Hang:

With the push of a button or the swiping of a finger across a screen ...poof, an audience is entertained. Instantly they are rewarded with the content of their choosing. Seldom if ever does the audience member consider the structural events that have taken place to present their chosen content to them.

Be it news, movies or music, the technical aspect of providing media content to a broad market is managed by people. People with feelings and ambitions, not necessarily congruent with one another, work together to deliver the content.

Emotion generally weighs heavily over pragmatism when it comes to entertainment. That formula holds true for any human involved with the production of media. The percentages of emotion-over-pragmatism vary with the people involved in its production. News broadcasts are at the low end of the emotion-over scale where music capture is at its highest.

Either way, quilts hanging on a garage wall or black walnut walls with motor driven drapes to “tune” a rooms reflection, recording studios are intimidating …novice to professional. It’s a human reality. Palaces devoted to recording arts and science were erected to “make the artist feel comfortable”. Quilts or Walnuts, what makes the artist comfortable is the talent on “The other side of the glass”.

Business owners employing others to operate their business for them usually look for the quality in a person that Recording Studio owners have desired for decades. You need someone with the rare quality of “Hang”. A person who is welcome in any environment for any amount of time. A person with "Good Vibes".

It’s more than the Golden Rule. It is a polishing of it to its perfection. People with a hang quality take “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you” and refine it. They remove their yardstick out of judging another by their own standards and turn it around to …Do unto others as they would have you do unto them. It’s called empathy. People with Hang have plenty of it.

Empathy is the foundation. Many, however, attempt to practice it lacking its principal component. A true person of Hang knows to their soul that empathy is useless without …Mean it. Sincerity.

Thanks Willie. A friend, a brother, an engineer, a true person of Hang.

Willie Harlan