On this album, some of today's finest folk and children's performers pay tribute to Ella with sparkling new renditions of her timeless repertoire. Styles including folk, salsa, country western, Dixieland, oldtime string band, ragtime, and mariachi all come together with a wonderful children's chorus to honor Ella.

"In this Avid Pro Tools 12 Fundamentals training course, expert author Joe Godfrey teaches you the tools and techniques needed to work within this digital audio workstation. This course is designed for the absolute beginner, meaning no prior experience with Pro Tools is required. You will start by learning about basic editing in the timeline, then jump into learning how to customize Pro Tools. From there, Joe will teach you how to record and edit...

"Welcome to this Pro Tools Audio Recording for Beginners course! You can expect to learn the audio recording software Pro Tools from the very beginning of creating a new project all the way to exporting a finished music track. There's a ton of other information shared in this course as well such as: creating and working with a click track at different tempos, bussing audio to other tracks, keyboard shortcuts, understanding inputs and outputs and the...

The inhabitants of Mammoth Island learn how sound energy travels in waves, and one islander creates a primitive microphone, amplifier and loudspeaker.

"[Jack is] a movie sound-effects man who believes he has accidentally recorded a political assassination. He enlists the help of Sally, a possible eyewitness to the crime who may be in danger herself, to uncover the truth. With its jolting stylistic flourishes, intricate plot, profoundly felt characterizations, and gritty evocation of early-1980s Philadelphia, this is an American paranoia thriller unlike any other, as well as a devilish reflection...

"A German filmmaker summons his sound recorder friend to join him in Lisbon. When the latter arrives, his friend has disappeared leaving a few cans of silent footage. The sound man will wander aimlessly through the streets of Lisbon recording sounds of the old city to match the images left by his friend"--Container.

"This innovative product is a focused video workshop and accompanying 48-page full-color book that will teach editors how to create, edit, and enhance audio for broadcast, film, and video, using Adobe Audition CS5.5. Users will be introduced to the Audition interface and features; get acquainted with the new Mac version of Audition, find out about switching to Audition from Adobe Soundbooth, and learn about multitrack file types and versions. The...

Music has been a constant in human history, an intermingling of voice and instrument that for all its local variation and increasing sophistication nevertheless endured in more or less the same form for centuries. Then came recording--and music was forever transformed. Soundbreaking, an eight-part event television series, traces this ongoing sonic revolution, and explores the nexus of cutting-edge technology and human artistry that has created the...

Tony misses making pizza when his father opens a fancy new restaurant.

The life and times of the influential, brilliantly funny rock icon Danny Fields. Since 1966, Danny Fields has played a pivotal role in music and culture of the late twentieth century. This follows Fields from Harvard Law dropout, to the Warhol Silver Factory, to Director of Publicity at Elektra Records, to punk pioneer and beyond.