npr:
Isn’t being stuck on the tarmac a drag? Not when you have the Philadelphia Orchestra on board with you. Read more at NPR’s The Two-Way.
This is why you never tell a musician to check there instrument under the plane!
Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive. Ambition is only understood if it’s to rise to the top of some imaginary ladder of success. Someone who takes an undemanding job because it affords him the time to pursue other interests and activities is considered a flake. A person who abandons a career in order to stay home and raise children is considered not to be living up to his potential-as if a job title and salary are the sole measure of human worth. You’ll be told in a hundred ways, some subtle and some not, to keep climbing, and never be satisfied with where you are, who you are, and what you’re doing. There are a million ways to sell yourself out, and I guarantee you’ll hear about them.
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Bill Watterson
So true… go make the music that you want to to make! |
No, that’s not some fancy CGI, it’s what happens to water in response to a special audio frequency. By allowing the water to pass through the sound wave, it forms shapes that seem completely unreal.
Watch This: Water Takes the Shape of Sound Waves
via Notcot
This is pretty damn cool.
Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things. And the reason they were able to do that was that they’ve had more experiences or they have thought more about their experiences than other people. Unfortunately, that’s too rare a commodity. A lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences. So they don’t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.
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Steve Jobs, Wired, February, 1995 (via fiftyfootshadows) … True for music too. :) |
Dave Grohl talks to All Things Considered about the recording studio and console that changed his career. Hear the interview and stream the soundtrack to his new documentary, Sound City: Real to Reel via NPR’s First Listen.
Abbey Road’s Jonathan Allen on the experimental techniques used in recording and mixing the soundtrack for Les Misérables, winner of a BAFTA for sound.
Pretty sure that’s General Grievous and his robot band playing Motorhead’s “Ace of Spades.”
Nothing like a little Motorhead to start off the new year with. :)
I don’t know what time today the world was/is going to end, but here is something (with Julia Nunes and Lauren O’Connell) to watch until it does.
If you’re going to take money for doing something, try and fucking learn how to do it well. Otherwise, quit fucking wasting all our fucking time.
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@mjkeenan on Twitter (do yourself a favor and follow him) And read this: |
Zoe Keating is an independent artist, composer, musician. She speaks with Jesse to break down the royalty payments made by streaming providers - what they actually look like and the amount of streams it takes to make a buck - as well as how the proposed Internet Radio Fairness Act may negatively affect musicians if passed.
The MusicVox airs M-F 6-8PM on 89.5 FM and vocalo.org
Interesting… $0.001 per stream
(FYI, streaming services aren’t interested in artist being able to sell there music. They want to replace record sales and record stores.)
When booking recording studios, pick any two out of three:
Fast | Cheap | Good
You can get your product fast and cheap… but it isn’t going to sound good.
You can get it cheap and good… but it won’t be done fast.
You can get it good and fast… but it won’t be cheap.
Fast | Cheap | Good
You can get your product fast and cheap… but it isn’t going to sound good.
You can get it cheap and good… but it won’t be done fast.
You can get it good and fast… but it won’t be cheap.
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| — | Mike Tarsia, Sigma Sound, Philadelphia. |
