Tom Lubin
My blogs
| Industry | Arts |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Writer |
| Location | Perth, Western Australia, Australia |
| Introduction | When I was a kid all I was interested in was sound, and then recording. My uncle got me a wire recorder (before tape) when I was 11, and a home record cutter when I was 14. I got a kit amp mail order from Kansas City to drive the cutter head. All this meant that I was pretty technical for a kid. I could make cables and connectors. So when I started hang out in studios, when they knew I could fix headphones, and mic leads, they let me come back. There were only a few places on the planet where there were sound studios. I was fortunate to grow up in such a place. I would call a studio and ask if I could watch a session. You could do that then. There were no schools teaching recording and few books. I leaned by watching, and standing behind people with great ears. I engineered in great studios for years, then taught sound, then edited a magazine, then had a rock and roll hotel, then toured the US for Fostex, made some instructional videos on recording, all the while still making records. In 87 I moved to Oz but increasingly was involved in film, TV, games, and digital media. But deep inside I’m still just a rock and roller that still likes to turn the speakers up. |
| Interests | Storytelling, history, technology, the creative process, music, sound production, films. |
| Favorite Books | When old technologies were new, The Long Tail, Rise of the creative class, The house of mouse, The creative habit, Connections |