An Artists Blog

Tuesday, 21 November 2023

Spotify's new payment scheme

Well, my music career has come to an end with Spotify's New royalty payment scheme Stating that songs need 1000 streams a year in order to qualify for payment. Not one single track of mine gets more than 1000 streams per year indeed only about 20 of my songs across the whole of my business enterprise have got more than 1000 streams since 2015. So thank you very much Spotify you have just ended the career of an artist who is number one in his County, in the top 30 in his country and higher than 400 globally.

Well thanks a lot I wish you well in your greed and avarice in keeping money that previously came to me in your coffers

Monday, 20 November 2023

Triumphant electronica album OUT NOW!

Musical Artizan Productions · Triumphant

Sunday, 12 November 2023

Rock Bansuri Due OUT NOW!

Musical Artizan · Drums and Bansuri E Major

Wednesday, 1 November 2023

Vcv Rack exploring modular synthesis

Monday, 30 October 2023

Microtonality and Sibelius

Wednesday, 25 October 2023

Musical Artizan In Concert

There two songs here the first is makes use of the Prometheus scale and the seconf makes use of the Hirajoshi Scale

Everything you ever wanted to know about where chords come from!

The Prometheus Scale

So whats the Story on how I produced one of my latest songs "The Eruption"

So what is the first step in producing a work of art.

Theory, Theory, Theory,

I can't express enough the need to learn music theory if you want to become a composer/producer

For this work I chose to work in the Hirajoshi scale

These notes would be used in various octaves on various instruments.

For this work I chose to work with Percussion from the Americas, i.e indigenous instruments to both America and mainly Brazil or Peru.

In Sibelius I chose the world instruments section and the Americas instruments.

I chose Bongos, Handclap, Congas and the Iya ( a native drum)

To get around the fact that noteperformer does not work with rewire I exported the audio from Sibelius to Protools. I created a file in Protools set the metronome on 100 BPM and imported the audio.

I decided to add a more western drum loop.

So now we have a basic mix we need to set the volumes and make use of the space ie panning left and right.

I now need to record the lead part. For this I chose the Native American Flute in Am.

Having recorded the part. I added some reverb, not forgetting to increase the pitch by 32 cents

This is to increase the frequency from 432hz to 440hz.

So what does my master piece sound like?

Well you can listen here!