
Sound Engineer,
Manager
The story begins in Freiburg, Germany, where Eric produced punk concerts while he was at the Franco-German high school.
At first he loses money! By the third concert he can't take it anymore and decides to make the concert free, he'll only take 20 cents for each beer sold!
The formula is a success, he finally makes money and begins to understand - Music - Business.
He then worked at the same time as a Roadie, very quickly his friends who owned the biggest music equipment rental company in town hired him as an assistant on the mixing tables, first on the monitors, then on the concerts helping directly at the main desk.
The Company and Eric rent their services to all major tour operators and collaborate for a concert with groups such as Nina Hagen Band, Jean Michel Jarre, James Brown or the last German concert of Ella Fitzgerald.
Eric then went to New York, where he attended the IAR, the Institute of Audio Research. It was the first audio school on the East Coast at the time, founded in 1969 by Al Grundy, who was then president of the AES Audio Engineering Society. Al Grundy would have a major influence on what followed; it was thanks to him that Eric joined the AES.
Eric is passionate about acoustics and electronics. Al encourages him to continue his studies in electronics and computer science. Eric graduated from IAR, before continuing his studies in computer science.
His best friend from high school at the time was a young Inge son named Chris Muth.
They bonded because they were among the only people in the school who held a soldering iron and were amateur radio operators. Chris continued his career in audio, becoming one of the celebrities of professional studio electronics today, creating Dangerous Music products.
At the time, during a working meeting organized by the school with Pat Benatar and his producer Mike Chapman, Eric was convinced that what interested him was production.
Unable to work in the USA, he decided to continue his engineering studies, which led him to not pursue music.
It was many years later that his father-in-law, Boby Lapointe's former pianist, Roland Godard, rekindled the flame.
Three more years would pass before the passion for music, which had never truly died, would take over. Eric returned to the music business, with experience in marketing and launching new products under his belt, and a solid track record of project management.
His new friends are now all much better musicians than he is.
This inspires him, if they accept him to play with them, it is because after all there is hope, maybe he finally understands something about music.
It was with the son of one of his musician friends Tristan Guerre, young Inge son at New Time Songs and his best friend William Marguier business manager in a label that the adventure began, ZenViewStudios was born.
The first page will be written two months later with the first live tracking from the ZenView mobile studio. The concept of groove mobile tracking :)