This was an exciting year for John. He moved his company Futura Productions from Boston to Roslindale, MA in April, and things have been extremely hectic since. The recording facility is now located in a former Masonic Lodge, built in 1899.

Projects this year included many styles from jazz (Greg Burk, Bob Moses, Fernando Huergo, Oli Rockberger), rock (Devas,The Fools, Jamie Brown), opera (Paul Turner), gospel (Confirmation), acappella (Harvard Lowkeys, Harvard Callbacks), children's music (SteveSongs) and music from India (Karyshma), Turkey (Nil), Greece (Taki Karys) and Israel (Safam).

Other work included recording a huge sample library for orchestral brass instruments (Sonic Implants), and more computer game work for Dsonic and Floodgate Entertainment, corporate multimedia business cards, and forensic audio.

Currently, John is working on several projects featuring animation with the company Rustmonkey. They include a proposed television series, computer games, and two music videos for Futura Productions artist Noel. Another animator, Dudley Bryan, has recently agreed to do an anime-style music video for Noel as well. The long awaited CD and DVD are to be released during 2004.

In 2002, Futura Productions was busier than ever. Projects encompassed many styles, including classical, jazz, pop, rock, hip-hop, dance, gospel, acappella, and ethnic music.

One highlight was recording the world famous cellist YoYo Ma for a Miramax film called Naqoyqatsi, with music composed by Philip Glass. (You can see some video footage of the sessions, or listen to some of the music, at www.naqoyqatsimusic.com and selecting the "video" option from the menu choices)

Jazz projects included working with drumming legend Bob Moses on both a new cd and a recording from 1968, recording an atmospheric jazz record for Kai Kurosawa, and records by Greg Burk, Rick McLaughlin, Tim Berne, and the New Life Jazz Orchestra.

It was a year that featured a lot of acappella projects: a full record for the Harvard Callbacks (a collegiate coed acappella group). The record was nominated both for the best collegiate acappella album of the year, and song of the year. Also, one of the Callbacks songs has been selected for a national "best of acappella" compilation. Other clients were the Harvard LowKeys, BU Allegrettos, and the Vineyard Sound.

Certified platinum-selling Island/Def Jam recording artists Hoobastank mixed a live cd, local band Give recorded a 3 song demo (whose producer Chad Fischer wrote the theme song for the TV show "Scrubs"), and the BU Gospel Choir had 75 voices singing in the studio. John worked with Tim Janis, a top-selling new age composer based in Maine, on a benefit cd for Africa AIDS victims.

The National Institute of Health filmed a TV public service commercial about alcoholism, which features the singer Cheryl Bentyne of the vocal jazz group Manhattan Transfer at the studio. It aired nationally in March 03. Other corporate projects included recording medical information for a entire health conference on lung cancer, and the character voices for an expansion pack for the game called NeverWinter Nights, which is the top-selling PC adventure game. Futura Productions created its first DVD for a museum in Rhode Island on the Blackstone Canal. This experience will come in handy as Futura Productions will release its first surround sound DVD in 2003, which will be a full length album for the singer-songwriter Noel. (You can hear some of Noel's music here.)