Luke Damrosch is a sound engineer based in Beverly, Massachusetts.  A Boston native, he was classically trained as a pianist while simultaneously pursuing Jazz and contemporary music as a percussionist.  He studied at New England Conservatory’s pre-college program and subsequently at the New School for Jazz & Contemporary Music in New York City (BFA 2009).  In addition to improvised music and composition, he has studied traditional West African music from Ghana, Togo, and Benin, Indonesian Gamelan, Brazilian Samba and Maracatu, Middle Eastern and Turkish music, Afro-Cuban percussion, and electroacoustic music made with Max/MSP and SuperCollider.

While completing his undergraduate work, his creative pursuits in electroacoustic music and sound design opened the door to music recording and audio engineering.  He was deeply captivated by the uniquely harmonious integration of art and science offered by music recording, and was delighted by how organically his diverse musical training could inform so many aspects of his work in this more universal and technical field.  His particular focus is making on-location recordings of acoustic music.

Before devoting himself full-time to freelance projects under the auspices of Efferent Productions, he was a staff sound engineer and videographer at Harvard University, where he primarily worked in the beautiful Sanders Theatre.  He is a member of the Audio Engineering Society, holds a Level 3 Dante Certification from Audinate, a CTS Certification from AVIXA, and has been a guest lecturer on music recording and sound design at Tufts University and MIT.  He is very interested in techniques which may improve the depth and realism of sound recording, and frequently conducts experiments as part of an ongoing personal research project — microphone array designs informed by current psychoacoustics research. 

Photo: Peter Gumaskas