The New Era of Digital Audio

Dolby AC-4 is one of the latest technological advancements in the audio industry. This is a new audio format and delivery system that is designed to render any source type of audio, whether it is a stereo mix, a 5.1 or higher surround mix, or an object-based mix (think Dolby Atmos where a sound can be implemented anywhere within a three dimensional space), and optimize it to suit the playback device. This essentially means that any audio file will be rendered to playback through a smartphone with headphones just as well as it would a surround sound system or even the new Atmos system.

Yes and Flow

Some of the most precious and memorable moments in entertainment are acts of improvisation. Whether it is acting, directing, producing, performing music, leading a company, or managing an artist, the ones who do their jobs the best are the ones who know how to improvise. Improvisation or improv is the act of creating without preparing, being ready for the unknown, being able to adapt to changes, and build upon whatever is available, especially mistakes.

New Age Distribution

Music distribution has evolved significantly since the dawn of the Internet and yet music publishers and content creators continue struggling to maintain their portions of revenue. Ever since the creation of peer-to-peer file sharing networks and streaming websites that allow consumers to upload and download all of their favorite music free, the music industry has been suffering a decline of physical sales and desperate for a new form of revenue to make up for lost support to content creators, publishers, and everyone in between.

Negotiation of Industry and World

In business, there are relationships just as there are in personal life, and negotiation takes place constantly as a part of every interaction in both.

Crowdsource The Industry

In today’s entertainment business, crowdsourcing is evolving into a sustainable economy path with Internet platforms for artists and entrepreneurs especially to fund their projects and business ventures.  There are common misconceptions that websites like Kickstarter.com and Indiegogo.com are easy ways for people to panhandle the digital avenues of cyberspace to support their art habit.

Wes Anderson & Mark Mothersbaugh Plan Theme Park

Wes Anderson, director of the 2014 film The Grand Budapest Hotel, has announced his hopes of commissioning the construction of a new themepark entirely designed by Mark Mothersbaugh, co-founder of the band Devo, composer and visual artist.  These two eclectic figures have a history together bound in perfect harmony between their exquisitely quirky styles of artistic expression in the forms of visual and musical content.  If you are familiar with these two people and their work, you understand that neither of their material lacks substance. I can imagine the wind begin to accelerate past my head as I’m catapulted on a perfectly symmetrical roller coaster ride through under ground caverns and over ice capped mountain peaks while the air is filled with an illustrious soundscape set to images and designs of de-evolution.

This at least would be satisfying enough for me, but I am sure the collaboration of these two iconic contributors to art will result in something unimaginably more ethereal and exciting than the standard attractions of today.  Mothersbaugh has scored four of Anderson’s films and is currently presenting a retrospective exhibit of his early to present work called Myopia throughout the MCA Denver building.  One of his sculptures at this event plays fifty to sixty birdcalls inspired by Anderson. 




MECHANICAL AVIARY, 2014, 86″ X 37″, VINTAGE ORGAN PIPES, VINTAGE BIRD CALLS, ELECTRONICS AND STEEL.









Mark's creative esteem would no doubt inject a particular strain of truth into the fantasy worlds of Wes that would certainly borderline amusement and fear.  Wes Anderson’s films have repetitive palettes of 70’s pastel colors with precisely centered shots and explicit symmetry that would be ideal for theme park concepts of family oriented fun and commercial appeal.  The design of Mothersbaugh ingenuity and twisted vision could set it apart from all other theme parks and effectively enlighten the entertainment industry with fresh, quality art and fun.  This of course is just my imagination of what these plans could facilitate, I hope reality will exceed these speculations.  Wes Anderson announced his hopes of this project in the foreword of Mark Mothersbaugh’s visual art book Myopia edited by Adam Lerner. I will surely be on the look out for more information on this topic in the future.