by Janice Brown New York, NY--DJ/musician Derek Ferguson's concept for Integrated Studios may seem a bit Utopian to the more business-minded. Rather than focusing solely on investment return, he and his brother created this multimedia production facility as a place in which seminal art could be made; every room, every tool, and every person involved [...]
A Venue for the Anti-Pop by Janice Brown New Haven, CT - As part of a city-wide urban renewal project that began in 1999, New Haven, Connecticut has commissioned one of its nine districts, the ninth, in fact, to become the city's center for the arts and entertainment. Producer/engineer Nick Lloyd is just one of [...]
A Landmark NYC Synagogue Rebuilds 19th Century Building Benefits from 21st Century Technology by John Storyk and Steve Sockey To augment the natural acoustics, and provide additional support for organ performances and other musical events held at New York's Central Synagogue, the A/V consultants, WSDG of NYC, recommend a LARES electronic reverberation enhancement system. Instead [...]
New home theater for Egyptologist - Alan May, Brian Keane Music is in the works, Thirteen/WNET's new 5.1 audio suites is in the news, Tech Talks about sweet sound @ 'This Old House', and check out a low frequency analysis lecture.
Gap Digital outside of Chicago just completes a major renovation, Central Synagogue is fine tuned, Crossroads Tabernacle and Brooklyn Recording are in the works, WSDG-e completes post-production house PhilippeMoritz in Zurich, Carter Burwell is in the news, Tech Talks about stretched fabric treatments, and home theaters get some attention in 'This Old House.'
Update on Sumitomo's conference room, Tim Mosley's Timbaland Studios is in the works, Sound on Sound in NYC makes it onto the cover of MIX MAG, and Tech Talks about acoustics.
An ocean side home theater for Bernard Chiu is 'Project of the Month,' Wynton Marsalis appears at Jazz @Lincoln Center, Thirteen/WNET is close to completion, Tech Talks about audio monitoring systems, and WSDG adds an office in Miami.
The James Earl Jones Theater Poughkeepsie Day School is 'Project of the Month,' Carter Burwell's studio in the loft is in the news, and Tech Talks about sound isolation for a club in Switzerland.
TRIBECA, MANHATTAN: It was like a scene out of a movie. Film score composer Carter Burwell wrote the final cue to The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn (Part I) at his piano in the country by the flickering light of an oil lamp. “I was out at my place in Amagansett trying to finish up the [...]
