David Louria – Music Production,Mixing, Engineering & Education

David Louria, who conceived and established LIVELI, is a qualified, seasoned professional specializing in the various aspects of music production.

The Beginning

In 1981, I was hired by the mythological Triton studios (Tel-Aviv, Israel) where I experienced my professional ‘baptism by fire’ during a particularly vibrant, productive and professionally-rewarding period.
In the course of my employment at Triton studios, I was privileged to cooperate with the country’s best sound engineers and music producers and spent most of my time recording various ensembles, both small and large, from different musical genres.

During that time, a typical working day could have included the supervision of a string section session in the morning, the recording of a horn section in the evening and recordings of ambitious but tight- budgeted rock ensembles through the night. Those were sleepless days energized by copious amounts of coffee and youthful enthusiasm.

By late 1983, having established myself as a creative, attentive and knowledgeable sound engineer, I realized that a certain gap existed between the musician-player and the sound engineer in the studio. Their apparently common objectives notwithstanding, the participants of the processes I contributed to were not always using the same language, and the general sense was one of two different teams, one on either side of the recording studio glass window.

Schooling

Around the same time, I heard about a curricular program that combined sound engineering and music studies at the Berklee College of Music in the USA, and realized it offered the education that would help me bridge that gap and establish a single, unified team, one that shares the same interests and speaks the same language in the recording studio.

Having graduated (cum laude) from the Music Production & Engineering program at the Berklee College and after gaining some experience as a freelance in the Boston area, I was called to return to Israel for a mixing project involving a unique ensemble that combined multiple musical genres – Jazz, world music and classical music – which had been recorded at a live performance.

Back in Israel

That mixing project marked the beginning of a productive and satisfying period (that is still on-going) during which I have been performing numerous recording and mixing projects, mainly involving instrumental ensembles. Later on, I also specialized in the recording of acoustic instrument ensembles, including big bands, in Israel and overseas.

The recording of a magical guitar trio brought me to the Red Sea Jazz Festival in Eilat around 1991, and in 1992 I was appointed as the Festival’s sound supervisor – a position I held for 15 years. In the course of my work for the Festival I discovered the world of live performances and was privileged to cooperate with some of the world’s best musicians. At the same time, I continued to work as sound engineer and FOH sound operator with high-caliber artists, in Israel and overseas, and became involved in additional musical genres like world music and classical music.

My love for live performances, recording and mixing led me to carry out an extensive series of live performance recordings for CDs and to supervise numerous live broadcasts of the performances of local and international artists.

Education

In 1996, having designed and established the recording studio at the Rimon School of Jazz & Contemporary Music (currently the “Rimon Music School”), I founded the school’s Sound Engineering & Music Production program which I headed until my retirement. As the head of that program, I taught the language of music to technicians and the language of technology to musicians.

For many years I was a senior member of the technological steering committee and academic council of the Rimon School and assisted in the design and establishment of the technological compound at the school’s new building. I initiated and managed various technology- oriented projects, led and supervised the major performances held outside the school campus, and recorded and mixed most of the live performances held at the school over the years.

Owing to my collaboration with young artists, I was fortunate to meet numerous talents who progressed over the years and established themselves as nationally and internationally famous artists. I am proud of having participated in the very first recordings of a considerable number of creative artists and performers at the dawn of their careers. In October 2014, I concluded my tenure at the Rimon School after two decades of teaching sound engineering and music production to musicians.

In Conclusion

I am currently offering my experience and love for music and for the collaboration between artists in real time through LIVELI.
LIVELI is a new incubator for unique projects, where this particular mode of operation is at the very core of our activity.

I will be delighted to place my experience and innovative approach at the disposal of musical and technological enterprises and initiatives. Yours, David Louria