RCCNY
In case I haven't made it clear, the Russian Chamber Chorus of New York will be performing on Prairie Home Companion this coming Saturday, the 19th of December. Show starts at 6pm. Check your public radio listings.I've been working with the Russian Chamber Chorus for several years now. And each ...
Ranting
"Oh I really liked him when I was growing up so everything he did was perfect." STFU and get some critical distance. Michael Jackson sucked. He made bland MOR pop songs and sold a lot of records just as "independent promoters" were at their most powerful. Big deal. The Beatles? ...
More Notes
Gardentone is one of those mixer-less recording studios. It's in Williamsburg. Part of 3rd Ward which has metal and wood shops and artist spaces, all of which would be very interesting to those building sets (ahem...)
Variety of Sanguine
Second Variety was the Phillip Dick story they made into Screamers. I always thought that Screamers was ALMOST a good movie. Oddly, they seem to have taken out many of the cooler and more cinematic things from the book. Note to self: normally you want to go the other way ...
Echoes
Influences.I just finished reading Nick Mason's Inside Out A Personal History of Pink Floyd. The book is fascinating if only because Mr. Mason's view of the amazing history of this seminal rock act is (admittedly) one which only the drummer, trained as an architect, could have. On occasion the details ...
Overblogging
Man, I have been overblogging lately. If only I could get started shooting a movie, I wouldn't be overblogging. To make your band's album cover, do the following:1 - To get the name of your band, go to Wikipedia and hit “random” or click here. The first random Wikipedia article you get is ...
Open Source Music
Wikipedia has a bunch of open-source classical music in the ogg format. The quality of the performances has a wide variance. Some of it is pretty good. It almost always needs a bit more reverb to smooth things out. Or maybe that's just me.The Fulda symphony orchestra has some CD's ...
Easy target
Drummers are so easy to make fun of. "What do you call a guy who hangs out with musicians? A drummer!" Get it? Ha HAA!The irony is that the drummer in a band has to be better than anyone else in the band has to be. If you have a ...
Sequencing
I'm kickin' it old-school. Or rather, I came very close to kicking it very old school and rehabilitating my Amiga 500 computer and putting it in my modern edit suite next to my dual quad-core Mac.But I didn't.This is how the story goes:Sometime back in the mid-late 1980's I bought ...
Words and Music
Today I got a first draft of a new screenplay from Montserrat Mendez but he doesn't want me to actually read the thing 'till he does another pass at it. I may just have to read it. He owes me the next draft on Wednesday! ;-)You can listen to some ...