Scott W. Colburn
| Scott W. Colburn | |
|---|---|
| Born | December 1, 1964 Skokie, IL, USA |
| 💼 Occupation | Music Producer, Audio Engineer, Sound Designer, Musician, Teacher |
| 📆 Years active | 1981-[1] |
| 🌐 Website | https://scottcolburn.com/ |
Scott W. Colburn is an American music producer, audio engineer, sound designer, and musician based in Seattle, WA.
With production credits on nearly 400 releases [2] [3], Colburn is best known for his work with The Animal Collective - Feels and Strawberry Jam, Arcade Fire - Neon Bible (debuted at #2 on Billboard Charts [4] and received a Grammy nomination among other awards), Sun City Girls (30 plus albums)[5], Prince Rama - Trust Now and Top Ten Hits, Feral Children - Brand New Blood [5] and Mudhoney - Since We've Become Translucent .
Colburn is also known for his sound design work on Zombies of Mass Destruction [6] and the score to Session 9 [7] as a member of Climax Golden Twins.
Colburn is an active archivist for various labels and institutions including Capt. Beefheart - Grow Fins [8] , Charlie Patton - Singin' and Hollerin' the Blues (3 Grammy wins ) both for Revenant Records and The Residents - Preserved Series [9] [10] (Archived tapes reside at Museum of Modern Art in New York).
Born in Skokie, IL, Scott grew up predominantly in Columbus, IN,[5] where he discovered a love for punk rock. The "do it yourself" aesthetic was inspirational as Colburn started writing scene reports for Maximum Rock and Roll, started a record label (Gravelvoice) and fanzine (Blow it Off).
Scott later attended Columbia College Chicago and completed his BA in Audio Arts and Acoustics in 1989. [11] While in Chicago, his relationship with the members of Sun City Girls would broadly define the next few decades of his personal and professional career as he recorded the bulk of their albums.[11]
Scott moved to Seattle in 1993 and jumped into a exclusive relationship with Sun City Girls producing nearly 30 records[5] over a few decades. He also joined Climax Golden Twins at this time and simultaneously continued his solo music project Jabon.
In 2001 Colburn was among a handful of engineers asked to do live mixing at a newly formed KEXP-FM.[12] Scott went on to do over 100 live shows including Polyphonic Spree, Clinic, The Doves, Ben Gibbard, The Church and Arcade Fire.
In 2015 Colburn retreated from the music industry and started to pursue new avenues of audio discovery in the virtual realm[13]. After a short stint at Microsoft working on a Hololens app called Actiongram [14], he settled in nicely at the audio research facility for Oculus/Facebook/Meta co-authoring a patent for a virtual room acoustics modeler [15] and was publish in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. [16]
References
- ↑ Settino, Curtis (1998). "Scott Colburn". Tape Op Magazine. Tape Op.
- ↑ "Scott Colburn". Discogs. Retrieved 2025-06-18.
- ↑ "Scott Colburn Songs, Albums, Reviews, Bio & Mo..." AllMusic. Retrieved 2025-06-18.
- ↑ Cabison, Rosalie (2013-01-02). "Billboard 200™". Billboard. Retrieved 2025-06-18.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Barr, Brian J. (August 2, 2007). "August and Everything After". Seattle Weekly.
- ↑ "Scott Colburn | Sound Department, Composer, Soundtrack". IMDb. Retrieved 2025-06-21.
- ↑ "Climax Golden Twins | Composer". IMDb. Retrieved 2025-06-21.
- ↑ "Scott Colburn | Tape Op". tapeop.com. Retrieved 2025-06-22.
- ↑ Graff, Gary (2018-01-18). "The Residents Reissues: Listen to Three Unreleased Vintage Tracks From the Avant Pioneers". Billboard. Retrieved 2025-06-22.
- ↑ Segal, Dave. "Seattle Studio Wiz Scott Colburn on Remastering the Residents' First Two Albums". The Stranger. Retrieved 2025-06-22.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Simonini, Ross (October 2007). "Sound Effects" (PDF). Seattle Magazine. pp. 36–38.
- ↑ "Live Mixing Times Three". Front of House Magazine. October 15, 2006.
- ↑ Wing, Jennifer (October 22, 2016). "Putting The Reality In Virtual Reality Audio". KNKX.org.
- ↑ Blog, Microsoft Devices (2016-03-14). "Introducing Actiongram: A completely new holographic storytelling medium". Microsoft Devices Blog. Retrieved 2025-06-21.
- ↑ US10897570B1, Robinson, Philip; Scott Colburn & II William Owen Brimijoin et al., "Room acoustic matching using sensors on headset", issued 2021-01-19
- ↑ Robinson, Philip W.; Kishline, Lindsey; Colburn, Scott (2020-10-01). "Production and use of multimedia speech content for perceptual experiments in virtual environments". The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 148 (4_Supplement): 2787. doi:10.1121/1.5147756. ISSN 0001-4966.
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