| Top Stories | | Richard Linklater To Receive Cinema Audio Society Filmmaker Award Triple Academy Award nominee Richard Linklater will receive the Cinema Audio Society Filmmaker Award at the 51st Annual CAS Awards on February 14, 2015, at the historic Millennium-Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles. Linklater will be the 10th CAS Filmmaker Honoree. Past honorees have been: Quentin Tarantino, Gil Cates, Bill Condon, Paul Mazursky, Henry Selick, Taylor Hackford, Rob Marshall, Jonathan Demme and Edward Zwick. Video Interview with Director Richard Linklater About 'Boyhood' Film Director and writer Richard Linklater received six Oscar nominations for his 2014 film Boyhood, which chronicles the life of a boy named Mason, portrayed by Ellar Coltrane, from age 5 to age 18. The Recording Academy Producers & Engineers Wing at CES 2015 The P&E Wing participated in two panels produced by DEG: The Digital Entertainment Group. "Meet the High-Res Music Creators" and "Hi-Res Audio: CES Power Panel" were among six panels produced by DEG for the Hi-Res Audio Workshop, which took place Tuesday, January 6, through Thursday, January 8, at the Venetian in Las Vegas. California X's 'Nights in the Dark' The sophomore album from rockers California X, Nights in the Dark, was tracked in Easthampton, Mass., in Sonelab Studios with engineer Justin Pizzoferrato (Dinosaur Jr., Speedy Ortiz). The album is loaded with fuzzed-out guitars, punk rhythms, and generally anthemic songs that range from distorted to hugely distorted. Mix Regional Sessions: Los Angeles Boulevard Recording will welcome a 1971 40-Channel API console to its studio in late January. In session news, owner Clay Blair engineered all of the following recent projects at Boulevard: Hard-rock band The Cult was with producer Bob Rock (Rock also engineered)
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