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Come as we uncover and unpack the incredible world of the Events Industry, we will sit down with the event heroes and legends, from the staging guy to the CEO and Production Teams. This video and audio podcast will take us behind the scenes, and give us insight into the world of the events industry.
MARC URSELLI
7-time Grammy Award nominated, 3-time Grammy Award winning music producer, audio engineer, mixer, sound designer and front of house engineer, Marc Urselli is an interdisciplinary artist, scholar and devotee of all things art, sound & music and works for and collaborates with musical & visiual artist, bands, musicians, composers, theater directors, film, TV, brand & mixed media multidisciplinaries from around the world.
He has worked with U2, Foo Fighters, Nick Cave, Lou Reed, Sting, Keith Richards, Kesha, Jeff Beck, Les Paul, Buddy Guy, Luther Vandross, Børns, The Black Crowes, Frank Sinatra, Joss Stone, Mike Patton, John Zorn, Jack DeJohnette, Esperanza Spalding, John Patitucci, Laurie Anderson and scores of artists performing rock, pop, metal, jazz, experimental/avantgarde/new music, urban and electronica and classical
Listen in as he shares his life story. Sven has worked on projects with some of the leading artists from Africa, Europe and the US.
In the 1970s moving to the early 1980's Richard was contracted by Teal/Galo Music for recording and mixing top-line South African artists, such as Sipho "Hotstix" Mabuse, for major local and international record labels. Richard was also a part of the RPM/Downtown Studios management structure. In the late '80s Richard founded his own sound engineering company called RM Recordings whereby he was mixing and mastering a multitude of local and international recording artists and was also featured on big film soundtracks both local and international releases such as the original soundtrack of The Lion King and The Long Walk To Freedom as well the music used to launch the Dubai musical fountains.
RM recordings was contracted to provide skills and training in the operation of the largest recording studio complex in the southern hemisphere BOP studios, recordings included many symphonic orchestra recordings for various feature film scores.