Madison, Wis., Feb. 23, 2001 -- Sonic Foundry, Inc., a leading developer of digital media and Internet software tools, products, and services, today announced that its digital suite of audio software tools including Vegas Video and Sound Forge, were utilized in Douglas Spotted Eagle's Grammy Award winning recording for the ``Gathering of Nations Pow Wow.'' The Grammy Award was given at the 43rd Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, CA on Thursday, February 22, 20001, in the Native American Music Album category, a new category introduced this year.

For Gathering of Nations 2000, Douglas Spotted Eagle and his colleagues, Herman Begay and David Hamilton recorded the event on a hard-disk system equipped with a suite of Sonic Foundry products including Sound Forge, CD Architect, and Vegas Video. The three were asked to record 200 songs over the course of two days, select 18-20 from the Friday and Saturday sets, and provide a Red Book CD Master by the following Monday at noon. The work was captured through Vegas Video in real-time and immediately edited in a hotel room in Albuquerque that the trio had transformed into an editing suite using Sonic Foundry software. This was the first time the group had used all digital equipment in a live setting.

``This Grammy award is amazing and I am honored to represent the Native American culture through music. Sonic Foundry has enabled me to move seamlessly into a digital platform, making my world and my music the best it can be. This event was captured live and for the first time in our experience, captured all digitally. A risky proposition, but Sonic Foundry's products came through for us,'' commented Douglas Spotted Eagle. ``I wouldn't have trusted this project to any set of media production tools other than Sonic Foundry products.

From being able to multitrack sessions in Vegas Video to mastering in Sound Forge and creating the CD image with CD Architect, I could have only trusted a project of this scope to the best products available.''

The three-day Gathering of Nations is the world's largest reunion of indigenous people and attracts 50,000 visitors and 3,000 dancers and singers who represent 700 tribes from Canada and the United States. They converge on the University of New Mexico's arena each spring for their annual celebration of Native American culture. Additional information on the Gathering of Nations Pow Wow and how Douglas Spotted Eagle utilizes Sonic Foundry software in many of his projects, please visit our Web site at http://www.sonicfoundry.com/showcase/

About Douglas Spotted Eagle
Douglas Spotted Eagle is a world-renowned virtuoso performer on the Native American flute. He has recorded 13 previous albums under his name and collaborated on more than 40 recent projects, including the Kevin Costner production of ``500 Nations,'' Robbie Roberson's score for the Native Americans, and Brian Keane's ``The Way West,'' as well as performances with Willie Nelson, Kenny Rogers, Peter Buffett, David Arkenstone, John McEuen, and others. His musical voice, percussion, and performances may be heard on projects as diverse as Saturday morning cartoons (Johnny Quest, Star Wars Ewoks) to ``The X-Files,'' ``Millennium,'' ``Tracy Ullman,'' and Cadillac commercials, and his sounds are heard on the big screens in movies like ``Truman,'' ``The Scarlet Letter,'' ``Young Guns,'' and ``Geronimo'' to name a few. Setting up his own recording facilities, Native Restoration Studios, Spotted Eagle has been largely responsible for bringing Native American music into the digital age.

About Sonic Foundry
Founded in 1991, Sonic Foundry is a leading developer of digital media and Internet software tools, products, and services. Sonic Foundry's award-winning products and services are used worldwide for multimedia and Internet applications, music, video, and broadcast solutions, and digital content creation.

Sonic Foundry's digital audio and video tools include the award-winning ACID, Sound ForgeVegasAudio, Vegas Video, VideoFactory, Stream Anywhere, SIREN Jukebox, Viscosity, and a variety of compatible music loop libraries and DirectX Audio Plug-Ins. For specific product descriptions, please reference the ``products'' section of the Sonic Foundry Web site at www.sonicfoundry.com.

Sonic Foundry's Media Services Division is a supplier of digitization, management, delivery solutions for audio and video content owners. Serving as the link between content and customers, the Company provides proven, comprehensive processes that enable content delivery to new and emerging distribution channels. The four key components that make up these solutions include: Media Distribution Fulfillment, Enterprise Content Management, Consulting Services, and Encoding.


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