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Richard McKinnon - Los Angeles, California

Richard McKinnon — Fri, 12 Aug 2005 15:44:26 +1000

Richard McKinnon is a Founding Partner of Perceptric based in Los Angeles, California. His international reputation is in strategy, communications and marketing; including political consulting.

His business experience is wide and deep. Richard's business service company was based in Sydney in the nineties and provided high level strategic, human resource and marketing counsel to a range of companies from blue chip industrials (including AGL and Multiplex) through technology start ups to specific industry businesses such as healthcare companies.

He was personally sought and retained to advise State and Federal Governments at executive, agency and Government wide level on both policy and implementation issues. His company was constantly retained across it's service spectrum by Governments of all political persuasions. He chaired the Customer Service Initiative for the world's second largest hospital system of 254 hospitals. He initiated the Olympic Health

Issue and media crisis management was a core competence of the business.

Since establishing in the United States in 2000, Richard has contributing marketing, positioning and communication services to a different but equally wide range of companies in the healthcare, travel, technology, consumer and ecommerce areas. These include companies as diverse as Cheaptickets, Conductus and xDrive.

In the eighties, McKinnon founded and owned a consumer products company in the food service industry.

Richard has also written extensively on sport and politics for newspaper and magazine outlets around the world. He was a contributing editor to a number of publications as well as network sport correspondent for approximately ten years.

Richard is highly interested in public policy issues in both Health and Education. He has been involved in the Governance Council of several schools (Chair, Roosevelt Elementary 2003-4) and is actively involved in youth sports.

Contact Details;

Richard McKinnon

Founding Partner

Perceptric, Los Angeles

mckinnon@perceptric.com

310 403 1505

Thom Blum - Silicon Valley, Califonria

Richard McKinnon — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 05:41:17 +1100

Thom Blum, one of the world's leading authorities and composers of electroacoustic and computer music, is an expert in the area of digital sound

Since 1972 when he first started composing music and arranging sound, his works have been presented in concerts, festivals and radio broadcasts internationally. He studied composition at California Institute of the Arts (1972-74), where his teachers included James Tenney, Ingram Marshall, and Curtis Roads. Thom established a curriculum in computer applications to music at The Ohio State University, under the mentorship of Thomas Whitney, Charles Csuri, and Thomas Wells (B.S., 1977).

Co-founder of the International Computer Music Association (1977), Thom served as Associate Editor for M.I.T. Press Journals Computer Music Journal (1987-1996).

Residing in San Francisco since 1978, Thom worked as an audio software engineer for LucasFilm/DroidWorks, before joining Yamaha Music Technologies as a researcher and software architect.

He is Co-Founder of MuscleFish, a sound analysis and processing software company that commenced business in 1992. MuscleFish is one of the acknowledged leaders in this field and its clients include Apple, Sony, Sun and Palm.

In 2001, Thom joined the five person collective known as the New San Francisco Tape Music Center (2001), which also includes composers Matt Ingalls, Joseph Anderson, Cliff Caruthers, and Kent Jolly. In 2002-2003, he was named Artist for Lake Technology, Inc. (Australia) and was awarded a Huron sound spatialization system for his personal use in composing.

Compositions and Performances;

April 28-30, 2005 -- Brushes with Satie - a suite of electroacoustic orchestrations of Erik Satie's Gymnopedies, produced specifically for Deborah Slater Dance Theater's "Furniture Dances". Presented at ODC Theater in San Francisco.

November 18, 2004 -- Cycle -- presented at San Jose State University Concert Hall, co-sponsored by SJSU's Center for Research in Electro-Acoustic Music and Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS) as part of Electroacoustic Music Month. San Jose, CA.

August 24, 2004 -- Untitled -- a piece for 9 dancers choreographed by Deborah Slater Dance Theater involving live mix of field recordings projected in the Yerba Buena Gardens. Summerfest, Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco, CA

July 23-24, 2004 -- Trio -- a piece for 3 dancers choreographed by Deborah Slater Dance Theater with music composed by Erling Wold and Thom Blum. Performed at ODC Theater, San Francisco, CA

May 1, 2004 -- Japanese Postcard -- Presented at The University of Edinburgh presents Soundings, Reid Hall, Bristo Square, Edinburgh, Scotland.

April 17, 2004 -- Cycle -- Choreographer Alyssa Wilmot and group A, 21 Grand, Oakland, CA.

February 21, 2004 -- Cycle -- New San Francisco Tape Music Center Festival, CELLSpace, San Francisco, CA.

October 23, 2003 -- Note from Patzcuaro -- Strictly Ballroom concert series, CCRMA, Stanford University, Stanford, CA.

July 27, 2003 -- nomen plaid -- San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, SomArts, San Francisco, CA.

May 29-June 1, 2003 -- soundtrack for Deborah Slater Dance Theater's Survival of the Fit Enough: The Galapagos Project v.2 -- Dance Mission, San Francisco, CA.

February 24-March 10, 2003 -- on XStreamRadio 'top ten' list -- XStreamRadio.

February 14-18, 2003 -- Things Frankie Heard, J-Wake, Parker -- XStreamRadio webcast, Clichy, France.

January 4, 2003 -- Things Frankie Heard and Maroc -- Bobo Teatre, Sao Paolo, Brazil.

August 17, 2002 -- Things Frankie Heard -- Tranparent Tape Music Festival, sponsored by the New San Francisco Tape Music Center, Berkeley, CA.

August 10, 2002 -- Japanese Postcard and Maroc -- Field Effects 6, Space 964 Natoma, San Francisco, CA.

May 18, 2002 -- interview broadcast and webcast -- Quiet Please on KFJC, San Jose, CA.

January 12, 2002 -- J-Wake -- Tranparent Tape Music Festival, sponsored by the New San Francisco Tape Music Center, Berkeley, California.

December 21, 2001 -- five haiku -- La Cucina, Barcelona, Spain.

September 26, 2001 -- five haiku -- broadcast and webcast -- "art @ radio" with Steve Bradley, WMBC, Baltimore, MA.

November 16, 2000 -- five haiku -- Lotte Lebmann Concert Hall, sponsored by the Dept. of Music, Media Arts & Technology, and CREATE, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA.

Chris Gilbey, Managing Partner

Chris Gilbey — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 17:42:06 +1100

Chris is a founding partner of Perceptric. He is a creative lateral thinker, who understands how to market and to sell.
He became one of the leading figures in the Australian music industry being associated with some of the biggest names in Australian music either as a record producer, publisher, or manager. (Think AC/DC, InXs, The Church). He also represented a number of international music companies in Australia. (Think of the music catalogues of Elvis Presley, The Beatles).

While Senior EVP at BMG Records he pioneered the development of the Enhanced CD and was the first record executive to put streaming music on line and to create dedicated artist project web sites (circa 1994).

He then moved into media becoming the marketing consultant for the first Australian TV Shopping Network. In this role he created the strategic plan to roll that service out to 43 countries.

This led to Chris sertting up a convergent media consulting business, writing several books including "The Infinite Digital Jukebox" which predicted the rise of digital downloads and P2P networks. He also created one of the first visionary online radio stations (Big Fat Radio), called by some people "The Mother Of All Blogs".

After the tech wreck Chris was appointed CEO of an Australian DSP company, Lake Technology Limited. He led the sale of Lake to Dolby Laboratories, which is now listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Chris continues to consult and spends a considerable amount of time in Japan and the US. He has some unique insights into the way that global markets are developing and how trend wave fronts can be predicted and leveraged.