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