Growing up in West Chester, Pennsylvania I relocated to Asheville, North Carolina with 2016, after a halfway-successful attempt by a friend and I to bicycle from West Chester, PA to Asheville, NC. Music and electricity have captivated my heart for as long as I can remember. Both of my parents were music enthusiasts. My father was an HVAC electronic controls technician, and played guitar. With access to electronic components and tools, and with encouragement from my dad to learn as much as I wanted, electronics projects have been a regular part of life since I was young. Everything got taken apart! I began learning about electronics at the age of 6, and took up studying drums in school at age 8. Being a member of school bands, other bands, and traveling some with them has been very fulfilling. I'd love to help support music programs being available in schools through my work. While growing up, rehearsals and jams were always welcome in my moms basement, which my friends and I were all very grateful for! Gradually, I built the basement into an amateur recording studio, during high school. We regularly hung out and listened to music, worked on music, and recorded down there, to our hearts content. Silent Audio developed organically from those origins. For over two decades, I've been collaborating musically and showing leadership in music recording and troubleshooting technical difficulties.

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I worked as an electrician and also in custom jewelry fabrication during the earliest years of Silent Audio Co. Earlier on it was called "Repairs by Augustus," up until 2019. That year, I chose to dedicate myself to the mastery of this field instead of trying to be such a "jack-of-all-trades." I find this work worthy of that for many reasons. Conveniently, some of the skills gained as an electrician and a jeweler translate well to this work. Self-education is a genuine passion of mine. Throughout the years I've found that succeeding after repeatedly failing, and relentless persistence, to provide some of the most valuable education.

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A cute story: 

One evening, a neighborhood-friend's father called my parents on the land-line telephone when I was 11 years old, asking if I could come up the street and attempt to repair his home stereo system. Upon arrival, I recall the atmosphere in the room was, that it seemed a bit odd to everyone except for him, that a parent-chaperoned 11-year-old has come to fix a grown man's stereo system. Nonetheless, I got right to it. We found the issue and I found what was needed, explaining as I worked... It became an exciting success! Everyone rejoiced, and we listened together for a while.

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Thanks for that first call, Jack Armstrong!

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Music is a catalyst of life's connections, helps us heal from trauma

(cats & dogs?), to have fun, and live well.

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Let's make it sound good!

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~Augie Newell​