A “Photoshop For Sound” Could Transform Restaurants and Music Halls
Restaurants have to strike a fine balance between eerily quiet and shouting-across-the-table loud. At Oakland’s Oliveto, the high-tech solution is a set of mics, speakers, and sound-absorbing panels that constantly record, modify, and pipe back the ideal background noise—essentially real-time Photoshop for sound. In The New Yorker, the magazine’s music critic, Alex Ross, recounts a…
