Christopher Cline, Music Technology, Webmaster

Chris Cline has seen well over a decade of action as a recording engineer and producer. A musician for most of his life, he decided to take the recording engineer/sound arts route as his area of study instead of that as a classically trained musician. Since entering the professional world of audio, he has worked on numerous projects in the independent music scene. Bands and artists that he has worked with include but are not limited to: And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, Scrabbel, Seventeen Evergreen, Deerhoof, the Society of Rockets, STEREO IS A LIE, Explosions in the Sky, elephone, The Ebb and Flow and many others. A number of his projects have graced the College Music Journal charts (CMJ) and have received critical acclaim all over the world. Chris' work has been reviewed and mentioned in Pitchfork, New Musical Express (UK), Rolling Stone, Option, The Big Takeover, The Onion AV Club, and countless other periodicals and blogs around the world. In the world of classical recording, he is the personal engineer for the world-renowned violinist Daniel Kobialka. He is also a member of the Audio Engineering Society, National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (Producers and Engineers Wing, voting member) and is a certified Pro Tools HD 8 Operator (music) and in Waves Audio Processors .

As a musician Chris has played in both the studio and live arenas with a wide array of bands and artists. Projects that he has been involved with as a drummer include, but are not limited to: Scrabbel (Three Ring Records/Kittridge Records), IV Thieves (New West/One Little Indian), We Is Shore Dedicated (Huevo Imaginary), Seventeen Evergreen (Pacific Radio Fire/Lucky Number U.K.), Mentallo and the Fixer (Metropolis Records) and ASP (Three Ring Records). Chris has also had the honor of sharing the stage with Architetcure In Helsinki, the Decemberists, American Analog Set, Snapcase, Cake, Money Mark (Beastie Boys), Rogue Wave, Jonathan Richman, Clan of Xymox and a slew of others.

Chris is the co-founder and co-owner of Austin, Texas' own MONOLATHE Recordings. In it's first year, MONOLATHE Recordings has four releases, and has been featured at the South by Southwest music conference in Austin, and the College Music Journal's Music and Film Festival in New York. MONOLATHE is distributed digitally worldwide, and physically throughout North America and parts of Eurpoe. Chris is also the co-owner of San Francisco's award winning independent label, Three Ring Records. Three Ring has released over 90 lps and eps to date along with it's three subsidiaries, Snowstorm Music, Mission Freak Records and 500 Records. Three Ring's releases can be found all over the world, both digitally and physically. He is also on the board for the label Wonder Of Sound/LiSem Enterprises.

Courses Taught

3153-Audio Technology I
3163-Audio Technology II
4953-Special Studies-Audio Technology III