Metro Newspapers publishes weekly newspapers in California's Silicon Valley, Santa Cruz County and the North Bay. Metro's award-winning publications reach more than half a million readers in the San Francisco Bay Area every week.

Cover Story: Monster in a box

Technology has torn the music industry wide open, and a new generation of laptop producers have swarmed in to fill the vacuum. From cutting-edge Silicon Valley professionals who have compressed an entire state-of-the-art studio into their computer to our own writer's frightening attempt to make Trent Reznor sound like a woman, music is now anybody's game.

BACK in 2005, Trent Reznor, frontman of the gloomy industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails, undertook an experiment. He decided to let his fans dissect one of his songs and reanimate it as they pleased, offering it as a raw, multitrack file formatted using Garageband, the user-friendly music editing software that comes with every new Apple computer (including the iBook G4 I'm using to write this story).

The track is still available as a free download, and even comes with a cheery letter from Trent himself—the guy famous for misanthropic lines like "Gray would be the color if I had a heart" and "I'm gonna burn this whole world down"—urging us to "Have fun." ...

Download Metro Silicon Valley's Weekly Newspaper, July 18-24, 2007

Pdf format, 48mb, 92pages.

View Metro Silicon Valley's Weekly Newspaper, July 18-24, 2007

Visit Metro Active Official Website

Comments (0)

Name

Email

Comment

smaller | bigger

Add Comment