There’s a certain beauty to the fact that the writer of a documentary about an endangered mammalian species, the dolphins of *The Cove*, has now tried his hand at a documentary about an endangered species of technology: the recording studio.
The writer is Mark Monroe, who worked with director Louie Psihoyos on *The Cove* and has now teamed on Dave Grohl’s directorial debut, *Sound City*, an institutional biography of the fabled Los Angeles recording studio Sound City.
I wrote about technological subtext of the film’s trailer — concerns about the “human element,” echoes of Grohl’s comments about computers in his Grammy speech earlier this year — for the website of *The Atlantic*: [“Recording Studios May Die, But the False Mythology Around Them May Not.”](http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/12/recording-studios-may-die-but-the-false-mythology-around-them-may-not/265919/)
Here’s the film’s trailer:
Read the full article at [theatlantic.com](http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/12/recording-studios-may-die-but-the-false-mythology-around-them-may-not/265919/).