Skills || Education || Career Highlights || Professional Memberships/Development || Volunteer Activities
Audio: Stage sound work includes front of house, stage setup including mic and monitor placement, stacked and flown mains; multi-track studio including session setup and post work; equipment installation and maintenance including tape deck calibration; electronic music includes voltage controlled synthesis, tape manipulation, midi and digital audio; audiophile and home theater sales and installations; sound collection transcription and digitalization; field recording using minimalist recording techniques.
Production Management: Indoor and outdoor rock, jazz, and folk stage; classical music; theatrical stage
Lighting: Stage and concert performance; museum and gallery art installation
Construction: Outdoor concert stage; art installations; theatrical sets; finish carpentry: furniture and cabinetry
Classes Taught: Intro to Computer Music; Lab Assistant for Intro to Recording Techniques and Electronic Music 424, 425, 426; Intro to Light Design; Intro to Stage Craft; Intro to Theater
Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, Master of Arts
Individual Interdisciplinary Program: Electronic Music, Theater Light Design, Sculpture
Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, Bachelor of Liberal Studies
Performance Environment Management: Electronic Music, Radio and Television Production, Technical Theater, Business, Interpersonal and Public Communications
Long Run Audio/Long Run Records, Athens, Ohio
On-location recording service, 2003-present
Workshop of Dale Francis, Athens, Ohio
Antique and fine furniture refurbishing; finish carpentry, 2000-present
DAF Design, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Design and fabrication service for galleries, museums, businesses, 1986-1995
Academy Studios, Raleigh, North Carolina,
Exhibition fabrication and installation for Museum of Natural Sciences, 2000
Ferris State University, Big Rapids, Michigan
Adjunct Professor, Technical Theater, 1999
Ohio University, Athens, Ohio
– School of Music, Computer Music Graduate Associateship, 1997-1998
– School of Theater, Lighting Graduate Assistantship, 1997
– School of Art, Trisolini Gallery Graduate Assistantship, 1996
Carlin Audio, Dayton, Ohio
High-end audio/video (PARA certified), 1991-1992
University of Michigan, Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Senior Technician: gallery installations including lighting, framing, custom display fabrications, 1985-1990
Audio Engineer, Toledo, Ohio; Chicago, Illinois
Recording engineer, audio sales, 1980-1984
Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio
- College of Musical Arts, Recording/Electronic Music Technician, 1979-1980
- Theater Department, Scene Shop Assistant, 1978-1979
St. John's Hollow, Tiffin, Ohio
Builder/Stage Manager, 1977-1978
WGLN/WIOT FM, Toledo, Ohio
Disc Jockey/Stage Manager, 1972-1974
Feast of the Hasty Pudding, Toledo, Ohio
Organizer/Stage Manager, 1969-1975
Asian Flu (R & R band), Toledo, Ohio
Roadie/Soundman, 1968-1974
Concert Stage work
Grande Ballroom; State Theater; University of Toledo Field House; Toledo Sports Arena; The Club; Silver Bell; Anderson Arena; Black Swamp Folk Festival; Fresh Start; Poison Apple
Additional positions
Optical technician; Jeep press shop inspector; hospital orderly; kitchen prep; explosive demolition; assist. manager record store
Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) member
Audio Engineering Society (AES) member
Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS) member
Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC)
" Topics in Oral History and Music Field Recordings," March 2004
Les Ateliers UPIC, Paris, France
Summer Intensive in Computer Music and Composition, 1998
Intermuseum Conservation Association (ICA)
"In Search of the Black Box," 1989
American Youth Hostel National Leadership Training
United Auto, Ag. & Aerospace Workers (UAW) Committeeman and Steward Training
Stuarts Opera House Guild, 2003-2006
Harlequin Haven Great Dane Rescue, 2002-present
Hockhocking Folk Festival, 2004-2005
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http://www.longrunaudio.com/vita.html || updated June 2006 || dale -at- longrunaudio.com
Long Run Audio -- Dale A. Francis, Engineer, 4188 Long Run Road, Athens, Ohio 740.274.1389