Audionamix: West Side Story story on NY Times

Always a pleasure to explain for one hour the concept and get one sentence on the paper.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/07/arts/music/west-side-story-score-to-be-played-by-philharmonic.html?_r=2&pagewanted=2&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha28

Because the orchestra, voices and dialogue all existed on the same soundtrack, the task was enormously difficult. The orchestra could not simply be subtracted. It had to be scraped away. Chace brought in Audionamix, a Paris-based audio technology company, which had developed a technique used to extract Edith Piaf’s voice for the movie “La Vie en Rose.”

According to Audionamix’s chief executive officer, Olivier Attia, the technique involves sampling sound waves for instruments and instructing a computer to scrub out their appearances on the soundtrack. “Think about it as Photoshop for music,” Mr. Attia said.

The voices and dialogue remained. Engineers had to restore some sound effects, including dancing step sounds and many of the finger snaps that are so emblematic of the work.

Audionamix: West Side Story demo on NY Times

How did they get this file?
I thought it was very confidential!
Anyway, now it is out there>
A great before/after.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/09/07/movies/west-side-story-audio.html

Audionamix: New York Philharmonic To Screen WEST SIDE STORY

The New York Philharmonic will screen the multi-Academy Award-winning film West Side Story, with Leonard Bernstein's complete score performed live by the Orchestra, led by Academy Award-nominated film composer/conductor David Newman in his Philharmonic debut, Wednesday and Thursday, September 7 and 8, 2011, at 7:30 p.m.

A new sound technology, developed by Paris-based Audionamix and utilized by Chace Audio by Deluxe, has isolated the dialogue and the vocal tracks, allowing the Orchestra to accompany the film in real time.

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SCANBUY: Speaking at WIPJam @ App Planet, MWC 2011

#4.  How to turn a Threat into an Opportunity: How the CEO of a small software company came up with a creative way to meet the burn in just seven flights of stairs

The Story: 
One of the important parts of due diligence for a technology company is to analyze the SWOT of the company. What are the Strengths, the Weaknesses, the Opportunities and the Threats? While the CEO of SCANBUY, Olivier had to create Strengths, protect Weaknesses, find Opportunities and fight Threats in era where VC money was scarce and the tech scene was in recovery. SCANBUY is now the leading provider of mobile barcode solutions.  This story is about turning a threat into an opportunity that saved the company financially, with moments to spare.  You’ll appreciate his creativity in a story that will instil in all of us the drive to not give up!

The Storyteller:  Olivier Attia, Chairman, Clickova
The Facilitator:  Caroline Lewko, WIP