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Zenph(R) Studios Announces Two New Appointments.


Bill Berger Joins Management Team; Gilbert Hetherwick to Serve On Board of Directors

RALEIGH, N.C. -- Zenph([R]) Studios, an entertainment technology company that builds advanced software to understand - and recreate - how musicians play, announces two key appointments: Bill Berger joins the management team as Consulting Executive and Gilbert Hetherwick will serve on the company's Board of Directors.

Mr. Berger joins Zenph after a long and distinguished career as a chief executive at a number of record labels. As owner of Ring Cycle Music, a private consulting firm Noun 1. consulting firm - a firm of experts providing professional advice to an organization for a fee
consulting company

business firm, firm, house - the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments; "he worked for a
, he advises classical, jazz and popular artists regarding career development issues and relationships with labels and management.

Prior to his consulting work, Berger served at Time-Warner Inc. as Senior Vice President of Marketing for the Elektra Entertainment Group before the company's buyout and eventual merger into Atlantic Records Editing of this page by unregistered or newly registered users is currently disabled due to vandalism. . He has also served as Chief Operating Officer Chief Operating Officer (COO)

The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president.
 of Chamelion Entertainment, Executive Vice President and General Manager at Arista Records “Arista” redirects here. For other uses, see Arista (disambiguation).

Arista Records is an American record label that is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony BMG, and operates under the RCA Label Group.
, the same title he held at Island Entertainment. He also held the positions of Executive Vice President and General Manager at Nonesuch Records in its formative years as an innovative leader in classical and world music.

Gilbert Hetherwick joins Zenph's board as the past President of Sony BMG Masterworks Sony BMG Masterworks is a record label. It is the result of a "restructuring" of Sony BMG Music Entertainment's classical music division.

Its formation marked the merger of the Sony Classical and BMG Classics (including RCA Red Seal) product lines.
. He took his first music industry job at PolyGram Classics (now Universal) as Regional Marketing Manager for the Southwest. He held other executive positions at EMI Records and Telarc. His career has included stints in sales and marketing, album production and artist and repertoire, where he worked with such renowned artists as Ravi Shankar, Itzhak Perlman, Yo-Yo Ma, Joshua Bell, Liza Minnelli, Evgeny Kissin, Bobby McFerrin, Bernadette Peters, Christopher Parkening and others. He left Sony BMG at the end of 2006 and now works as an independent consultant and producer for musical artists in many different genres.

Zenph specializes in software and processes for understanding and re-creating how musicians perform. The firm's innovative processes takes audio recordings and turns them into nuanced live performances that precisely replicate the original musician's touch, timing and sound as heard on the original recording. The details of the playing are preserved as high-resolution data files. These re-performance[TM] files can then be played back using real acoustic musical instruments fitted with sophisticated computers and hardware, letting the listener "sit in the room" as if he or she were there when the original recording was made. Most important, the re-performance can be recorded afresh, using the latest microphones and recording techniques, to modernize monophonic (1) Also called "mono" and "monaural," it refers to the reproduction of sound using a single channel. Contrast with stereophonic.

(2) Playing only one note at a time. Contrast with polyphonic.
 or poor-quality recordings of beloved performances into new recordings with vastly superior sound quality.

The company's first title, released in spring 2007 by Sony BMG Masterworks, is a re-performance of Glenn Gould's 1955 Bach Goldberg Variations.

About Zenph Studios

Zenph[R] Studios, Inc. is an entertainment technology company based in Research Triangle Park Research Triangle Park, research, business, medical, and educational complex situated in central North Carolina. It has an area of 6,900 acres (2,795 hectares) and is 8 × 2 mi (13 × 3 km) in size. Named for the triangle formed by Duke Univ. , North Carolina North Carolina, state in the SE United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (E), South Carolina and Georgia (S), Tennessee (W), and Virginia (N). Facts and Figures


Area, 52,586 sq mi (136,198 sq km). Pop.
. The company's focus is building software for understanding - and re-creating - precisely how musicians perform. Sony BMG is issuing a series of Zenph's re-performances[TM] beginning in 2007, with modern recordings in vastly improved sound from perspectives tailored for surround-sound and headphone See headphones.  listening. Zenph's processes create live performances identical to past recordings by legendary artists. Whether on stage or via new recordings, the results offer astonishing a·ston·ish  
tr.v. as·ton·ished, as·ton·ish·ing, as·ton·ish·es
To fill with sudden wonder or amazement. See Synonyms at surprise.
 fidelity. For more information about Zenph Studios, please visit www.zenph.com.
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