Webster University

Audio Production Program

Full-time Faculty

Gary Gottlieb is the Audio Production Program Facilitator and an Associate Professor of Audio Production.

When asked, long-time music business professional Gary Gottlieb refers to himself as a music generalist. A professional musician since age 13, he has worked in radio on and off for 25 years, and was a music critic for nine years.

As a recording engineer and music producer in New York, Gottlieb's long and distinguished career includes credits for James Taylor, Grand Master Flash, Gwen Guthrie, Marc Cohn, Stanley Clark and Patti Austin. During this time, he was associated with some of the top studios in the city, including Sigma Sound, Right Track Recording, Automated, Counterpoint, National Edison and Clinton Recording. His credits as a sound designer include numerous off-off-Broadway productions, community theatre productions throughout New England, and college productions at Marlboro College and Plymouth State College.

Along with his history as a music critic and entertainment writer for the Deerfield Valley News in West Dover, Vermont, and disc jockey for WEQX, a major modern rock station in Manchester, Vermont, Gottlieb owned and operated a mobile DJ service.

He also works for ESPN occasionally as a Venue Director for the X Games, Winter X, and The Great Outdoor Games. An avid snowboarder and former member of Mount Snow's ski patrol, he received his undergraduate degree from the Temple University School of Communications and Theatre, and earned his Masters of Audio Aesthetics& Technology from Marlboro College. Formerly an Adjunct Faculty member of both Marlboro College in Vermont and Plymouth State College in New Hampshire, Gottlieb taught for two years at New York's prestigious Center For Media Arts.

He continues to do occasional sessions, writes when it suits him, snowboards, water skis and mountain bikes as often as possible, and resides in Webster Groves with his wife Melanie, their two daughters, Miranda and Kyla.

Gary is the author of "Shaping Sound In The Studio And Beyond".

gsquared@webster.edu

 

Barry Hufker is a Full Professor in the School of Communications.

Barry is the author of a number of articles for national and international recording industry magazines. He was the first person in the audio industry to write "room acoustics" programs for personal computers. These were published internationally.

Spending more than 27 years in radio, as production manager at KWMU-FM he was responsible for several important technical "firsts." These innovations include the introduction of compact discs and digital recording to Saint Louis, as well as the premiere of Ambisonic surround sound broadcasts to the nation. His experience in radio production, "live" and "live-on-tape" broadcasts is broad. He has been the associate producer of the national broadcasts of the Saint Louis Symphony. He has also recorded Opera Theatre of Saint Louis for more than 27 years. Hufker has produced many of these recordings for National Public Radio.

Barry regularly records classical, jazz and ethnic music for compact disc, DVD and broadcast. Some of his credits include Frank Vignola's Rhythm Machine, Eubie Blake, Bobby McFerrin, Clark Terry, Zoot Sims, Arlo Guthrie, Dave Brubeck, Tommy Emmanuel, The Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, Chanticleer, The Prague Chamber Orchestra, Jorge Morel, Quink Vocal Ensemble, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, The Saint Louis Chamber Chorus, The Hanser-McClellan Guitar Duo, Johnny Johnson Quartet, The Tonga Community of Hawaii, The Swingle Singers and the finest musicians in and around the Saint Louis area.

hufkerbe@webster.edu

Tori Meyer is an Assistant Professor in the School of Communications.

Tori's work may be heard in many television and stage productions, including: MTV's Singled Out and Who Knows The Band, Oprah, Oprah After The Show, Girls Behaving Badly, Supermarket Sweep, MAD TV, Mind of Mencia, The DL Hugley Show, various tag music currently running on NBC, The Sharon Osborne Show, Family Feud, Extreme Gong, video games for Sony 989 Studios, Boston Public, The All New Press You Luck, Animal Makeover TV (currently running on the RFD-TV network), Beauty and the Beast (Asian Tour), Our Town, Fairy Tale Reunion, Wheels Turning, A Little Melodrama at South Coast Rep. (Costa Mesa, CA), Natalie Gets Made, Cider House Rules, Twilight: Los Angeles at The Mark Taper Forum (L.A., CA), Unseen Energy Swallows Space (by Travis Preston), See Me, Hamlet at The Kitchen (N.Y., NY), Pillowman, Urinetown, R&J at The Grandel Theatre (St. Louis, MO), Street Scene (for Opera Theatre of Saint Louis).

Tori is also the first woman to hold a terminal degree in Sound Design.

victoriameyer78@webster.edu

Adjunct Faculty Members

Lee Buckalew
Mark Casey
Mary K. Edwards
Justin Fisher
Paul A. Hennerich IV
Daniel Ruder
Steve Schenkel
Bill Schulenburg
Paul Stamler

Emeritus Special Lecturer and Audio Program Consultant

Bill Porter

 

 Legendary recording engineer Bill Porter is the Emeritus Special Lecturer, School of Communications. He has been the recording engineer for artists such as Elvis Presley, the Everly Brothers, Roy Orbison and many more. Mr. Porter has had approximately 600 charted records and was the first recording engineer inducted into the Audio Hall of Fame. Bill's accomplishments and technical innovations are so many and varied that it would take pages to even briefly list them. Bill retired from teaching at Webster University at the end of Spring Semester, 2005.

The students and faculty of the School of Communications offer Bill our deepest condolences on the passing of his wife, Mary Porter (August, 2005).

 

Mailing Address:
Audio Production
School of Communications
Webster University
470 E. Lockwood Avenue
Webster Groves, MO 63119

 

Email:
gsquared@webster.edu
hufkerbe@webster.edu
victoriameyer78@webster.edu 

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