I have a dirty little secret: I enjoy reading rules & regulations of various music contests. Weird, I know. But it can be sooo much fun! The latest example: Whisky Rocks, a music competition sponsored by LCBO, the Ontario’s government’s liquor monopoly, and one of the world’s largest buyers of alcohol products. It is a [...]
It’s not that you haven’t noticed. The intro starts, a few shout outs, then the beat. And then, it happens: here’s the rap, usually high on attitude and low on content; It is generally accepted that “hip hop revolved around a culture of protest and freedom of expression in the wake of oppression suffered by [...]
If you are a blogger like me, you must be wondering sometimes how your website looks in your visitors eyes. As more and more people are using mobile devices to access the web, it is becoming increasingly important to make sure that your nice looking website stands up to the test and keep a neat [...]
I’m feeling accomplished this morning: I have just finished backup of all my music project files (mostly done in Cakewalk Sonar 8.5). About 8GB of melodies, grooves, beats, wild and not-so-wild solos are now stored on two DVDs. And it took was perhaps less than 10 minutes of my time, plus about 40 minutes of [...]