Wonderland, a rock and roll take on the classic children's book, Alice In Wonderland, was recently staged by the Chicago Children's Theatre, and to call it an audio challenge might be an understatement. With 11 actors who all play instruments in the show, sound designer Lindsay Jones admits, "I really wasn't sure what I was going to do."
by Clive Young Battles has always been an interesting band, staking out a musical space somewhere between the conformity of modern electronic loop-based music and the improvisational nature of experimental, freeform rock. The trio mines the tension between musical forms, but recording that push-and-pull so that it maintains an organic truth isn't a simple processand that's captured in the short documentary, Battles: The Art of Repetition.
"I don't like control rooms because I don't like the idea of talkback. Especially when I'm working with a singer, they stand two to 10 feet away from me when we record vocals. We just talk to each other like you and I are talking. Because of that, our communication is so much better and the singers love it."Jonell Polansky, DaCapo Music Studios