by Clive Young New Wave of the early 1980s may be best remembered for its synthesizers and sleek fashion, but its also marked a turning point where music technology stepped into the spotlight, thanks to music videos that were often shot in the studio. Likewise, artists from Devo to Gary Numan to Thomas Dolby used tech as cornerstones of their public images, simultaneously romanticizing gear and recording equipment even as they demystified it to some extent to their fans.
"My job is to translate a rock and roll show to a Broadway audience. It has to be a full-blown, rock concert sound, and my job is to create that in a theater built in 1907, while also figuring out how to keep the audience from running with their fingers in their ears." —Tim O'Heir, sound designer for Broadway's "Hedwig and the Angry Inch. From the latest issue of Pro Sound News - Click here to read the full article!