David Frangioni is an award-winning renaissance man of the music and technology industry, with notable expertise ranging from being a drummer and producer, to an audio/video consultant, technologist, integrator, businessman, and immersive audio engineer. He started playing drums at 2 years old studying drumming throughout his childhood in Boston. He found the future of drumming in technology, starting his career with a MIDI consulting business, then working with Aerosmith as their in-house engineer/technologist for many years on their singles, albums, tours and even the theme song for Spider-Man with Joe Perry, Joe’s first-ever all-digital recording; Seven albums in total with sales of over 40 million records.
After years of successfully consulting and building recording studios, David founded Audio One Sound & Video Inc in the mid-90’s and grew it from a cold startup to a multi-location, large A/V company establishing it as the premier audio-visual systems integration company in the US & abroad (through affiliates). In the process, David has worked with numerous top line artists with exacting professional standards including the aforementioned Aerosmith, Ozzy Osbourne (incl. appearing on two seasons of his hit TV show, The Osbournes), the Stones, Ringo Starr, Elton John, Sting, Bryan Adams, Journey, Styx, Phil Collins, Shakira, Rascal Flatts, Cher and Chick Corea. He is a recipient of many gold and platinum albums as technical consultant, engineer, and/or programmer. In the A/V world, he led Audio One to more CEDIA awards in a given time period than any other audio-visual system integrator in the world.
David’s involvement in the music, technology and audio industries stems from his involvement in audio-visual facility design with Audio One & Frangioni Media as well as having three books published by Insight Editions; Clint Eastwood: Icon 1 & 2 and “Crash The world’s greatest drum kits,” deep involvement in philanthropy as a President’s Council Board member and musician for Musicians On Call, Musical Director for Irie Foundation and leading his own Frangioni Foundation, plus Founder and CEO for artist development firm All Access IDA as well as CEO & Publisher of Modern Drummer Magazine, the world’s #1 drum brand for over 45 years.
