Around the Puget Sound, Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.

Officers

Chair

Dan Mortensen

Dan is President of Dansound Inc., which specializes in live sound reinforcement "for people who listen", and is a dealer for Meyer Sound Laboratories, among other dealerships. He is the current AES PNW Section Chair, past Section Chair, Vice-Chair, Treasurer, and Committee member. He is the current Executive Director of the Washington Association of Production Services, a trade association of live event production companies. After more than 15 years, Dan continues to find that serving the PNW section in one capacity or another is still one of his favorite things.

Vice Chair

Steve Turnidge

Steve has a wide ranging career in the audio field and wears several hats. He has 20 years in the Pro Audio electronics industry specializing in mixed digital and analog circuit PCB design (including a specialty in FireWire designs). Steve also is a noted mastering engineer at Ultraviolet Studios, with dozens of albums and thousands of licensed music tracks to his credit. Steve is a voting member of the Recording Academy in addition to being a member of the PNW Section AES committee. He also sits on the Music Technology advisory committee at Shoreline Community College (where he taught audio recording).

Finally, Steve is a founder of and chief evangelist for Weedshare.com - a digital media distribution system. Find out more at his website: http://www.arsdivina.com

Secretary

Gary Louie

Gary has been the recording technician for the University of Washington School of Music since 1979, previously earning his BSEE at the UW. He has served as AES PNW Section Chair, Vice Chair, Committee, and most recently, Secretary since 1993. He is the co-author of The Audio Dictionary (3rd edition). Gary is currently the section Secretary.

Treasurer

David Franzwa

Dave has been employed in the audio manufacturing industry in the Seattle area since 1979, having worked at TAPCO, Carver, Spectral (briefly), and currently at Mackie Designs where he is Technical Documentation Manager. He graduated from Cogswell College North in 1995 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Electronics Engineering Technology. He enjoys playing music and working with audio and sound reinforcement equipment in his spare time. Dave is currently serving as the PNW Section Treasurer.

Committee

James D. (JJ) Johnston

James received the BSEE and MSEE degrees from Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA in 1975 and 1976 respectively.

JJ temporarily retired in 2002 but worked 26 years for AT&T Bell Labs and its successor AT&T Labs Research. He was one of the first investigators in the field of perceptual audio coding, one of the inventors and standardizers of MPEG 1/2 audio Layer 3 and MPEG-2 AAC, as well as the AT&T Bell Labs or AT&T Labs-Research PXFM (perceptual transform coding) and PAC (perceptual audio coding) and the ASPEC algorithm that provided the best audio quality in the MPEG-1 audio tests.

Most recently he has been working in the area of auditory perception of soundfields, ways to capture soundfield cues and represent them, and ways to expand the limited sense of realism available in standard audio playback for both captured and synthetic performances. He is currently employed by Microsoft.

Mr. Johnston is an IEEE Fellow, and AES Fellow, a NJ Inventor of the Year, an AT&T Technical Medalist and Standards Awardee, and a co-recipient of the IEEE Donald Fink Paper Award. Mr. Johnston was a presenter at the 2004 AES Section Meeting, "From Hear to Infinity."

Jake Perrine

Jake Perrine began composing electronic music in 1984 on an Apple II +. He received his BA in theatre and music from Hampshire College in 1993, where he created his first original operatic work, “Vamp”, composed entirely with early DOS sequencers, MIDI synthesizers and samplers. In 1996, Jake took a job with RealNetworks in Seattle pioneering over 200 webcasts of events such as The Tibetan Freedom Concerts, The Intel NY New Music Festival, WOMAD, Bumbershoot and The Rolling Stones. He lectured at conventions and seminars about his knowledge of webcasting and rich media content production from Las Vegas and San Francisco to Amsterdam, Frankfurt and Paris. In 2000, Jake relocated to New York City to stage a newly revised production of “Vamp” which was performed at the Lamb’s Theatre in Times Square. Since returning to Seattle in 2001, Jake's projects include an award winning U2 webcast for U2.com, producing a benefit gallery and performance event called “My America” in reaction to 9/11, and producing his second electronic operatic work “The Device.”

Currently Jake is a regular instructor at The Art Institute of Seattle (since 2001), and does freelance mastering work for a number of national artists and record labels. His latest release by his solo project Spire, called “Inertia,” is available online at CDBaby.com.

Dr. Melissa Rice PhD.

Dr. Melissa Rice is an independent technical consultant. She has a PhD in applied mathematics from the University of Maryland and is interested in signal processing, particularly for audio signals.

Dr. Rice has worked in various areas of computing and mathematics for over 20 years including Fourier analysis, irregular sampling of bandlimited signals, robotic vision & route programming, system administration, and technical typesetting. She has over 10 years experience teaching mathematics at the university level. Dr. Rice was a presenter at the 2004 AES Section meeting, "From Hear to Infinity."

Mark Rogers

Mark is Director of the AV Department at the Greenbusch Group, a Seattle engineering consulting firm. He is a designer of audio/visual systems, including sound reinforcement, audio reproduction, video projection and displays, videoconferencing and audioconferencing, and related control systems. Typical projects include corporate boardrooms, convention centers, universities and hospitals. He has designed and installed AV for 30 years, and also teaches classes and seminars on AV technology. He is a registered Professional Engineer (Idaho) and earned his BSEE at the University of Idaho. He is a past Vice Chair and Committee member of the PNW AES Section and has presented several topics to the section.

Dave Tosti-Lane

Dave is a theatrical sound designer, lighting designer and technical director, and is a founding faculty member and Chair of the Performance Production Department at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle. Dave holds a BS degree in Management and an MFA degree in Lighting Design and Technical Direction from Virginia Tech, but his real audio education began when handed his first tape recorder at age 10. He is Chair of AES Standards Committee Working Group SC-05-03 on Audio Connectors, Vice-Commissioner for Education in the Sound Design Commission of the US Institute for Theatre Technology, and the associate editor for sound of TD&T, the journal of the USITT. He is a past Chair, Vice Chair and Committee member of the PNW AES Section.