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, system designer, businessman, and immersive audio engineer. He started playing drums at 18 months 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.
About David Frangioni
David Frangioni
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 a premier audio-visual design 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 firm 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. www.moderndrummer.com.
Music Technology Firsts
Technology has been part of my music from the start. I started a MIDI consulting business at 16, released one of the first drum sample libraries, and in the 1990s pioneered Pro Tools turnkey studios and training, delivering complete systems to artists and producers and teaching them to work with them. In 1995 I mixed the first 5.1 DTS surround music CD and helped bring DTS to consumers.
Today that same work continues in AI. As owner and CEO of Modern Drummer, I built the Modern Drummer Planet, whose Ask Anything feature answers from the archive and credits the human work it draws on. I advise technology companies, labels and catalog owners on AI through my music technology and AI platforms work, and I wrote about the lessons in AI Music Technology Expert: Lessons From MIDI, Pro Tools and Atmos.
Film Collector and Author
I have collected film history since I was a teenager, with one of the most prominent Clint Eastwood collections in the world. That work became my books Clint Eastwood: ICON (Insight Editions, 2009) and its Revised and Expanded Edition (2018), and my collection has been featured on Netflix’s King of Collectibles: The Goldin Touch. On November 6 and 7, 2026, twenty pieces from my collection go to auction with Hanlin, from Eastwood’s signed Kelly’s Heroes helmet to the Die Hard 2 ejection seat. See the full story and every lot on my Collector page.
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