By Clive Young Live sound pro M.L. Procise III died in his sleep on March 4 at the age of 62. A mainstay of the touring sound industry for 40 years, Procise became an in-demand FOH engineer for the biggest acts in the world in the 1970s and 80s, before segueing into life as an executive for Showco and Clair Global.
by Clive Young With a title like The Sound Book (W.W. Norton & Co.), you might expect Trevor Cox's new tome to be a dry textbook full of mind-numbing scientific exploration into infintesimal intricacies of sound. Luckily, while Cox throws considerable physics and neuroscience at the reader every few pages, most of the exploration here is the old-fashioned kind, as we follow him around the globe in search of the world's strangest sounds.
"Everything we said was going to happen happened We had to explain a tricky situation and pretty much everything we said has happened. We didn't say our stock was going to double and we were going to be in the top performing stocks of the year. We didn't say that. But that has been [additional] good news, one of reasons we were invited to be [back] on NASDAQ for example, to sound the opening bell, was our performance for the year."Louis Hernandez, Jr., Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Avid.