For example, the Frank Sinatra offerings go beyond mainstream fare to include many cuts from his more obscure "Columbia Years, 1943-1952," recorded for the V-Disc project during World War II, and "The Voice" collections.
His sixth album will see that unabashed yearning for huge soundscapes given free reign: Hurry Up, We're Dreaming is an epic double-disc project he's described as nothing less than "a reflection of my 30 years of being a human being".
But the rival formats, the Super Density disc, a project of Toshiba and Time Warner, and the MultiMedia CD, a joint creation of Philips, Sony and 3M, found no takers among entertainment companies, which were gun-shy after the battle over the competing Betamax and VHS standards in the early days of consumer videotape.
"Fade to Slide" is an audiovisual artwork that Marclay was commissioned to create for pioneering music ensemble Bang on a Can All-Stars' forthcoming double-disc multimedia project, Field Recordings (out May 12 , 2015on Cantaloupe Music). .
As long as no one studio pursued sound, all of them were content to let it simmer quietly despite the fact that Western Electric, the manufacturing arm of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, had devised a system linking recorded discs to projected film and was marketing it aggressively.
The Devin Townsend Project disc is called Sky Blue and the Ziltoid disc is called Dark Matters.
By working with schools to get students excited about indigenous plants, cooking, and preserving foods, Project Disc is instilling a positive perception of farming and lifelong knowledge about nutrition.
Developing Innovations in School Cultivation, or Project Disc, in Uganda, is working with nursery school to high school students to develop a better appreciation – and taste – for indigenous foods.
In Uganda, for example, Project DISC (Developing Innovations in School Cultivation) is teaching students how to grow, cook, and eat native vegetables, including spiderwiki and amaranth.
The album's sound has been enhanced along with the bonus track/college radio hit "Fool's Gold," and the accompanying second disc documents the project's creative evolution.
