Join Sound Arts at Blakes in Berkeley and support the Obama Campaign…Brought to you by Abject Era and KGE Productions, with live art from Wall Eye Creations and music by The Dervish, The Red Fox, Pride City Purpose and more!

Amongst several other prizes and giveaways, Sound Arts will be raffling a $250 gift certificate for a half day of recording and mixing (engineer included).

2367 Telegraph Ave
$10 Min Donation
Doors Open at 7:00

09/18/2008

Energetic, excited, organized-what else can you ask for in sound engineers?  How about creative, on-time, professional, confident and clever?  I’ve worked with sound engineers across the country and Canada and this crew has the fundamentals down with an eye on the future and YOUR finished product.  I feel very lucky to have found them (after an exhaustive internet search and word of mouth) and look forward to working with them more in a variety of venues.  I would absolutely recommend them to anyone, they have true experience in theatre, film and digital media.  Their studio is 1 part downtown “Soho workspace” theatre, 1 part Star trek media console and 1 part relaxed artist space and no pretense.  I ‘m reluctant to share my “diamond” find but they do such a great job, they are a good partner to have in the artist community.
Saylor Billings – Billibatt Productions.

http://www.yelp.com/biz/sound-arts-san-francisco

And if you have some thing nice to say about Sound Arts…feel free to let us know by writing your own review on Yelp!

Brian has designed a variety of interfaces and controllers that communicate with vocoders, synths, sequencers, and self built VST plug-ins via Usb, MIDI, or OSC. For Brian and for Sound Arts, this is the tip of the iceberg!

Check out the aricle.

http://makezine.com

Today we are recording two tracks with local, up-and-coming Indy rock group, “The Blank Slates.” (Troy Lawton is lead engineering, with Jonathon Wong as assistant engineer.  All of the interns have been helping out this week and rotating responsibilities.) Featuring Andrea Iacopini on guitar and vocals, they produce a high-intensity, earthy nuance with a forward drive. According to Andrea, “The Blank Slates” is a “concept of ever-changing sound, where each song has space to develop into its own without allowing the band itself to be easily categorized.”

Andrea was joined by drummer Cochrane McMillan in January of this year, with bassist Martin Fowler adding to the mix later that month. Not only are they solid musicians, but their tracks are chock full of well-blended harmonies and tight fills.

In “My Only Regret,” Cochrane takes the lead on drums and has been playing solid all day, with Turkish hand-hammered cymbals adding nice texture and shimmer.  Martin has a solid ear in this tune with dead-on rhythm and innovative fills. Andrea is a natural songwriter, and struck gold with his addictive opening guitar and bass lines.

www.myspace.com/theblankslates

The goal of today’s session is to create the majority of a demo for distribution to local radio stations.

Good energy, good times, good clean fun.

-Emily Hendricks

We will be hosting a “recording boot-camp” where seasoned Sound Arts interns assisted by new students from youth outreach and media literacy programs, will record, mix and deliver songs produced by selected sponsored artists. The first three days will highlight recording setup and techniques, followed by a full week of music production and collaboration. Artists are invited to apply for this unique opportunity to record their songs and take part in a music compilation, totally for free!

We’ll work together to produce two to four artists/bands, start to finish. All the participants receive credit in the compilation and are encouraged to network, collaborate, and take part in future programs and opportunities in the filed of music production. Intern hours will also be logged to satisfy portions of required intern hours for other youth training programs.

This is a very fresh idea still undergoing some incubation, but we are looking to use this model and pilot project in a future grant proposal. Our goals are to provide free/discounted studio time to up and coming artists in the Bay Area, establish a crash course program to educate young engineers and producers, and to create a creative venue that releases routine compilations from a variety of genres and communities.

To apply for a recording sponsorship email:
education@soundarts.org

or for more information, email:
info@soundarts.org

Create, Engineer, Produce, Network, & Collaborate!

Feel free to join, post and contribute.

http://soundarts.ning.com

http://soundarts.ning.com/main/authorization/signU

Here’s to web 2.0!

Visit our new network Sound Arts

Last week Wendy Levy from the Bay Area Video Coalition put together a multi-platform producer program like no other. The 2008 Producers Institute was a 10 day opportunity to incubate great ideas for social change, within some of San Francisco’s best facilities, and amongst some of the sharpest and most well informed teams of creative professionals. Producers and directors from around the world are paired with mentors and experts in audio, video, web 2.0, social networking, mapping, Second Life, and game design to help manifest multi-platform projects that connect people with political, cultural, environmental, and open-source information and content. Many producers arrived with a rich seed while others were had already created sites or documentaries. In all cases, the result for each team, from the highly productive week, was a 15 min keynote presented at The Museum of the African Diaspora to organizations such as the Ford Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Sundance Documentary Institute, and ITVS. Each presentation encapsulated the, largely user driven, web, mobile, and multimedia concepts and proposals that would help to provide users with the tools, networks, and inspiration to use cutting edge technology to create a social, political, and global influence. A truly unbelievable experience!

Want to learn more? Check out these links to other articles and blogs:

http://bavc.org/producersinstitute/panel.htm

http://www.zoom-in.com/blogs/film-video/incomming-the-bavc-producers-institute/

http://www.memoryminer.com/blog/?p=94

http://www.calebbooker.com/blog/2008/06/04/dont-call-it-citizen-journalism

http://bavc.wordpress.com/2008/05/29

http://bavc.wordpress.com/2008/06/01/here-we-go-but-where-are-we-going/

http://bavc.wordpress.com/2008/06/01/producers-institute-day-one/

http://bavc.wordpress.com/2008/06/03/pi-from-the-intern-perspective/

http://bavc.wordpress.com/2008/06/04/producers-institute-plenary-panel/

Berkeley City College Studio Tour
Friday, May 16th, 2008
As apart of growing the network and expanding our partnerships, Sound Arts will be welcoming the Bekerley City College to tour the studio and learn more about the programs and resources witihin.