How to make music on computers
Like many things in modern society the art and technology of music production has been deeply affected by the arrival of the personal computer. This enables those without a professional recording...
View ArticleJamiroquai’s Matt Johnson: Advice For Musicians
We recently posted a video produced by Yamaha featuring Matt Johnson of Jamiroquai. We wanted to know more so we spoke exclusively to Matt and asked him to talk a little more about what it takes to be...
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How To Be A Musician: Interview with Alex Day
Alex Day is a “DIY artist” in the true sense of the word. He writes and performs all his own material, directs the videos, handles his own marketing and distribution, plus updates his websites and...
View ArticleDoes today’s music all sound the same?
It used to be a familiar joke – dad shaking his head and saying, “The problem with today’s music is it all sounds the same”. Cue teenage son/daughter storming off to their bedroom and swearing to...
View ArticleSearch For Sugar Man and other hidden gems
The documentary “Search For Sugar Man” (IMDB) is about an artist called Rodriguez and how two South Africans decided to search for him to find out what happened to him. In his native US he released...
View ArticleHow to set up a home studio
My good friend Sean recently set up a studio in his basement. It was so cool we wanted to know more about how he did it in case other Artist Networkers were thinking of doing the same thing: How long...
View ArticleHow to be more creative: An interview with Krush
What makes someone ‘Creative’? Creativity is at the heart of music. Creating unique melodies, rhythms or lyrics is what songwriting is all about. Yet many of us assume you are either born with creative...
View ArticleWhy do artists still make albums?
It’s part history, part convenience, part habit. Albums were traditionally a way of putting a collection of singles and fillers on to a piece of plastic that could hold forty minutes of music, which...
View ArticleHow To Become A Successful Music Artist
On the radio this morning I heard Amy Chua talking about her new book, “The Triple Package: How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in America” (Amazon) The three traits...
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