John Jansen
Director of Education
John Jansen started his professional recording career in 1970 at Electric Lady Studios in New York City assisting Eddie Kramer on numerous sessions. He started engineering sessions on his own, including an album by Cat Mother, before moving to England in 1972. There he was a freelance engineer / producer as well as doing FOH for the band Hemlock on a tour of America. He took a job as Chief Engineer at Ramport Studios in London, owned by the band, The Who.
While in the UK John worked with Joe Cocker, Procol Harum, Supertramp, Roger Daltrey, and Henry McCullough among others.
In 1976 John moved back to New York City to freelance as a producer / engineer / mixer. He worked with Meatloaf, Television, Lou Reed, Cinderella, Alice Cooper, Frankie Miller and others. Over the years he was awarded over 20 gold and platinum records.
After a year at Sterling Sound exploring the convergence of mastering and the internet John started teaching at SAE Institute, NYC in 2002. He became academic course coordinator at SAE in 2004 and Director of Education in 2009.
AJ Tissian
ATP Instructor
In 1993 A.J. moved from his home town of Philadelphia to NYC and between 1994 and 1996 built a recording studio on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, originally intended for personal use but in 1998 he opened it for commercial business and launched his own sound production company, Sound Mind Recording Inc.
In 2000 A.J. was hired by Atlantic Records as a freelance engineer to operate their New Media studio. There he runs sessions of Atlantic’s a-list artists, engineering live performances and interviews for radio, television and internet broadcasts. That same year he moved the studio to Williamsburg, Brooklyn (Grand Street Studio).
In 2007 A.J. met Vis Helland (Warrior Soul, The Outpatients) and after a long musical hiatus for both of them, they began to work on new material. Together, they formed Darkcoil and are currently in the studio cranking out the tracks.
A.J. continues to operate his studio and teach at SAE. He is always doing production work, recording, mixing and mastering for many different companies and bands.
Juan Masotta
ATP Instructor
Juan Masotta was born Buenos Aires, Argentina. Since an early age, he studied music in diverse institutions. He spent his teenage years playing with several rock bands and small jazz combos.
In 1996 Juan was granted a scholarship to attend the Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA. Once there, he studied Composition with John Bavicchi, Ken Pullig, Dennis LeClaire and Vuk Kulenovic among several others. In 2001 he graduated with honors in both Composition and Film Scoring.
In September 2001 Juan moved to New York City and attended to CUNY, where he obtained his Masters in composition, emphasizing his studies on electronic and ethnic music.
During his NY years, Juan has composed music for several films, plays and choreographies including Jinoh Park's film Request, which won an award at the Cannes Film Festival; Erzebet, a German-Argentinean coproduction on the life and excesses of countess Bathory; Geoffrey Breedon's feature film Dark September Rain and I Want to Paint This Light, a documentary on renowned Mexican painter Gilberto Aceves Navarro among other works.
Since 2005 Juan has been working as an teacher at SAE and The Door, lecturing on Reason, Logic, Sampling and Synthesis.
Juan has been actively working with renowned Trip-Hop band Puracane for over 3 years. The band's last album "I've Been Here The Longest" was released on May 2009 and it was met with raving reviews. On it Juan features as a composer, producer and performer.
ATP Instructor
I had an interest in sound at an early age. One day, my father explained the rudiments of stereophonic sound while we listened to the Beach Boy's "Endless Summer." A few years later, I bought an inexpensive Moog synthesizer sold by Radio Shack. I loved fiddling with it all the parameters, but I really couldn't play at all! After recording at an eight-track studio in Colorado, I sat back and watched the engineer manipulate our recording and heard the music start to change. I thought to myself, "Now that's what I really want to do!"
In 1988, I got an entry-level position at Water Music Recorders in Hoboken, NJ. (Yes, there is such a place…) There I worked with Chris Stamey, Freedy Johnston, Yo La Tengo, Peter Holsapple, Rob Grenoble, Sweet Lizard Illtet, Alex Chilton, Andrew Loog-Oldham and many, many other great musical personalities. After a few years, I got curious as to, "How they were doing it…" over across the Hudson in Manhattan. I was fortunate to get an assistant's job at Sound On Sound on West 45th Street. There I got to work on many jingles, tons of jazz sessions (live to two-track!) and various other types of music (Fela Kuti!) that I had no previous exposure to.
Lately, I have engineered Peter Murphy's latest, produced for Matisyahu and am producing the great up and coming artist Jeff Taylor for Rockwood/Atlantic! Also, I am teaching a "Mixing" class at SAE's New York City campus.
Charles Noel
ATP Instructor
NYC-based producer Arch_typ (aka Charles Noel, Archetype, Arch Tight)is no stranger to the international electronic music scene. Known for his genre straddling productions and DJ sets. He's performed live at the Sonar Music Festival in Barcelona, Spain and toured internationally several times, playing in Japan, Germany, Switzerland, Poland, Belgium as well as many dates all over North America. He also founded 2122 Corporation releasing multiple singles and EPs featuring artists like Dan Curtin, Nu Era(4 Hero), Morgan Geist(MetroArea), Titonton, Todd Sines and FBK.
Launching his Archetype alias in the mid 90's to cultivate his love for House, Deep Techno and Hip-Hop.
His current work presents a unique blend of Classic Funk sensibilities with the spirit of Detroit Techno and West London Broken Beat fused with Deep House melodies. Considered by his peers as one of the leading future music producers in NYC, Archetyp's music in being charted world-wide and can be heard from influential labels such as Theory, Black Nation, Soleil Records, Raw Fusion, Ongaku, Sonid Mind, Public Transit Records, Cookin, Bagpack and more.
Giles Nugent
iPhone 360 Basic
Giles Nugent is active in developing applications for the iPhone and iPad platform. As owner of Eamonn and Ian LLC he has developed 10 iPhone apps currently available on the iTunes App Store. These range in topic from business and utility programs to children's math play. Many have been given the "new and noteworthy" title. In the past Giles has lead technology teams for various companies including Cerberus Capital Management and Bank of America.
