My secret is simple," says Charlie Morrow, describing the collaborative process that has brought CMA international acclaim. "I bring together the absolutely best people in their fields -- composers, artists, writers, and technicians. The key is to strike a balance between the experience of seasoned professionals and the raw creativity of emerging talents. Once we have a potent creative mix, we simply submit to the mystery, not to mention the agony and joy of the creative process. And then the magic happens."

Charlie Morrow (b 1942 Newark, New Jersey, USA), is a conceptualist and maple syrup maker whose music work ranges over many styles and forms, from events for media and public spaces to commercial soundtracks, new media productions. museum installations and programming for broadcast and festivals. Assembling expert project groups, Morrow employs a collaborative style that fuses arts, artists, and environment; technological expertise creates the basis for a significant portion of his work, much of which utilizes a combination of the newest and very old technologies. He is president and creative director of Charles Morrow Productions, LLC On the other side of the hat is Charlie's homepage.

Joel Stuart - Producer, Director
Joel began his professional life as a child actor on New York's stages. He studied at the Juilliard School of Music receiving a B.S. degree in clarinet, with a special interest in composition, while continuing as an actor in TV, Off-Broadway and Broadway. He became a producer in advertising working for SSC&B and DDB. He then emigrated to England where he worked as an independent producer / director for commercials, cultural films and broadcasts. He worked for such companies as J. Walter Thompson Advertising, Ogilvy & Mather, U.K. Tea Council, Warner Bros. Records, Central Office of Information, JS Associates and Westbourne Productions Ltd. His production "Khatchaturian in Concert", featuring the composer conducting the London Symphony Orchestra, is the last musical / visual recording of this great composer / conductor. Joel was Executive Producer of "The Most Dangerous Man in the World", a feature length docu-drama for BBC Television.

Rie Koko - Producer/Director/Editor
Rie Koko, a native of Tokyo, has extensive experience working in TV and film production with American and international crews.  She has traveled to, set up production and filmed in the 46 states in the US as well as in France, Italy, and Egypt.
She started her production career in independent feature films and cable TV programs such as KIDS CHOICE for Nickelodeon, GILBERT GODFRIED COMEDY EXPERIMENT for Cinemax and many promos for cable TV. 

In 1987, Koko's first collaboration with Charlie Morrow was a film for Parade Magazine which she produced and Morrow produced the sound track for.  Since then, she has collaborated with Morrow in a variety of projects from creating the station Ids for IBM Latin America, industrial videos for AT&T Network Systems and TV commercials. She was the producer/director/editor of a short film TRIBUTE TO LES PAUL for MTV when he was inducted to the Rock’n’Roll Hall of Fame.  Since then, she's been line-producing for a number of documentaries for NHK Japan Broadcasting, TBS, Fuji TV, and MBS.

Her recent work as producer/director/editor includes TONY’S NEW YORK, a video based on the audio tour at the Empire State Building, and the BIRDS OF AMERICA video for New York Historical Society. She is currently working on BEOWULF, a DVD and documentary and on her long-term documentary project LES RICAINS about the Japanese American soldiers who had liberated the small towns in France and Italy during the WWII.

Marc Nasdor - New Business Development, Director of Multimedia Production
Marc Nasdor has been a designer for more than twenty years, in both print and web media. As well, he has six years as a front-end web programmer and Flash animator.

Matt Stine - Audio Engineer

Alexei Lyalin - New Business Development, Audio Engineer
Alex joined CMA after working as a DJ and event planner in New York and Moscow, always with an emphasis on music. He is part of the CMP team exploring the use and application of 3-D sound technologies. Alex received a diploma in Audio Technology from SAE Institute of Technology and a BA/MA in Advertising and Journalism from Moscow State University. He is a Russian native, and fluent in English and Russian languages.

Maija-Leena Remes - Supervisor of Translations, Senior Editor, Writer
At CMA, Maija-Leena has edited the Empire State Building audio tour and supervised its translation into seven foreign languages. She has created an African French version of a Wildlife Conservation Society TV program, and is editor on CME (continuing medical education) interactives for physician training. She also produces interactive sales pieces and 3D sound recordings for CMAÁs Sound Cube. Her hobby is music and she is an amateur violist.

Maija-Leena is a certified translator and interpreter of Finnish, English and French, specialized in Medicine, Biology, Law and Technology. She has an MA in English Philology, French Philology, Musicology and Educational Sciences. She translated, edited and directed the production of subtitles and voice-overs for the Finnish Broadcasting Corporation for more than 15 years. She is the literary translator of some 30 books and essays. Her translations range from poetry, movies, plays and fiction to documentaries and non-fiction. Her languages include Finnish, English, French, Swedish, German and Italian.

John Sunderland -Experience Designer, Writer
John Sunderland, the English multi-media designer, started out in film and television before landing the position as Project Designer on the ground-breaking, hugely popular underground Viking museum, ‘The Jorvik Viking Center’, which opened in York, England, in 1984.

Well known as a pioneer and developer of new approaches and technologies for immersive interpretive projects, Sunderland is recognized internationally as the innovative award-winning creator of Europe’s most popular and durable heritage attractions..

Michael J. Schumacher - Composer, Audio Engineer
Michael J. Schumacher is a composer of electronic sound installations using 2 - 16 speakers, computer-controlled random structures, of acoustic music realizing advanced formal schemes, of taped and live music (also improvised) for prepared electric guitar, synthesizer, etc. He has composed works for piano solo, chamber ensemble, voice, and orchestra. He studied music at Indiana University and the Juillard School of Music.

SchumacherÁs works have been presented in the United States, Europe and Asia. He has received grants from iEAR, The Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Meet the Composer, and Harvestworks. His discography includes five solo CDs, including a double CD set on the XI label.

Bruce A. Miller - Recording Engineer/Producer
Since 1984 Bruce has earned over 24 gold and platinum albums, as well as various other domestic and international awards. His work has ranged from jazz to hard rock to hardcore to pop to rap to hiphop to jingles to techno to club pop (such as my "Lovely Day" mix from the Grammy winning "The Bodyguard").

Neill Woodger - Arup Acoustics
Neill Woodger is Principal Consultant with Arup Acoustics in New York, and group leader of its practice in the US. He has been responsible for the acoustic design of a wide range projects. He has extensive experience in architectural acoustics, electroacoustics and audio visual systems, with particular experience in the design of performance and entertainment spaces. Neill was responsible for the design and project management of the Istanbul Concert and Congress Centre. He has designed sound systems for concert halls, theatres, cathedrals, outdoor amphitheaters, indoor arenas and stadiums, with particular skills in design techniques to ensure speech intelligibility in complex acoustic environments.

Dr Brian F. G. Katz - Acoustician
Brian is a researcher in the fields of spatial 3D audio rendering and perception and room acoustics (based in France at the LIMSI-CNRS laboratory, coordinator of the Sound&Space research theme). His activities have included design of 3D audio systems and installations, acoustical design of various architectural spaces, and collaborations on artistic audio exhibit design. His areas of technical expertise include room acoustics for the performing arts, acoustical measurements, signal processing, and hardware/software development tools, and noise and vibration control. Brian is a member of the Acoustic Society of America and the Société Française d´Acoustique. Prior to his current research position, Brian has worked for various Acoustic Consulting firms, including Artec Consultants Inc, ARUP & Partners, and Kahle Acoustics. He has also worked at the Laboratoire d'Acoustique Musical and IRCAM in Paris. Brian has accumulated a bachelor's degree in Physics and Philosophy, a Master's in Applied Physics and a doctorate in Acoustics as well as numerous publications.

Gunnar Wille - Graphic Designer, Writer, Animation Director
Gunnar, who lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark has worked in film, television, theater and with multimedia concepts, books and graphic design for over thirty years. He has written and illustrated children's books and he has designed the productions for all of his media projects.
Renowned and well-appreciated in European animation circles, he created and continues to direct the Animation Studies Program at The National Film School of Denmark. For the last ten years, Gunnar has been working with "computer design" to create unusual 3D designs that utilizes the computers potential for achieving high-quality production values while maintaining low-production costs.

Scott Odell is a conservator, materials expert, flyfisherman, and banjo picker. Scott recently retired from his position as chief conservator at the Museum of American History at the Smithsonian Institution. He is currently working with multimedia projects and a variety of museum clients around the world.