Jump Inside NYC Music & Sound With SonicScoop

August 18th, 2009 by Janice Brown

In these five hallowed boroughs and points nearby, there’s no shortage of music and sound, or of the brilliant people who make it. There are five bands on every block in Brooklyn, a producer per square foot in Queens, studios up and down Staten Island, beatmakers shaking the Bronx, and mixers all across Manhattan.

But wait, there’s more. Music supervisors are calling the shots over in the Viacom building at 1515 Broadway. Advertising gurus are picking commercial hits on Madison Avenue, and publishers are signing on the dotted line from the Brill Building in Times Square. Entertainment attorneys are as numerous as hot dog stands. Internet smarties are up late in DUMBO inventing the next online music miracle, while little labs in Long Island City give birth to new stompboxes.

The big thing that’s missing is a network that can tie it all together. NYC’s artists and the music professionals that work with them rely on little more than a word-of-mouth network, one which has been vastly reduced by the dispersion of their label contacts and the shuttering of so many studio haunts. Still, our city’s talent routinely needs drum rooms, great engineers, risky mixers, top mastering ears, management and label support…they all need to find each other, and everything is available right here.

SonicScoop is NYC’s music and sound production connection.

SonicScoop's founders (l-r): David Weiss, Janice Brown and Mark Kondracki

SonicScoop’s (l-r) David Weiss, Janice Brown and Mark Kondracki

It’s the knowledge you need, written by David Weiss who’s covered NYC audio since 1999 for Audio Media and Mix, and been a contributor to everything from Time Out NY to Drum!, and Janice Brown, whose covered the industry for Pro Sound News, EQ and Mix. CTO Mark Kondracki’s domain is Out Loud Audio and JumpNYC, bringing both audio and web development expertise to the SonicScoop team.

It’s the marketplace of opportunities you’re looking for. The classifieds are there to let artists and audio professionals find each other for projects, sublet their studio spaces, and sell their gear to a more selective audience.

It’s what’s to come: We will continually roll out essential services for building our careers in music and audio production and business, and living the dreams that led us to this majestically chaotic metropolis.