Walters-Storyk Design Group, or WSDG, is a Highland, New York-based acoustic architecture firm which designs recording studios and other acoustic spaces. WSDG architects and engineers provide design, construction, and consulting services for professional audio/video facilities, multi-media presentation rooms, residential home theaters, performance/entertainment spaces, houses of worship, industrial acoustical applications, product development, transportation facilities, sports venues, and numerous other types of projects.
The firm was founded by John Storyk in 1968 as John Storyk Design Inc. John Storyk, the firm's founding principal, designed Jimi Hendrix' studio Electric Lady Studios in 1969.[1] With the addition of Beth Walters in 1988, the firm was renamed The Walters-Storyk Design Group (WSDG). Originally based at Union Square in New York City, the New York office relocated to upstate New York in 1990.
The company has offices in New York, Switzerland, Argentina, Brazil and Mexico. WSDG has been responsible for the design of more than 2500 production, broadcast and performance facilities around the world, including the Murray Performing Arts Center in Atlanta, Georgia,[2] and the Tangerine Mastering Facility in Weehawken, NJ.[3]
WSDG has won a number of awards and citations in numerous publications, including winning Mix magazine TEC Awards in 1991,[4] 1993,[5] 1996[6] and 1998.[7]
John Storyk completed his architectural and acoustical engineering studies at Princeton and Columbia Universities[1] and Storyk is a licensed architect in New York State. He has been responsible for the architecture and project management for over 2000 acoustical design projects worldwide. Storyk is a member of the American Institute of Architects and the Audio Engineering Society. He is a frequent contributor to AES convention papers and professional magazines. He is the author of the acoustics course, as well as the Director of Acoustics and Studio Design at Full Sail Center for Performing Arts. A more advanced course was developed for Ex'pression College for Digital Arts in Emeryville, California, where he also assumed the role of course director. In 2005, and again in 2006, Berklee College of Music offered him an adjunct professorship for the course "Acoustic Design for Studios". He has taught similar/lectures at the University of Colorado, Denver; the Community College of New York (CCNY); Oberlin University and the University of Miami.
Beth Walters is a graduate of the Fashion Institute of Technology with two degrees, A.A.S. in Textile Design and a B.F.A. in Product Design. Her construction experience comes with having been on the Gallery's exhibit and installation staff at the Fashion Institute for over 10 years. From 1982-1988, Beth also was the display and merchandising director for such noted home furnishing fabric firms as Boris Kroll Fabrics, Greff Fabrics and Design Tex Fabrics. From 1978 to 1982, Beth was Head Designer for Il Est La, a company which designed and imported wicker products and handicrafts coordinating with hand crafted fabrics. Ms. Walters coordinated these products with a new concept of satellite cross merchandising within specialty shops. Beth is a founding partner and principal of Walters-Storyk Design Group and provides all of its interior design services as well as CEO responsibilities.
Other partners in this company are Sergio Molho and Silvia Molho (Argentina), Renato Cipriano (Brazil), Dirk Noy, Gabriel Hauser (Switzerland), Nacho Rettally, Mike Moreno and Martin García (Mexico).