John Turner
MD and Senior Design Engineer John Turner has been at the forefront of the developing Audio and A-V industries in Scotland since 1980, when he established one of Scotland’s earliest professional recording studios in Glasgow's West End. The studio quickly gained a reputation for supplying 1st class engineering and production services to the emerging local music community (Altered Images, Bluebells, H2O, Orange Juice).
He joined Middle (of the) Road Music in 1983 and worked with the band as chief studio engineer, house producer and tour manager until 1986, during which time he also designed and built 2 new studios for the band’s Record Company, as well as designing and building new studios for Wet Wet Wet (Elliot Davies) and Sirocco Studios in Kilmarnock (Clark Sorley & Trash Can Sinatras).
Joining the team at the newly-opened SEC in Glasgow in 1986, he became its first technical production manager (sub-contract) and established a world-class team of in-house audio, lighting and a/v technicians, which ran all the major conferences and events held at the venue, between 1986 and 1995. He became a full member of the Institute of Sound and Communications Engineers in 1988.
John was co-opted onto the Foster & Partners / Clyde Auditorium (The "Armadillo") design team in 1994 and designed and implemented much of its technical infrastructure, which is still in use today. He also worked with AICC (Aberdeen) and MICC (Manchester) as a/v consultant and chief installation engineer.
As a freelance Show Director and Technical Production Manager from 1991 - 2002, he worked with many National and International organisations and associations, including Compaq, IBM, SUN, Scottish Police Federation, Visit Scotland, Amway, Rover Group, European Security Council, British Cardiac Society and Association of Surgeons of GB & Ireland.
With a parallel career as a music composer and sound designer, John still services the tv, film and multimedia industries with original commissioned music (in his spare time !).
In 2008, West Audio + Design Ltd was formed, to clearly define its role in the Audio-visual design and installation marketplace, more specifically to bring John's production experience and the highest level of technical excellence to bear on an increasingly complex web of communication technologies.
