Scene and Heard
While Neil Young is busy gathering cash through online funding site Kickstarter for his PonoMusic project, it’s good to hear that Ireland may benefit through the involvement of Cork-based company PCH International. Corkonian businessman Liam Casey will manufacture the music players, presumably in one of his Chinese facilities.
PonoMusic includes an online music store, and a playback device, the PonoPlayer. Young is aiming to bring a “studio-level” quality to digital music files, and while it’s still unclear as to when the players will be available, a retail price of $399 has been mooted. According to PonoMusic, the format will recapture the emotion of music in a way that reflects what the artistes recorded: “They [musicians] describe how we take them back to the same feeling they had in the studio.
