That would be me - Rob Anderson. I started my professional audio career as an assistant at Astoria Soundworks recording studio. As a lover of classical music and jazz, I turned to on-location recording. I started my own recording business back in 2003 and I have had the great pleasure to record such artists as Living Color, Jimmy Cobb, Arturo O'Farrill, Alex Blake, Trio Solisti, Frank Glazer, Melissa Errico, Max Raabe, Morton Subotnick, JG Thirlwell (aka Foetus), They Might Be Giants, Kamau Adilifu (aka Charles Sullivan), Mark Adams, William Hammer and organizations such as The Brooklyn Chamber Music Society, Vox Vocal Ensemble, The Choral Symphony Society, SONOS Chamber Orchestra, Vladimir Nielsen Piano Festival, and The Electronic Music Foundation. I have also had the chance to work with some pretty exciting avant-garde ensembles such as Newspeak, Ne(x)tworks, and The Wooster Group.
In the course of my career, I've been confronted with recording a great diversity of instruments including a Renaissance viol consort, an orchestra of laptops (PLOrK), a hurdy-gurdy, Antarctic rocks (in live performance), a conch shell, Gamelan orchestra, robots in live performance (LEMUR), and Richard Rodgers' grand piano. I have recorded so many premiers that I have lost count, but among the highlights are the American Premier of Karl Jenkin's Requiem, the World Premier of David Jaffe's Underground Economy, and the New York Premier of John Cage's A Dip in the Lake. I have had the pleasure of recording the first performance of Bruce Odland's and Sam Auinger's Requiem for Fossil Fuels, and the world premier of Joan Tower's Can I performed by the Young People's Chorus of New York City. Recently, I had the great pleasure of recording the U.S. debut of the Orchestra of Tetouan.
As a freelance engineer, I currently work for Tonmeister Leszek Wojcik at Carnegie Hall (and elsewhere) and for Aura Sonic Ltd. My own rig is capable of recording anything from 2 to 24 tracks (and in some cases even more) and has been everywhere from the finest concert halls to the most obscure clubs. In addition to the recording business, I am an Adjunct Lecturer for the Music Technology program at Queensborough Community College, CUNY and for the Music Department at York College, CUNY.
I spent some time working as a singer and "club-date" pianist. My performing career has led me through venues ranging from Carnegie Hall to The Rainbow Room. I have served as a ringer and a soloist for numerous choirs throughout the city, and performed professionally with The New York Cantata Singers for nine years. I am currently musical director of the Bronx, NY congregation of the New Apostolic Church.
I hold a MM in Music Technology (Tonmeister Honors Sequence) from NYU's Steinhardt School, earned my BS in Information Systems Management (minor in Music) from York College, CUNY, my AAS in Music Technology from Queensborough Community College, CUNY, and I also studied voice for a time with Joyce McLean at Juilliard.
Below are links to some of the papers I have written. If you would like to contact me, you can email me at robert.anderson@nyu.edu
Thesis on Surround Sound Recording
Paper on Basic Low Pass Filter Design
Hearing and Perception - my Psychology of Music paper about human audition.
Fibonacci and Mozart Sex, Lies, and the Book of Calculations - Dr. Reinhold liked this paper so I figured I would post it here for everyone to enjoy.
Setting up a "Poor Man's" MS matrix in Pro Tools
lvlShift.m Octave/MATLAB function to compute stereo imaging for a coincident pair
timeShift.m Octave/MATLAB function to compute stereo imaging for a spaced pair