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
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.
