Museum of Sound Recording Finds New Home
Feb 1, 2003 12:00 PM, COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY
Hottest New Video
Most Popular
advertisement
Polls
On Demand Webcast:
Optimizing Speaker Performance
in Your Studio
GC Pro brings you this webcast hosted by veteran acoustic consultant Bob Hodas, who has tuned thousands of studios around the world, from Abbey Road to the Record Plant to Lucasfilm. Learn more...
Nashville Stories
Nashville is no doubt one of the hottest recording markets in the country, but we want to know how it got to be that way. Send your favorite account of recording in Nashville to mixeditorial@mixonline.com, and we´ll post it on the Mix Nashville Web Portal.
Remix Hotel News
 |
Thank You, New York! |
Remix Hotel rocked New York again, and you can get all the goodsÑeveryting from Junior Sanchez, Just Blaze and Pete Rock to Jazzy Jay and Grandmaster CazÑat Remixhotel.com Videos, photos, interviews and more coming soon!.
This Month in Mix
In April 2001, Mix reported in these pages on the expected opening of a museum dedicated solely to sound recordings in Camden, N.J. According to Bernard Fox, the project's director, funds that were to be appropriated from the city have not surfaced, though he expects that the city will sooner or later be able to come up with the money. Instead, Yonkers, N.Y., will now most likely be the first location in the U.S. to break ground, though Fox revealed that a grass roots campaign has sprung up in Queens, N.Y., as well.
According to Dan Gaydos, president of the Museum of Sound Recording, the museum will open its doors in the Boyce Thompson Institute site in Northwestern Yonkers. According to the museum's blueprints, the building will display the history of sound in 48 acoustically designed spaces, as well as offer international cuisine in the greenhouses adjacent to the museum. The expected 160,000 patrons each year can learn about all aspects of sound dating back to 1870 up to a 2010 futuristic outlook via interactive, user-defined kiosks and onsite educators. The patron can follow the “learning” pathway chronologically or by styles of recording machines, recorders, studios, mics, end-user equipment, etc.; users can also view eight completely setup studios that range from a 1910 acoustic recording studio, a mastering studio, a film mixing and editing studio, and even Armstrong's original FM broadcast studio.
The museum currently has received over $2.7 million in donated equipment, with more expected. For sponsorship information, visit the user group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mosr. Check out the museum's progress at www.lovesphere.org/mosr.
Send your “Current” news to Sarah Benzuly at sbenzuly@primediabusiness.com.
Modern Recording and Mixing
This 2-DVD set will show you how the best in the music industry set up a studio to make world-class records. Regardless of what gear you are using, the information you'll find here will allow you to take advantage of decades of expert knowledge. Order now $39.95
Mastering Cubase 4
Electronic Musician magazine and Thomson Course Technology PTR have joined forces again to create the second volume in their Personal Studio Series, Mastering Steinberg's Cubase(tm). Edited and produced by the staff of Electronic Musician, this special issue is not only a must-read for users of Cubase(tm) software, but it also delivers essential information for anyone recording/producing music in a personal-studio. Order now $12.95
Delivered straight to your inbox every other week, MixLine takes you straight into the studio, with new product announcements, industry news, upcoming events, recent recording/post projects and much more. 