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Editor’s Note: Influence and Inspiration
There’s a scene in the movie School of Rock where the Jack Black character, the temp music teacher at a private school, is walking...
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No Need to Go It Alone
If there’s one thing we’ve learned over the past year of isolation, there’s no need to go it alone.
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This One’s a Reader
I entered the graduate journalism program at Indiana University in 1986, about seven or eight lifetimes ago in technology years. In the summer of...
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Well, It’s Been a Year Now…
My daughters like to tease me that I use a few too many ellipses in my texts and emails. “Oh yeah, dad, he’s king...
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Editor’s Note: Welcome 2021, We’ve Been Waiting for You
It’s been a long, long year. Same number of seconds, minutes and hours, yes, but I think we can all agree that it sure...
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Editor’s Note: 10 Months In, We’re All Teachers and Students
I believe in Science. Absolutely. And Science told us back in March that if we didn’t all take this virus thing seriously, by November...
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Editor’s Note: Forget the New Normal; Normal Is Now Relative
I’m getting on an airplane Saturday morning, a little less than 24 hours from now, for the first time since January, and to say...
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The Nexus of Art, Architecture and Technology
Acclaimed architect John Storyk reflects both the consistency of his work over five decades and the changes in his style in adapting to modern...
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Dolby Atmos Music Special Issue: It’s Time for a Brand New Experience
Immersive music is coming to the recording industry, no question about it.
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‘When the Going Gets Weird, the Weird Turn Pro’
In his Editor's Note for the April issue, Mix Editor Tom Kenny looks around the coronavirus landscape and wonders who is going to help...
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Where Tradition Meets the Modern
About halfway through writing this month’s cover story on the revamp of the Newman Scoring Stage at Fox Studios, it dawned on me that...
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A Different Time, a Different Place
With no traffic, Montauk is only a little more than a two-hour drive from New York City, two-forty-five if you take the Long Island...
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Hearing the Music in ‘Found Sounds’
My introduction to writing about sound for film and television, and most of the emphasis over the years, has been through post-production.
2019
The Spirit of Independence
I’ve only met Linda Perry once, and it was for no more than two or three minutes last January at NAMM.
2019
The Scientist and the Bard
I still can’t believe that 40 years after first being mesmerized by Apocalypse Now as a 16-year-old, Mix is featuring the legendary director Francis...
2019
The TEC Awards and Leslie Ann Jones
I will always have a soft spot for the TEC Awards. They’re now the NAMM TEC Awards, and they’ve grown in size, stature and...
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From the Editor: Learning When to Take Control
I wrote two stories this month about two artists—Carrie Underwood and Esperanza Spalding—strong women from two very different backgrounds and two very different places...
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From the Editor: The Ghosts in the Walls
In putting together this December issue, the past came rushing back during my conversation with producer Eric Valentine and the legacy of the room...
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From the Editor: The Wide, Wide World of Audio Education
I was introduced to a couple of remarkably disparate yet somehow similar experiences in audio education on the path to this month’s issue. In...
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From the Editor: So Many Ways to Play the Game
Every single month, in putting together issues of "Mix," I am reminded of just how many and varied styles there are to bring music...
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Musicians in the Studio, Let Them Play
By Tom Kenny. Times have changed, certainly, and few artists today have the luxury to book a high-end studio for more than a week...
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Control Theory
Control Theory doesn’t often come up in casual conversation. But it’s come up for me lately, quite a bit actually, and I still have...
2016
Thanks for the Dinner, David
Last night, in Santa Fe, I had a nice dinner with David Schwartz, co-founder of Mix and the man who hired me as an...
2016
Living the Good Life
Until very recently, Conway Recording Studios was something of a mystery to me.
2016
SFMOMA: Sound in a Space
I spent more time in museums, and thinking about museums, over the past month than I typically do.
2016
Stop. Look. Listen.
We use the term “golden ears” every now and then in the pages of Mix, usually to describe an engineer whose taste and talents...
2016
Bringing It All Back Home
Three things struck me immediately after two separate days of walking through the stunning new Dolby Building at 1275 Market Street in San Francisco....