Roger Gans, Associate Consultant
Roger Gans is an Associate Consultant at Engineering Harmonics and manages our New York City office. Roger has been working in the audio industry for over 30 years as a system designer, project manager, production and sound designer, and system alignment engineer.
His work on countless projects, both large and small, has given him a thorough understanding of the role of sound in artistic endeavors. He strives to form strategic relationships with clients, manufacturers, and other professionals to create not only the highest quality sound, but also systems that are particularly appropriate to their various applications.
Roger believes that understanding the human aspects of the art—the ways people hear and communicate—is as important as a solid knowledge of equipment and techniques.
Portfolio
Roger’s portfolio includes:
- Calgary International Airport, Calgary, AB
- James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA
- Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, Kansas City, MO
- Manitoba Centennial Center, Winnipeg, MB
- Nathan Phillips Square, Toronto, ONOld Dominion University, Norfolk, VA
- Wyly Theatre and Winspear Opera House, Dallas
Career Beginnings
As resident sound designer for over 25 years at the San Francisco Opera, Roger designed sound for hundreds of productions, including the annual Opera in the Park concert, an open-air event drawing an audience of some 20,000. During the 1996-97 season when the Opera House underwent a major renovation, he managed the design and installation of new state-of-the-art sound and video systems.
Beginning in 1983, he designed the performance sound systems for some of the first large-scale classical music concerts featuring Luciano Pavarotti in venues throughout the United States, Europe and South America, as well as his historic 1986 concert in Beijing’s Great Hall of the People. These concerts paved the way for Roger’s work with other international stars, including Placido Domingo, José Carreras and Dame Kiri TeKanawa; as well as large scale opera productions such as Aida in Montreal, Canada, and Sydney, Australia.
From 1994 through 1998, he served as sound designer for Feld Entertainment, whose Walt Disney’s World on Ice and Ringling Bros. Circus shows toured constantly in Europe, Asia, South America and Australia, with extensive distributed sound systems that included an integrated measurement system enabling crews to deploy, align and tailor the systems for each venue—an exciting innovation.
Roger collaborated with the creative production teams for the three major entertainment venues at the DisneySea theme park in Tokyo that opened in 2001. He also designed its performance sound systems, including a large scale Broadway-style theatre system and a massive outdoor distributed system incorporating powered loudspeakers, digital audio processing and network audio distribution. This project spanned four years and involved extensive coordination between the architectural and entertainment stakeholders in the project. He also served as a sound designer at Hong Kong Disneyland, which opened in 2005.
Memberships
Roger is a member of the Audio Engineering Society (AES) and Infocomm International.
