BILL ARMSTRONG
ENGINEER/FOUNDER
FIELD: Popular Music
YEAR OF BIRTH: 1926?
YEARS ACTIVE: 1954 – Current
YEAR OF BIRTH: 1926?
YEARS ACTIVE: 1954 – Current
Founder of Armstrong studios, AAV, audio technician and engineer, Melbourne audio pioneer. Business partner with Graeme Thirkell.
W & G, ARMSTRONG’S AAV, METROPOLIS
(1950’s-1990’s)
The impact of recording studios, engineers and the audio industry on our music culture has been vastly overlooked until recent times. Highlighted by an article headline in the Sydney Morning Herald (2015) describing Bill Armstrong, one of Melbourne and Australia’s most influential production figures, aged 86 at the time, as “the most prolific music recorder you’ve never heard of.” His experimentation with pioneering technology, entrepreneurial nature and involvement in various aspects of the audio and music industries since the 1950’s make his studios and those he was involved with an unquestionable starting point in discussion of Melbourne’s recording history.
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