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Companion to How To Develop a Great Podcast or Audio Program If you look online you will see endless tips & tricks and adverts for all these things you must have to be “pro” when making a Podcast or audio recording. Generally, they are not helping you. Here is the advice I give to my… Continue reading Tips for Setting Up for Podcast or Audio Program Recording
Warm Meadows of Synthesizer Sounds - or W-MOSS for short - is a collection of 256 hand-tailored synthesizer sounds for Reason 10+ Buy W-MOSS : Warm Meadows of Synthesizer Sound W-MOSS sounds are deliberately relatively non-genre-specific. That is because they are designed for broader use wherever you want to build warmth & depth in your… Continue reading M-MOSS : Warm Meadows of Synthesizer Sounds
Audio Programs are many and varied. Most go under the catch-all term Podcast these days. Making great audio material is not particularly hard these days, so long as you keep your focus on what matters. Basically there are three parts to developing a podcast or audio program 1. Create the Material I am amazed at… Continue reading How to Develop a Great Podcast or Audio Program
Getting Work is Hard and Keeping it Sometimes Impossible I wrote this article and offered it to a national Autism body for their blog. Sadly after many months, I haven't heard a word from them so I assume they are disinterested. Might as well publish it here. Most employment agencies that work in the space… Continue reading Adult Aspie & Work
I haven't done a marketing article for a while and today I had the perfect thing show in my Inbox that wraps up what I've been thinking for a while. This is Dumb: eBay sent me an email with the Subject "We thought of you when we discovered these goodies..." This actually worked as it made… Continue reading You Don’t Know Me At All – Selfish Marketing 101
Back to Bach Ask most Pop & Rock musicians about Classical music and they tend to pull faces (about the same faces that the Classical types pull when the question is the other way around). Adjust that Q and swap Classical for Bach and most - well the older ones anyway - will say, yeah… Continue reading Plugged-In Bach – in Tribute to Wendy Carlos (and of course Bach)
https://youtu.be/6bHHAMkmraU This is the last week of pre-release for "Plugged-In Bach". This time it is the first of the Two-Part Inventions. Bach was a teacher as well as a composer. This was common then for musicians, as it has become again. Most Indi musicians make more as teachers than they do as musicians. I learned… Continue reading Two-Part Invention No. 1 – Bach
https://youtu.be/e0YlIcuwV0s Week Three of the release of my "Plugged-In Bach" is the deep 'n' dark one of the bunch. Cleverly hidden in the middle so no one notices how broody & melancholy it is. This one was written for the church. Back when the church service was a big thing. I guess really this fills… Continue reading Cantata No. 27 – Bach
This article will cover a few things but the concept of criticism will be common. It is me working out how & why on some things. As such it may be of no interest to you. Or it may be of great interest as either thinking material or to understand my brain a wee bit… Continue reading Criticism and its Role in Alienation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEs27WC4_SA Week Two of my lead up to release of my "Plugged-In Bach" tribute to Wendy Carlos and her "Switched-On Bach" sees me attack a Brandenburg Concerto. Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G major, BWV 1048. I actually did the bulk of this work several years ago as a semi-tongue in cheek demo of sounds… Continue reading Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 – Bach
