After more than a year of planning, pleading, plotting, and praying, actual construction has begun! Here a photos showing the land just before and just after the first actual site work. Let’s start the tour! These first two views are taken from near our lily pond (actually a rain garden …
More coming to the right side of the loudness wars
As reported in ocregister, Death Cab for Cutie are trading volume for quality and integrity in the loudness wars. And not a moment too soon! The acoustic assault of over-compressed songs not only fatigue the mind, but harm the ears as well. I’m glad to see that more people are …
Fletcher writes about Discipline
One of my favorite internet forums is gearslutz.com. Filled with professional recording engineers, producers, and a reasonable number of musicians, it’s a great resource for reading about the technology, techniques, and aspirations of making great recordings. One of the posts to kick off the new year asked about discipline, and …
eSession.com — a modern way to produce music
Just before the new year I learned about eSession.com, a very well designed portal for hiring session musicians and producing music. Gina Fant-Saez has done a fantastic job engaging world-class studio musicians, engineers, and producers (who have a minimum of 15 major album credits) and creating an environment where requests …
The Track Shack opens its doors
From their press release: SACRAMENTO, CA — January 1, 2008—TheTrackShack.com today launched a brand new marketplace for musicians and fans to buy & sell CDs, Songs, and Tracks. Featuring the first ever CD mastered to offer production-level tracks, Bumped Up To First Class, the new site allows musicians to upload …
Stephin Merritt exposes his creativity
The NPR show All Things Considered issued a challenge earlier this year: write and record a song—in two days. Stephin Merritt took them up on their challenge, enjoying the benefits of NPR’s beautiful recording studio (studio 4a) fully stocked for his creative purpose. You can see a video of that …
David Byrne riffs on the music industry
David Byrne says: What is called the music business today, however, is not the business of producing music. At some point it became the business of selling CDs in plastic cases, and that business will soon be over. But that’s not bad news for music, and it’s certainly not bad …
This American Life—the remix
I have always been a huge fan of This American Life because of all the shows on our NPR affiliate station WUNC that I listen to during the week, none make me laugh or make me cry so more rapidly, so frequently, or so powerfully as a typical episode of …
Experience is the new luxury
I didn’t say it–Robert Frank did. Robert Frank covers the topic of wealth for the Wall Street Journal, and I have to say that his advice on which $1M watch to buy, or which $750,000 bottle of wine is ready for drinking is a bit too rich for my wallet. …
Sound familiar? A recording experience opens in Nashville
While looking at how Parlor Productions are put together, I came across a link for a creative workshop for event planners: The event involves Hit Songwriters from Nashville who gather together in small groups with the attendees, and write a short song or jingle about the company. Then the separate …