Charles Jude Weinberg

Director of Music Technology; Lecturer in Music Technology and Electronics

Contact Information

  • cweinber@unca.edu
  • 251-6488
  • 026 Lipinsky Hall

Office Hours

  • Monday 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
  • Tuesday 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • Thursday 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
  • Friday 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
  • Note:

Charles Jude Thornton Weinberg is an electrical and sound engineer, musician, and university lecturer in audio engineering and electronics. While studying electrical engineering at Duke University, Charles DJ’ed at WXDU in Durham, played bass with the instrumental band Spear-it, and managed the Duke Coffeehouse, where he hosted local and touring indie music bands and a weekly jazz night. After graduation, he worked as a live sound engineer for Randall Schiller Productions in San Francisco. Charles worked with Friends of the Earth on Paul McCartney's 1989 European Tour to raise awareness of climate change and the destruction of the world's rainforests, and he wrote about the McCartney tour for The Beatles Book Monthly. He formed a musical duo on the streets of London with English actor Paul Bettany, designed electronics hardware and software for B-E Electronics Co., worked on a campaign to protect and preserve the ancient Headwaters Redwood Forests of Northern California, and wrote songs and engineered at a recording studio near Taos, New Mexico. He joined the UNC Asheville Music department in 2005 to teach audio engineering and recording and he teaches electronics in UNC Asheville’s Physics department. Charles Jude is currently associate director of UNC Asheville's Music Technology program, chief engineer of UNC Asheville's recording studios, and an active member of the Audio Engineering Society.

Education

  • B.S.E., Duke University

Courses Taught

  • PHYSICS 310 Electronics
  • MUSC386 Audio Engineering Technology II
  • MUSC387 Recording Studio Practicum II
  • MUSC486 Audio Engineering Tech IV
  • MUSC487 Recording Studio Practicum IV
  • MUSC488 Directed Studio Projects
  • MUSC372 Sp Top in MUSC
  • MUSC484 Audio Engineering Tech III
  • MUSC485 Recording Studio Practicum III
  • MUSC384 Audio Engineering Technology I