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The Decade In Loudness

December 31, 2009 By Graham English

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 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose, Technology Tagged With: absolute peak level, Andrew Oxenham, Audio, Bob Ludwig, capitalism, CD, Christopher Clark, compression, decade, dynamics, engineering, high frequency peaks, loudness, loudness wars, low frequency peaks, mastering, mastering engineers, mid frequency peaks, mp3, music producing, music production, music technology, NPR, peak level, peak levels, producing, Psychology, recorded audio, recording, recording technology, RMS, RMS levels, Robert Siegel, Technology, University of Minnesota, volume, white noise

The Decade In Music: How Musicians Create

December 3, 2009 By Graham English

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 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose, Technology Tagged With: bloggers, Blogging, David Rawlings, digital music, Facebook, fans, file sharing, free, Gillian Welch, imeem, John Mayer, Julie Greenwald, Kevin Barnes, major labels, mp3, music distribution, Music Industry, music technology, musicians, MySpace, Napster, NPR, Of Montreal, P2P, Steve Albini, Technology, Twitter

Mozart’s Deceptive Simplicity

November 18, 2009 By Graham English

Hear commentator Rob Kapilow demonstrate how Mozart sets up our expectations but takes us in unpredictable directions in the String Quintet in G minor. His music, like a hologram, flashes back and forth between the simple and the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: classical, classical music, melody, Mozart, NPR, phrase length, phrasing, simplicity, symmetry, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

All Songs Considered: The Decade’s 50 Most Important Recordings

November 16, 2009 By Graham English

NPR has compiled a list of the 50 most important recordings of the past 10 years. Here's a PDF of the full list: The Decade's 50 Most Important Recordings Link: The Decade's 50 Most Important Recordings … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Opinion, Prose Tagged With: 50 most important recordings, All Songs Considered, lists, music, NPR, recordings

Some Outstanding Podcasts For Musicians

July 18, 2007 By Graham English

Not only am I a podcast author, I'm a podcast lover. And recently I've come across some podcasts that I'm really enjoying. If you're a jazz lover, then you'll love both NPR: Jazz Profiles and The Traneumentary. NPR's Jazz Profiles covers the lives … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: Hip-Hop Money Beat, interviews, jazz, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, NPR, Pandora, podcasts

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