By Janice Brown. Fewer commercial studios means more work for those still in business, and there's plenty of business in NYC. "More people are making more music than ever before, but with a lot less money," says Tino Passante, manager at Avatar Studios.

by Christopher Walsh. 'We were four guys," John Lennon said of the Beatles. Strictly speaking, that is an accurate statement. But within the four walls of Abbey Road Studio Two, those four guys--"just a band," Lennon said in those same remarks--started a revolution that continues to influence all that came after them.

By Frank Wells. It's that time of year again--summer is on the wane, and audio professionals begin anticipating each year's best opportunity to recharge their intellectual batteries, to reconnect with colleagues, to take stock of where we are and where we are going as an industry, science and art. That opportunity is, of course, the annual fall Audio Engineering Society Convention. This year's 127th conclave is slated for October 9-12 at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City.

By Dan Wolfson. Indicative of how the annual AES conventions lay the ground work for tomorrow's technology today, paper presentations at the 1984 convention based on inventor and theorist David Schwartz introduced his patented approach to digital audio data compression. 25 years later, amidst a digital entertainment environment built on that foundation (see "A Peek Into MP3's Past"), Schwartz is preparing to introduce another radical technology concept at this year's Convention.

By Dan Wolfson. This year’s AES Convention marks the 25th anniversary of the publication of two watershed technical papers that, in conjunction with the work of the man who inspired the content of those papers, would ultimately change the entertainment industry as it was known then, and lay the groundwork for the digital entertainment landscape of today.