The Telluride Film Festival in Colorado has always been aimed at true cineasts, but the annual event takes over a variety of spaces that weren't created with movies in mind. Take the showpiece Werner Herzog Theatreduring the rest of the year, it's a typical ice-skating rink, but for four days next month, it will be transformed into a 650-seat theater with a complete Meyer Sound 7.1 cinema sound system.
by Steve Harvey When Meryl Streep and Rick Springfield began filming Ricki and the Flash, starring as aging rockers, the film's music wrangler, Neil Citron, was appointed with a difficult task: to record the film's musical numbers live. Pro Sound News covered this feat in its September, 2015 issue, but there was even more to the story, including cool video clips, that you can enjoy here.
"I just wanted to make a studio that I would want to record in," he says. "A lot of studiosI don't want to be insulting butthey're s---holes. There's an idea that underground is cool, and I'm sympathetic to that. But I wanted to make something a little more classic."Chris Benham of Big Orange Sheep Studios, Brooklyn, NY.