Todd Rosenberg photography
Maestro Kal Rubinson enjoys Yarlung’s first project at Segerstrom Center for the Arts, and celebrates James Matheson’s music in surround sound. “Stereophile,” March 7, 2016
[Yarlung Surround Sound engineer Tom Caulfield shared early files with me from] …a group comprising musicians of the Chicago Lyric Opera and the Chicago Symphony, for a recording of James Matheson’s String Quartet, to be released this year on Yarlung Records. The opening notes were startling—I had the disturbing but exhilarating feeling that music was actually being made in my room, not merely reproduced.The sound was no more “multichannel” than it was “stereo”—the four players seemed almost within reach, and my room seemed to expand around me….
I kept thinking, If others could only hear this, hi-rez multichannel music would take off.