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)
Did you know (auto-generated) -
- ... that to promote the Buffalo Club, Rising Tide Records sent packages of plastic buffalo to music industry executives in Nashville?
- ... 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 one critic interpreted a SZA song as being about her fears about the growing influence of AI in the music industry?
- ... 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 Castle Recording Laboratory, Nashville's first commercial recording studio, was established in a repurposed hotel banquet room?
- ... 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?
Born this day
- Birthdays in Music: August 5
- Airto Moreira, Brazilian percussionist, turns 83.
- Greg Leskiw, Canadian guitarist for The Guess Who, turns 77.
- Pat Smear, American guitarist for the Foo Fighters, turns 65.
- Calvin Hayes, British keyboardist of Johnny Hates Jazz fame, turns 64.
- Stuart Neale, (a.k.a. Leighton Buzzard) British pianist, guitarist, and cello player, turns 64.
- Stuart Crawford, vocalist for synthpop act, Kajagoogoo, turns 64.
- Terri Clark, Canadian country music vocalist, turns 56.
- Hype Williams, (born Harold Williams) American music video-turned-film director, turns 54.
- Megan Joy, American singer and former American Idol contestant, turns 39.
- Adam Yauch (Record production, 1964 –May 4, 2012), (a.k.a. MCA) American rapper of Beastie Boys fame, would have turned 60 this year.
- Pete Burns (Record production, 1959 –October 23, 2016), Frontman for new wave music act, Dead or Alive, would have turned 65 this year.
- Jemeel Moondoc (Record production, 1951–August 29, 2021), American avant-garde jazz alto saxophonist and flautist, would have turned 73 this year.
- Sammi Smith (Record production, 1943 –February 12, 2005), American country music singer, would have turned 81 this year.
- Rick Huxley (Record production, 1942 –February 11, 2013), British bassist for The Dave Clark Five, would have turned 82 this year.
- Damita Jo DuBlanc (Record production, 1930 –December 25, 1988), American lounge music performer and comedian, would have turned 94 this year.
- Otto Lington (Record production, 1903 –December 15, 1992), Danish violinist, would have turned 121 this year.
- Ambroise Thomas (Record production, 1811 –February 12, 1896), French opera composer, would have turned 213 this year.
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