AUDIO ACADEMY NEWS
Sampling with Ableton Live: DJP Media workshop
Ableton certified trainer Dawn Philip begins the workshop with a discourse on what constitutes electronic music. He insists that electronic devices such as synthesizers and samplers are simply instruments just like any other acoustic instrument one might be familiar...
Dr Rajesh Khade: Systems Engineer & Renaissance Man
Dr. Rajesh Khade has just finished a long day of work at the Government Medical College in Miraj, a city in Sangli district in Maharashtra and yet this is just one part of his career. Working as a medical officer and conducting autopsies is a high-pressure job....
Quincy Jones : The Life And Work
A multi-faceted musician, composer and record producer, Quincy Jones has earned his place in the history of music. The most Grammy-nominated artist in history, Quincy Delight Jones, Jr, often known just as “Q”, has 79 nominations and 27 wins. Born in Chicago on March...
Brill Building Sound: Where Rock and Roll Began
Sometime after the Tin Pan Alley era of music. In the late 1950s, located at 1619 Broadway in the heart of New York’s music district, stood the Brill Building. It became the center of brilliantly crafted, professional songwriting and music publishing that carried with...
Motown Hitsville USA: Defining 20th Century Music
The global phenomenon that was Motown Records, that began very modestly in Detroit, created one of the most influential sounds of the twentieth century and became a hit-making, musical legend-producing factory. The nickname, Hitsville U.S.A. was given to Motown's...
Tin Pan Alley – A Musical Phenomenon & Genre
Long before the music industry in the United States was as ubiquitous or global as it is now, Tin Pan Alley boasted of a group of music publishers and songwriters in New York who shaped popular music in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th century. At a...
Ashwin Shetty: The Winding Road to Living His True Calling
It is not typical for a boy in school to chance upon his true calling in eighth grade. And it is even more unusual for him to eventually decide that college and graduation — the path that is usually laid out for everyone after school isn’t something that he is meant...
The Inimitable Duo of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II
Earlier this year, Ariana Grande’s song “7 Rings” topped the Billboard Top 100. The song begins with a sample of the song “My Favourite Things”, the classic song from the movie ‘The Sound of Music’. Thanks to this, 90% of the songwriting royalties go to the estates of...
Niranjan Shivaram wins Best Educator at IRAA Awards
Audio Academy was part of the recently concluded Palm Expo 2019, an exposition for pro audio, lighting and AV integration systems. The Indian Recording Arts Academy (IRAA) Awards that honors excellence in audio recording and mixing was also part of the two-day event....
Gautham Pattani: Creating A Career in Sound
What do you do when you know exactly where your passion lies but the training that you need to pursue in order to do it is elusive? Gautham Pattani started out as a musician living in Chennai and while it ignited his enthusiasm during college, figuring out how to keep...