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April 18th, 2011 by Janice Brown

The weekend of April 29 – 30, recording engineer, music producer and acoustician Omid Burgin returns to New York City to conduct three workshops aimed at the independent composer and sound designer at the Electronic Music Foundation (EMF).

Omid Burgin

Burgin, who owns a recording complex in Sao Paulo, Brazil and teaches recording and studio design, has recorded Brazilian Indian tribes in remote jungle villages. He worked for many years in Los Angeles as a musical producer, sound engineer, composer and film music production supervisor.

He will lead the group in three courses: Field Recording, Designing Your Home Recording Studio, and Recording Techniques for Home Studios.

Field Recording
Friday, April 29, 7—10pm
Fee $90 / $80 for EMF Subscribers
Learn about the technical issues in making field recordings, including microphone techniques and how they translate into a finished product. Join a discussion on the political, ethical, and ethnomusicological issues that may become relevant.

Designing Your Home Recording Studio
Saturday, April 30, 9am—1pm
Fee: $125 / $110 for EMF Subscribers
Learn the acoustic principles, basic listening techniques, and recording, mixing, and mastering secrets that will help you design and calculate your space and the acoustic materials that you use.

Recording Techniques for Home Studios
Saturday, April 30, 2—6pm
Fee: $125 / $110 for EMF Subscribers

Learn how to make professional-quality recordings in your home, integrating microphone techniques with acoustic principles. Learn, through illustrated examples, how to take advantage of the acoustics of your bedrooms, closets, bathrooms, even kitchen sinks and refrigerators.

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