Studio owner Bob Kirschner established City Sound Productions in 1986 as a dual purpose personal production/commercial studio. Bob is a sound mixer/producer/engineer, keyboard player and composer, with a strong background in electronic music, analog synthesis, progressive rock, funk and blues-rock. He has been working in the music and sound since 1983, and has worked with Yoko Ono, Bill Laswell, Jamaladeen Tacuma, Vernon Reid, Men Of Vizion, Garland Jeffreys, Maxi Priest, as well as many local independent artists and producers. He was keyboard player for New York bands The Uptown Atomics and The Fluid Foundation (with Peter Fluid from 24-7 Spyz). He was composer and performer for Paradise Opera, a NYC theater company that produced performances including modern remakes of Madame Butterfly and La Boheme, and "Trash Really" an electronic music performance based on virtual reality. Bob began working in audio post in the mid '90's, coinciding with the expansion of Downtown Avid, one of the first non-linear video editing companies which was started by his wife Diane Brown. He has worked as mixer and sound designer on spots and long form programs broadcast on FOX, CNN, ESPN, YES Network, Food Network, Oxygen Network, Bravo, MSG Network, and NHK Japan. He has worked on numerous independent features and shorts for theatrical and festival release, and has mixed projects in 5.1 surround sound for DVD. Bob's first solo album of instrumental electronica/ambient music has just been released. It is titled "Sonic Snow".