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Monday, April 22, 2024

NFTRW Weekly Top Five

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

How Do They Make it Rain On Stage in The Notebook?

Playbill: If you’re going to see a new Broadway show this season, you may want to make sure and bring an umbrella. It’s been raining an awful lot outside, but we’re far from safe indoors, at least on Broadway. The Notebook and The Outsiders both prominently feature rain scenes—and even Off-Broadway’s Teeth gets in on the trend, too!

Best Tape Measure Reviews for 2024

Pro Tool Reviews: Tape measures are a staple in everyone’s toolbox from the most seasoned Pro to the greenest DIYer. Ranging in length and price, most cost less than $30, and there are options under the $10 mark. But are all tape measures created equally? Of course not. We’re breaking things down into the categories our Pro team says are most important when looking for the best tape measure.

What I Wish My Sound Guy Knew About Mixing Drums

Church Production Magazine: One of the most common conflicts between the platform and the booth is within the drum cage. Both the drummer and the sound engineer have an idea of what they want the drums to sound like, feel like and how they should be experienced within the mix. The challenge is that often their ideas of how to accomplish excellent drum mixes are different.

to make sense of color, google plays sound frequencies with changing neon lights in milan

www.designboom.com: For Milan Design Week 2024, Google Design Studio is making sense of color. In fact, that’s the name of the immersive light and sound installations, in collaboration with arts and research lab, Chromasonic. When visitors enter the exhibition at Garage 21 in Via Archimede, 26 until April 21st, they find 21 open-box rooms flanked with semi-translucent panels. Inside each box, overhead neon lights shift their hues as the rhythm of the sound frequencies being played in the background changes.

Why So Many New Broadway Shows? The 2024 Spring Season By the Numbers

www.broadwayworld.com: Another openin', another show- words to take literally this spring. If you've been following this Broadway season and have been getting a sneaking suspicion that the spring calendar (see below) is looking a little bit crazy, you're not wrong...

 

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