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132nd Recording Competition Judge: Gary Gottlieb

132nd Recording Competition Judge: Gary Gottlieb

Longtime music business professional Gary Gottlieb refers to himself as a music generalist.

A professional musician since age 13, he worked in radio on and off for 25 years, and was a music critic for 9 years. As a recording engineer, live recordist and music producer in New York, Gottlieb's long and distinguished career includes work with numerous Grammy Award winners and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees in a variety of venues.

Along with his history as a music critic, entertainment writer and disc jockey for a major modern rock station in Manchester, Vermont, Gottlieb owned and operated a mobile DJ service and was a Venue Director for numerous X Games and Winter X Games for ESPN. In 2002 he accepted a teaching position at Webster University where he rose to Chair of the Department of Audio Aesthetics & Technology.

Of Gottlieb’s three books published by Thomson (including Shaping Sound in the Studio & Beyond and Recording on the Go), his most popular book, How Does it Sound Now? went on to win the 2010 Association for Recorded Sound Collections' Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research.

Currently a Governor for AES, Gottlieb is also a member of SPARS, APRS, ARSC, AAUP, and the P&E Wing of NARAS. Busy touring as a guest speaker throughout the US and Europe, Gottlieb has recently focused his energy on the St. Louis Audio Project, a non-profit organization devoted to community outreach and early education in quality audio.

— If you are attending the convention in Budapest, Gary would like to invite you to join his panel entitled, "How Does it Sound Now? The Evolution of Audio", featuring Jim Anderson, Andres Mayo, Darcy Proper and Ronald Prent —


Posted: Sunday, April 22, 2012

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