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 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 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 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: October 11
- Tony Kinsey, renowned Brit jazz drummer, turns 97.
- Tom Zé, Brazilian songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, turns 88.
- Gene Watson, American country music singer, turns 81.
- Gary Mallaber, American drummer for Steve Miller Band, turns 78.
- Mwata Bowden, American aerophone virtuoso, turns 77.
- Daryl Hall, American blue-eyed soul vocalist of Hall and Oates, turns 75.
- Al Anderson, Jamaican songwriter and guitarist with Bob Marley and The Wailers, turns 74.
- Jean-Jacques Goldman, French singer and songwriter, turns 73.
- Claude Morrison, Canadian vocalist with The Nylons, turns 72.
- Paulette Carlson, American country music singer, turns 71.
- Linda Boone, American singer, turns 69.
- Blair Cunningham, American drummer for Brit pop music outfit, Haircut 100, turns 67.
- Andy McCoy, Finnish lead guitarist with Hanoi Rocks, turns 62.
- Todd Snider, American country music singer-songwriter, turns 58.
- Mike Smith, American guitarist with theSTART and Snot, turns 53.
- Petra Haden, American violinist with The Rentals and that dog., turns 53.
- MC Lyte, American rapper, turns 53.
- Brendan Brown, American guitarist and vocalist for Wheatus, turns 51.
- Cardi B, (born Belcalis Almanzar), American rapper, turns 32.
- Andre Woolfolk (Record production, 1950–April 24, 2022), American multi-instrumentalist of Earth Wind and Fire, would have turned 74 this year.
- Lester Bowie (Record production, 1941 –November 08, 1999), American trumpeter, would have turned 83 this year.
- Billy Higgins (Record production, 1936 –May 03, 2001), American free jazz and hard bop drummer, would have turned 88 this year.
- Dottie West (Record production, 1932 –September 04, 1991), (nee Dorothy Marsh) American country music singer, would have turned 92 this year.
- Luděk Hulan (Record production, 1929 –February 22, 1979), Czech jazz bass player, would have turned 95 this year.
- Loys Choquart (Record production, 1920 –December 10, 1989), (or Loïs Choquart) Swiss bandleader and clarinettist, would have turned 104 this year.
- Curtis Amy (Record production, 1919 –June 05, 2002), American tenor saxophonist, would have turned 105 this year.
- Art Blakey (Record production, 1919 –October 16, 1990), American bebop drummer, would have turned 105 this year.
- Bob Dukoff (Record production, 1918 –May 3, 2012), American jazz vocalist, would have turned 106 this year.
- Teddy Weatherford (Record production, 1903 –April 25, 1945), American jazz pianist, would have turned 121 this year.
- Jakov Gotovac (Record production, 1895 –October 16, 1982), Croatian composer, would have turned 129 this year.
- Simon Sechter (Record production, 1788 –September 10, 1867), Austrian organist, conductor, and composer, would have turned 236 this year.
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