I had a chance to talk to Mike Huppe, President of SoundExchange, about how artists get paid for the public performance of their recordings. (See Part 1 for the backgrounder). If you are a featured artist or sound recording owner, you can register at www.soundexchange.com This...
(2) Comments | Posted April 26, 2012 | 2:20 PM
I had a chance to talk to Mike Huppe, President of SoundExchange, about how artists get paid for the public performance of their recordings. This interview is available as a podcast at Arts+Labs Innovation Central.
Background: This is an important distinction that is frequently lost on the public...
(0) Comments | Posted February 15, 2012 | 3:20 PM
I caught up with John Pointer, a great artist from Austin, Texas (see his "Holy Trinity of Rhythm") and talked to him about his new web venture Patronism.com We also recorded a podcast which is available on Innovation Central.
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(2) Comments | Posted January 11, 2012 | 4:10 PM
This post is Part 2 of a two-part interview with mastering great Bob Ludwig of Gateway Mastering. Read Part 1 here
I'm sure you don't master with freeware, can you give an overview of the kind of technology you use?
Bob Ludwig: We have great state-of-the-art...
(5) Comments | Posted December 30, 2011 | 1:37 PM
Mastering is the last and probably the least understood step in the audio recording process.
Mastering engineer Bob Ludwig is one of the true living legends of the music business. In addition to being a Grammy winning engineer, he has received many TEC Awards for excellence and was...
(0) Comments | Posted December 21, 2011 | 2:31 PM
Chairman Herb Kohl and Senator Mike Lee of the Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights wrote an interesting letter urging the Federal Trade Commission to investigate the issues raised against Google by several of the subcommittee's senators. This passage is striking:
"As discussed at...
(33) Comments | Posted December 10, 2011 | 4:58 PM
Writing in the Huffington Post, Leslie Harris, the president and CEO of the Center for Democracy & Technology, accused Senator Chris Dodd of promoting Internet censorship through rogue website blocking. Harris wrote that Senator Dodd "...directly (and apparently favorably) compared the Internet filtering contemplated in two controversial U.S....
(5) Comments | Posted November 7, 2011 | 3:43 PM
It's often been said of struggling political candidates that patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels. Historically, it's been a sound strategy, often enabling the "scoundrel" to steal a comeback victory by standing up for flag and country. In the digital age, the patriotism ploy has been updated with the...
(0) Comments | Posted April 30, 2012 | 2:57 PM