Alison Krauss, Summer Festival Tour
Kirk is back on the road teching with Alison and the band for Summer Festivals like RIVERBEND in Chattanooga.

TRIAD STAGE, THE MUSIC OF PROVIDENCE GAP
This CD is the fourth production by Kirk for Triad Stage and Laurelyn Dossett. The music was recorded at the Treehouse Studio along with Scott Manring, Carl Jones, and Matt Kendrick. Laurelyn's songs on this CD are simply wonderful and the play created quite a buzz.
Triad Stage
Laurelyn Dossett

Rehearsal / Pre-Production at TREEHOUSE STUDIO

LAURELYN DOSSETT & KEN FRAZELLE, SONGS IN THE REAR VIEW MIRROR
Reynolda House Museum Of American ArtTreehouse Mobile records the performance and provides sound for this moving body of work.
“Rear View Mirror” is the result of that journey; Ken has taken all of these images and stories and woven them into a gorgeous and powerful piece for piano and voice. Laurelyn Dossett..... Reynolda House

CAROLINA CHOCOLATE DROPS, foh engineer
Kirk goes on the road in NC mixing front of house for this sensational band playing SOLD OUT shows!
Take a look at their website for tickets and CDs.

ACID ALKALINE DIET .COM
Robert Kirk, along with theTreehouse Mobile Studio team, researched and produced health related phone interviews with renown authors and experts for this Australian based website. http://www.acidalkalinediet.com/members/
Listen to some of these interviews

MARCY PLAYGROUND, Tour
Remeber SEX & CANDY? Working with Deep South Entertainment in Raleigh, multitrack recording was in place for several dates on the recent tour in anticipation of the new CD! Mixes will be available online as part of the promotion. Deep South Entertainment Marcy Playground

Interviewer for Red Bowl Asian Bistro opening, Raleigh, NC
Robert Kirk interviews the owners, staff & patrons on opening night for a web-based video production. The Raleigh crew of Robert and Lisa King produced the shoot. www.octaveblueentertainment.com

GOODBYE SOLO ...... a new film by Ramin Bahrani
WINNER AT THE VENICE FILM FESTIVAL
Robert Kirk/Treehouse Mobile recorded ADR and field effects for this award winning new film.

By A. O. SCOTT/ NY TIMES

The story told in “Goodbye Solo,” Ramin Bahrani’s wonderful third feature, is moving and mysterious, and you may find yourself pondering its implications for a long time after the film’s simple and haunting final images have faded. But it all begins matter-of-factly enough with a conversation between a taxi driver and his passenger, who proposes an unusual business arrangement.

view trailer
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........Promotional Poster........ ......................Ramin with Peaches (cab dispatch voice) at ADR session

MELISSA REAVES CD : "HOLIDAZE"
Mobile recording and holiday cheer at its finest! The truck went up to a snowy Boone, NC to hunker down in a rural church for two days with rocker Melissa Reaves & her musical director, keyboardist Dave Fox (along with her band) to come up with a new spin on Christmas favorites. The mixes and mastering followed immeditely and the CD had its release to rave reviews. www.melissareaves.com

ALISON KRAUSS and UNION STATION featuring Jerry Douglas ..
Robert was asked by the award winning tour production company SE Systems to join the crew all summer on the road with Alison Krauss and her band as they travelled to 47 cities all over the US. Kirk worked with the band's backline gear, set and lighting, and shot stills and video for DS Management and Rounder Records. Visit Alison's website and see Robert's images.

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.......AKUS. tour schedule. .......(website photo) ......................Cliff Miller & Bernie Velluti, FOH, Kansas City

WFDD-FM, 88.5 Wake Forest University
Each week Robert Kirk hosts the poular live radio show FRIDAY NIGHT JAZZ. This audio travelogue presents an eclectic mix of Jazz standards, Broadway tunes, World & Folk songs and interviews with world acclaimed musicians. You can hear the broadcast (8-11pm) live at wfdd.org.

Interviews have included Bela Fleck (with Chick Corea), drummer Simon Phillips, blues legend John Hammond, New York songwriters Jaymay & Joy Askew, and Texan Carrie Rodriquez.

hear an excerpt

Merlefest, Wilkesboro, NC - Robert works directly with SE Systems in Greensboro for almost the past decade designing a recording studio & fiber optic link to all eleven stages at the four day festival. Kirk's archival studio records all artists at each stage everyday and feeds XM Satellite Radio, Martha's Vineyard Radio, WUNC-TV, and others.(www.merlefest.org)

MIX MAGAZINE TEC AWARDS, WINNER, OUTSTANDING CREATIVE ACHIEVEMENT : Tour Sound Production
(Awards go to FOH Engineer, Monitor Engineer, and Tour Company.)
Alison Krauss + Union Station, featuring Jerry Douglas
FOH Engineer: Bernie Velluti
Monitor Engineer: Mark Richards
Tour Company: SE Systems, Greensboro, NC (www.sesystems.com)
Winning over the Rolling Stones, Dave Matthews, James Taylor, & White Stripes!

The festival is making these recordings available as downloads www.festivalink.net from the fine folks who got the mix "hand-offs" at Airshow Mastering out of Boulder Colorado. airshowmastering.com

CSB Broadcasting School, Instructor
Robert teaches Pro Tools & Radio Production to all age students in the new Charlotte, NC facility. CSB School has been an education leader for some 45 years with locations nationwide. http://gocsb.com/

One of many assignments with DRUMHEAD MAGAZINE (New York) was to photograph Brann Dailor, drummer of the hot new band MASTODON.

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CD Recording: Beautiful Star at Triad Stage
An Appalachian Nativity
From the creators of last season's successful Brother Wolf comes a musical and storytelling journey from Genesis to Nativity. A spiritual evening for the entire family. Treehouse Mobile recorded 16 songs at Triad Stage and mixed with Laurelyn Dossett (composer) back in the studio. Rhiannon Giddens who played on the session (pictured below) is now travelling the world with The Carolina Chocalate Drops and Taj Mahal.

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SciWorks, Community Day
Treehouse Mobile provided outdoor sound and staging for this festival day of music, fun & learning. The event brought in over 3,000 people. sciworks.org

Winston-Salem Monthly Magazine Robert's photography graces the cover and inside spread for this new, wonderful magazine here in Winston-Salem. The September cover story features local art patron and philanthropist Phil Hanes. Winston-Salem Monthly is published by Media General.

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WFMT Chicago
Robert was asked to record Pinchas Zuckerman in his hotel room in Greensboro while he was in town for The Eastern Music Festival. This will be used for the interview conducted simultaneously with host Jan Weller of WFMT

The Reynolda House Museum of American Art: Documentary Film
"Orientalism in the Decorative Arts" This thirty minute documentary film
was shot in the main reception hall with Barbara Millhouse & Dr. Joyce Schiller in discussion
about the renovation and decorations at Reynolda. Treehouse recorded musical segments for the video on the rare Aeolian Pipe Organ located in the main room. www.reynoldahouse.org

Recording Studio at Winston Salem State University Robert was asked by The University to supervise the revitalization of a wonderfully outfitted recording studio which will be a centerpiece to a new music arts program on campus. The studio will combine the finest analogue gear with new digital and computer based technology. www.wssu.edu

Brother Wolf - An Appalachian Adventure with Mountain Music (www.triadstage.org)
by Preston Lane, music by Laurelyn Dossett
A world premiere adventure in the tradition of the award winning film "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?"
Robert recorded the score (14 songs) live at the stage and mixed the CD with Laurelyn back in the studio. There were no overdubs or edits. Tear rendering songs recorded in a fashion one rarely hears anymore. Preview and order the CD www.triadstage.org/brother_music.cfm

Jeri Rowe of GO TRIAD writes: "The soundtrack, available at www.polecatcreek.net, is aided by the sound guidance of Winston-Salem sound guru Robert Kirk. He recorded almost all the tunes on one long day in January inside Triad Stage. He used six old-school microphones, one of which was owned by Barbra Streisand and Glenn Frey. These sensitive tube microphones, some dating back to the 1950s, give the recording a real sense of warmth. It captures every stacked harmony, every fiddle creak, every banjo pluck, every catch in the voices of Bassett, Baugus, Dossett and Sickenberger. It's gorgeous."

Mellow Mushroom, Winston-Salem & Greensboro, N.C. Treehouse Mobile Installation has designed and installed a superb, well tuned sound system for these new restaurants with over three dozen speakers offering full stereo coverage right down to the restrooms and even outdoors. The design was based around specific speaker placement, multiple amplifiers, and critical equalization to allow for plenty of volume and fidelity without interrupting conversation. ( www.mellowmushroom.com )