Story – How Do I Find the Stories I Tell?

I just watched an interview with Kim Jung Gi. I had never heard of the guy. He's a Korean Cartoonist who has a tremendous style & output. I guess the video appeared to me because he uses a brush pen and I was just looking at one because my old one is dying. Kim Jung … Continue reading Story – How Do I Find the Stories I Tell?

Reaper vs Reason Sound Test

I saw that there was a new version of Reaper with all these apparent improvements to how it looks and therefore flows to work with. Reason has got its shiny new Rack VST - now with added MIDI Out so... I launched Reaper - looks nice - and added a Reason Rack with a Europa. … Continue reading Reaper vs Reason Sound Test

Streaming Music is Destroying Music for All. All the Money is gone.

What did The Revolution really bring us? This article started life on the Q&A site Quora under the title: How do musicians and songwriters make any money when you can listen to any music for free? When you look at the numbers I hope you are horrified at how badly streaming has treated us and … Continue reading Streaming Music is Destroying Music for All. All the Money is gone.

Moving an Artist 7 Years in 3 Days – this is What I Do & How I Do it

What if I could show you a way to springboard your Art (Music, Painting, Kung Fu, Formula 1 Driving) ahead in massive steps in a really short amount of time? Would you want that? What would it be worth to you and your work? I will admit that uptake for what I offer is not … Continue reading Moving an Artist 7 Years in 3 Days – this is What I Do & How I Do it

Compression Below the Threshold

This was a question in a foum: Please confirm if this statement is true or not "the compression still works and compresses even when the signal falls below the threshold". If not... I don't see why release would be doing anything to the signal...if yes please further explain so I can understand. An image was … Continue reading Compression Below the Threshold

Hotel California – electronic cover

https://www.facebook.com/benedict.roffmarsh/videos/10157828606687640/ More Covers Below - and an offer... Eagles "Hotel California" was on in the car as we drove home the other day and I just really felt I wanted to have a go at it with pure electronic sounds. Here is a cover that is true to the original Eagles song (well as true … Continue reading Hotel California – electronic cover

Music as a Healing Modality

The Scream Music or frequencies cannot influence health as directly as some pseudo-scientists try to claim. Yes, sound can make sand or water dance but that only demonstrates how sound moves in an enclosed space when interacting with sand or water. To make the leap that this irrevocably proves that all sound changes us is … Continue reading Music as a Healing Modality

Hiding In Plain Sight – The Lure of Safety

I have spoken to this subject many times through other articles & videos. But in the last few days I have had a few situations where I have watched people retreat from the opportunity to do something different and unique so they could try their best to do the most average thing they could - … Continue reading Hiding In Plain Sight – The Lure of Safety

The Design Brief – how to Win with Freelancers

Understandably enough when many people start thinking about making something they tend to think results. It is natural enough. You need to know what the thing looks like before you can build it. But is that really wise? Actually no. Bridges all tend to look different. Some have lots of rigging in pretty "sail" patterns … Continue reading The Design Brief – how to Win with Freelancers

Music Licensing – who owns what, where, when

Music licensing can be a very complex subject, but only if we let it. Very simply, every piece of music is owned by someone. The technical term is Intellectual Property (I.P.) which means that an idea and it's execution has value - which it has or we'd never listen to Metallica records. License options depend … Continue reading Music Licensing – who owns what, where, when