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The Balance Sheet: This is how much each player got paid at the end of the game on sales of $3m |
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| Producer: | $ 90,000 |
| Studio: | $ 52,500 |
| Agent: | $ 7,500 |
| Band member net income each: | $ 4,031.25 |
Source: Netribution originally taken from Steve Albini’s post (Former Nirvana producer).
It’s Friday. I’m in a frustrated mood due to Digidesign test administration issues. Here’s a guitar.
Today features tiny but not insignificant pointers toward enlightenment.
1. Louis’ blog; -Career as “bed of roses”…written for teachers but applies to everyone.
2. Trent Reznor’s Remix Project. Good source for free raw remix tracks (but you have to register w/ email). If you want these tracks, have an external hard drive ready…. they’re huge!
Dear Illegal Downloaders,
I found a link to this on Listenerd’s site and it struck a familiar chord with me. I thought I’d write and encourage you to repent of your illegal downloading activity and attempt to make amends by following the advice found here:
P.S. Te absolvo.
Here’s a short guide to advertising online. (Million Music Marketing).
Musician’s Notebook offers advice on blogging for bands.
The RIAA may be afraid of targeting Harvard students due to 2 faculty members specifically and the Harvard Law School in general.
New Music Strategies has suggestions/software to help you “Git ‘Er Done”.
peace,
j
From another blog, check out this Radiohead promotion summary post here:
The public no longer respects the duty and role musicians and other artists fulfill in society. They don’t see the need to pay us for our work, just like the industry didn’t when it started ripping us off decades ago.
And that is why out of all Radiohead’s fans, only 38% didn’t steal from the band, and just because they offered the choice doesn’t make it right.
Then I remembered a Jonathan Savage post that you probably missed and thought it would be appropriate here:
Creativity - in the form of the arts, music and thinking more imaginatively about subjects - are an important part of an all-round education, says the select committee report. But there have been fears that schools, under pressure to focus on academic standards, could be neglecting such areas. And the report by MPs concludes that more should be done to protect these areas of creativity.’
A full report of their deliberations can be downloaded here.
Creativity gets no respect unless its marketed; if we continue to give it away, we devalue it. Conversely, if it is in short supply, there will be high demand. This is generally described as “law” in the field of economics. Remember when people give away things at grand openings? Radiohead is a marketing experiment. At least I hope that’s all it is.
MusicThing releases Part II of its Christmas Gift List.
Ladies and Gentlemen; …
20 Non-boring Christmas Gifts for Musicians which cost less than $200.
Guitarists, put down your beer; –the online universe comes into focus for you! MusicGadgets reports on a new Blogring just for guitarists. Get you blogfix or find a new place to grind your axe (pun intended) here:
Guitar Noize | IG Blog | Strat-O-Blogster | Guitar MX | Mad Stratter | Guitarz | Building the Ergonomic Guitar | Guitritus | Musician’s Notebook | GuitarToyBox | IGUITARGOD | Mr. Blues Guy | markmcguigan.com | Acoustic Guitar Player | iFingers Guitar Experience | Play Like a Girl | Electric Guitar Review | Guitar Novice | Truth in Shredding | Thumbrella | Music Ramble | The Soul of Rock and Roll | Guitar Lifestyle | GuitaroJam News | Music Gadgets | The Guitar Channel | The Guitar Resource | Guitar Stuff | Axe Victim | Guitar Flame | Desafinados (spanish)
Are we to get a list every month of universities who allow this downloading/P2P sharing to continue?
I’m wondering who’s on our list?
From the RIAA site :
In the tenth wave of this initiative, the RIAA this week sent letters in the following quantities to 16 schools including: Boston University (40 pre-litigation settlement letters), Brown University (12), Central Michigan University (28), Columbia University (43), Dartmouth College (22), Duke University (27), North Carolina State University (38), Princeton University (10), University of Chicago (14), University of Connecticut (26), University of Maine System (34), University of Nebraska-Lincoln (14), University of Pennsylvania (16), University of Tennessee-Knoxville (32), University of Texas-Austin (50) and Yale University (11).
Future of Music Coalition’s blog has a take on the U.S. Senate hearings on public performance royalties.
Basically, if a song receives airplay on the traditional radio outlets, the composers/songwriters get paid but the performing artist doesn’t. In the past, everytime the performers’ rights organizations have lobbied congress to repeal the exemption, the National Association of Broadcasters defeats it.
The FMQB quotes NAB chair Steve Newberry:
“I’m trying to find out what’s happening this week, but no luck so far… I’ll keep you posted”What I fail to understand after nearly 30 years in the radio industry is why the recording industry is willing to essentially bite the hand that feeds it. ”
Also from FMQB is this quote from Lyle Lovett:
“When radio plays recorded works, they generate profit for themselves because they attract listeners and advertising dollars. Yet radio has never compensated performers for the value their creative work brings to the radio industry, because the Copyright Act does not protect sound recordings in the same way it protects the underlying songs,” said Lovett. “Let’s face it. No one tunes into a radio station to hear the commercials.”
Can you imagine what radio would be like if the NAB lost this year?
Got 43 minutes? Artistshousemusic.org has posted a great video interview of Chris Scarabosio, Skywalker Sound’s lead sound designer. He talks about recording techniques, his work on films and tv series, and using Pro Tools. Actually, there are several videos by Chris on this site; a worthy visit for anyone considering sound design as a career.
Download (from Gearwire) Malcolm Toft on music technology.
Music Thing’s Top 10 Christmas Music Gadget Gifts (If price is no object).
Cellyspace Beta lets you compose your own ringtones. *UPDATE* It costs to download ringtones or to send messages, but bands who create ringtones for their fans can earn a commission on each one downloaded.
*My advice: –learn to use this site ASAP!)*
Hypebot ponders the future of DRM-free downloads.
Harmony central reports that a California company called Novatunes will reinvent the album with their upcoming site launch; they will sell only packaged downloads.
MediaFuturist reports that Text is dead; the future is Videoweb Content.
The Good Musician has a curious post seeking comments on a guitar performance by John Williams.
Finally, you higher-ed types out there should read Louis’ thoughts on Educational Lovelessness.
Make it a good day.
-j
Monitor size and strategy. He’s right about being “wow-ed” by a great sounding set of monitors. This is why my subwoofer sits unused in my office. Here’s where you can get the real scoop on this tip.
Apparently it’s a slow music blog day on the ol’ net, unless you’re apt to become excited over Toilet MP3 players…
I’m waiting for Charles Dye to get here (Stankonia) and just found out the class has been delayed one hour. Looks like there are seven of us and the coffee is brewing in the lounge area, so I’m off to round up a little caffeine…
‘later.
J
New videos are up at the Digidesign site! Today the 7.4 upgrade is released! Life is good! Yay!
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From http://rcrdlbl.com/ :
All of our downloads are free and legal, but we’d ask that you not rehost the tracks on your site or use them in any way that might be considered commercial. Since this is an ad-supported venture the best way to support what we’re doing is to visit the site on a regular basis and/or to embed one of our widgets on your blog (you may have noticed the little modules on the right). The whole point behind the widgets is that we want to make it easy to grab any element of the site, from streaming music and tour dates, to photos and videos, and embed it in your own site or on your OS X Dashboard. We’ll be adding compatibility with more platforms soon.
\Thanks to Hypebot\
This is cool, but somehow very disturbing.
Inventor Chris Adams developed “robotic technology that allows the Robot Guitar to switch effortlessly between multiple tunings, keep a guitar perfectly intonated, and even change strings.”
First build an audience and give up your music for free. When you have an audience, then start thinking about money.
-Gerd Leonhard (Interview with Gerd/Wicked Whammy)
Digidesign has unveiled a new video content streampage that lets you browse and view product info, tips and tricks.
There are 6 new videos about version 7.4!
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On Friday, I’m taking the afternoon off and driving over to Atlanta with my wife to hear three very special and talented performers; Paul and Storm and Jonathan Coulton. It’s hard to describe them; sort of a “Kirk/Spock meets Arlo Guthrie” hybrid.
Sit back and wonder what it’s like to make a living as a singer/songwriter. I suppose your average workday might start out a little like this: or this.
Ordinarily, I’d promise you pics, but the Sanyo HD camcorder is in the shop and they called today to tell me I’d purchased a greymarket unit that won’t be covered under warranty. Oh well. I guess I’ll pay the difference in repair costs that I saved between Broadway Camera’s price and Amazon’s. No biggie!
In other news, Seth Godin has 2 small but very intelligent posts on his blog today:
Small Business and Put it in your… –worthy reads!
Make it a good day!
-J
Digital Audio Insider shared an interesting interview from
Cory Doctorow (Via Kottke.org). Check this statement out:
And the ethical reason /for allowing free sharing on the ‘net/ is that the alternative is that we chide, criminalize, sue, damn our readers for doing what readers have always done, which is sharing books they love—only now they’re doing it electronically. You know, there’s no solution that arises from telling people to stop using computers in the way that computers were intended to be used. They’re copying machines. So telling the audience for art, telling 70 million American file-sharers that they’re all crooks, and none of them have the right to due process, none of them have the right to privacy, we need to wire-tap all of them, we need to shut down their network connections without notice in order to preserve the anti-copying business model: that’s a deeply unethical position. It puts us in a world in which we are criminalizing average people for participating in their culture.
So copying is the new culture and the main reason for computers? Bah!
Gerd Leonhard’s MediaFuturist has a wonderful video interview about the price of freedom on the Internet. What if your employer fired you because of some comment you made on your facebook page?
Most importantly, someone at Dallas Baptist U. is spending too much time playing Guitar Hero…
(thanks, Listenerd).
1. Invest in a song! You can own rights to “Friends in Low Places” and many other songs. (DAI).
2. Nashville Songwriters Assoc. buys the Bluebird Cafe in Nashville. (coolfer)
3. Mediafuturist reminds us that the future of Internet is in the phone.
4. Read Hypebot’s interesting theory on the Rise of the Musician Middle Class.
Sound/Chair begins as a sound that is precisely crafted to form the shape of a chair when visualized as a 3-dimensional object using a volume, time, frequency plot. The chair is an exact replica of the soundwave graph. The result is a product with dual existence as both a sound and chair, and a new approach to designing products. (Listenerd).
6. Who’s popular where? - the worldwide music listening map! (Listenerd).
7. Ad-Supported Music sheds some light on the Radiohead debate:
…once the novelty of these “name-your-price” schemes wears off, the percentage of people who pay will fall to near zero.
8. Million Music Marketing reports that ChartU beta has launched. This allows bands to upload music which is voted upon by listeners and sorted into “Charts”.
9. The Good Musician tells us why Music Theory is the best.
10. Jonathan Savage reminds us that Creativity in schools needs more support.
A very nice 3 page article on the birth and state of China’s music market comes from the UK Register via MediaFuturist. Happy Reading!
Look carefully at the signal path in this picture: do you know what is getting ‘verb? What tracks end up with the T-Racks EQ? An important part of learning to work within the box is the ability to visualize signal flow. To my students; –10 Extra Credit points added to a bad test grade if you will take the time to illustrate the signal path via a flowchart and put it in my mailbox before Nov. 9th.
Click on the picture to zoom in.
An interesting article that goes with the picture can be found at the ProMedia blog. Thanks guys!
Some of you may not have heard of the forthcoming virtual guitaramp plugin from Digi: –Here’s a very short overview:
Video not working? Go here: http://www2.digidesign.com/eleven/media/index.cfm
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