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 Light Vessel 95 is now a recording studio?
- ... that one critic interpreted a SZA song as being about her fears about the growing influence of AI in the music industry?
- ... 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 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 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?
Born this day
- Birthdays in Music: December 9
- Byron Allen, American alto saxophonist, turns 85.
- Sammy Strain, American soul music vocalist for The O'Jays, Little Anthony & The Imperials, turns 83.
- Jimmy Owens, American hard bop trumpeter, turns 81.
- Joan Armatrading, British guitarist, singer, and songwriter, turns 74.
- Donny Osmond, American entertainer and TV personality, turns 67.
- Nick Seymour, Australian bassist of Crowded House fame, turns 66.
- Paul Landers, German rhythm guitarist with Rammstein, turns 60.
- Jerry Hughes, American keyboardist with Yankee Grey, turns 59.
- Joshua Bell, American violinist, turns 57.
- Thomas Flowers, American vocalist with Oleander, turns 57.
- Brian Bell, American guitarist with Weezer and The Relationship, turns 56.
- David Kersh, American country music singer, turns 54.
- Jakob Dylan, American guitarist and vocalist with The Wallflowers, turns 54.
- Geoff Barrow, Brit musician with Portishead, turns 53.
- Eric Zamora, American saxophonist with Save Ferris, turns 48.
- Imogen Heap, Brit singer and songwriter of Frou Frou fame, turns 47.
- Olivia Lufkin, Japanese singer, turns 45.
- AleXa, American singer, turns 28.
- Zac Foley (Record production, 1970 –January 02, 2002), (born Zachary Sebastian Rex James Foley) Brit bassist of EMF fame, would have turned 54 this year.
- Neil Innes (Record production, 1944 –December 29, 2019 ), Brit guitarist and songwriter with The Rutles, Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, and Monty Python, would have turned 80 this year.
- John "Jay" Traynor (Record production, 1943–January 02, 2014), American vocalist for Jay and the Americans, would have turned 81 this year.
- Dan Hicks (Record production, 1941–February 06, 2016), American folk music singer, would have turned 83 this year.
- Donald Byrd (Record production, 1932–February 04, 2014), American trumpeter, would have turned 92 this year.
- Junior Wells (Record production, 1932–January 15, 1998), American blues singer and harmonica player, would have turned 92 this year.
- Pierre Henry (Record production, 1927 –July 05, 2017), French composer, would have turned 97 this year.
- Cedric West (Record production, 1918 –October {{{6}}}, 1997 ), Burmese guitarist and trombonist, would have turned 106 this year.
- Rey De La Torre (Record production, 1917 –July 21, 1994), Cuban guitarist, would have turned 107 this year.
- Bob Scobey (Record production, 1916 –June 12, 1963), American dixieland trumpeter, would have turned 108 this year.
- Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (Record production, 1915 –August 03, 2006), German-born soprano, would have turned 109 this year.
- Freddy Martin (Record production, 1906 –October 01, 1983), American bandleader and saxophonist, would have turned 118 this year.
- Gil Rodin (Record production, 1906 –June 10, 1974), Russian tenor saxophonist, would have turned 118 this year.
- Conchita Supervia (Record production, 1895 –March 30, 1936), Spanish opera singer, would have turned 129 this year.
- Joaquín Turina (Record production, 1882 –January 14, 1949), Spanish composer, would have turned 142 this year.
- Emma Abbott (Record production, 1850 –January 05, 1891), American soprano vocalist, would have turned 174 this year.
- Baldassare Ferri (Record production, 1610 –September 10, 1680), Italian castrato, would have turned 414 this year.
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