by Audio Academy | Oct 17, 2019 | Audio Trends & Gear
Since time immemorial, structures have been constructed so that theatrical and musical performances could be communicated to large audiences. In the Greek-Roman era, the ancient open amphitheaters and the roofed odeia did this for audiences as large as 15,000...
by Audio Academy | Sep 30, 2019 | Audio Trends & Gear
There are only a certain number of notes that can be combined in musical compositions which makes it unlikely that a musician can lay claim to have come up with a specific way of combining certain notes. However, there is an increasing trend of lawsuits in the music...
by Audio Academy | Sep 8, 2019 | Audio Legends
Jazz does not have a specific day or point when it was created. It is a genre of music that emerged over time, mixing musical talent and emotions of the many cultures and artistic elements that existed in New Orleans. Caribbean music from the West Indies mixed...
by Audio Academy | Aug 30, 2019 | Workshops
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...
by Audio Academy | Aug 24, 2019 | Academy Success Stories
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....
by Audio Academy | Aug 1, 2019 | Audio Legends
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...
by Audio Academy | Jul 20, 2019 | Audio Legends
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...
by Audio Academy | Jul 12, 2019 | Audio Legends
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...
by sooraj_90 | Jun 28, 2019 | Audio Legends
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...
by Audio Academy | Jun 22, 2019 | Academy Success Stories
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...
