This New York Times multimedia package put together by the New York Times on pop music vocal producer Kuk Harrell deserves a lot of praise.
The print story was well-written and the interior pages well-designed (I saved a copy if you want to see it). It works for those who only get their information to print and who are satisfied with the traditional media-to-audience journalistic approach.
But if you only read part of the story, and respond better to getting your news and information through audio and visuals, you have to head to the web version. There, you will find the print story, in some cases it is the secondary piece to the video and the interactive feature. The video features vocal producer Harrell and a group of singers he's producing. If you listen closely, you can hear the quotes that are in the story.
The best part of the package is the interactive "Build Your Own Pop Song" feature. Using Harrell's technique, you can build part of a song produced by Harrell. After you listen to your work, you can click to hear Harrell's choices. You can also listen to the complete song.
This is a great package and a good starting point for re-imagining how pop music--no all music--should be covered in a digital world.
Click here and enjoy.
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