Alex Rosner

American sound engineer and designer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Alex Rosner is an American sound engineer and designer.[1] He is known as the sound designer for the club The Loft and as the inventor of the DJ mixer.[2]

Early life

Rosner and his father survived the Holocaust and time at Dachau.[2] After the war the family moved to Queens, New York.[2] He received a degree in engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.[2]

Career

Rosner got started building Hi-Fi systems while a student in electrical engineering.[3] He built stereophonic discotheques at the 1964-65 World's Fair.[3] This was the world's first stereophonic system.[4]

Rosner opened his business, Rosner Custom Audio, in 1967.[2] He had a long collaboration with David Mancuso.[3] Rosner prototyped the first mixer in 1965, as a way to transition between vinyl records.[5] He designed systems for Directoire, the Ginza, the Limelight, Max's Kansas City, Shepheard's, Tambuorine, and Tamburlaine.[3] Rosner's systems survive at Riverside Cathedral and St. John the Divine churches in New York.[2]

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