Les Angelus
A new work in a new style. Inspired by Arvo Part and Brian Eno…
Laser-Accurate microphone
This looks pretty interesting… and pretty expensive…
Via Engadget
BMI and ASCAP have it wrong
BMI and ASCAP are attempting to receive royaltiesf or the 30 Second Sample you listen to when you preview a song. Link HERE
Read that again…
Now, don’t get me wrong, I tend to support BMI and ASCAP in various ways, but this is just ridiculous. Royalties to PREVIEW a song. The problem here is to complicated to get into:
1. Who pays for the preview? Us? Apple? Record Companies? Which means prices go up
2. Its a PREVIEW. Its like going to Borders and having to pay a tax to flip through a book or read the back cover of a magazine you MAY purchase
3. How else are we to hear new and different music? Clear channel owns everything, so we can’t go to the radio, TV is no help, shows are great if you live in a major city.. I could ssay more, but you get the idea…
4. From the article
“We make 9.1 cents off a song sale and that means a whole lot of pennies have to add up before it becomes a bunch of money,” said Rick Carnes, president of the Songwriters’ Guild of America. “Yesterday, I received a check for 2 cents. I’m not kidding. People think we’re making a fortune off the Web, but it’s a tiny amount. We need multiple revenue streams or this isn’t going to work.”
Ok… did you think about that before you signed your life away to a record company? That’s called the fine print… I suggest you, as the president of SGA give that a read sometime.
5. ASCAP and BMI get paid based on “the use of a work.” So, if you want to use a work, you should have to pay to see if you want to use it… before you pay to use it. Nutz.
The article also mentions streaming audio on the iTunes Radio… Thats trick, and I am not as bitter about that… so no rant here…
This has to stop… everyone’s “I have to get mine” is insane… too angry to continue…
ProTools on the cheap
ProTools now comes bundled with various hardware configurations; with a mic, with a keyboard, and with a USB interface. Not bad to get you started. What seems to be the most annoying problem is that the hardware you use serves as the iLok key, and therefore it must be attached to use the software. Still, pretty good to start, though I prefer Reaper
Enjoy Nudge
Lots of fun…
Visit there homepage here
5 reasons nobody is buying your music
At GrindEFX they discuss the top 5 reason no one is buying your music.
They mention some very important things, most importantly, I feel, is the discussion of the Fan Pyramid. This concept is rather imprtant to those just getting started in the biz. For example, do you own full albums of every song you own, or just the one download. That’s what I thought…
Electronic Music Foundations
While working on class outlines for this upcoming year, I created this chart to hopefully give them a better understand of timing, composers, and the links from one to the next. Its not very pretty, but I think it works.
Let me know what you think, if you use it, or think it need some changes.
