The RVG Series and the Connoisseur Series will be continued, and core RVG titles will be released as vinyl/CD combos. Major jazz festivals will pay tribute to Blue Note during 2009, beginning with the 6th Annual Portland Jazz Festival in Oregon February 13-22, which will dedicate itself to “Blue Note Records at 70” with performances by some of the label’s past and present roster and panels with Bruce Lundvall, Michael Cuscuna and other jazz artists, writers and historians. A new book by Ashley Kahn on Blue Note will be published in the summer of 2009, and Francis Wolff’s iconic images of earlier Blue Note artists will also be published in a photography collection.
APT/Creative Technology Agreement – Audio processing technology specialist APT and maker of digital entertainment products Creative had made an agreement to deploy APT’s apt-X audio codec technology in wireless stereo headsets, wireless speaker products and home entertainment systems. Creative is known for its Sound Blaster sound cards for computers, and APT delivers high-fidelity real-time audio codec technology for not only consumer electronics but also broadcast, pro audio and audio-over-IP.
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The Cocktail Party Effect – Ever wondered how you are able to concentrate on just one voice when there is a noisy background of many different voices? Until recently the usual explanation was our binaural hearing ability which could localize sounds in front of us. But it was discovered that even on the telephone or with those deaf in one ear the brain could enhance the auditory signal appropriately. A short report on recent work on the cocktail party filter by neuroscientists in Germany and Britain is found here.
