The 2011 California Audio Show (CAS) will feature world renown audiophile producer Cookie Marenco and her Blue Coast Records team recording a series of acoustic performances live to Direct Stream Digital (DSD). The sessions, using her proprietary Extended Sound Environment (E.S.E.) recording technique, will be open to the public, so fans can experience first-hand how Blue Coast’s world-class musicians are recorded in a natural setting, without headphones or overdubs. Marenco’s recording technique was featured in the July 2011 issue of Keyboard Magazine and newly launched pstracks.com which centered around Vijay Iyer’s critically acclaimed release called Solo.
CAS takes place the weekend of July 15th at Crowne Plaza SFO in Burlingame. The live recording events will be hosted by Blue Coast in the Plaza One Ballroom. Veteran audio consultant and dealer Tim Marutani will share the space. Blue Coast Artists Jane Selkye, Chris Kee, Chi McClean, Gregory James, Houston Jones, Frank Tusa and more will be performing live in the Blue Coast room. Gus Skinas from the Super Audio Center will also be present demonstrating the Sonoma DSD editing system. Observers will be encouraged to ask questions about the equipment, techniques and recording process.
This three day exposition will introduce the next generation of high-end audio to audiophiles and the general public, with a list of exhibitors and panelists including Acoustic Science, Music Interface Technologies, Blue Coast Records and many others. Confirmed media sponsors include Dagogo, Stereophile Magazine, Wired.com, KCSM (Jazz FM 91.1) and KOIT (Light Rock FM 96.5). A full list of participants can be found at www.caaudioshow.com/.
Blue Coast Records founder, president and producer/engineer Cookie Marenco is a five-time Grammy nominee known throughout the music community as an A&R representative during the “golden years” of Windham Hill Records and pioneering recording engineer for Liquid Audio. Blue Coast has been mixing and releasing audio files in DSD for more than ten years. The DSD format provides a stunning difference in sound when compared with industry standard Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC) for high resolution audio distribution.
Blue Coast Records has always been and remains committed to preserving audio at its highest quality, even under the most difficult and challenging of circumstances.
For more information on the event please visit:
BlueCoastWorld.com
Caaudioshow.com
ActMusic.downloadsnow.net/solo
http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/newbay/kb_201107/#/38
CookieMarenco.com
