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90 per cent. of musicians are not millionaires—they earn about £15,000 a year from their royalties.
Michael Connarty - Labour MP, Falkirk East.
40,000 musicians and 3,500 record labels (that number seems large, to me) have apparently signed a petition to increase the length of time copyright exists on their art... and by extension, of course, the duration over which royalties are paid.
You'll rarely read posts from me urging you to check out an artist at all costs - In fact, this is the first time I believe. But when I do, you should take it seriously.
If you're reading this before Friday 30th March 07, go to Mary Anne Hobbs' BBC Radio 1 "Listen Again" page and immediately click on the "5 mins" button, four times (to fast-forward 20 minutes into the show) - too late!
Completely by chance, I got to meet with the legendary "era-defining" international DJ of house music, Jon Da Silva (Actually, it's Dasilva but you'll most likely see it written on flyers as Da Silva).
Here's a list of Windows Vista-compatible sound cards, as compiled by the good folks at IeXwiki, with comments where appropriate. I've also included what they list as incompatible - but workable - and the just plain incompatible.
On the sleeve-notes to one of Brian Eno's albums (sorry, can't remember which one), I remember reading how he came across an easy trick to achieve an "all-round ambient-type" sound from a stereo recording (and amplifier) by wiring a third rear speaker into a stereo amplifier - Brian Eno, for those that don't know, is regarded as the grandfather of ambient sound.
Create music to fit a specific scene in the upcoming new series of "Skins", and - if you win - have it actually used in the final cut of the TV show to be aired on E4 (sister station to Channel 4, a major UK TV channel, with attitude).
[UPDATE: Just saw it! See below... if you're really interested that is!]
Noneric - AKA Hans - of Digitalmusician.net and his team have been working hard on their online collaboration software - The Digital Musician Recorder (DM-Recorder) - over the last few months and, I have to say, just looks awesome.
I just happened to bump into the brother of Ian Lewis tonight - Haven't seen him for years. Good catching-up with you again Nigel ;)
Anyway, his brother, Ian, runs Whitby Studios (still!) which is based in the UK (Cheshire). Since 2003 they've been offering student placements for those wanting to learn the finer points of audio engineering, in a real working busy studio.
Upload your music promo videos, for free!
I was waiting for this to happen - Even thought about it myself but the costs of providing the bandwidth for downloading videos are frightening. Nevertheless, it was only a matter of time before someone came along that was brave enough to do it... and here they are, My Music Player TV.
It's been a while since I last read a good 'ole warez debate on the forums.
Press play!
Think of any popular brand in software - Cubase, Reason, FruityLoops, Photoshop, Dreamweaver etc. - and you will see a brand owing at least some of its success to the "freedom-fighters" of the web: the software crackers.
A side to the warez debate that often goes overlooked is it can potentially be worth $millions to the right company, with the right software. I'm gonna show you how this works using a forum post written by a member called Prime:
