Word: studio
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Unplugged performance, particularly the touching cover of "Because the Night." Merchant continues to please and excite her fans in her first solo live release, Live in Concert, featuring the very finest performances from her sold out concerts at the Neil Simon Theater in New York City. Although Merchant's studio creations are enjoyable, the atmosphere created by a small audience is perfect for her stellar vocals. You cannot help but listen to every sonorous, sexy note. Her rendition of David Bowie's "Space Oddity" is unforgettable. Merchant seduces us with her sultry vocals on "Carnival," romances our tender hearts...
...undergrads combines with the emphasis on performance to create an environment where the music made more than a scant few years ago is mostly forgotten. There is, however, one group devoted to the purpose of preserving music. Deep in the Pforzheimer House basement, tucked between practice rooms and HRTV studios, is one of the Harvard music scene's least known entities: Quad Sound Studios. QSS, or simply "the studio," as members refer to it, is ironically one of the youngest musical institutions on campus. It was founded about ten years ago by a group of quad students with the vision...
...Bennett '00, the President of QSS. Bennett's band North House's album Two Stories was recorded and mixed at QSS, as was A. Ryan Leslie's '98 A Song of my Own. Campus groups like the Cliffe Notes and Glee Club Lite have also recorded in the studio in recent years. In order to foster use by the entire Harvard community, campus groups are charged $15 an hour for recording time with an engineer, in comparison with rates of $40 and up for similar services elsewhere...
...studio's schedule is divided between work done for on- and off-campus groups and the personal projects of the dozen-odd member recording engineers. "It's a great place to produce work that is all your own and preserve it for the future," said engineer Gregor Hanuschak '02. In order to become members, budding engineers must complete a comp that consists of several training sessions on recording techniques and the technical operation of the studio and at least 20 hours of time working under the tutelage of present members. At the end of the test compers must pass...
...Quad Sound Studios is presently attempting to expand both its capabilities and its clientele. The engineers and their bands are putting on a benefit concert for the studio on Dec. 10, and a compilation CD is currently being pressed. "In the past, it's been an underground organization, and we're trying to change that," said Bennett. "It's such a resource and we want to try to open it up to more groups." The main goal of the group will remain the same: to give Harvard students the opportunity to learn about recording and audio production. "It's been...