JACK STOUGHTON, JR.  President  Stoughton Printing

JACK STOUGHTON, JR.
President
Stoughton Printing

Jack Stoughton is the President of Stoughton Printing Co., a Southern California firm that has been serving the recording industry since 1965, at a time when there were 27 pressing plants in the Greater Los Angeles are. Initially founded as a label supplier, within a...
SARAH MURRAY  Music + Sustainability  Consultant

SARAH MURRAY
Music + Sustainability
Consultant

​Sarah Murray is a music and sustainability professional who currently works full time for Merchbar – a retail marketplace for 100% authentic music merchandise, and the worldwide official merchandise partner for Spotify. Previously working on the label and...
KYLE DEVINE  Professor  University of Oslo

KYLE DEVINE
Professor
University of Oslo

​Kyle Devine is Head of Research and Associate Professor in the Department of Musicology at the University of Oslo. He is the author of Decomposed: The Political Ecology of Music​ (MIT Press 2019). It’s about the history of what recordings are made of, and what...
LILLI LEWIS  General Manager  Louisiana Red Hot Records

LILLI LEWIS
General Manager
Louisiana Red Hot Records

​Lilli Lewis’s mesmerizing solo set at New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival’s 50th Anniversary set her apart as one of New Orleans’ rising stars. Lewis celebrates folk music from the African-American tradition, drawing inspiration from all of its forms from Odetta...
CHARLES KIRMUSS  Owner  Kirmuss Audio

CHARLES KIRMUSS
Owner
Kirmuss Audio

​Inventor, Pioneer, Audiophile and always a Nerd! Charles B. Kirmuss has several patents issued and pending on a variety of matters, including in 2018 his Record Groove Restoration System. He discovered the existence of a release agent in record grooves that led to...