Luke Damrosch is a sound engineer based in Beverly, Massachusetts. A Boston native, he was classically trained as a pianist while simultaneously pursuing Jazz and contemporary music as a drummer, studying at New England Conservatory and subsequently at the New School for Jazz & Contemporary Music in New York City, graduating with a B.F.A. in 2009. In addition to improvised music and composition, he also studied West African music from Ghana, Togo, and Benin, Indonesian Gamelan, Brazilian Samba and Maracatu, Traditional Middle Eastern and Turkish music, Afro-Cuban percussion, and computer music.
While completing his undergraduate studies, his creative work in electroacoustic music and sound design opened the door to music recording and audio engineering. He found this discipline's uniquely harmonious integration of art and science deeply captivating and was delighted by how organically his diverse musical training could inform so many aspects of his work in the more universal, technical field of music recording. He has dedicated himself to it ever since, with a focus on recording acoustic music on-location.
Before devoting himself fully to freelance projects under the auspices of Efferent Productions, he was a staff sound engineer and videographer for several years at Harvard University, where he worked primarily in beautiful Sanders Theatre. He is a member of the Audio Engineering Society, holds a Level 3 Dante Certification from Audinate, a CTS Certification from AVIXA, and has been a guest lecturer on music recording and sound design at Tufts University and MIT. He is very interested in techniques which may improve the depth and realism of sound recording, and frequently conducts experiments as part of an ongoing personal research project — microphone array designs informed by current psychoacoustics research.
B.F.A. Jazz & Contemporary Music, New School University (2009)
Current:
Efferent Productions - Owner, Freelance Recording Engineer
Previous:
Harvard University - Electronics/Media Technician
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