Many things define a studio. While a facility’s engineering talent, gear and reverb times often get the spotlight, the studio manager is an important part of the picture.
Blackbird Studio, one of Nashville’s flagship facilities, has recognized that with the recent appointment of Rolff Zwiep as Studio Manager. The post Read more...
Is a trip to the annual South by Southwest festival worthwhile for musicians? Judging by the fact that over 2,000 official acts, representing 53 countries, played in over 111 Austin venues this past week, it seems that many artists would say “yes”.
For many of them however, the trip may Read more...
In 1958, nuclear physicist William A. Higinbotham created a crude electronic tennis game for visitors to Brookhaven National Laboratory. “Tennis for Two” consisted of an analog computer, two controllers and an oscilloscope screen. It is widely considered to be the first video game.
Thirteen years later, Nolan Bushnell and Ted Read more...
At the core of a rebirth, an essential element of the original may still remain.
That’s the case with Catch This Music Recording Studio (CTM), which revived a Music Row space while retaining something special. Once the home of Bayou Recording, the studio’s reopening in 2011 as CTM made sure Read more...
So I am sitting there in the lushness of an SSL control room in a major studio here in NYC. Happy.
Happy to be engineering and producing a project for a very cool young trio of musicians from an African nation. Creative energy literally making me high, motivated to do Read more...
