digital musician: Recent Episodes

pete whitfield

Podcasts about working in music, with a slant towards digital habits for musicians. Subscribe in iTunes

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Cameron Osteen is a young musician I met via the forum Future Producers. I was impressed not only by his music, but by the way he uses the web to learn and develop - a true 21st Century digital musician, joining in the global conversations, self-publishing and projecting his identity online.
His blog is 'A hard day's night'.
Hear his music on myspace.

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Simon Humphrey is a respected recording engineer and lecturer. In this podcast my friend Dominik Johnson talks to him about his career, changes he has seen and how to establish a career in the music industry.

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Simon Pursehouse of Sentric Music talks about his company, change in the music business and the social web for musicians. Apologies about the sound quality (and the numpty asking the questions).
Simon mentions a few websites - here are the links.
Sentric Music
Sentric blog
Sentric on Twitter
Ian Britt
Dubber (New Music Strategies)

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This is a short video podcast, showing an example from Manchester Musician (the social network for music at The Manchester College) of peer support. It demonstrates how social web services let us help each other learn and develop. A better resolution quicktime version is here.

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This is an interview with mastering engineer Ian Shepherd, taken from the virtual guest series at Manchester Musician. Ian talks about working music, the mastering process and the social web for musicians.
Ian's blog is Mastering Media.

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Part to of the interview with Ian Livingstone, animated with Xtranormal.

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Ian Livingstone talks about writing for video games. Bit of an experiment this one - I used the xtranormal service to create an animation.

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Mike Kintish is a song writer. His band The Yeah Yous is signed to Island Records and their debut album will be released in 2009. In this podcast he talks about the role of a record label in promoting a new band, and how he composes and produces music.

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Composer Jay Price talks about writing production music, his working methods and some of the intricacies of MCPS and PRS.

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Bass player and musical director Oroh Angiama talks about his work and passion for music.

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Mark O'Donoughue is in the Manchester band Karma - he works hard to promote the band in a variety of ways, including 'media hijack' where he puts the band's music with existing advertising videos on YouTube. Here he explains why and how.

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Ed White talks about diversifying to keep working in music, his composing methods and how his work generates incomes.

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Composer, musician, audio and video producer Tim Duncan talks about creating scores for the Imperial Ice Stars.

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Composer Simon May talks about working in media music and how his music generates income.

http://homepage.mac.com/realstrings/podcasts/simonmay.mp3

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Film composer - Richard MItchell talks about his work.

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Louise Turner - singer and songwriter - got just the right kind of break when Elbow asked her to do backing vocals on their Mercury Music Prize winning album The Seldom Seen Kid.

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Ken Lewis - music producer talks about his way of making music.

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He's a Manc and he's totally indie and he's got himself a record deal. That's my boy. I used to teach him. John Blaylock talks making music, 360 deals and getting from nowhere to somewhere.

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Mark Wadsworth - musician, composer and producer. Recorded April 2008.

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Henry Priestman, musician, songwriter, producer and singer talks about his creative process and the music business. This was recorded in May 2007.