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Meet David Kusek - CEO
David Kusek is a business executive and consultant who has been inventing the future of music for the past twenty-five years. He was one of the first to capitalize on the commercial potential of computers and music. As an early synthesizer and electronic music pioneer, Dave cut his teeth on innovation.
At the age of nineteen, he co-invented electronic drums at Synare, which helped ignite the disco era. In 1980, he founded the first music software company, Passport Designs, which made it possible for musicians to record and produce their music at home with its award-winning software. His music software, Master Tracks Pro, Encore, and Musictime, set the stage for the desktop music market that we have today.
Kusek is also a co-developer of the Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) standard that opened up electronic music to literally millions of people. In 1993, Kusek, with A&M Records, designed and developed the first commercially available enhanced CD that connected audio CDs to a personal computer. He also produces interactive DVDs for BMG Music, Windham Hill Records, and Berklee Press.
At Berklee College of Music in Boston, Mass., the premier school for aspiring professional musicians for over half a century, Kusek is Vice President of Berklee Media, the continuing education division of the college. In that capacity, Dave oversees some of the college's most visionary projects.
These include:
Berkleemusic berkleemusic.com, a major initiative to expand music education worldwide;
Berklee Shares berkleeshares.com, free and universally available online music lessons;
Berklee Press berkleepress.com the publishing arm of the college.
Kusek is also the co-author of The Future of Music: Manifesto for the Digital Music Revolution –
published by Berklee Press (2005).
Kusek has written for or been quoted in Billboard, Boston Globe, New York Times, Wired, Christian Science Monitor, Associated Press, and San Francisco Chronicle, Forbes, NBC-TV, Nightly Business Report, NPR, Corante, The Deal, Inside Digital Media, the Financial Times. Kusek has been interviewed by over 45 radio stations worldwide including NPR and the BBC. He has been a speaker and lecturer at Berklee College of Music, MacWorld, Comdex, PC World, NAMM, AES, and California State University.
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