On Saturday, March 20, our Art Director Bruce Kennett hosted a concert at his 1810 barn in North Conway, NH. The event was a fundraiser for the local music organization, Mountain Top, which puts on concerts, offers music lessons, and is also very active in the public schools. The Boston-based quartet Brass Venture played to a sold-out crowd, presenting a wide program of music from Bach, Gabrielli, Hindemith and Scheidt to W.C. Handy and John Williams. The performers stood on a second-story hayloft and played toward a full house seated on the first floor and on an adjacent balcony. With its vast, reverberant open space, Bruce's barn was the ideal venue for the quartet's trumpets, trombones, and tubas. Sunday, March 21, 2010
Mountain Top Concert
On Saturday, March 20, our Art Director Bruce Kennett hosted a concert at his 1810 barn in North Conway, NH. The event was a fundraiser for the local music organization, Mountain Top, which puts on concerts, offers music lessons, and is also very active in the public schools. The Boston-based quartet Brass Venture played to a sold-out crowd, presenting a wide program of music from Bach, Gabrielli, Hindemith and Scheidt to W.C. Handy and John Williams. The performers stood on a second-story hayloft and played toward a full house seated on the first floor and on an adjacent balcony. With its vast, reverberant open space, Bruce's barn was the ideal venue for the quartet's trumpets, trombones, and tubas. Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Jimi Hendrix CD Release Party - Valleys of Neptune
Transparent hosted another CD/DVD release party with Bull Moose Music on Monday, March 8th at 6:30PM. This one was for an all new Jimi Hendix album called "Valleys of Neptune" which is made up of unreleased studio recordings from 1969. The album released worldwide on Tuesday, March 9th, so we were among the first people in the world to hear it. There were 26 people at the event, including the 18 winners Bull Moose had selected to preview the album, Bob Ludwig (Gateway Mastering), Bob Thompson (recording engineer, guitar teacher at University of Maine and Berklee), Jim Pinfold, Chris Brown and other people from Bull Moose.Bob Ludwig and Bob Thompson both talked about the album and recordings from the 1969 era. Thompson gave an hour-long live demonstration of Hendrix's techniques and artistry, using vintage guitars and special-effects pedals, deconstructing several Hendrix songs and explaining their structure as well as demonstrating Hendrix's playing prowess. Ludwig gave us a detailed view of the entire production flow from recording to mastering to manufacture, and recalled aspects of the day he spent with Hendrix in a mastering room, prior to the release of "Electric Ladyland." Following those two presentations, we heard the entire album played over Transparent's state of the art system.
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