Songwriter, session musician, and music producer Kevin Reeves joins us from Nashville Tennessee for an interview discussing his career and the recording of his debut album. During the show we play several tracks from the album including Shine, The Game and the title track It’s About time. To find out more about Kevin visit: www.kevinreeves.net
to buy his album from iTunes use the following link: buy It’s About Time on iTunes
You can also purchase it on CD or as a DRM free collection of MP3 files from his site.
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TVU Tech episode 5 is an in-depth interview with the producer Robin Millar.
With 150 gold, silver and platinum discs and 44 number ones to his credit, he is one of the most successful British music producers ever. He has worked with artists such as Sting, Peter Gabriel, Kate Bush, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Chrissie Hynde and Sade.
In this interview we discuss the comparison between analogue and digital recording formats, the importance of collaboration, and the employment problems university students face when graduating from Music Technology courses. Robin also gives us his take on the news that the EMI Group has agreed to be bought by private equity firm Terra Firma for £3.2bn.
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During the show Robin mentions two books that he recommends Music Technology students read to get a better understanding of the music and media industrys today and during the 1960s. You can get hold of these books by using the following links:
Just a quick update for everyone. On TVU Tech next week expect to hear an interview with the world famous producer Robin Millar. I’m catching up with him on Tuesday to ask him about employment in the music industry relating specifically to the problems that graduates who have just finished music technology courses face in getting jobs. I’d love to have some questions from a wide range of students that I can put to him relating to this topic. Send your questions to theshow@tvutech.net or leave them in the comments of this post.
Robin has worked in the music industry for a long time and has seen many changes to the structure of the industry during his career. His opinions should be useful for all students studying in the music tech department at TVU. If you click one of the subscribe links on this page the interview with Robin Millar will be downloaded automatically onto your Mac or PC as soon as it is made available.
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Episode 4 is a short interview with Leon downer a student on the Masters Audio Technology course. I joined Leon in Vestry Hall studio 2 to find out what he’s working on. He gives us an insight into his studio working practices and progress on his surround sound production. Thanks Leon for letting me gatecrash your session.
I’d love to hear everyone’s views on the episode, is it some thing you’d like to hear more of? How could it be improved?
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Episode 3 is a lecture presented by Larry Whelan as part of a MIDI and Sampling module for students majoring in music technology at Thames Valley University. This lecture is split in to 2 shows.
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The second episode for the TVU Tech podcast is again a presentation by John Gummery, a senior lecturer at the London College of Music and Media, and covers three standards - MPEG 4, MPEG 7 and MPEG 21. Apologies for the poor sound level and quality in this episode. Future video shows will include improved audio. This presentation is taken from a live lecture given to a group of students in the Faculty of the Arts at Thames Valley University.
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John Gummery, a senior lecturer at the London College of Music and Media, guides us through the workings of digital and analogue broadcasting explaining the principles of bandwidth, data compression and audio capture.
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