If you’re a composer of contemporary classical music, your works will live on in perpetuity-on the web, at least. New York University is archiving the careers of hundreds of contemporary classical composers in a web-based project that is scalable and viable for the long term. It includes recorded music content and manuscripts. It doesn’t require […]
Last year, our Music Book Guide was popular with our site visitors. We’ve augmented it this year, with a few choice reads from our staff and friends. Remember to shop indie bookstores online or request them from your local book store. If you’re looking for recommendations of books published in 2014, check out this list […]
Boulder, CO and Takoma Park, MD – 2014 is shaping up as a big Grammy year for Airshow engineers. Three out of five nominations for “Best Bluegrass Album” were mastered at Airshow, and two other projects mastered or recorded at Airshow have been nominated for Grammy awards this year. This year’s nominees include: “Ritual” (Mysterium […]
I returned from the annual AES (Audio Engineering Society) Convention in Los Angeles, held there after a 12-year hiatus. (AES has dropped San Francisco as a west coast convention site.) I love San Francisco, but it was great to be back in LA where so much of the music, film, and recording industry is based. […]
Here is a playlist of some recent projects mastered at Airshow. (Please view each track individually to see engineer and credit info.) Be sure to visit our SoundCloud page for a lot more music mastered by all of our engineers. Dive in and enjoy!
Updated October 2014 The Restoration Center @ Airshow received inquiries about media damaged in the September 2013 flooding in Colorado. While we do transfer analog to digital media and we do provide sonic restoration, we do not provide media recovery service. Media recovery involves cleaning off and drying magnetic or optical media, with the goal […]
Quality Control, or QC, is an important part of the production process. Whether you are making a physical product or a digital one, QC makes sure everything is made as was designed. Many companies will hire a 3rd party to oversee quality control in the production of physical goods, especially if hiring a factory from […]
This month, Airshow completed the transfer of Naropa University’s complete analog tape collection: 4,148 recordings from the 6,000+-piece archive were transferred by four audio techs over 2+years, resulting in over 4,500 hours of digitized audio ready for online storage. Naropa was founded 40 years ago, during a wave of Western interest in Buddhism. Over the […]
