Josh Antonuccio
Areas of Expertise
- Music business, entrepreneurship, technology, and the emerging music industry
- Artificial Intelligence and Music
- Music Production
- Experiential Learning
Bio
Josh Antonuccio has traversed multiple industry roles through his years in the music industry: music producer, artist, audio specialist, technology adventurist, studio owner, and media journalist. Originally from Pittsburgh, PA, he was the owner and operator of 3 Elliott Studio, a thriving music and post-production studio that served as his creative home. Josh has worked extensively in higher education since 2007, establishing innovative music and media industry curricula and developing the expansion of experience-based music industry education. He is a Grammy-voting member of The Recording Academy, an ASCAP-affiliated songwriter (winning a new songwriter award in 2001), a member of the Audio Engineering Society, and a board member of Stuart’s Opera House.
He is the director of the annual Ohio University Music Industry Summit, welcoming national and regional music industry leaders to Ohio University for panelist and performance programming. The Music Industry Summit recently completed its 8th year and was named one of the top 7 U.S. music conferences in 2022. It has been featured in Billboard, Digital Music News, All Access, SynchTank, and Hypebot. Past guests have included Jason Isbell, Earl Sweatshirt, Caamp, Phoebe Bridgers, Killer Mike, The Crane Wives, Michelle Zauner of Japanese Breakfast, FINNEAS, Saba, My Morning Jacket, DJ Premier, Talib Kweli, mxmtoon, Chuck D, St. Vincent, Sameer Gadhia of Young The Giant, as well as scores of leaders and change agents from across the music industry. Along with the Music Industry Summit, Josh has hosted several notable artists for interview events and performances at Ohio University including Valerie June, Sharon Van Etten, Tank & the Bangas, John Paul White of The Civil Wars, Chris Thile, and Ira Kaplan of Yo La Tengo..
He is an independent artist who writes and records with Swanpalace, a partnership with producer/drummer Jim Eno of Spoon. Over 20 years he worked as a producer and engineer with a multitude of signed and independent artists, and was a member/producer of bands that courted successful deals with independent labels. With an abundance of both music and film credits to his name, his releases have been featured in various films, commercials, and TV shows, as well as news outlets including Pitchfork, NPR, Paste Magazine, VH1, MTV, The Onion/AV Club, Stereogum, and Magnet Magazine. Additionally, he has worked on sound design for both short and feature-length films.
Josh was a music and media industry writer for PopMatters and has had his work featured in Fast Company Magazine, McClatchy News Service, Tape Op Magazine, The Journal of the Art of Record Production, Craftsmen Radio, and VH1. He is a frequent contributor to the regional NPR-affiliate, WOUB Public Media, providing coverage for national and regional music stories and interviews with national music figures.
He was the producer and host of "The Sycamore Sessions" (formerly the Gladden House Sessions), a partnership with the Nelsonville Music Festival and WOUB Public Media, which brought students to produce live interview and performance sessions with national and regional artists. The series produced over 140 episodes for international distribution, garnering millions of views from music lovers worldwide. The series ran from 2014 to 2025 and included a range of notable artists including Tyler Childers, Sierra Ferrell, Big Thief, Lake Street Dive, and many others. In 2019, the show was nominated for a regional Emmy.
He is the creator and director of numerous industry immersion courses at Ohio University including the OHIO South by Southwest trip, a class that brings Ohio University students to the largest national industry gathering in Austin, TX, allowing students to learn firsthand from those shaping today's music and media industries, the MDIA Production Masterclass Series, which gives students an exclusive opportunity for in-studio apprenticeship education with top producers. Past masterclasses have included Jim Eno of Spoon (Providence, RI / Austin, TX), Grammy-nominated producer/engineer Joel Hamilton at Studio G (Brooklyn), Steve Albini at Electrical Audio (Chicago, IL) and 7-time Grammy winner Michael Brauer (NYC). He has also led a Music Industry Masterclass at Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival (Manchester, TN).
Josh is the faculty advisor of Brick City Records, the student-run record label in the School of Media Arts and Studies, as well as WIMI (Women in Music Industry), a student organization that provides networking and mentorship opportunities for female OU MDIA students pursuing careers in the music business.
In 2016, Josh helped to pioneer VR production and education in the Scripps College of Communication, made possible through a near-million-dollar innovation grant from Ohio University. He assisted in the development of a new curriculum for XR production, and the team worked on ambisonic sound production and mixing for projects across numerous disciplines including film, music, health care, paleontology, journalism, and psychology. He presented his XR audio research at numerous conferences including the NYC Audio Engineering Society Summit and the Harvard Virtual Reality Health Care Symposium.
His specialty in teaching includes core classes on the business of music; entrepreneurship in the emerging music industry, artificial intelligence and music, and introductory, intermediate, and advanced music production and technology classes.
His current research centers on artificial intelligence and its impact on music production and distribution. He has been featured across various news outlets including Newsweek, NBC News, ABC News, The Associated Press, Teen Vogue, and The Dallas Observer. He has been a featured mentor at South by Southwest and has been involved in presenting and mentoring at several other conferences.
He has been the director of the School of Media Arts and Studies since 2020
Education
BS, Telecommunications, Ohio University
M.Ed. Instruction in Technology and Computer Education, Ohio University