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Seasoned Audio Pro Courts Career Disaster
A few years ago, building on a long career serving high achievers in music, broadcasting, publishing and business communications, I decided to tackle an entirely different challenge: capturing and sharing the awesome complexities of the natural and man-made soundscapes in the world around us.
Curt Olson, Audio Producer
I soon came face to face with a host of technical and creative hurdles I had never before confronted in decades of studio work. Through considerable trial and error, and with help from the great folks on the Nature Recordists e-mail forum, I slowly learned how to deal with many of those obstacles. More importantly, I began to appreciate the hard fact that ambient soundscape recordings are, at best, imperfect illusions of fleeting realities.
Armed with these new skills and understandings I determined that -- whatever it takes -- I would learn to become an excellent "illusionist" in this rare category of media content. It is, most definitely, a challenge... a journey... a work in progress.
Curt Olson
Track Seventeen Productions, Inc.
Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
763.780.7248 (voice) :: e-mail >>>
Personal Background
- Lifelong resident of Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota.
- Sinful rebel, enemy of God, captured and subdued by amazing grace.
- 1976 graduate of Moody Bible Institute, Chicago (Pastoral Training major).
- Employed since 1975 in all aspects of audio production, music recording and broadcasting.
- Married to the gracious and God-fearing Ruth since 1996, following the death of first wife.
- Proud dad of two grown and married children.
- Sappy grandpa to three kindergarteners and a two-year-old.
- Known to use "grouse hunting," "nature recording" and other excuses
to escape to quiet shorelines and logging trails in extreme northern Minnesota. - Blogging occasional Twitter-length ponderings, groanings, ramblings & misgivings here >>>
Specialties
- Ambient field recording using proprietary stereo microphone mounting techniques to capture maximum transparency and spacial definition.
- Post-production editing and mixing using ProTools digital audio systems linked to Apogee A/D > D/A converter technology.
Partial Client List
Corporate & Non-Profit:
3M; Honeywell; Ecolab; Thermo King; Toro; FMC Corporation; Dain Bosworth (now Dain Rauscher); MarriageBuilders.com; Billy Graham Evangelistic Association; InterVarsity USA; Concerts of Prayer International; Desiring God; The JESUS Film Project; Bethlehem Baptist Church.
Publishing:
Thomas Nelson Publishers; Tyndale House Publishers; Baker Book House; New Providence Publishers; GIA Publications.
Broadcasting:
Moody Broadcasting Network; SkyLight Satellite Network; KTIS-AM/FM; KMSP-TV; Domain Communications; GSF Media; Westar Media Group.
Music:
Studio albums for numerous local, regional and "niche" recording artists and performing groups; jingle packages for radio and television; live concert broadcasts; original music-for-media projects for several clients listed above.
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