LDI 2017

Mark Dennis has had a long and varied history of roles in the audio industry, ranging from mixing the largest Las Vegas shows to rock&roll, from high rigger to frequency coordinator. Starting out life on the East coast, he has always gravitated towards the high mountains and deserts of the West. Mark spent years mixing musical theater, and did a stint mixing world premier opera at the NY State theater for his mentor, and a man largely responsible for his being in this crazy business, Abe Jacob. He has designed and mounted shows in London’s West End, worked major TV awards shows in varying capacities, done corporate theater and TV communications and RF coordination. Mark has toured internationally with major artists and symphony orchestras. He swears it is not his fault; he was just the guitar player and someone had to do the sound. From the beginning he was an early adopter, obsessed enough to drag his Apple IIsi road cases into hotel rooms on the road, just because. He was the only one he ever knew to tour musical theater carrying a TEF analyzer, and then while at another show, the first one he knew of to use Smaart software to analyze underwater acoustics, relying heavily on advice from one of his all time heroes, Don Pearson. When a major Vegas show’s telemetry system failure once threatened the show’s ability to open, with nothing available off the shelf, Mark designed and implemented a timecode over RF link to enable sync between the many moving automation pieces. In 2007 Mark traveled to Washington DC to address Congress and the FCC on pending legislation surrounding the whitespaces issue and shrinking RF spectrum and it’s impact on the entertainment industry. His comments were used as public record in correspondence from the Nevada House of Reps to the Chairman of the FCC and the Commission. He is these days mixing symphony orchestras worldwide, with not one single RF device to worry about. Life is good.