In a music era dominated by digital technology delivering low-quality .mp3 sound, thumbnail .mp4 video, homemade CD/video quality, and hollow ringtones, Immersive Studios introduces the Seven Voices live performance series. According to co-producer Mark Mitchell, “Seven Voices is a deliberate ‘zig’ while the rest of the music industry ‘zags’.”
Seven Voices was conceived to combine premium sound and cinema production quality with the genius of great artists who write and sing the truth. The performance intimacy of every featured Seven Voices artist is captured in full HD video and high-definition Surround Sound® audio to create a DVD viewing experience that is, in many ways, better than actually being there. Up close and personal, Seven Voices turns your eyes into cameras and your ears into microphones. The Seven Voices focus is on amazing artists who deserve to be seen and heard, without compromising the way in which you deserve to experience them.
Each Seven Voices performance is captured before a live audience on the Immersive No.7 soundstage in Boulder, CO. The first three performance episodes feature Colorado artists Stuart Davis, Angie Stevens and Jeff Finlin. Each individual, two-set/eighty-minute artist performance is packaged as a two disc set that includes both a surround sound DVD and a stereo CD.
Seven Voices clearly illustrates how dynamically, emotionally and musically different three singer/songwriters can be: Stuart Davis unleashes a spiritual reality check through a uniquely unbridled secular perspective, thrillingly supported by virtuoso guitar playing and masterful songwriting Angie Stevens wears your heart on her sleeve with uninhibited, emotional sojourns into life, family, love and betrayal – beautifully balancing songwriting craft with ready accessibility Jeff Finlin seats you comfortably alongside the gear box of his pick-up truck, sipping an ice-cold beer, and drives you along the more interesting back roads of life. He frequently leaves the hot asphalt, pulling off along the way to grab some love, some pain, some folly, and always, a whole lot of fun. Whether playing solo or backed by a full band, these artists prove that great songwriting, superb performances and masterful musicianship prevail despite the ravages perpetuated by today’s digital and Internet technology… the Seven Voices reason for being.
“This is our stake in the ground – a direct result of our total inability to accept the willful destruction of sound and video quality just for the sake of speed and price,” say producers Mark Mitchell and Joe Shepard, “Digital compression and Internet delivery technology, despite its promise and potential, are cheating both artists and consumers alike, sucking the life out of audio and video production, while devastating the art and entertainment experience.”
The Seven Voices DVD/CD set is available from the individual artist websites (stuartdavis.com angiestevens.com & jefffinlin.com), the artist’s merchandising table at live performances, and from the Immersive Studios online store, MSRP $24.99 (www.immersivestudios.com). Three new artists/episodes are planned for Fall ’08 production with new product availability scheduled for December 2008.
For more product, performance and/or artist information and/or for media review product, contact Mark Mitchell at Immersive Studios, 303.413.1131 or via e-mail at mark@immersivestudios.com.