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Hi folks,
Sorry for being largely MIA for the past month or so, but the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome has been particularly bad. That said, I'm starting to get back to my "new norm": Fatigued? Always. But capable of doing some writing? You bet.
So, this coming Thursday I'll be traveling to Montréal to cover the 32nd annual Montreal Audio Fest, an audio-video gear show with systems ranging from $1,000 to 1,000,000. Four floors at Hotel Bonaventure, this looks like it's gonna be a "kid in a candy shop" scenario for me, as I interview a number of manufacturers, and play a bunch of music on various systems; largely jazz, but a broad cross-section on media including CD, SACD, DVD-A and Pure Blu Ray Audio.
But it's also going to be a new experience for me. Rather than writing a review of the festival when I get back home, I'll be wandering the various show rooms with director/producer François Philippe Soutif and Cinematographer Natasha Sher, who will be creating seven main ten-minute videos that will be released as AAJ's Video of the Day, beginning on March 23 and ending on March 29, and located at AAJ's YouTube channel. There will be additional videos that will also be there, just not getting Video of the Day designation.
So, this will be a chance for a number of folks to see the face behind the hand . The video series will be produced by All About Jazz and Sur Place Media, a Montréal multimedia company.
If you live in the Montréal area and have any interest, admission is free, though you have to register at their website (a hotlink provided in the press release I'm linking to here in a moment). And if you are interested in meeting up, I'll be on the floors from noon until five every day, and would love to see/meet you!
Here's the press release: All About Jazz to Provide Video Coverage of 2019 Montreal Audio Fest
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