los Angels to show and accept the awards for Reverie. This is my first award for Sound Design at a major film festival.

I am currently upgrading my studio over the winter to a 5.1 Pro Tools HD facility. When done I will be able to accommodate 5.1 video and 5.1 audio projects. More to come on this soon!!

I recently reunited with SimplexGrinnell a division of Tyco International to oversee the installtion of a new state of the art sound system at Roosevelt M.S. The system has 16 channels of wireless microphones, 15,000 watts of power, a 48 channel Allen and Heath console located in a custom audio control room built by me. I also did all of the wire terminations on stage and in the amp rack. Big Job!

It has been a long time coming (6 months) but the Album is done. Check out www.myspace.com/ritmocollective for audio samples. The whole process from recording to mixing was done at an inspiring setting in a lakehouse studio in Waccabuc NY. I moved all of my gear into the graciously donated space for the winter of 2008. It was the best “work environment” for an album like this I could imagine. Beautiful view from the console across a lake, great sounding room, and the most enjoyable cast of musicians I have worked with in a long time. Fantastic! Listen to it and enjoy.

For the month of August and the begining of September I will be one of two audio engieers at the US Tennis Open in Queens mixing the American Express Show. This show will be broadcast everday from the US Tennis center in New York City.

I do a lot of different things with audio but this was a first for me. I was the A2 for Howard Sterns “bowling beauties” and a month later the A1 audio engineer for the “Wackpack Bowling”. You can view and hear both on Howard TV on demand. Fun fun gig.