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 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 the Guns N' Roses debut studio album Appetite for Destruction was recorded at a recording studio founded by 1970s pop duo Captain & Tennille?
- ... that Castle Recording Laboratory, Nashville's first commercial recording studio, was established in a repurposed hotel banquet room?
- ... 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 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?
Born this day
- Birthdays in Music: May 11
- Dick Garcia, American guitarist, turns 93.
- Eric Burdon, Brit singer of The Animals and War fame, turns 83.
- Ralph Humphrey, American drummer, turns 80.
- Julian Joseph, Brit jazz pianist, turns 58.
- Matt Giraud, American singer and American Idol contestant, turns 39.
- Cory Monteith (Record production, 1982–July 13, 2013), Canadian actor, singer, and musician, would have turned 42 this year.
- Butch Trucks (Record production, 1947 –January 24, 2017), (born Claude Hudson Trucks) American drummer with The Allman Brothers Band, would have turned 77 this year.
- Carla Bley (Record production, 1938 –October 17, 2023), American bandleader, composer, and keyboardist, would have turned 86 this year.
- Freddie Roach (Record production, 1931 –October 03, 1980), American organist, would have turned 93 this year.
- Beryl Bryden (Record production, 1926 –July 14, 1998), Brit vocalist, would have turned 98 this year.
- Oscar Valdambrini (Record production, 1924 –December 26, 1996), Italian composer and trumpeter, would have turned 100 this year.
- Moon Mullens (Record production, 1916 –April 07, 1977), American trumpeter, would have turned 108 this year.
- Tutti Camarata (Record production, 1913 –April 30, 2005), (born Salvador Camarata) American arranger and trumpeter, would have turned 111 this year.
- J. C. Higginbotham (Record production, 1906 –May 26, 1973), American trombonist, would have turned 118 this year.
- Irving Berlin (Record production, 1888 –September 22, 1989), American songwriter, would have turned 136 this year.
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