Technical Production, Production Management, and Specialty Scope Outsourcing
About Talon Founder Tim Kerbavaz
Making Magic
Talon Founder, Technical Director, and Freelance Technical Producer Tim Kerbavaz
Events are Magical. As event professionals, we take a bare, plain space, and by adding light, color, fabric, music, and movement, we transform a drab space into a magical place where people make real-world connections.
My personal and business mission for events, both physical and virtual, is to create ephemeral spaces from whole-cloth in order to tell stories.
Whether those stories are about your product launch, your earnings report, your core organizational mission, or your latest campaign, I want to help you share that with your audience, no matter the size. Events are magical, and at their best bring each other together to experience, if only for a moment, truly hearing each other. I believe at the core, we are in the storytelling business, and I want to help you create the perfect environment for your story.
Everything we do in events exists only for a moment - the ephemerality of events is a core aspect of the “live” nature of events, and for me there is power in asking our audiences to live in the now at our events. But as the lines between the physical and the virtual blur, we can bend, freeze, and rewind time, stretching the moments we create in infinite ways, like magic.
Let me help you make that magic for your audience as you tell your story.
Translating Creative Vision into Production Reality
When you work with me, I’ll help you develop and document your goals and needs and provide technical expertise and professional, worry-free event production management for your next event.
I’m an event geek, a technical producer, and a live event guide.
The Sherpa People of the Himalayas are world renowned as explorers, mountaineers, and guides that help climbers from across the earth summit Mount Everest.
I have more than a decade of experience the event production business, to help you carry your events up your own event Everest, developing shared vision, concrete goals, and helping translate your clients needs, creative briefs, and vision into technical production nirvana.
I’ll help you figure out what equipment you need, and what you don’t, and translate client needs into technical specs and turn tech jargon into client-friendly deliverables.
I promise to always be courteous and respectful to you, your clients, and your guests, and to be honest and forthright to everyone involved.
The Talon Mission
The Tech To Tell Your Story
As an event professional, my job is to make your creative vision come true.
I provide pre-event and onsite Audio-Visual Technical Production, Project Management, and AV technical support for all manner of events. I support projects ranging from auctions to plays to medical conferences to concerts to programming summits to quarterly financials to board meetings. I work with you, your team, and your stakeholders to document your creative vision, and use that vision to specify, plan, and execute the technical components of events.
I’ve executed complex events for top-tier tech companies, international event planning firms, world-renown universities, and industry-leading trade-associations. I’ve also helped county food banks, regional fashion shows, and hyperlocal community events grow and exceed their event goals.
No matter your size or scope, I can help you get signal from here to there, make your videos appear where they should, get your Skype or Zoom call routed to the right place, and make sure the stream stays live. I'm a total geek, and love figuring out some new tech, optimizing signal routing, or figuring out a network issue.
Stream Dream
Live from the Studio, Powered by Caffeine.
In Memory: Talon Co-Founder Aaron Cooper
Pictured, late Talon Co-Founder Aaron Cooper (left) with technician Dylan Stanton (right) at a Talon Entertainment-produced event at the Lawrence Hall of Science in Berkeley, Summer 2013.
Photo Credit: Martin Wong
In 2010, my college friend Aaron Cooper and I had a shared goal to help our community come together with stories and music. Aaron was a DJ, recording engineer, musician, artist and connoisseur, while I was an event technician and live entertainment production manager. Both Aaron and I were working professionally in event production, and decided to join forces in a venture we called called Talon Entertainment. Aaron and I shared a vision of creative, high-value production, and a shared goal to always provide an exemplary client experience. Shortly after graduating from university Aaron changed careers and moved from events into software engineering, while I continued to grow the Talon brand. Aaron and I remained great friends and continued to collaborate. Tragically, in March of 2018, Aaron passed away, leaving in his absence a legacy of artistic, creative and technical talents. Talon Audio Visual has evolved in many ways since we founded it in a college bedroom, but through several evolutions of the business, the Talon name lives on in Aaron’s memory.
Our past clients agree:
“Talon Audio Visual staff’s work ethic was spectacular, their organization exceptional, and their sound production skills were extraordinary. ... I would recommend Talon Entertainment for any organization looking for an incredibly organized and talented company.”
“I recommend Talon Audio Visual for every event I’m involved in. Professional, detail-oriented, and expert in all things sound and technology. They are also very enjoyable people to work with, and will take care of an important aspect of your event so you can concentrate on other things!”
“Talon Audio Visual thought of every detail and proactively solved issues before they became problems.”