Songwriter, Recording Artist, and Blogging Musician
“…we’re – unbelievably – stuck in the position of arguing with our own label about the merits of having our videos be easily shared. It’s like the world has gone backwards.”
“There is no reason why anyone should have made so much money from selling records except that everything was right for this period of time. I always knew it would run out sooner or later.”
“Robert Siegel talks with two guests about how recorded music has changed in the past decade. First, mastering engineer Bob Ludwig explains how recordings have gotten louder and worse. Then Robert talks Andrew Oxenham, a professor in the Psychology department at the University of Minnesota, about how the ubiquity of MP3’s has changed what we hear.”
“How has technology changed the relationship between musicians and their fans? While major record labels still struggle to grasp the power of the MP3, artists, including Of Montreal’s Kevin Barnes, have embraced and even found creative solutions around file-sharing.”
“There’s a mysterious new composer on the classical music scene. Her name? Emily Howell. But no one’s ever seen her in person. The reason? She’s a computer program created by David Cope, a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Host Guy Raz speaks with Cope about his creation and gets a sneak peek at Emily’s first record, which hits stores next spring.”
A friend recently asked me for the list of feeds I read to keep up with the audio world because I’m always sending him the coolest stuff. Until now, I’ve kept it a closely guarded secret. But I figured we could collaborate and you could share some of your favorite audio sites in the comments.
Quite some time ago Celemony made a huge buzz among musicians and non-musicians alike with their Direct Note Access technology. I discovered it in the Delicious Popular Feed of all places. Anyway, I forgot all about it until today.
I’ve been looking for a 49-key controller to fill the gap between my Korg nanoKEY and Keystation Pro 88. Best feature… HyperControl automatically maps the keyboard’s 65 controls to commonly accessed parameters in digital audio workstations including Pro Tools®, Cubase, Logic and Reason*, as well as software instruments.
A brand new hardware/software groove production studio. Covered in depth by Create Digital Music
I have a very special holiday gift for you. Logic Studio Training is dropping the usual price of its membership from $19.95 a month to a single low payment of $19.95 for a lifetime membership! I wish I could say this price will last forever, but I can’t. So it’s important that you act now.
Traffic tips, time-saving scripts, music licensing opportunities, and much more…
A URL shortener service called Bit.ly launched today. It has some great features that convinced me to switch from using Metamark to shorten my URLs. Read on…
Rescue time is an application that has become very important to my weekly GTD review. It’s helping me put some metrics to my writing goals. Read on…
A Unix program called Remind is one of the greatest tools for keeping your goals and projects on track. Where calendars like iCal and Google Calendar come up short, Remind fills in the gaps.
I used to be an Ecto user but I have since seen the light and call TextMate my be-all-end-all blogging tool. The only thing I missed was being able to use Ecto as my external blog editor while reading feeds in NetNewsWire. Not anymore!
Logic Studio was released on Wednesday and it was in my hands by noon.
Apple’s Logic Studio was released this past Wednesday. I had a copy in my hands by noon.
The blood and gore in the movie 300 was vivid and the fighting was intense. I would need to watch this again and again. So I tried to rip it but couldn’t. Then I figured out how.
I’m a Facebook fanatic. I joined immediately after they opened to the public. In the beginning, there wasn’t much to talk about. None of my friends had joined and there really wasn’t that much I could do there. But since then, the buzz has caught my friends’ attention and Facebook’s extendibility has grown consistently, giving [...]
There are lots of tools out there to expand your Google AdWords keywords by adding brackets (exact match) and quotes (phrase match) to your keyword list. Some of them are free, some are not, and even fewer options are available for Mac. But if you use TextMate a lot, like me, then you’ll enjoy this [...]
I'm a songwriter and recording artist who sings, plays keyboards, and explores the vast world of sound hoping to find some magical moments along the way. I'm also a Mac geek.
If Heroes needed a new superhero, it would be Montage Man. He can speed things up and add a catchy tune. 5 hrs ago
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