Comprehensive instructional videos on recording techniques can be hard to love. They can be extremely dry, offer an overabundance of information, and can generally be difficult to navigate though in order to find the answers you are looking for.
But Studio Concepts, Gear and the Physics of Sound, the first installment of ASKVideo’s The Studio Edge: Pro Audio Audio Recording Series, while still slightly on the dry side, manages to successfully surmount other two aforementioned issues.
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A shot of JetBlue's Terminal 5 stage
At “A Conversation About Music, Marketing and JetBlue,” one of Advertising Week’s most interesting, relevant, and specific panels, Fiona Morrisson, the Director of Brand & Advertising for JetBlue, discussed Live From Terminal 5, a concert series in JFK airport’s Terminal 5.
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Even though Advertising Week is supposed to be for the ad men, that industry’s increased interest in music made a couple of yesterday’s panels especially interesting for musicians. [click to continue…]
Aron Sanchez, left, and Arone Dyer of Buke and Gass. Photo by Grant Cornett.
Earlier this week I spent some time talking with Brooklyn-based, custom-instrument-packing duo Buke and Gass as they crossed the border from Canada to America in their tour van.
Part one of that interview focused on the duo’s unique instruments – the buke (pronounced “byook”) and the gass (“gace”) – and the effect they had on making music together. Today, we focus on their influences, why they work better as a duo, and making all that racket live.
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