Education
Kurt Ballou (Engineer: music / biomedical)Bachelors in Engineering, Boston University 1997. Record on March 16, 2020At GodCity Studios in Salem MAhttps://www.isolatecreate.com/Playing Sax at Andover High School marching band. Wanting to be involved in the creation of things. "White Boy Rap attack."“I knew that basic principle of life is: Start out by imitating something you like, and What you see is what you get.”-V. ValeStarting college at Boston University in 1992 and having a full stack in your dorm room. Changing majors from electrical engineering to aerospace engineering.Writing The Saddest Day in your dorm room alone out of frustration and procrastination.Taking a semester off and dropping classes. Boston Scientific: making a pressure valve for stent deployment. College is not so much about learning the material, as it is about demonstrating that you have the ability to learn the material. Most research and development ends in failure. Moral conflicts with animal testing while working as a biomedical engineer. Wanting to learn to record because of the desire to want micromanage converge’s sound. Eventually an apprenticeship under Brian Mcternan. Recording Fit For Abuse – Mindless Violence EP in 1996 with Matt KellyRecording Until your Heart Stops in 1998. Not trusting yourself (yet) to do a record on your own. Recording When forever comes crashing with Steve Austin in 1998. The making of Jane Doe with Mathew Ellard. Berklee College of Music talk. The importance of being “Peer Reviewed” in music writing and recording. Potentially recording Jane Doe with Steve Albani. Analog versus Digital Sound recording and Audiophile nerds. Jake Bannon’s rank your records, and the importance of ‘Axe to Fall'Tone searching with effects and always finding new ways to be creative with gear swapping over the years.Being discouraged by electronic theory but being pulled into the study by making your own guitars.Making the Brutalist Jr. PCBs into business cards based upon The Providence Stampede pedal and the birth of God city instruments