Saturday Night Live: The Exhibition recently wrapped its limited run in New York City, celebrating the 40th anniversary of its titular weekly comedy show with 12,500 square feet of memorabilia and artifacts. Taking visitors on day-by-day journey through the creation of each week's show, the exhibition used loudspeakers, amplifiers, digital signal processing and acoustical modeling from Bose Professional to convey its story.
by Clive Young McDonalds Netherlands has something new on its menu: McTrax, an interactive placemat that doubles as a recording controller. If they don't get ketchup smeared all over it first, customers can make music with the placemat, as McTrax uses conductive ink and Bluetooth to control a custom smartphone recording app. And as the inevitable promo clip shows, McTrax is both fascinating and a little cringe-inducing at the same time.
"Watching Beth [Cosentino] do vocals is pretty incredible, because she is a really great singer and it takes her very few takes to get a main vocal and the harmonies. Those vocal parts aren't in the demos, they are just kind of in her mind. She will just say 'give me another track,' and just start layering all these vocal parts. While she is recording them, we are all getting to hear them for the first time." - Bobb Bruno of Best Coast
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