Photo by Drew Altizer
Constellation was also the co-star at mezzo Stephanie Blythe's recording of American popular music for an album, As Long As There Are Songs, with pianist Craig Terry.
Recorded in Meyer Sound’s Pearson Theater in Berkeley last December, CA in December 2012, the CD is now available on innova mu.
The sound is described as "natural, unprocessed ... in contrast to the high compression and limited bandwidth techniques used on nearly all standard commercial recording releases."
Meyer Sounds goes back four decades and the recording Gould conducts Gould. The Blythe recording session used the Constellation acoustic system to "enable the creation of a custom acoustic space for the recording ... Full takes recorded natively at 24/96 resolution, capturing the energy and passion of the artists performing as if for a live audience."
Engineer John Pellowe used no post-process filtering or compression during neither the capture nor the mastering process. Producer Evans Mirageas was able to incorporate a third of the songs as entire, unedited takes and make only minimal edits to the remainder of the material.