Alex Rosner: Difference between revisions

'''Alex Rosner''' is an American sound engineer and designer.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Alex Rosner |url=https://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/lectures/alex-rosner-systematic-sound |access-date=2022-08-02 |website=www.redbullmusicacademy.com |language=en}}</ref> He is known as the sound designer for the club [[The Loft (New York City)|The Loft]] and as the inventor of the mixer,[[DJ a tool for DJsmixer]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Alex Rosner: Shaping the Sound of New York – Iconic Underground Magazine |url=https://iumag.co.uk/alex-rosner-shaping-the-sound-of-new-york/ |access-date=2022-08-02 |language=en-GB}}</ref>

Rosner got started building Hi-Fi systems while a student in electrical engineering.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=Lawrence |first=Tim |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qIdH2yR41bIC&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&pg=PA347&dq=alex+rosner&hlpg=enPA347 |title=Love Saves the Day: A History of American Dance Music Culture, 1970-1979 |date=2004-02-02 |publisher=Duke University Press |isbn=978-0-8223-8511-0 |language=en}}</ref> He built stereophonic discotheques at the [[1964 New York World's Fair|1964-65 World's Fair]].<ref name=":1" /> This was the world's first stereophonic system.<ref>{{Cite book |lastlast1=Brewster |firstfirst1=Bill |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MxTnBAAAQBAJ&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&pg=PT136&dq=alex+rosner&hlpg=enPT136 |title=Last Night a DJ Saved My Life: The History of the Disc Jockey |last2=Broughton |first2=Frank |date=2014-05-13 |publisher=Open Road + Grove/Atlantic |isbn=978-0-8021-9436-7 |language=en}}</ref>

Rosner opened his business, Rosner Custom Audio, in 1967.<ref name=":0" /> He had a long collaboration with [[David Mancuso]].<ref name=":1" /> Rosner prototyped the first mixer in 1965, as a way to transition between vinyl records.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Wei |first=Whitney |date=1 Jun 2022 |title=Letter from the Editor: Electronic Music in the Age of Technological Evolution |url=https://ra.co/features/4015 |url-status=live |access-date=2 August 2022 |website=Resident Advisor}}</ref> He designed systems for Directoire, the Ginza, the Limelight, Max's Kansas City, Shepheard's, Tambuorine, and Tamburlaine.<ref name=":1" /> Rosner's systems survive at Riverside Cathedral and St. John the Divine churches in New York.<ref name=":0" />