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    Ohm Lab Nabs Middendorf

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    By Brian Diedrick

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    Ohm Lab, a commercial music/sound design house based in New York, has brought aboard Sharon Middendorf as co-executive producer. Established in late 2001 by partner/sound designer Darin Hallinan and partner/composer Daniel Belardinelli, Ohm Lab is looking to bolster its operations by drawing on Middendorf’s music industry experience.

    Middendorf is a singer/songwriter and frontwoman for the New York-based band Motorbaby, which she founded in 1994. Recently, Middendorf produced her band’s sophomore release, Rise, via her own music production shop—Ten Wings Music, New York. During the course of recording the album, she solicited the help of producer Tony Visconti—best known for his work on David Bowie’s early releases.

    Middendorf has also been involved in licensing her band’s music for feature film and broadcast productions: She has placed Motorbaby songs in the features Spin The Bottle and Terror Firmer, as well as the TV series Baywatch and Jack & Jill.

    When not at the mixing console or the microphone, Middendorf can be found in front of a computer monitor: "I constructed a Web site for my band in ’95," Middendorf remarked, "so I have a considerable amount of experience in interactive marketing. I’m in the process of revamping Ohm Lab’s site right now."

    Ohm Lab’s recent spot credits include Volvo, via Euro RSCG MVBMS Partners, New York; Volkswagen through Creative On Demand, Miami; and The American Plastics Council, out of Grey Worldwide, New York. Broadcast projects the shop has completed recently include scoring and sound design work for the MTV Video Music Awards, as well as for VH1 programs Where Are They Now, Summer Splash and 100 Sexiest Videos.

    Ohm Lab’s talent roster is rounded out by sound designer Virgil Nafarette and audio editor Lihi Orbach. Wendy Brovetto serves as co-executive producer with Middendorf; Brovetto also serves as executive producer for visual effects/design shop Fish Media, which shares its office space with Ohm Labs.

    Sales representation for Ohm Lab will now be handled in-house by Middendorf and Brovetto.

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    Supreme Court Seems Likely To Uphold A Law That Could Force TikTok To Shut Down On Jan. 19

    Friday, January 10, 2025

    The Supreme Court on Friday seemed likely to uphold a law that would ban TikTok in the United States beginning Jan. 19 unless the popular social media program is sold by its China-based parent company.

    Hearing arguments in a momentous clash of free speech and national security concerns, the justices seemed persuaded by arguments that the national security threat posed by the company's connections to China override concerns about restricting the speech either of TikTok or its 170 million users in the United States.

    Early in arguments that lasted more than two and a half hours, Chief Justice John Roberts identified his main concern: TikTok's ownership by China-based ByteDance and the parent company's requirement to cooperate with the Chinese government's intelligence operations.

    If left in place, the law passed by bipartisan majorities in Congress and signed by President Joe Biden in April will require TikTok to "go dark" on Jan. 19, lawyer Noel Francisco told the justices on behalf of TikTok.

    At the very least, Francisco urged, the justices should enter a temporary pause that would allow TikTok to keep operating. "We might be in a different world again" after President-elect Donald Trump takes office on Jan. 20. Trump, who has 14.7 million followers on TikTok, also has called for the deadline to be pushed back to give him time to negotiate a "political resolution." Francisco served as Trump's solicitor general in his first presidential term.

    But it was not clear whether any justices would choose such a course. And only Justice Neil Gorsuch sounded like he would side with TikTok to find that the ban violates the Constitution.

    Gorsuch labeled arguments advanced by the Biden administration' in defense of the law a... Read More

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