{"id":286,"date":"2013-08-23T17:14:06","date_gmt":"2013-08-23T17:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twentyfourbit.com\/l\/?p=286"},"modified":"2013-08-23T17:36:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-23T17:36:00","slug":"neil-young-files-for-new-audio-format-trademarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/twentyfourbit.com\/l\/2013\/08\/neil-young-files-for-new-audio-format-trademarks\/","title":{"rendered":"Neil Young Files for New Audio Format Trademarks"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"“I’m finding that I have a little bit of trouble with the quality of the sound of music today,” Neil Young told MTV<\/a> in January. “I don’t like it. It just makes me angry. Not the quality of the music, but we’re in the 21st century and we have the worst sound that we’ve ever had.”<\/p>\n

While Young’s frustration with digitally compressed audio formats is nothing new (his own archival box set series boasts 24-bit \/192 kHz stereo sound in its Blu-ray format), the death of Steve jobs this year marks a continuation of his effort to bring a dream he shared<\/a> with the late Apple CEO\/co-founder to fruition: a device that downloads and plays music at its highest possible resolution — one which finds time to download massive files “while you\u2019re sleeping.”<\/a><\/p>\n

Now initial steps toward launching Young and Co.’s project have been revealed, as Rolling Stone<\/em> reports<\/a> that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office received<\/a> applications last summer from the legendary rocker’s record label for the following trademarks: “21st Century Record Player,” “Earth Storage,” “SQS ( Studio Quality Sound),” and “Thanks for Listening.” If the extensive approval process works out in his favor, these terms will ostensibly be used for Young’s high-res audio revolution. What’s more, a press release from the publisher of Young’s forthcoming memoir, Waging Heavy Peace<\/em><\/a>, unveiled news last fall that he’s working on the aforementioned audio system and cloud-based library with the aim of sharing “the studio quality sound that artists and producers heard when they created their original recordings” under the name Pono.<\/p>\n

Notably, producer T Bone Burnett has been spearheading a similar pursuit<\/a> of his own, dubbed CODE, since 2008. Who knows, perhaps Bob Dylan (another outspoken critic<\/a> of modern sound quality), T Bone, and the Godfather of Grunge can join forces here. I, for one, would love to wake up to the studio sounds of my dreams each morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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