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Imagine how cool it would be to call up your musical heroes and just rap about creativity for an hour. Kelli Richards and I got that chance two years ago, and the result is our new book and DVD, The Art of Digital Music: 56 Visionary Artists & Insiders Reveal Their Creative Secrets.
This week, the book had its release party at the Digital Hollywood conference, and several of the contributors graciously drove out to help celebrate. Among them were Joe Chiccarelli, the Grammy Award-winning producer who’s worked with everyone from Beck to Frank Zappa; Stewart Copeland, who recorded five multiplatinum albums with the Police and is now an Emmy- and Golden Globe-nominated soundtrack composer; Dr. Patrick Gleeson, who helped introduce Herbie Hancock to synthesizers before becoming a successful film and TV composer (Knots Landing, Hard Copy, Unsolved Mysteries); and Albhy Galuten, who racked up 18 #1 singles as a producer and then co-invented the enhanced CD format.
Here are a few photos of the event.
We didn’t get a chance to interview Doug Fieger of the Knack for the book, but he shared some great stories at the party. His “ADAD” production technique involves recording to multitrack analog tape; transferring those tracks at 24-bit, 192kHz resolution to Pro Tools; mixing down to half-inch analog tape through a variety of analog gear; and then mastering to CD. He explained that gives him the warm distortion of tape with the fast, precise mixing of software.
Kelli Richards and Albhy Galuten greet the guests.
I think the happy fan on the left bought three copies of the book. Here Stewart Copeland autographs one before passing it to Patrick Gleeson, Albhy Galuten, and Joe Chiccarelli. The headless man in the background is Dave Kusek, co-author of the provocative tome The Future of Music.
A brief respite between autographs.
Back row: Kelli Richards, Stewart Copeland, me. Front row: Patrick Gleeson and Albhy Galuten.
Party On
You can hear a rollicking 56-minute interview with Stewart Copeland—based on his foreword for the book—at IT Conversations.com. “Man, is this guy funny or what?” asks a listener.
Joe Chiccarelli answers all manner of creative recording questions in the Joe’s Garage forum.
Albhy Galuten and Patrick Gleeson are currently building their Web sites; I hope to have links to all 56 of the book’s contributors on www.ArtOfDigitalMusic.com before long. My thanks again to everyone who participated.
At a previous booksigning event, designer Roger Linn cracked me up by scrawling, “Have a nice summer!” in a fan’s book. What would you write?
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