SonicScoop contributor and producer/engineer Justin Colletti recently launched his audio+music blog, Trust Me, I’m A Scientist and we think it’s rad—be sure to check it out and sign up for the TMimaS newsletter! SonicScoop will periodically publish excerpts and links to the articles we know you will dig (like this Read more...
GREATER NYC AREA: Summer sessions were all over the map this year. Now – just a week into September – we take a look back at some of the later-summer recordings happening around town…
Just last week at East Side Sound in the Lower East Side, Irish rock band Preacher’s Read more...
EAST VILLAGE, MANHATTAN: Radio still rules. Sure, we all spend a lot of time with our heads in headphones connected to our streaming devices, but as Spins.FM understands, there’s plenty of action happening on the airwaves.
Borne and bred in the East Village, Spins.FM launched its Social Radio Requests App Read more...
Hello, this is New York-based producer, songwriter, guitarist, and live electronic musician AfroDJMac. I like to describe my music as being futuristic yet nostalgic: it’s a blend of indie rock, electronica, glitch, and chip tunes, all wrapped up into catchy, fun, and sometimes introspective songs. It’s music that is great Read more...
For years, I’ve believed that subscription-based services would be the future of mainstream music distribution.
But that doesn’t make me a genius. Anyone who’s tried Netflix can see how much of a no-brainer the model is. It’s cheaper than buying or renting, easier than stealing, and it helps content producers Read more...
SonicScoop is proud to host a pair of live talks as part of AES’ Platinum Panels series. The first of these interactive discussions is “Creative Engineering: The Studio As an Instrument”, a panel that brings together four of the busiest and most innovative engineers in the business to talk about Read more...
Facility Name: The Isokon
Website: http://www.theisokon.com / http://www.djamesgoodwin.com
Location: Woodstock, NY
Neighborhood Advantages: Woodstock is a vibe place. It’s surrounded by mountains and trees, and lots of waterways, so you just get this feeling that you’re among some pretty deep juju up here. It’s also Read more...
Welcome to the second edition of “Insert Scene” – this month we’ll be talking about looping live instruments into an Ableton Live Session. Looping, in and of itself, has come a LONG way since Stockhausen and the Beatles in the 50’s and 60’s. It’s a concept that goes as far Read more...
SOHO, MANHATTAN: The night before we met up with Gobbler CEO Chris Kantrowitz, he invited us to a private Jane’s Addiction concert at Terminal 5.
His (other) company, Frank The Plumber, had been hired to design the “Jane’s Addiction Comes Alive” show, an experiential marketing event for the new Read more...
In issue #83 of my other favorite magazine, Tape Op editor Larry Crane details a list of lessons that “They Didn’t Teach You in [Recording] School”. Near the end of this page-long list of incisive barbs Crane offers a quip that reads as a gem of painfully dry studio wit: Read more...
