Scott Metcalfe is an audio engineer and music technologist based in Baltimore, MD where he is Director of Recording Arts and Sciences at the Peabody Institute, Program Coordinator for the Sound Concentration of Hopkins’ Advanced Academic Programs MA degree in Film and Media, and Associate Director of The Sound Sleep Studio (research facility of The Sleeping Brain Lab, at Johns Hopkins Hospital). In 2017 Oxford University Press published his first book Creating Sounds from Scratch. He has engineered hundreds of recordings in many different styles of music, with a primary focus on classical recording. Recent projects include editing, mixing and mastering of orchestral and electronic music for the Sid Meier’s Civilization V series of video games.

He has been a guest on the nationally syndicated NPR program Talk of the Nation Science Friday, presented lectures at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, as well as presenting lectures and workshops abroad in South Korea, Scotland and England.