The Record Production Portal
This portal is focused on music production within the era of written records through sound recordings, digital downloads, and beyond. Its scope includes articles that document the considerations and mechanisms used by, and consistent with, the purview of the production element. As an art form, music predates transcription and simultaneously transcends descriptive limitations. As an industry, music has demonstrated consistent viability over time. The record producer conjoins these potential, and serves as a broker to bridge the demand (spawned by their aspirations) with supply and satisfaction. The results are measurable and attributable, derived from effort and skillful application of craft, to a manifestation of the art in its melodic form. (Read more)
The music industry consists of the individuals and organizations that earn money by writing songs and musical compositions, creating and selling recorded music and sheet music, presenting concerts, as well as the organizations that aid, train, represent and supply music creators. Among the many individuals and organizations that operate in the industry are: the songwriters and composers who write songs and musical compositions; the singers, musicians, conductors, and bandleaders who perform the music; the record labels, music publishers, recording studios, music producers, audio engineers, retail and digital music stores, and performance rights organizations who create and sell recorded music and sheet music; and the booking agents, promoters, music venues, road crew, and audio engineers who help organize and sell concerts. (Read more)
Did you know (auto-generated) -
- ... that Castle Recording Laboratory, Nashville's first commercial recording studio, was established in a repurposed hotel banquet room?
- ... that to promote the Buffalo Club, Rising Tide Records sent packages of plastic buffalo to music industry executives in Nashville?
- ... that according to Billboard magazine, Laufey created a blueprint for jazz music in the modern music industry and helped push it back into the mainstream?
- ... that the Guns N' Roses debut studio album Appetite for Destruction was recorded at a recording studio founded by 1970s pop duo Captain & Tennille?
- ... that when Divine's song "Lately" topped the Billboard Hot 100 in 1998, it became the first number-one single for the performers, the songwriters, the producers, and the record labels?
Born this day
- Birthdays in Music: April 18
- Hal Galper, American jazz pianist, turns 86.
- Gus Galbraith, Brit trumpeter and flugelhorn player, turns 85.
- Jorge Anders, Argentinian saxophonist, turns 85.
- Danny Gottlieb, American session musician (drummer), turns 71.
- Fred Stride, bandleader, composer, and music teacher, turns 71.
- Mark Tremonti, American guitarist of Alter Bridge and Creed fame, turns 50.
- Skip Spence (Record production, 1946 –April 16, 1999), Canadian-born American singer-songwriter and musician of Moby Grape and Jefferson Airplane, would have turned 78 this year.
- Walt Levinsky (Record production, 1929 –December 14, 1999), American alto saxophonist and clarinetist, would have turned 95 this year.
- Ken Colyer (Record production, 1928 –March 08, 1988), Brit cornetist, guitarist, and trumpeter, would have turned 96 this year.
- Jimmy Rowser (Record production, 1926 –June 24, 2004), American bass player, would have turned 98 this year.
- Leo Parker (Record production, 1925 –February 11, 1962), American saxophonist, would have turned 99 this year.
- Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown (Record production, 1924 –September 10, 2005), American blues guitarist and vocalist, would have turned 100 this year.
- Tony Mottola (Record production, 1918 –August 10, 2004), American guitarist, would have turned 106 this year.
- Little Brother Montgomery (Record production, 1906 –September 06, 1985), (born Eurreal Wilford Montgomery) American pianist and vocalist, would have turned 118 this year.
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