Portal:Record production
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)
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- ... that until the release of the documentary Predator: The Secret Scandal of J-Pop, sexual abuse claims involving record producer Johnny Kitagawa went widely unreported in Japanese media?
- ... 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 Light Vessel 95 is now a recording studio?
- ... that to promote the Buffalo Club, Rising Tide Records sent packages of plastic buffalo to music industry executives in Nashville?
- ... 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?
- ... that one critic interpreted a SZA song as being about her fears about the growing influence of AI in the music industry?
Born this day
- Birthdays in Music: December 6
- Bill Ashton, Brit bandleader and saxophonist, turns 88.
- Jay Leonhart, American bass player, turns 84.
- Robb Royer, American songwriter and founding member of Bread, turns 84.
- Keith West, Brit vocalist for Tomorrow, turns 81.
- Jonathan King, Brit pop music producer, turns 80.
- Uli Beckerhoff, German trumpeter, turns 77.
- Miroslav Vitouš, Czech bass player with Weather Report, turns 77.
- Harvie Swartz, American double bassist, turns 76.
- Joe Hisaishi, Japanese film score composer, turns 74.
- Edward Tudor-Pole, Brit actor and vocalist of Tenpole Tudor fame, turns 69.
- Rick Buckler, Brit drummer for The Jam, turns 69.
- Peter Buck, American guitarist for R.E.M., turns 68.
- David Lovering, American drummer for The Pixies, turns 63.
- Ben Watt, Brit record producer with Everything But The Girl, turns 62.
- Hacken Lee, Hong Kong cantopop singer, turns 57.
- Mark Gardener, Brit guitarist with Ride, turns 55.
- Ulf Ekberg, Swedish keyboardist with Ace of Base, turns 54.
- Dulce María, (born Dulce María Espinoza Saviñón) Mexican latin pop singer of RBD fame, turns 39.
- Randy Rhoads (Record production, 1956 –March 19, 1982), American guitarist, would have turned 68 this year.
- Fritz Fryer (Record production, 1947–September 02, 2007), (born David Roderick Carney Fryer) Brit guitarist for The Four Pennies, would have turned 77 this year.
- Willie Hutch (Record production, 1944 –September 19, 2005), American Motown singer and songwriter, would have turned 80 this year.
- Mike Smith (Record production, 1943–February 28, 2008), Brit lead vocalist and keyboardist for The Dave Clark Five, would have turned 81 this year.
- Eddie Gladden (Record production, 1937 –September 30, 2003), American drummer, would have turned 87 this year.
- Norio Maeda (Record production, 1934–November 05, 2018), Japanese composer and pianist, would have turned 90 this year.
- Henryk Górecki (Record production, 1933–November 12, 2010), Polish classical music composer, would have turned 91 this year.
- Nikolaus Harnoncourt (Record production, 1929–March 05, 2016), German conductor, would have turned 95 this year.
- Bobby Van (Record production, 1928 –July 31, 1980), American Broadway theatre singer, would have turned 96 this year.
- Frankie Dunlop (Record production, 1928 –July 07, 2014), American drummer, would have turned 96 this year.
- Akira Miyazawa (Record production, 1927–July 06, 2000), Japanese tenor saxophonist, would have turned 97 this year.
- Bob Cooper (Record production, 1925 –August 05, 1993), American tenor saxophonist, would have turned 99 this year.
- Dave Brubeck (Record production, 1920 –December 05, 2012), American jazz pianist and composer, would have turned 104 this year.
- Hugo Peretti (Record production, 1916 –May 01, 1986), Italian songwriter and record producer, would have turned 108 this year.
- Armand Hug (Record production, 1910 –March 19, 1977), American pianist, would have turned 114 this year.
- Fulton McGrath (Record production, 1907 –January 01, 1958), American pianist, would have turned 117 this year.
- Slats Long (Record production, 1906 –March 12, 1964), (born Don Long) American clarinetist, would have turned 118 this year.
- Ira Gershwin (Record production, 1896 –August 17, 1985), American composer and lyricist, would have turned 128 this year.
- Joseph Lamb (Record production, 1877 –September 03, 1960), American pianist, would have turned 147 this year.
- Adolf Reubke (Record production, 1805 –March 03, 1875), German organ builder, would have turned 219 this year.
- Johann Christoph Bach (Record production, 1642 –March 31, 1703), German Baroque composer, would have turned 382 this year.
- Orazio Vecchi (Record production, 1550 –February 19, 1605), Italian composer, would have turned 474 this year.
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