The NFL Draft is underway in Chicago, and while teams will be looking to add new faces to their rosters, the event's audio provider, VER (Video Equipment Rentals) has brought along a familiar part of its own audio teama Meyer Sound Lyon linear line array system, being used to cover all 3,901 seats inside the Auditorium Theatre.
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. It's no surprise then that the new book, Mad World: An Oral History of New Wave Artists and Songs that Defined the 1980s, captures plenty of in-the-studio stories as it interviews a list of acts that reads like a typical hour of MTV circa 1985, including Duran Duran, New Order, Tears For Fears, The Smiths, Echo and the Bunnymen, INXS, Simple Minds, Human League, Howard Jones, ABC, Depeche Mode, A-Ha and dozens more.
"Fall On Your Sword in its very earliest incarnation started out as a video art project. It actually began with YouTube, making these crazy video mashups. As a result of the YouTube successes I started performing these videos live. The whole time I was doing that I was working at a much larger company, scoring commercials and smaller independent films. I left there, brought in Lucy [Alper, executive producer and Bates' business partner], and started Fall On Your Sword as a company, springing out of the band and video art project."Will Bates of Fall On Your Sword.