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The Basics of Remixing, Part One: Time-Stretching Vocals
Welcome to the latest installment of Production Tips, our new monthly feature offering, well, production tips, hosted by Simon Langford. In the first part of this three part series on remixing, I am going to give you an overview of one of its biggest challenges: time-stretching vocals. The higher up one goes on the remixing food ...
The Future of Music Coalition Policy Summit Preview
ine years ago, a Washington, D.C.-based non-profit called the Future of Music Coalition held its very first policy summit. The world had begun to buzz with questions about where music was headed (What are we going to do about piracy? Will record labels still exist?), but the discussions rarely seemed to include the people actually creating ...
Authenticity Will Always Win on Stage
[Editor's Note: The following post was written by Sami Fischer, the lead singer of My Glorious, a rock band based in Vienna, Austria. It was originally published on Know the Music Biz, and appears here with the author's permission. It has been edited for content and clarity] Sometimes when I think of music, it seems like ...
An Interview with IMSTA President Ray Williams
This Saturday, September 25, the International Music Software Technology Association, or IMSTA, will hold its third annual IMSTA Festa at the School of Audio Engineering in New York. Whether it takes place in Tokyo, Berlin, or New York, each Festa gives the world's top audio software companies the chance to offer their wares, in some cases ...
Tinderbox Founder Alyson Greenfield on Putting Together Her First Festival
On Sunday, September 26, the Tinderbox Music Festival will be held for the first time. The festival, which will be held at the Brooklyn-based venue Southpaw, is designed to create a new space for women musicians to connect and perform together. 100% of its proceeds will go to non-profit groups dedicated to empowering and educating young ...
An Interview with Buke and Gass, Part 1
Finding a unique sound is one of the greatest challenges musicians face. And the Brooklyn-based duo Buke and Gass, (pronounced “byuke" and “gace") comprised of Arone Dyer and Aron Sanchez, took a real ground-up approach in this endeavor—they created new instruments. Dyer, a veteran guitarist, plays a modified baritone ukulele (Buke) and Sanchez, a professional instrument-maker ...
What Press Releases Do That Twitter Can't
As the music business continues to groan and writhe and metamorphose into its newest form, a lot of its former features have begun to fall off like sheaths of dead skin. Artist development budgets? Gone. Albums as the primary unit of sale? So 2002. But press releases? AdAge's Simon Dumenco posted an article today which supposes ...
Next Big Sound: The Right Product at the Right Time
When Next Big Sound was named one of Billboard's Top Ten Music Start-Ups of 2010 last month, a variety of people hailed its offering of actionable intelligence and analytics as a breakthrough for artists everywhere. But other people, particularly those who had been watching digital music technology closely, must have thought there was something about NBS ...
Tips for Getting Your Music Licensed, Part Two
[This post was written by Eric Herman, the president and co-founder of Modiba. Herman runs Modiba Publishing, an international music publishing and licensing company representing over 250 artists. Modiba's clients include Universal Studios, NBC, Disney, Target, AT&T, ESPN, Pottery Barn, Teva, General Mills, CBC, Vodafone, and Mastercard. Check out part one] Know Where You Stand When ...
How to Return to an Instrument After a Long Hiatus, Part Two
This is part two of a posting from last week offering advice on how to revisit an instrument you haven't touched in a while. Hope it's helpful, and please check out part one if you missed it. Start Out With Familiar Material Remember that one lick you used to play every time you grabbed ...
