For those who prefer their keyboards in a horizontal orientation, here’s another chart dealing with the correlation of notes and frequencies. This was created with the intention of providing a visual guide to the frequency ranges occupied by several popular instruments, as well as a few cogent tips that may help with the tweaking of an overall mix…
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As I’ve been away from the wonderful world of the Internet for a week, I’ve had some time to do a bit of writing. The fruits of this labour will be presented in their entirety before too long, but in the meantime I have devised a couple of reference charts that may be of some benefit to musicians/producers, particularly those interested in the arts of arranging, equalisation and mastering…
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Those who invest in pop music success are constantly seeking more reliable ways of determining how to minimise risk on their investment. This means that they want to know if a song can be a hit before they put huge amounts of money into promoting it - and crowdsourcing is gaining considerable traction in this regard…
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The value of having a unique selling point for your music has never been more important than in the era of Web 2.0. One approach is the ‘made entirely on…‘ strategy, where an artist creates a song, or preferably an album, using a single piece of equipment. The more esoteric this piece of equipment, the more effective the gambit may be - creating an album entirely on a laptop does not qualify…
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Tomorrow is the 47th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s historic flight which made him the first human being to leave this planet. It’s also the anniversary of the first space shuttle launch, which took place exactly twenty years later, and today is the occasion of the 200th post on this blog. To celebrate two of the three events mentioned here, the NASA airfield outside San Francisco is hosting the Yuri’s Night event, which is a sort of cross between a technology expo and a music festival…
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A rather clever and technologically-savvy group of people have set up a new blog called Music Think Tank. This group includes Derek Sivers, Bob Baker, Andrew Dubber and Bruce Warila, who are all active participants in the modern music world and frequently share industry insights on their own sites. This promises to be a stimulating collaboration, as evidenced by yesterday’s post on technology cycles…
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It seems that Radiohead and the Internet are now the best of friends. After the successful release of ‘In Rainbows‘ as a discretionary payment download, the band have now set up their own social networking site and released a new single in ’stem’ format…
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The burgeoning realm of musical analysis software has been boosted by the launch of the Echo Nest, a startup that developed a ‘Musical Brain’ to aid music search and personalisation functionalities. They have already released a rather neat music analysis API, and plan to release new APIs each month…
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The recent addition of U2 to Live Nation’s roster of megastar talent comes as little surprise to anyone, particularly since Live Nation acquired U2’s merchandise provider, Signatures, last November. This could be seen as a natural progression for the market-savvy band, who have tended to be very alert to income maximisation opportunities. But is Live Nation really showing us the next economic model for music marketing?
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