Recording | Live Sound & Design
Paul is an Apple Digital Masters-approved mastering engineer (previously called “Mastered for iTunes” or MFiT) and is a GRAMMY Voting Member of the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences.
Album Credits - Selected Discography
- [new release] David Lang, Ensemble Signal: darker, Cantaloupe Music, 2024.
- Producer, editing, and mixing
- https://lnk.to/signal_darker
- Damselfly Trio: Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon’s Songs from Comala. in postproduction.
- Producer
- Sean Doyle, Pique Collective: Detachment: Books I, II, III. Elseways Media, 2022. (forthcoming)
- Co-producer, recording, editing, mixing, and mastering
- Ensemble Signal plays George Lewis and Darian Donovan Thomas: Lewis: Tales of the Traveller and Thomas: Spiral, recorded live at the Time:Spans festival. Four/Ten Media, 2022.
- Recording, editing, and mixing
- https://youtu.be/gteMJiucbzk (Lewis)
- https://youtu.be/mrlcaJVrvCI (Thomas)
- Ecstasies Duo: Women’s Voices. Self-published, 2022.
- Recording, editing, and mixing
- https://ekstasisduo.hearnow.com/womens-voices
- anzû quartet: Quatuor pour la fin du temps 80th Anniversary. Video released 2021, audio forthcoming on Cantaloupe Music.
- Recording, editing, mixing for video
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FigfCTlMbdc
- Baljinder Sekhon and Doug O’Connor: alchemy. Innova Recordings, ACF, 2021.
- Tracks 1–5 recording, editing, and mixing
- https://www.innova.mu/albums/baljinder-sekhon/alchemy
- David Liptak: Constellations. Innova Recordings, ACF, 2019.
- Album mastering
- https://www.innova.mu/albums/david-liptak/constellations
- Natasha Farny, cello; Jitka Fowler Franková, piano: French Cello Music. Centaur Records, 2019.
- Tracks 1–6, 19–12 recording, editing, mixing; Album mastering
- https://tinyurl.com/22422898
- David Liptak: Dove Songs. New Focus Recordings, 2019.
- Album Producer and mastering
- https://www.newfocusrecordings.com/catalogue/david-liptak-dove-songs/
- Baljinder Sekhon: places & times. Innova Recordings, ACF, 2018.
- Track 9 recording, editing, and mixing
- https://www.innova.mu/albums/baljinder-sekhon/places-and-times
- American Wild Ensemble: Music in the American Wild. ArtistShare®, 2018.
- Album Producer, editing, mixing, and mastering
- https://www.artistshare.com/projects/experience/359/494
- Signal plays Ornette Coleman: Live Recording from Lincoln Center Festival 2017. (forthcoming)
- Recording and mixing
- Concert Program
- Jiří Pazour and Ann Park Rose: Most přes oceán. Self-published, forthcoming.
- Recording and mixing
- Project page
- District5: Chopin Preludes for Wind Quintet, transcribed by David Plylar. District5, 2017.
- Album Producer, editing, mixing, and mastering
- https://www.district5quintet.org/chopin-album
- Ensemble Signal plays Reich’s Double Sextet and Music for 18 Musicians, recorded live at the Appel Room at Jazz at Lincoln Center. Lincoln Center Festival broadcast, Medici.tv, 2016.
- Post-show mixing for Medici TV broadcast
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXVjf_FSqpc
- Hilda Paredes, Irvine Arditti, and Ensemble Signal: Señales. mode records 2016.
- Track 1 recording, editing, and mixing
- https://moderecords.com/catalog/292paredes/
- Steve Reich and Ensemble Signal: Double Sextet / Radio Rewrite. harmonia mundi, 2016.
- Album Sound Director; Tracks 4–8 assistant engineer
- https://www.harmoniamundi.com/en/albums/double-sextet-radio-rewrite/
- Ken Thomson: Restless. Cantaloupe Music, 2016.
- Recording, editing, and mixing
- https://cantaloupemusic.com/albums/restless
- Steve Reich and Ensemble Signal: Music for 18 Musicians. harmonia mundi, 2015.
- Live sound director, production team
- Awarded Diaposan d’Or, June 2015
- https://www.harmoniamundi.com/en/albums/music-for-18-musicians/
- Mathew Rosenblum: Circadian Rhythms. New World Records, 2012.
- Tracks 6–7 recording
- https://www.newworldrecords.org/products/mathew-rosenblum-circadian-rhythms
- Milton Babbitt: A Composer’s Memorial. Perspectives of New Music / Open Space, 2012.
- Disc 1 Track 5 and Disc 2 Track 7 recording and mastering
- https://the-open-space.org/babbitt/
- The Respect Sextet: Respect in Yule. mode records, 2012.
- Recording of Ensemble Signal and JACK Quartet components of the album
- https://moderecords.com/catalog/014_respect/
- Benjamin Boretz: Violin Concerto, Charles Castleman, violin. Open Space 2010.
- Recording and mastering
- https://tinyurl.com/boretz-violin-concerto
- Quartsemble: Tango. Quartsemble, 2007.
- Album recording, editing, mixing, and mastering
- Review
Show Billing - Live Sound & Design
2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | before 2010
- Eastman School of Music, Kodak Hall (Rochester NY) | 28 October 2024
- [Coaching and Live Sound] Signal with ESM’s Musica Nova plays Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians and Double Sextet
- National Sawdust (Brooklyn NY) | 9 October 2024
- [Live Sound] David Lang’s darker with film by Bill Morrison with Ensemble Signal
- Time:Spans 2024, DiMenna Center (Manhattan NY) | 10 August 2024
- [Sound Design and Live Sound] Signal plays Fausto Romitelli’s Professor Bad Trip I–III and Steve Reich’s Radio Rewrite
- Time:Spans 2023, DiMenna Center (Manhattan NY) | 15 August 2023
- [Sound Design and Live Sound] Signal plays Anahita Abbasi: Faab IV / a femme fatale, Augusta Read Thomas: Dance Mobile, Aida Shirazi: The shadow of a leaf in water, and Agata Zubel: Chamber Piano Concerto
- Teatro Degollado (Guadalajara Mexico) | 13 May 2023
- [Sound Design and Live Sound] Festival Cultural de Mayo presents Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon’s Destierros with the vocal ensemble Quince and La Coperacha Puppet Co.
- Walker Art Center, McGuire Theatre (Minneapolis MN) | 23 March 2023
- [Sound Design and Live Sound] Signal plays Reich’s Runner and Reich/Richter (two shows)
- Miller Theatre, Columbia University (Manhattan NY) | 3 November 2022
- [Sound Design and Live Sound] Composer Portrait - Signal plays Luca Francesconi’s Trauma Études and Unexpected End of Formula
- Time:Spans 2022, DiMenna Center (Manhattan NY) | 19 August 2022
- [Sound Design and Live Sound] Signal plays George Lewis: Tales of the Traveller and Darian Donovan Thomas: Spiral
- June in Buffalo Festival (Buffalo NY) | 10 June 2022
- [Composition Performance, Sound Design, and Live Sound] Signal plays Paul Coleman: Simple Algorithms for Player Piano (pre-concert music), Chen Yi: Sparkle, Ornette Coleman: Trinity, Frederic Rzewski: Piano Piece no.4, Luciano Berio: Sequenza II, Michael Gordon: XY, and Steve Reich: New York Counterpoint
- Carnegie Hall, Zankel Hall (Manhattan NY) | 13 April 2022
- [Live Sound] Signal plays Julia Wolfe’s Cruel Sister and Michael Gordon’s Weather One
- June in Buffalo Festival (Buffalo NY) | 11 June 2021
- [Sound Design and Live Broadcast Stream] Signal plays Augusta Read Thomas: Acrobats, Jia Yi Lee: Orbit, Matias Homar: Bus Ga Eid, Joel Kirk: always update status, Kunal Gala: Currents, and Nic Chuaqui: The Windowed Present (Remote recording and streamed concert presentation)
- Brookfield Place / World Financial Center (Manhattan NY) | 16 October 2019
- [Sound Design, Live Sound, Programming, and Performance (computer for My Name Is)] New Sounds Live with WNYC’s John Schaefer, Signal plays Reich’s My Name Is, Piano Phase, Four Organs, and New York Counterpoint
- Brookfield Place / World Financial Center (Manhattan NY) | 15 October 2019
- [Live Sound and Broadcast] New Sounds Live with WNYC’s John Schaefer, Signal plays Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians
- NPR Tiny Desk Concert (Washington DC) | 20 May 2019
- [Performance (tanpura)] Signal plays Jonny Greenwood
- Watch the Tiny Desk Concert
- The Shed NYC (Manhattan NY) | 140 Shows, April–June 2019
- [Acoustics and Sound Design, Live Sound] “Reich Richter Pärt: Ensemble Signal with Steve Reich and Gerhard Richter, 140 shows (six days a week, four shows daily)
- Library of Congress (Washington DC) | 15 March 2019
- [Sound Design and Live Sound] Signal plays Oliver Knussen’s Songs Without Voices, Luca Francesconi’s Trauma Etudes, and Arnold Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire
- Berklee Performing Arts Center (Boston MA) | 26 February 2019
- [Live Sound] with the Boston Conservatory and Doug Perkins to perform Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians
- Krannert Center Illinois (Champagne-Urbana IL) | 16 February 2019
- [Live Sound] with Eighth Blackbird, Third Coast Percussion, and Quince to perform Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians
- Singapore Symphony Orchestra at Victoria Concert Hall (Singapore) | 12 January 2019
- [Sound Design and Live Sound] “Reich in 60 Minutes” City Life and Pulse
- St. Peter’s Church, (Manhattan NY) | 30 November 2018
- [Sound Design and Live Sound] Signal plays Wolfgang Mitterer’s mobile beats and organ and electronics improvisations
- Austrian Cultural Forum (Manhattan NY) | 29 October 2018
- [Sound Design and Live Sound] Signal plays Wolfgang Mitterer’s Im Sturm
- Interlochen Center for the Arts (Interlochen MI) | 5 June 2018
- [Live Sound] with Eighth Blackbird, Third Coast Percussion, and Quince to perform Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians and Sextet
- EMPAC, RPI (Troy NY) | 27 April 2018
- [Sound Design and Live Sound] Signal plays David Lang’s darker, with liquid light show by Suzanne Bocanegra
- Library of Congress (Washington DC) | 24 March 2018
- [Sound Design and Live Sound] with Colin Currie and Nicolas Hodges to perform Stockhausen’s Kontakte
- Carnegie Hall, Zankel Hall (Manhattan NY) | 2 November 2017
- [Live Sound] Signal plays Steve Reich’s Clapping Music, Quartet, Pulse, Runner, and Double Sextet
- Library of Congress, Washington Performing Arts (Washington DC) | 18 October 2017
- [Live Sound] Signal plays Steve Reich’s Clapping Music, Quartet, Pulse, Runner, and Double Sextet
- The Guggenheim Museum (Manhattan NY) | 17 October 2017
- [Sound Design and Live Sound] Works & Process presents Reich’s Runner and an open rehearsal of Pulse
- University at Buffalo (Buffalo NY) | 19 September 2017
- [Live Sound] Signal plays Steve Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians
- Lincoln Center Festival, Alice Tully Hall (Manhattan NY) | 11 July 2017
- [Live Sound] Signal plays Ornette Coleman and Howard Shore: Naked Lunch (film with live accompaniment), featuring Ravi Coltrane and Henry Threadgill, saxophones; Charente Moffet, bass; and Denardo Coleman, drums
- International Trombone Festival, University of Redlands Memorial Chapel (Redlands CA) | 1 July 2017
- [Sound Design and Performance (live electronics)] International Trombone Festival featuring John Kenny and Paul Coleman in Multiplex
- Carnegie Hall, Zankel Hall (Manhattan NY) | 30 March 2017
- [Live Sound] Signal plays John Adams Shaker Loops and Terry Riley’s In C
- University of Michigan, Hill Auditorium (Ann Arbor MI) | 18 March 2017
- [Live Sound] with Eighth Blackbird, Third Coast Percussion, and Quince to perform Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians and Sextet
- Cal Performances, UC Berkeley (Berkeley CA) | 29 January 2017
- [Live Sound] Signal plays Reich’s Clapping Music, Quartet, Runner, Radio Rewrite, and Double Sextet
- Teatro Diana (Guadalajara Mexico) | 24 November 2016
- [Sound Design and Live Sound] Opera: Don’t Blame Anyone with soprano Tony Arnold and Broadband/Push Ensemble
- Eastman Theatre, Kodak Hall (Rochester NY) | 16 November 2016
- [Sound Design and Live Sound] Opera: Don’t Blame Anyone with soprano Tony Arnold and Broadband/Push Ensemble
- Miller Theatre, Columbia University (Manhattan NY) | 25 October 2016
- [Sound Design, Live Sound, Performance] Pop-up! Series: Reich’s Cello Counterpoint, NY Counterpoint, and Pendulum Music
- The Guggenheim Museum (Manhattan NY) | 9 October 2016
- [Sound Design and Live Sound] Works & Process celebrates Reich’s 80th Birthday
- Notre Dame University, DeBarolo Performing Arts Center (Notre Dame IN) | 30 September 2016
- [Live Sound] with Eighth Blackbird, Third Coast Percussion, and Quince to perform Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians and Sextet
- Miller Theatre, Columbia University (Manhattan NY) | 15 September 2016
- [Live Sound] Signal plays Reich’s Daniel Variations and You Are Variations
- Lincoln Center Festival, The Appel Room at Jazz at Lincoln Center (Manhattan NY) | 21 July 2016
- [Sound Design and Live Sound] Signal plays Reich’s Double Sextet and Music for 18 Musicians
- Lincoln Center Festival, The Appel Room at Jazz at Lincoln Center (Manhattan NY) | 19 July 2016
- [Live Sound] Signal plays Reich’s Triple Quartet and WTC 9/11, and Jack Quartet plays Different Trains
- University at Buffalo (Buffalo NY) | 5 May 2016
- [Sound Design and Live Sound] Signal at Creative Arts Initiative Residency: Steve Reich Celebration
- Kennedy Center (Washington DC) | 7 April 2016
- [Sound Design and Live Sound] Eastman’s Musica Nova plays Steve Reich’s New York Counterpoint, Piano Phase, and Radio Rewrite
- Institute of Contemporary Art (Philadelphia PA) | 11-12 November 2015
- [Sound Design and Live Sound] The Sundance Kid is Beautiful: Performance by Christopher Knowles (two performances)
- Todd Theatre, University of Rochester (Rochester NY) | 26 October 2015
- [Sound Design and Live Sound] The Sundance Kid is Beautiful: Performance by Christopher Knowles
- University at Buffalo (Buffalo NY) | 6 October 2015
- [Sound Design and Live Sound] Signal and Slee Sinfonietta presents guest composer Kaija Saariaho: Pres, Lichtbogen, NoaNoa, and Alice du song
- Miller Theatre, Columbia University (Manhattan NY) | 29 September 2015
- [Sound Design and Live Sound] Pop-up! Series: Kaija Saariaho’s Pres, Luciano Berio’s Sequenza V, Luca Francesconi’s Tracce and Animus
- Walt Disney Concert Hall (Los Angeles CA) | 31 May 2015
- [Sound Design and Live Sound] LA Philharmonic In/Sight Series and Signal present Michael Gordon/David Lang/Julia Wolfe’s Shelter
- Walt Disney Concert Hall (Los Angeles CA) | 29 May 2015
- [Sound Design and Live Sound] LA Philharmonic Next on Grand and Signal present Steve Reich’s Three Tales
- Miller Theatre, Columbia University (Manhattan NY) | 12 March 2015
- [Live Sound] Signal plays Bach Revisited: Michael Gordon + Bach: Concerto for Harpsichord in G minor, BWV 1058 and Concerto for Violin and Oboe in C minor, BWV 1060, Gordon: Hyper and Dry
- Lincoln Center American Songbook, Appel Room at Jazz at Lincoln Center (Manhattan NY) | 31 January 2015
- [Live Sound] Guests Reich & Sondheim: In Conversation and Performance
- Eastman School of Music, Kilbourn Hall (Rochester NY) | 8 June 2014
- [Sound Design and Performance (live electronics)] International Trombone Festival featuring John Kenny and Paul Coleman in Multiplex
- Miller Theatre, Columbia University (Manhattan NY) | 15 May 2014
- [Live Sound] Signal plays Bach Series: Reich + Bach: Christ lag in Todesbanden BWV 4, Reich’s Tehillim
- Carnegie Hall, Zankel Hall (Manhattan NY) | 24 April 2014
- [Live Sound] Signal plays Julia Wolfe’s Cruel Sister
- Big Ears Festival, Tennessee Theater (Knoxville TN) | 28-30 March 2014
- [Sound Design and Live Sound] Signal and Jonny Greenwood play Reich: Radio Rewrite, Electric Counterpoint, and Music for 18 Musicians
- Miller Theatre, Columbia University (Manhattan NY) | 22 February 2014
- [Sound Design and Live Sound] Signal/Composer Portrait: Roger Reynolds: Kokoro, Positings, and Aspiration
- Centro de Experimentación del Teatro Colón (Buenos Aires Argentina) | 5–7 December 2013
- [Sound Design and Live Sound] with JACK Quartet playing William Brittle, John Zorn, Caleb Burns, and Steve Mackey (3 shows)
- Metropolitan Museum of Art (Manhattan NY) | 16 November 2013
- [Live Sound] with Alarm Will Sound playing Reich’s Four Genesis, NY Counterpoint, City Life, Piano Counterpoint, and Radio Rewrite
- John Zorn’s The Stone NYC (Manhattan NY) | 6-11 August 2013
- [Sound Design, Live Sound, and Featured Composer] Signal Residency: 2 shows a night over six days
- Miller Theatre, Columbia University (Manhattan NY) | 23 October 2012
- [Sound Design and Live Sound] Pop-up! Series: Philip Glass: Selections from In the Summer House, Michael Gordon: Light is Calling, Donnacha Dennehy: Overstrung, Louis Andriessen: Xenia, and Michael Gordon: Industry
- Miller Theatre, Columbia University (Manhattan NY) | 11 October 2012
- [Sound Design and Live Sound] Signal/Composer Portrait: Jonathan Harvey: Death of Light/Light of Death and Bhakti
- June in Buffalo Festival (Buffalo NY) | 9 June 2012
- [Sound Design and Live Sound] Signal plays Julia Wolfe’s Impatience and Louis Andriessen’s La Passione
- Kilbourn Hall, Eastman School of Music (Rochester NY) | 11 April 2012
- [Live Sound] Signal and Eastman’s Musica Nova present Reich’s Double Sextet and Tehillim
- Cleveland Museum of Art (Cleveland OH) | 9 March 2012
- [Live Sound] Signal plays Reich’s Sextet and Double Sextet
- Contact Contemporary Music (Toronto Canada) | 23 Oct 2011
- [Sound Design and Live Sound] Contact presents Michael Gordon’s Trance
- Bang on a Can Marathon, World Financial Center (Manhattan NY) | 19 June 2011
- [Live Sound] Signal plays Julia Wolfe’s Cruel Sister
- (le)Poisson Rouge (Manhattan NY) | 13 March 2011
- [Sound Design and Live Sound] Signal plays Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians (2 shows)
- EMPAC, RPI (Troy NY) | 12 March 2011
- [Live Sound] Signal Plays Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians and Double Sextet
- Miller Theatre, Columbia University (Manhattan NY) | 3 February 2011
- [Sound Design and Live Sound] Signal/Composer Portrait: Julia Wolfe: Cruel Sister and FUEL (US premiere)
- Bang on a Can Marathon, World Café Live (Philadelphia PA) | 12 September 2010
- [Live Sound] Signal Plays Michael Gordon / David Lang / Julia Wolfe: Shelter
- Bang on a Can Marathon, World Financial Center (Manhattan NY) | 27 June 2010
- [Live Sound] Signal Plays Michael Gordon / David Lang / Julia Wolfe: Shelter
- June in Buffalo Festival (Buffalo NY) | 31 May 2010
- [Live Sound] Signal plays Steve Reich’s Sextet and Double Sextet
- Eastman Theatre (Rochester NY) | 2 May 2010
- [Live Sound] Signal and Eastman’s Musica Nova present Steve Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians and Daniel Variations
- (le)Poisson Rouge (Manhattan NY) | 11 April 2010
- [Live Sound] Signal with Michael Riesman play Philip Glass: Glassworks (NY premiere), Music in Similar Motion, Music from Belle et la Bête, and Anima Mundi
- The Bell House (Brooklyn NY) | 3 April 2010
- [Live Sound] New Amsterdam Records Showcase and Signal present Sarah Kirkland Snider's Penelope Songs
- Miller Theatre, Columbia University (Manhattan NY) | 1 April 2010
- [Live Sound] Signal tour with Helmut Lachenmann: Wiegenmusik, Pression, Ein Kinderspiel, String Quartet no.2, and Zwei Gefühle
- Eastman School of Music (Rochester NY) | 26 March 2010
- [Live Sound] Signal tour with Helmut Lachenmann: Wiegenmusik, Pression, Ein Kinderspiel, String Quartet no.2, and Zwei Gefühle
- University at Buffalo (Buffalo NY) | 25 March 2010
- [Live Sound] Signal tour with Helmut Lachenmann: Wiegenmusik, Pression, Ein Kinderspiel, String Quartet no.2, and Zwei Gefühle
- Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival (North Adams MA) | August 2009
- [Sound Design and Live Sound] performing Steve Reich, Julia Wolfe, David Lang, and Michael Gordon
- (le)Poisson Rouge (Manhattan NY) | 22 July 2009
- [Live Sound] Steve Reich Pulitzer Prize Party and Concert: Sextet and Double Sextet (Pulitzer Prize winner)
- Bang on a Can Marathon, World Financial Center (Manhattan NY) | 31 May 2009
- [Sound Design and Live Sound] Signal plays Michael Gordon’s Trance
- Galapagos Art Space (Brooklyn NY) | 22 May 2009
- [Live Sound] New Amsterdam Records Showcase and Signal present Sarah Kirkland Snider’s Penelope Songs (world premiere)
- (le)Poisson Rouge (Manhattan NY) | 22 April 2009
- [Sound Design and Live Sound] Signal plays Michael Gordon’s Trance
- (le)Poisson Rouge (Manhattan NY) | 13-14 September 2008
- [Live Sound] Signal plays Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians and You Are Variations (two shows)
- Ojai Music Festival (Ojai CA) | 5 June 2008
- [Live Sound] Signal plays Reich’s Four Organs, 8 Lines, Nagoya Marimbas, and Daniel Variations
- Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra (St. Paul MN) | 15 December 2007
- [Sound Design and Live Sound] Engine 408 New Music Series presents Kajia Saariaho’s Amers, and music by Lubman and Zorn