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Sunday, December 12, 2021

NFTRW Weekly Top Five

Here are the top five comment generating posts of the past week:

Visions about Higher Education in the Performing Arts

HowlRound Theatre Commons: What makes a good university? How can universities prepare young performing arts workers for a field that seems both straightforward and immensely unsure? How can universities empower students to become active players and generators of change in their field, both in an aesthetic and a structural sense?

Why do we hate the sound of our own voices?

Big Think: As a surgeon who specializes in treating patients with voice problems, I routinely record my patients speaking. For me, these recordings are incredibly valuable. They allow me to track slight changes in their voices from visit to visit, and it helps confirm whether surgery or voice therapy led to improvements.

The Brilliant Lighting of the Disney Parks

Disney Tourist Blog: Lighting is an integral part of the Disney theme park atmosphere and experience. The parks come alive at night in large part as a result of meticulously arranged lighting schemes. Without this attention to detail in terms of lighting, at night the parks would be dark and lifeless instead of feeling moody and looking beautiful.

Why Can’t I Hear The Movie?

kottke.org: In theory, this should be a golden age for movie sound. There’s better digital recording and mixing equipment than ever, theaters are incentivized to offer a premiere experience, and home theater equipment is more expensive, elaborate, and ubiquitous.

Los Angeles Soundstages Can’t Keep Up With Demand

The Hollywood Reporter: Amid a production rise fueled by Hollywood’s pivot to streaming, the need to lock in filming space is becoming more critical — and a soundstage boom is overtaking the Southland, with competition for space and clients.

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