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By Thomas Burritt
The great “niche” artistic suppression is ending. Let the upsurge begin!
The past “niche” artist’s dilemma:
The capitalistic industrial age of the past hundred years in the United States has increasingly suppressed artistic development of all forms, placing instead an ever increasing stress on profits earned from physical goods. The arts, unless mainstream, just didn’t lead to the massive profits that the industrial goods industry could muster. Succumbing to this corporate cultural pressure to achieve these profits the recording and media industry had to sign artists that they felt could cover the massive costs to support their industrial juggernaut of high overhead and physical production (CD’s etc.). These massive record and media labels made their money producing, marketing, and selling plastic discs, not so much what was digitally coded on that disc. (more…)
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By James Doyle.
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Instrument
Music
Tuner
Pencil
Metronome
Recording Device
Journal or Checklist
Water
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Kitchen Timer (more…)
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Tips on Being a Freelance Percussionist by Chris Wilson
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Earlier today I listened to Drumchattr.com’s podcast with Adam Sliwinski of So Percussion. I was very pleased with the interview, and thoroughly enjoyed is input on several topics in both the percussion and professional music world.
I wanted to touch on a subject that they spoke about for a few minutes, which was how to begin a career in free-lance percussion. It was interesting to hear is perspective, because, as he mentioned, he hasn’t had to do much on his own thanks to So Percussion. I thought I could give a little insight to some of the things that have helped me along the way. (more…)
