Josh Antonuccio, M.Ed.

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 for nearly 20 years. Josh has worked extensively in higher education since 2007, establishing innovative music and media industry curriculums 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), and a member of the Audio Engineering Society.

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 enters its 7th year, being named one of the top 7 U.S. music conferences in 2022, as well as being featured in Billboard, All Access, SynchTank, and Hypebot. Past guests have included Jason Isbell, Earl Sweatshirt, Phoebe Bridgers, Killer Mike, Michelle Zauner of Japanese Breakfast, FINNEAS, Caamp, Saba, Chuck D, St. Vincent, Talib Kweli, mxmtoon, Sameer Gadhia of Young The Giant, as well as scores of leaders and change agents from across the music industry.

Josh has welcomed several notable artists for additional interview events and performances at Ohio University including Valerie June, Sharon Van Etten, Tank & the Bangas, John Paul White of The Civil Wars, Julie Byrne, Ira Kaplan of Yo La Tengo, Adam Torres, and Jim Eno of Spoon.

He is an independent artist who has worked as a producer and engineer with a multitude of signed 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. As well, 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, McClatchey 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 is 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 allows MDIA students to produce live interview and performance sessions with national and regional artists. He has now produced over 120 episodes which has included notable artists such as Tyler Childers, Sierra Ferrell, Big Thief, Lake Street Dive, and many others. In 2019, the show was nominated for a regional Emmy.  The series wrapped its’ 9th  year of production in 2024 with nearly 5 million views across past seasons.

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 give students an exclusive opportunity for in-studio apprenticeship education with top producers. Past masterclass have included Jim Eno of Spoon (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 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.
His specialty in teaching includes core classes on the business of music; entrepreneurship; revenue streams of the emerging music industry, introductory, intermediate, and advanced music production and technology classes, as well as courses in sound design.

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 current research extends into artificial intelligence and its impact on music production and distribution, being featured across various news outlets including NBC News, Teen Vogue, and The Dallas Observer.