Music of Sound
I’ve had three different threads of ideas crossover in different ways today – all related, but from different angles… In reverse order, this from Marc at Disquiet made me smile: I’m very sure you could do the exact same with film scores – in fact it is the curse of the temp score. With the film I recently scored, One Thousand Ropes, I was blessed that the director did not want a temp score at all – he was happy to edit without music until such time as original music was available.
Hargreaves report: industry responds on IP recommendations
The long-awaited recommendations on the future of intellectual property were delivered last week by Professor Ian Hargreaves, chair of digital economy at the Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies and Cardiff Business School. His 123-page report - Digital Opportunity, A Review of Intellectual Property And Growth - was drawn up after considering evidence from executives and companies across the music and other creative industries. What were the key recommendations of the report? The recommendations with most significance for music were: * the creation of a Digital Copyright Exchange * the establishment of a "limited private copying exception"
Sonokinetic
The main Tutti UI consists of a virtual sound stage to the left, and a virtual stack of cue sheets to the right. You can change the orchestral section the cue is showing by clicking the respective icons on the 3D stage. The cue sheets on the right will show the notation for the last cue you played. You can click this stack of papers to view the scoresheet in more detail: Along the bottom of the UI is a bar that allows you to configure various aspects of Tutti. Clicking the options down here will expand this bar and provide further configuration.
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Why the Ivor Novello awards are an industry favourite
At the Ivor Novello awards yesterday, Plan B thanked his "alcoholic godfather" for introducing him to soul music, because hearing Smokey Robinson taught him how to structure songs. Villagers' Conor O'Brien said songwriting was self-rewarding, and saw his prize for best song musically and Lyrically as a bonus. Celebrated composer Michael Nyman gave an acceptance speech detailing all the coincidences that had led him to where he is today – a speech so long that it prompted host Paul Gambaccini to exclaim: "I've forgotten why I'm here now." The audience included superstars such as Jimmy Page and Elton John.
Studio de Mastering : Mathieu Berthet
The console Maselec MTC 1 is arrived at the studio. This is a bomb. The Maselec MTC-1X is the perfect tool for mastering studios as well as for high quality home recordings. With exceptional sonic properties, new functionalities and usual rock solid Maselec quality. The new model has an offset trim on inputs S1 and S2 of half dB steps from 0 to +10 dB, allowing level matching between the two sources and the signal from the processing chain. As before, there are phase switches, high and low pass filters, six insert points, elliptical filter, four monitoring sources, phase difference listening and more.
Lady Gaga's Born This Way Album On Sale For $0.99 on Amazon
Monday just got a little less murky for all those Lady Gaga fans out there anxiously awaiting the arrival of her new album, Born This Way, as the disc is available for digital download on Amazon today for a mere $0.99. Amazon has offered deep discounts like this before, but $0.99 is exceptionally cheap — especially for such a hotly anticipated album. In February, “Born This Way” was dubbed the fastest-selling single ever to grace Apple’s iTunes store worldwide. Fans who drop $0.99 on Gaga's disc will also score 20 GB of Cloud Drive storage from Amazon, a clear attempt on Amazon's part to draw more people into the Cloud Player fold and a possible challenge to Google, which offers users more space on its cloud-based music offering, Google Music Beta, but no digital download store.
Why the Music Industry Must Change Its Strategy to Reach Digital Natives
Mark Mulligan is vice president and research director at Forrester Research, serving consumer product strategy professionals. He is a leading expert on music and digital media. The music industry's fortunes (or lack thereof) are familiar to most. The CD is suffering one of the longest death rattles in consumer product history, and it is becoming painfully clear that digital downloads are no knight in shining armor about to whisk up the fallen music business and ride off into the revenue growth sunset. So how did we get here? What happened?
