Music Technology Speaker Series: Jonathan Wyner

Mastering Change: Lessons from Berklee, iZotope, and The Studio Reflections on how sound, tools, and aesthetics evolve.

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Mastering Change: Lessons from Berklee, iZotope, and The Studio Reflections on how sound, tools, and aesthetics evolve.

What persists across decades of change in music and technology? What truths, pitfalls, and recurring mistakes keep showing up? Drawing on a lifetime at the crossroads of music and technology—as a producer and mastering engineer, an educator at Berklee, and a collaborator with developers and product designers—I’ll share observations about music, perception, and human behavior. Through stories and examples, this talk highlights enduring lessons that can help us navigate and shape the future of our craft.

Speaker Bio:
Jonathan Wyner is Chief Engineer at M Works Studios in Somerville, MA, Professor of Music Production and Engineering at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Past President of the Audio Engineering Society, former Education Director for iZotope and currently an advisor at Suno.

He combines a focus on production, engineering and education with experience as a product design consultant. How work includes leveraging technology and product innovations to create engaging experiences to creative and technical users.

A producer, engineer, musician and performer, he's mastered and produced thousands of recordings during the last 35 years. Credits include Jean-Claude Risset, James Taylor, David Bowie, Aerosmith, Kiri Te Kanawa, Aimee Mann, London Symphony, Miles Davis, Semisonic, Thelonius Monk, Pink Floyd, Cream, Bruce Springsteen and Nirvana.

He has several accolades, including production of the Grammy Nominated soundtrack for PBS special Invention and Alchemy (Deborah Henson-Conant, 2005), the mastering of the first recording of a full length opera (Madame Butterfly 1912, BBC), and the first interactive CD game (Play it By Ear, Rykodisc). In 2012 he authored the text 'Audio Mastering: Essential Practices' published by Hal Leonard/Berklee Press along with undergraduate and graduate courses for Berkleemusic Online.

He remembers very clearly, the time before the look ahead limiter/compressor changed the sound of produced music

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Cambridge, MA 02139

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