St. Paul, MN (April 29, 2008) - Top music industry professionals discuss the realities of the music business and careers in music with more than 300 Minneapolis/St Paul Area high school students at GRAMMY Career Day, an initiative of the GRAMMY in the Schools® program. The day will include a variety of workshops focusing on various fields in the music industry. Students from numerous schools around the area will be represented including: St. Francis High School, Coon Rapids High School, Blaine High School, Anoka High School, Andover High School, S.T.E.P. (Secondary Technical Education Program) and South St. Paul High School. The program is presented by the Gibson Foundation and is free of charge. more
Propellerhead Software, makers of the highly acclaimed stand-alone music production system Reason, announces the continuation of its Producer Conference Series of events in San Francisco, CA, on May 3, 2008, Noon to 5:30 pm. Presented by Line 6 and hosted at Pyramind music production school (832 Folsom St., SFCA 94107), the 6-hour conference features artist appearances from Tommy Coster Jr. and DJ Khalil, along with James Bernard (Propellerhead Lead Product Specialist), Peff (aka Kurt Kurasaki, author of “Power Tools for Reason 3.0”) and Gerry Bassermann (Propellerhead Software Product Specialist) discussing a wide variety of topics on maximizing your Reason version 4 experience, including production and mixing techniques, sound design and more!
Whether you’re just getting started or an advanced Reason user, learn the inside tips and trick for making beats, use of Propellerhead’s new Thor polysonic synthesizer, Sequencer, ReGroove Mixer, streamlining your creative workflow, producing patches, sounds, and more! Attendees will have their chance to ask questions during the Artist section. This interactive learning session is only $35/per person. All attendees who are registered Reason version 4 users will receive a free “Music Production with Reason 4” DVD tutorial (valued at $59) at the event, so bring proof of your Reason registration! For more information and registration, go to: www.theproducersconference.com
SCHEDULE
• 11:30 am: Doors open
• 12:00-1:00 pm: Gerry Bassermann - “Improve Your Creative Workflow In Reason 4″
Discover powerful features in Reason version 4 and how you can improve your creative workflow with Reason’s new sequencer. Gerry will also be providing tips and tricks for Propellerhead’s new RPG-8, Combinator enhancements, NN-XT enhancements and more.
• 1:15-2:30 pm: Kurt “Peff” Kurasaki - “Modular Synthesis With Thor”
This tutorial will explore basic concepts behind sound design and using Reason’s new Thor Polysonic synthesizer. Peff will provide an in-depth look at the available oscillators and filter types. In addition, he’ll provide an in depth view of the modulation matrix and its capabilities.
• 2:45-3:45 pm: James Bernard - “Quantizing Your Beats With The ReGroove Mixer”
Learn the ins and outs of Reason version 4’s exciting new real-time ReGroove engine. James takes attendees on a guided tour exploring the limitless possibilities of this powerful feature for building and modifying grooves.
• 4:00-5:30 pm: Artist Panel / Q & A
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Tommy Coster, Jr. has an extensive range of credits include live and studio music recordings (Eminem, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Dido, Ice Cube, Carlos Santana, Mike Elizondo, Peter Frampton, Eric Clapton, 50 Cent, and more), film soundtracks, TV commercials, film trailers and film scoring projects. Coster worked with producer Dr. Dre on the “Marshall Mathers LP”, co-writing and performing on six tracks including the hit single, “The Real Slim Shady”. He has also written original scores for such films as “Serving Sara,” “The New Guy,” and “Barbershop 2″.
DJ Khalil is a Los Angeles based hip-hop / soul producer for Aftermath Entertainment and co-owns Angeles Records with DJ Muggs. He has worked on recording projects with Bishop Lamont, The Game, Xzibit, Talib Kweli, G-Unit, Cypress Hill, Nas, Jay-Z, and on 50 Cent’s new Curtis album single, “I’ll Still Kill”, featuring Akon.
Kurt Kurasaki, author of “Power Tools for Reason 3.0”, is a noted Reason user with credits in Keyboard and Computer Music magazines. He also works with Propellerhead Software as a sound designer and tutorial developer. Known as “Peff” throughout the Online ReBirth and Reason Communities, Kurt is one of the originators of ReBirth Mods.
Gerry Bassermann is an accomplished musician who works in many different acoustic and electronic styles. He holds several degrees in music composition and performance and currently owns and operates OPUS NINE (a project studio in the San Francisco Bay area). For over twenty years, he has worked for many prominent music companies, as a product designer, demonstrator and musical consultant. He is currently focused on electronic music composition and sound design, and teaches electronic music at University of California Santa Cruz.
James Bernard has a long and critically acclaimed career in the music industry as a recording artist with multiple releases and as Propellerhead’s Artist Relations Manager, Sound designer and Lead Demonstrator. He’s created original music for Re-Fills for Reason and travels the globe performing and hosting Propellerhead demos and training seminars.
About Pyramind
Pyramind is a media and music production school located in San Francisco, designed for the serious professional and developing recording artist. Pyramind’s certificate programs are the result of over 50 years of collective experience in production, composition, sound design, engineering, mixing, mastering, studio design and installation. Pyramind’s unique training programs include both Apple and Digidesign manufacture certificates. www.pyramind.com
About Propellerhead Software
Propellerhead Software is a privately owned company based in Stockholm, Sweden. Formed in 1994, Propellerhead has created some of the most innovative new music software (ReBirth, ReCycle and Reason) and technology standards, including ReWire and the REX file format, which are used extensively in all kinds of music production. Propellerhead ReBirth program was the first virtual emulation of vintage analog gear—a trend that now dominates music software. www.propellerheads.se
INDIANAPOLIS, IN — Recording on the road is never an easy feat, especially on a limited budget. With the help of Auralex Acoustics, Healing Sixes, a noted-rock and roll band, did just that for its third album, One Less Friend to Ignore. The album was recorded over a three-year period in several different locations.
The major concern with recording in multiple destinations is creating a consistent sound. This is where Auralex Acoustics, the industry leader in innovative sound control solutions, stepped in to heal the sound nuances throughout the recording process through its mobile line of products. more
HOLLYWOOD - EASTWEST‘s unprecedented 20th Anniversary Promotion will be coming to a close on Wednesday, April 30th, 2008. Users visiting the EASTWEST website, www.soundsonline.com , still have time to purchase select virtual instruments at greatly reduced prices. more
Louie Vega and Kevin Hedge Planted Their “Roots” brand Party on the beach for this year‘s Winter Music Conference in Miami. The vision of these true music pioneers is a simple one, Love. Love of their music, Love of their industry, and mostly Love of their fans.
The people were why this ground breaking event was produced. There was not a venue that suited this event so one was built right on the beach. Roots and 2mybeat.com were endorsed by BEHRINGER, and created the BEHRINGER “Just Listen” live sound stage consisting of 2 colossal speaker stacks on either side of the stage that made the entire beach pump. Now in the many years of BEHRINGER‘s history they have never participated at WMC… Talk about making an entrance. The who‘s who of the House music world attended. Which both Louie Vega and Kevin Hedge have grown accustomed to as industry leaders…they made them all “Just Listen”.
This talent filled beach concert featured fully live performances by Eric Roberson and Amp Fiddler that in short were absolutely amazing! Fusicology.com voted this event the highlight of the conference by honoring Roots and BEHRINGER with the title of best live performance and best party of the conference.
Eric had the 1000+ person crowd in the palm of his hand from the minute he hit the stage. At the peak of his show he worked the soulful house head crowd into frenzy when his house anthem “Don‘t Change” began with its signature keyboards. No other words other than… utter Magic. The entire tent singing word for word, a memory that all who attended will keep forever. By the time Detroit‘s own Amp Fiddler hit the stage it was a party. Amp and his amazing band took it to another level as he performed hit after hit to the adoring crowd. Amp hit them so hard that he dropped to the floor and started playing his tri level keyboard rig with his feet! The crowd went nuts!
A day and night full of great music, great people, and Miami in March. In closing, it‘s great that Louie Vega and Kevin Hedge keep finding ways each year to give back. With the enormous support they received from BEHRINGER they were able to give us this event for free. These House Moguls did not charge a cover at all during a week in Miami where door prices are in excess of 100 USD just to walk in and hear a DJ. The Roots family along with BEHRINGER gave our community much more, one of the most memorable experiences in WMC history. Thank You to everyone that made it happen.
Nashville, TN, April 21, 2008–When it comes to providing its customers with effective storage solutions, Nashville‘s premier rental company, Rack-N-Roll, always chooses Avastor. more
Elixir® Strings, pioneer of long-life strings, is giving loyal acoustic fans a chance to plug in with electric strings. During its Electric Strings Trial promotion, players will receive one complimentary electric set with the purchase of two acoustic sets. No coupon or mail-in rebate is necessary for taking advantage of this promotion, as the three-set multi-packs are prepackaged and available in participating stores. more
LAS VEGAS, NV–Solid State Logic, the world‘s leading manufacturer of analogue and digital audio consoles and provider of creative tools for music, broadcast and post production professionals, proudly announces the release of Matrix at NAB 2008, April 14-17, at the Las Vegas Convention Center (booth #N4031). Matrix offers a powerful combination of mixing console, signal router and workstation controller ideal for post production studios and television and radio broadcast facilities with rooms based entirely around a DAW. more
New music-making concept delivers sound in the palm of your hand
ANAHEIM, Calif.–Yamaha Corporation of America is set to reveal their award-winning new music-making technology, Tenori-on, for the first time in the United States with launch events for the public and press in NEW YORK on April 16 and SAN FRANCISCO on April 18, 2008.
Recently earning PC World Magazine‘s 25 Most Innovative Products Award at the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Tenori-on literally means “sound in the palm of your hand” and is a twenty-first century digital musical instrument that is part art-piece, part must-have music gadget for the iPhone generation. The brainchild of Japanese Media Artist Toshio Iwai, Tenori-on emanates from his experiments with light shows and musical boxes, resulting in a hand-held, burnished magnesium-encased matrix of 256 LED buttons that glow as you access different sounds and textures (‘Layers‘) over an infinitely repeating sequence of notes.
Sound images are literally drawn with Tenori-on using a host of internal sounds as well as samples loaded from external sources. With an interface where sight and touch are every bit as integral as sound, the Tenori-on music making possibilities are as endless as they are addictive.
Iwai has teamed with Yamaha, the world‘s largest and longest-established musical instrument company, forming an unusual partnership of old and new, art and music, light and sound, to bring Tenori-on to market. This first generation Tenori-on product will be selectively marketed as an introduction to this cutting edge technology as more products are planned over time. This will be welcome news to the nearly one million curious consumers that have viewed Yamaha‘s demo of the product on YouTube.
“The beauty of Tenori-on is that it offers a fresh approach to music creation no matter what your musical background and experience are,” said Athan Billias of Yamaha. “It’s exciting that Yamaha , a company known mostly for making traditional musical instruments is investing in cutting-edge technologies that will expand the market for music making.”
Launch events for the media and the public will take place in New York (Southpaw in Brooklyn on April 16th) and San Francisco (1015 Folsom on April 18th). The events will not only feature Toshio Iwai himself, explaining this new musical paradigm, but also a host of edgy new electronic artists such as Sutekh, Safety Scissors, Pole, and I Am Robot And Proud, who have already incorporated Tenori-on into their stage shows. The events are free to enter and will feature Demo Stations for an interactive experience.
Public registration for a launch event is free at www.tenori-on-tour.com. Press area passes can be obtained through RSVP to Brian McConnon at mtech marketing communications: brian@mtechmarketing.com or 610-480-8360.
