Central Park

FOH pro and 'Soundman Confidential' podcast host Frank Gallagher. Photo credit: Lindsay Gauthier

Blogs

MIX SIDEBAR: Take Me to the Rink—The Surprise Creation of Talking Heads’ “Big Band”

By Clive Young ⋅ Published: 02/09/2023 ⋅ Updated: 02/11/2023

FOH engineer Frank Gallagher's stories are always headed somewhere unexpected—like this one, which starts off in late-Seventies New York City.

The Robot Heart bus is a mainstay of Burning Man, but now it's headed to a very different kind of wilderness—New York City’s Central Park. Photo: Christian Lamb.

Live Sound

Burning Man’s Robot Heart Gets A Transplant

By Clive Young ⋅ Published: 04/22/2022 ⋅ Updated: 12/20/2022

Burning Man's jaw-dropping Robot Heart sound-system bus is headed to New York's Central Park to party—and reinvent itself in the process.

Live Sound

Future-Proofing SummerStage in Central Park

By Clive Young ⋅ Published: 01/30/2019

By Clive Young. The 5,500-capacity outdoor venue in NYC is often overlooked, but it hosts 190,000 people every year for 50-plus productions, plus ABC’s...