April 2018

The James Altucher Show: 347 - Jen Sincero: You Are a Badass at Making Money

http://pca.st/episode/eb32af43-eee8-449c-be1b-1fb0cfcb7564 (30.4.2018)

  • Bite size junks

  • Positive Thinking: don’t walk across the highway and think positive about not getting hit

  • Fokus: Job quiten ... mehr Geld verdienen, Leute treffen

  • Bestimmen, was man möchte und ALLES tun, um seine Ziele zu erreichen 

  • Decision: €€€

  • Playing small vs. es geht mehr

  • KEIN Plan B

  • Meditation helps

  • Nice: € 1.000.000.- pro Jahr behaupten

  • money = energy

  • People with money sell things

  • CG: Online gehen mit meinem Zeugs 

  • Ein Flugzeug braucht 70% des Sprits beim Start ... eine Karriere auch

  • „Fragmentation is the kiss of death“  

  • Stick with it ... shift your focus 

  • Money: Earn it, keep it, grow it

  • money comes only through other people

  • Honda Civic Effect: Das gleiche Auto sehen, das du gerade gekauft hast

  • Jim Rohn: du bist wie die 5 Leute, mit denen du die meiste Zeit verbringst

  • Liste: was möchtest du?

Friends of Dan Music Podcast: 125: Steve Hunt

http://pca.st/episode/208d9a4e-9c87-4512-982b-34e87e164ef8 (30.4.2018)

  • Stanley Clarke

  • Berklee dropout

  • Stanley: 1987 ... Holdsworth as opening act

  • Synthaxe time ... Steve als Akkorde Spieler

  • Postcard: „I got the gig“

  • Allan: Anti guitarist

  • Distance vs. Desire ... weite voicings, nicht am Klavier spielbar

  • Allan: great leader (Miles, Chick) ... keine Vorgaben

  • Steve Hunt: Fan ... „how did I do that?“

  • Spontaner Gig

  • “I think I have a few more notes i need to put down before I croke“

  • Music Theory: Allan Holdsworth asking me about scales?

  • Strange: playing Allan’s Songs without him

  • Against the clock ... Sophia Wackerman https://vimeo.com/240767973

  • Wackerman: no mistakes

  • Steves Studio: The Kitchen ... Spice Rack Records

Your Mix Sucks (Mixed by Marc Mozart): [Chris Allen (PMC Speakers) educates me on transmission line speakers] | Your Mix Sucks Podcast

http://pca.st/episode/e315bc58-7845-40b9-a974-12fe8f97b1db (27.4.2018)

  • PCM Surround Systems

Song Exploder: Arcade Fire - Put Your Money On Me

http://pca.st/episode/1f2ca3fa-be4a-4489-a413-35c2be430097 (27.4.2018)

  • New record? New studio!

  • Casino Sounds

  • Daft Punk: Vintage Studio @ Paris

  • Thoma: doesn’t like Electronic Music  

  • Drums: 8ths HH + tape Delay

Radiolab: Dark Side of the Earth

http://pca.st/episode/135207f3-db4a-4b7e-b7c8-830e7b70fbe6 (27.4.2018)

  • Earth from behind = absence of light

  • Sence of light and speed

  • 90 minutes for a earth day ♥️

  • Locked out the space station ... oxygen 

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast: Bradley Whitford

http://pca.st/episode/fbddda11-c758-4009-bb53-5f90b9cff5a9 (26.4.2018)

  • De-Lousing for Spielberg

  • Eastwood and Spielberg shoot fast 

  • Vorteil: Konzentriertes arbeiten, den 1. take werden deine Enkel sehen

  • „ACTION“ horses shy, people too

  • Let people with good taste tell you what to do 

  • Kids now: what are you?

  • Acting = Soldier on a storytelling mission

  • writing, directing, producing = raising a kid

  • Actor is a drunk uncle who brings a pack of Oreo and lets someone else put it to bed

  • Devastating Notes just before the take: „Brad, don’t push for the joke. ACTION!“ „The reward is death. ACTION!“

  • Aaron Sorkin: West Wing ... 11 feature films a year for 4 years

  • Get Out: No Jokes ... „Oh Deer/Dear“

The Tim Ferriss Show: Astro Teller, CEO of X - How to Think 10x Bigger

http://pca.st/episode/1fb4b6fc-4b1b-4fb6-94fd-2fe38faa2bfa (25.4.2018)

  • Moonshot Thinking  

  • Safety Third

Pensado's Place: Greatest Hits: Grammy Award Winning Songwriter / Producer, Brody Brown

http://pca.st/episode/681cfd32-aa2e-4e54-b69c-5843588353b7 (25.4.2018)

99% Invisible: 304- Gander International Airport

http://pca.st/episode/4aa7ea44-9ed2-4b1d-bb3a-c55e1ceb8b84 (25.4.2018)

The James Altucher Show: 342 - Frank Oz: How to Create Something Original: Lessons from The Maker of Our Most Beloved Characters

http://pca.st/episode/ab1e6d15-d3c2-42e2-bd60-1944a571d85e (24.4.2018)

  • Muppets Documetary: https://muppetguystalking.com

  • Yoda: 4 people

  • improv on set

  • What is written on the page does not necessarily live on the floor ... don’t just say lines

  • Jim Henson’s genius: doing what is exciting ... never told what to do and how to do it ... leading by example

  • Business Mode

  • Various people can do different things ... brilliant scientist = tap dancer?

  • Genius comes from playing.

  • Kompliment: I grew up on you

  • Muppets: beyond human

  • Hundrets of shows

  • Jim: „If it was easy, everyone could do it“

  • Orson Wells: „Most people create out of experience, I create out of innocence.“ = originality ♥️

  • Yoda = Zen 

  • Everybody is creative

  • Creativity vs. Responsibility ... kann jeder in diesem Bereich arbeiten? Go back to what you love

  • Kurt Vonnegut: „don’t do experimental fiction before you know the laws of grammar“

  • Perfect Marriage: Give 90, take 10

  • The Material shows the way of shooting ... it’s all about the spirit („Content dictates Form“) ... stay true to the spirit

  • Mistakes: leave them in! Pray for accidents

  • Muppets: Dirty Shooting

The Tim Ferriss Show: Hurry Up and Fail -- Tim Kennedy

http://pca.st/episode/b80dfb32-94eb-4bda-8fc3-f8da4efa97cd (24.4.2018)

  • „Sporty“ martial arts  

  • Rush to the breaking point ... and fail

  • Mental Toughness

  • Talented Wasted Piece Of Shit

  • Middle Ground Gray Men

  • „Do you really wanna hurt me“

  • How do get started? Do anything!

  • Blood

  • Billboard: Everything is on the far side of work (freedom, sex, sleep ... everything) Earn it!

Episode 89: Shadowing Sheila

http://pca.st/episode/2d0847f9-add0-4d43-a43d-505cfbd531e3 (24.4.2018)

  • Be nice and dumb (Columbo-Strategie)

  • Best day ever ... girl missing

  • dummy

Reveal: Tesla and Beyond: Hidden Problems of Silicon Valley

http://pca.st/episode/b492bea6-a803-4cdc-965e-aa51aca1d849 (23.4.2018)

  • Tesla ... Model 3

  • Safety @ Tesla

  • workforce in Silicon Valley

ID10T with Chris Hardwick: Antonio Banderas

http://pca.st/episode/1637db2b-85a6-4406-b0ae-c1c7910e8a4f (23.4.2018)

  • Genius ... mühsame Menschen: Einstein, Peter Sellers

  • Picasso & Co: Terrorists in their time

  • Kunst kommt von Sicherheit

  • 1991: Englisch  

  • „I Love You“ ... just words

  • sophisticated brutal

  • America is a wonderful project

  • Nothing is perfect but death Everything Else is relatively 

  • „Enjoy your Burrito Because it can be the last burrito of your life“ ♥️

Background Vocals  - Tony Maserati

https://youtu.be/a6agrpAFmGw (23.4.2018)

  • Keep the listener compelled 

  • The ear needs only one „S“ ... DeEss the rest 

Pensado's Place: Pensado Update

http://pca.st/episode/00f5a129-9aa1-4a32-8139-351482930074 (20.4.2018)

  • Drum aux

  • Compressors: 10dB reduction on one 1 vs. 2dB reduction on 5 

    clear out stuff you don’t need, enhance stuff you, enhance the stuff that needs to n enhancing

Twenty Thousand Hertz: Live Theater

http://pca.st/episode/ddffcb0f-b5a3-428c-a79e-1592d02303ed (17.4.2018)

The Daily Adventures of Mixerman von Mixerman, gesprochen von Mixerman:

https://www.audible.de/pd/English-Arts-Entertainment/The-Daily-Adventures-of-Mixerman-Hoerbuch/B009IQR3PC (13.4.2018)

  • Mick Serman vs. Mixerman

  • Rule: the drummer never plays, when the engineer is next to the kit

  • Good Drumsound? Good Drummer!

  • Room Setup: Room vibe

  • Drum Setup: Comedy

  • Dumbass Drummer

  • P.A. System in „the room“: Boost Kick & Snare in the room

  • moving mikes ... 10 hours lost

  • “Why would a retard act like a retard“

  • Train Lance (the one eyebrow guy)to be a worthwhile assistant 

  • Document everything: Guitar + setting, amps, FX, , EQs + Settings ... Alles!

  • Chain: player > Instrument > Amp > microphone > preamp > EQ > Compressor > tape machine

  • Keine gute Dokumentation? Neue Takes ... Korrekturen sind nicht möglich

  • President signing = nix gut

  • 6 day schedule vs. 5 day workweek 

  • Willie Shaw arrives

  • Being on time makes a good assistant

  • magical comes from the musicians not the mixer

  • Dead drum heads

  • shitty sound vs. shitty drummer

  • DAW Alzihad ... performance power vs. fixing power

  • Dumbass: schnelle Snare, langsame Kick ... inconsistent in inconsistency 

  • Better a robot than a horse  

  • beat distance

  • Sucking drums in time

  • Neue Strategie: live tracking im Raum ... a challenge with dumbass on the throne

  • Momentum is the name of the game

  • Fast Fingers

  • no Girl/Boyfriends in th Studio

  • Fans im Aufnahmeraum bei einer gemeinsamen Tracking Session = No Go

  • „Columbia’s marching powder“

  • Making records loud = Loudness War ... Brick Wall @ high speed

  • compiled recordings are like chicken nuggets ... U2 „Boy“ wäre heute ein totes Album ... Band mir vibe

  • Boogie + Vox = modern + classic at the same time 

  • Wearing the same pants for 3 weeks vs. breathing exercising

  • Vocal coach: „almost there“ to „passt it“ in one take

  • Song Key vs. range (= what you can sing every time)

  • Just bring me a record I can sell

  • DOCUMENTARY ... strangers in the womb

  • “more green“

  • conversations abruptly ending by appearance

  • Drum Tech ... even the good drummers have one – not dumbass

  • Autotune (misrepresentation) vs. Milli Vanilli

  • Sirens vs. Harmonino

  • 50.000.- to 100.000.- for 2 weeks work

  • Could this be the band & Album? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hv8OP-OYy7k&list=PLXWODvItIqYfffhlTK6nG089jNp6ahZBe (Nine Days - So Happily Unsatisfied)

  • Kapitel 30: Dave Pensado

  • Kopfhörer mit Gaffer am Kopf angeklebt ... zu heiß  

  • vs. ... source is the most important part of the chain

  • LP vs. CD 

  • Album vs. Movie ... jede Szene sollte Sinn ergeben

  • Record drums, send band on cruise ... replace

  • harmons replaced bass

  • NYC

  • “Wombification“

  • Ambassador of vibe ... „Fronk“ (Martin Short)

  • Key Input on Gates vs. ducking

  • mices are like Instruments ... they don’t sound The same

  • 10 minutes drum sound

  • Finish Songs BEFORE the studio

  • Balance: Making a great record = Making a great recording ... QUALITY ingredients + BALANCE

  • Documentary: From Song to hit

No Guitar Is Safe: Episode 70 - Adrian Legg

http://pca.st/episode/18a62ff1-47c0-41e4-a0b6-d29b7b0aed30 (13.4.2018)

  • Legghead

  • banjo mechaniken

  • Door Bell Song

  • Bendings, Lapsteel, Waltzes

  • On stage with socks ... Toe Nail for the little switch (Xotic)

  • Ovation with Black Walnut neck: better timbre ❤️

  • Gitarrengöße = overhead in planes

  • metronone lesson: http://pca.st/episode/18a62ff1-47c0-41e4-a0b6-d29b7b0aed30?t=2421.0 ... Tempo runter bei Fehler

  • VG-88 „middely-moddely-phase“

The James Altucher Show: 341 - Anders Ericsson [Anniversary Episode]: 7 Secrets of Mastery

http://pca.st/episode/b7774f5d-f930-477b-9c79-a57a9fcb933a (12.4.2018)

  • 10.000 Hours

  • how to hack the rule ... peak performance + dedicated practice 

  • Talent? Wähle bewusst, was du sein willst und stecke die Stunden rein!

  • Don’t do more of the same ... deliberate practice ... find s good teacher

  • Action > Feedback > correction

  • Feedback-Loop: Control what you are doing ... Vision vs. outcome

  • train things you can’t do ... don’t train the easy jumps! Quadruple? Train the tripple under more and more complex situations

  • Teacher can help

  • Elite is aiming to do what they can’t do

  • Violinists: world class: 7400, teachers: 3800 hours of practice ... ist diese Unterscheidung genug?

  • Auch mit Talent musst du die Stunden reinstecken

  • Mozart: prodigy? Mozart Vater war ein Pionier in Musikausbildung für Kinder (Beato?) ... jetzt: Hours of practise

  • Suzuki: music is learning a Language 

  • new dating: students looking for teachers

  • Are there any limits?

  • Schritte: 1) Teacher 2) Motivating Factor 3)

  • Learning Situatios ... keep the students failing

  • Buchtipp: PEAK

Big Questions with Cal Fussman: John Amato: The Art of Business

http://pca.st/episode/a2cff1d0-b8c7-402d-b306-c66dfa02ecb4 (12.4.2018)

  • https://www.google.at/search?q=john+amato+billboard&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=de-at&client=safari

  • Entrepreneur = you eat what you kill

  • supply vs. demand ... product vs. customer 

  • leichter: reinvent & improve vs. invent

  • Backstage ... Billboard ... Sonicbids (Gigfinder) ... Stereogum

  • stuff is everything ... ab 30 Leute in der Firma wird der „Chef“ irrelevant = gemeinsame Vision & Culture 

  • entrepreneurial = break things, do things quickly, drive to the middle

  • It is better to have 4 people in a table shaking their heads YES than one guy conducting

  • hiring question: hobby ... Assume that I’m as passionate as you ... what is the underlying passion behind it (abstract level)

  • CEO: No task ... employees, customers, shareholders ... Business vision for 10 years  ... PROSPERITY ❤️

  • 10 Jahre Vision von BILLBOARD

  • Hammer: The music industry will always need 3rd party stack ranking week by week of success

  • Media (way of distribution) changes, the topic doesn’t ... print, AR, podcast

  • Unregulated markets regulate themselves ... entry is easy (www, FB)

  • Pendulum swings always too far (history/nature repeats itself)

  • Kodak vs. digital camera  

  • Netflix > DVDs to home business + 10 year perspective

Recording Studio Rockstars: RSR084 – Kevin Killen – Recording Peter Gabriel, U2, David Bowie, and Yo-Yo Ma

http://pca.st/episode/bb70df00-02fe-0135-ec79-4114446340cb (10.4.2018)

  • Schon wieder: David Bowie ⭐️ 

  • Big Ears

  • Studios 2018: Less Studios, more visual ... früher keine Computer Monitore

  • high musicianship ... jingle schedules

  • https://youtu.be/Y2hUVqPTCVM (U2 - The Making of: The Unforgettable Fire - Documentary (1984) ... Aufnahmen in einer Burg 

  • Peter Gabriel ... SO ... Story: kaputtes Kabel hatte mehr Höhen 

  • Parallele chain über patchbay = EQ für die Stimme ... Sledgehammer & Co

  • DAW Problem: zu visuell, kein commitment notwendig ... Tipp: Deadline + commitment

  • cause & effect: eine Kleinigkeit hier, große Änderungen da ... scheiss auf Perfektion 

  • Bono: struggling to get the pitch right ... das macht’s spannend

  • Recording = Moment in Time ... capture it ♥️

  • Too perfect sounds effortless = wallpaper 

  • Aktuelle Situation: Aufnahme im Kreis, alle gemeinsam, live = Studio ... nicht perfekt!

  • Yoyo Ma: all musicians in a room ... bleed: Instrumente nebeneinander mit ähnlichem Sound (likeminded timbre) ... Aufgabe des engineers: capture!

  • Altiverb, Eventide black hole ... 16 seconds delay (for a nano second)

  • Geiles Bild: three dimensional sound through 2 static speakers ... die Kunst ist es, das es nach Surround klingt in Stereo ♥️

  • Laurie Anderson!

  • Wichtig: Write down everything ... pen & paper

  • Black Star: alles notiert ... „what did you do“?

  • interessant: 2x gleiche balances (Volume), komplett verschiedenes Ergebnis

  • Fair: Tschad Blake kann machen, was er kann

  • Tipp: https://open.spotify.com/album/76BObGlNxwAWFErfXSGzjy?si=9sw9GOi-R3azClv8c6p4cQ

  • Grundlage: Minimum number of plugins per session ... subgroups for likeminded Instruments ... bounce stuff down ... impose restrictions ... 8 EQs and Compressors max / add Reverbs & Delays ... ermöglicht schnelle Arbeitsweise 

  • Suggestion: focus on one thing first

  • Workflow now: less processing ... too many microphones, too much EQ, too much compression 

  • Recording Tipp: Mic gain structure ❤️ Neve: hot preamp (bis es verzerrt), 2 clicks back! So klingen die Mikros am besten

  • Burt Bacharach & Elvis Costello: mit dem vollen Arrangement in die Session gehen und in Mix-Prozess Parts auslassen, um z.B. Platz für bestimmte Lines zu machen ... Reihenfolge: Vocal > Harmonic Instrument ... Drums als letztes 

  • Blackstar: David bereitet sich vor ... David Tracked mit der Band (SM7, nahe bei der Band)

  • Tony Visconti & Tom Elmhirst: Mixing, Kevin Killen: Tracking

  • LEGO & David Bowie

  • Michael C Hall: https://youtu.be/B8aEi1oJK9w

  • Outboard Gear: Sound Retrival System (SRS) ... 3D-Tipp von Tschad Blake

  • Software: Sonox Suite + UAD Package ... Sonox: Peter Gabriel So 5.1 (2003) SSL 4000E Sound erreicht 

  • Business Tipp: Gutes Management (representation)

  • Organizational Online Ressource: Google Docs

  • Simple Setup: Apollo, ein paar Mikros (3-4, 57s, Royer Ribbon) 

  • Making Money ... muss nicht Musik machen

  • Recording ist wie ein Marathon

The Podcast Engineering Show | Professional Podcast Production - Recording, Mixing, Editing, Mastering: Ashley Lehmann

http://pca.st/episode/3b81afd4-9dd5-43a1-98b9-b0ef1742ea6b (10.4.2018)

Tape Op Podcast: Episode 15: Jack Douglas

http://pca.st/episode/b72378c1-1760-4fdc-b226-0e3b97468b02 (10.4.2018)

  • Find the sweet spot ... that is, where the microphone goes ... capture, what is in the control room

  • Lee de Carlo (Mafia) ... chief engineer L.A.

  • record plant ... checking for John Lennon 

  • Bush Outfit ... not talking about Vietnam 

  • Cheap Trick + Lennen/Ono

  • Magic Box: 360 Grad Panpot ... Phasenschweinerei haut die Nadel aus der Rille ... CD: No Phase ... Lennon im Ohr: 1x am Album verwendet

  • New York Dolls: “You look like Mick (Jagger).“ ... Running out of coffee ☕️

  • Alice Cooper & Bob Ezrin ... „For the fuck of it, how old you are?“ Bob: 21

  • Study geniuses: study their habits ... stay ahead

Recording Studio Rockstars: RSR135 - Rob Schnapf - Recording Beck, Elliot Smith, Fu Manchu, and Kurt Vile

http://pca.st/episode/5ddc89b1-ef37-4f22-80b5-6d663e2400c0 (9.4.2018)

  • Beck: Looser 

  • the vocal is the thing that people wanna hear, not you

  • Gute Idee: imagine a Recording (Song) without the vocals on ... what is left?

  • records on Vinyl = Records 

  • Looser: 3 Hours

  • Strings: light, heavy, materials

  • tune guitars down to C + Capo

  • picky: large diaphragm, strummy: small diaphragm

  • microphone at Position of the players ear ... good start

  • collect guitar picks (Rubber, Metal, Wood)

  • Fu Manchu: https://open.spotify.com/track/2eHruBEy06Vt7VswO4ROhC?si=RPmNFV6qSW-PTxuYN7OAOA ... Fender vs. Gibson into Marshalls + Fuzzes

  • Pedal Company: Sticky Fingers

  • Stacking simplicity: One Mic, if more, more takes

  • Making a record = Collecting Performances and collecting Commitments ... ♥️ ... Time to mix = collection of commitments and sounds

  • Listenable ROCK Records 

  • Distorted guitars Lesson: not a lot of EQ ... it’s about guitar and amp ... never „krank“ ... bright amp? Move the microphone EQ for the top end = position ... Entfernung, Winkel ... „getting the flavor“ ... manchmal passiert das Gegenteil von dem, was man erwartet

  • Drums: Great drummer + great drums

  • No low end? Something is wrong ... tuning drums ... different heads

  • Kick and snare in the middle of the overheads (position & panorama) ... geniale Idee Auch: drummers perspective (unless it is a leftie)

  • Image: Single Rock guitar panned hard left: HiHat als Gegenpart ... Activity on both sides

  • Hörtipp: Tokyo Police Club „Favorite Colour“ ... super tight breaks, Toms! Cut + fade out

  • https://open.spotify.com/track/2e4Ezfu3yTdMTnMbQqyoD4?si=YRjlmp1VSzyh_9HL5TeUHA

  • Record the „best version“ of the musicians ... hart gespielte drums haben weniger Bässe 

  • 1167 is your friend

  • compression on stereo bus? Get your mix rockin‘ without compression ... 3dB

  • talk

  • Check Bass on the couch 

  • Tipp: don’t be hung up on gear ...meaningful transcends gear

  • Dont chase, what it isn’t, be present for what it is 

  • 3 Mikes on a Record? Document the  purpose 

Bobby Owsinski's Inner Circle Podcast: Podcast #206 – Changes To Social Media, Music Revenue Up, And Licensing Guru Joyce Kettering

http://pca.st/episode/647d5b5a-c784-4499-8ee3-a97c159afabb (9.4.2018)

  • Scheduled Tweets: verboten ... re-tweeting verboten ... seit wann ist das?

  • Female Composers for female athletes (Werbung)

  • Geile Strategie: Timer auf 30 Minuten: Anfang Mitte Ende muss geschrieben sein ... bounces speichern und später ausarbeiten ... Experiment: 20% fast ausproduziert, 20% crap

  • Work fast, work a lot, deliver!

  • cold emailing: einfach anschreiben

  • Module: http://pca.st/episode/647d5b5a-c784-4499-8ee3-a97c159afabb?t=1722.0 klauen

  • Free content = building trust

  • make music for yourself (art), marketing is for the customer 

Setlist: Blurred Lines, The Loop, Guvera

http://pca.st/episode/fe02d543-18d7-4d35-9b91-4c3b6fbba9f0 (9.4.2018)

  • Blurred Lines ... Studio: „I love Marvin Gaye“ ... absichtlich (?) 

  • Problem: „Vibe“ unter copyright ... Very US ... interessante Unterscheidung: Noten vs. Aufnahme ... früher waren nur die Noten/Töne „geschützt“, weil eingereicht

  • Auch: stairway to heaven

Working Class Audio: WCA #173 with Jonathan Wyner

http://pca.st/episode/f59e9957-d14b-47d7-957f-2c961d142ab5 (9.4.2018)

  • Digitalisierung = keine Demos mehr

  • we fix it in the mix ... we fix in in the mastering

  • mastering = last step: „we (don’t) fix it in Distribution

  • necessicity is the mother of invention

  • Mastering: transfer (conversion), dynamics, gainstaging

  • mastering is about communication

  • word of mouth + building history

  • Happy alternative? Go there!

  • LANDR: do it yourself ... automation is great ... LANDR isn’t creative

  • Self driving cars vs. experience ... creating, art, beauty and enjoyment

  • teaching = learning ... challenge, communicate, push boundaries ... giving back

  • Teaching Business

  • Book: Audio Mastering – Essential Practices


StarTalk Radio: #ICYMI - The Psychology of Extreme Sports

http://pca.st/episode/b1011146-984d-4be5-943a-3197f259c2a9 (9.4.2018)

  • 2,5* of Speed of light 

  • Athmosphere = Apple Skin 

  • Footballfield + 1/4 in a Second (Bugatti)

  • Speed ... chatter stops („squirrel“)

  • adrenaline rush (stealing, internet, ...)

  • Curiosity in action

Criminal: Episode 88: Cold Case

http://pca.st/episode/c1bfed38-a311-45e3-8f57-a1b259d993f9 (5.4.2018)

Pensado's Place: A Dave & Herb Interview

http://pca.st/episode/0ae226a5-e7e5-4322-843d-a249ba5038bf (5.4.2018)

  • Hit marks, hit goals

  • Start from some need

  • Artificial intelligence in mixing ... we can’t stop technology! Don’t remarket horses

  • Technology dictates creativity ... and vice verca 

  • concert promoters = new record labels

  • buy ticket, get album ... creates meaning ... prince hat es vorgemacht

  • guys and techniques: running 808s in Stereo to make room for the vocals (Jason Joshua) .. use compression as EQ (JJP) ... don’t be afraid of compression (CLA) ... be fearless ... Comit to a sound and keep going (Alan Meyerson) ... shock: virtual amp with real amps (Joe Barresi)

  • Good Assistant (1) Knows when to speak and to be quiet (2) technical knowledge ... backups & Co (3) time keeper (4) sometimes: reduce sessions (5) be honest.

  • Mastering: Something to vinyl ... now: something to nothing

  • Young Artist: Start DIY/Indie

Pensado's Place: 3X Grammy Award Winner / Aftermath Producer, Focus…

http://pca.st/episode/05fb8a1b-e8ff-446e-830a-fd2bc09cf977 (6.4.2018)

  • Drumatom !!

  • Compression brings up low information and makes it as loud as high information 

  • Reinvent yourself

  • Mix foundation: Don’t build a house from the top to the bottom = foundation: Chords (?)

  • Voice = best Instrument

  • Sound Shifter (to understand the melody?) ... die richtige Tonart finden! Find the impact ... auch: drums pitchen (+4), Musik lassen

  • Tempo: 85-90 ... safe the Grammy  

Tape Op Podcast: Episode 1: Brian Eno

http://pca.st/episode/9cf61080-c1e4-0134-10c4-25324e2a541d (5.4.2018)

  • Eno Book: 4 mistakes on the first pages.

  • Rewriting questions changes context

  • sound on sound vs. performance 

  • „Eno is hempled by intellectual considerations“

  • no internet at home ... read books

  • The act of composition = the invention of a system for a piece of music (creating itself) ... Steve Reich & Co

  • iPhone ... Computer in the pocket is the solution

  • Generative music for games

  • Digital Distortion? Do something with it!

  • Crisis & Problems: where can I take this? = funny way to get to a new place

Rig Rundown - Eric Johnson [2018]

https://youtu.be/Nx6cUuH7QGw

  • Japanese Thinline Strat

  • Fender USA: Keep the contours

  • White strat with maple neck: Woodstock

Note to Self: No Filter: How To Have No Filter

http://pca.st/episode/ca2efa66-6422-4d95-98f8-dab236575f8e

  • Leftovers

  • Reason to post

  • How to present yourself online

Note to Self: No Filter: Jasmyn Lawson

http://pca.st/episode/4c0325d3-989d-4081-b278-0213d5960b41 (4.5.2018)

  • Giphy

  • Internet = dangerous ... Facebook kübeln

Score: The Podcast: John Debney, Behind the Score: James Cameron & Name That Score

http://pca.st/episode/0830fcd6-f5f2-4d83-8e58-1024d38e1a29 (5.4.2018)

  • Stanger Things ... super score!

  • “I Tonya“ ... Danny Elfman (Batman)

  • John Debny: King of Comedy ... the chameleon of Hollywood 

  • „Liar, Liar“ (Jim Carrey) ... pace and timbre dictates timing

  • non verbal communication: Mel Gibson walks around, when he doesn’t like something, can’t verbalize it

  • James Cameron ... Avatar ... Alien music ... Bulgarian throat singers

  • Mindset: 

99% Invisible: 300- Airships and the Future that Never Was

http://pca.st/episode/f1524e7c-932d-44b8-859a-471ff33c9a86 (5.4.2018)

Design Matters with Debbie Millman: Richard Haines

http://pca.st/episode/52c89fbe-edaf-4c0b-96ec-81548b65d1ef (4.4.2018)

  • All information with a view lines = good illustration 

  • 2008: Economy tanked

  • Re-coming Out

  • Blog: What I saw today ... http://designerman-whatisawtoday.blogspot.com

  • Tipp: Put Your Stuff Out There (Anonymes Marketing) ... Prada might find you

  • CG: Ich muss mein Zeugs international machen (stimmt das?)

  • good lesson: „god“ is coming to your apartment 

  • free lance hell: empty calendar

  • work through the doubt

  • work on your skills – Daily!

  • train yourself to look / listen  

Freakonomics Radio: Extra: Mark Zuckerberg Full Interview

http://pca.st/episode/cc0bb1ea-ab8b-4957-a0df-d8b245c6d7da (4.4.2018)

  • Net effect on human kind (Frage an Zuck)

  • connecting via tribes („fishing“)

  • people over 13 can use FB

  • ZipRecruiter: hire pointy people

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast: Neil Patrick Harris / Michael Imperioli

http://pca.st/episode/927c2e0e-cfe7-45b2-83d0-6da318bce5fa (3.4.2018)

  • Michael Ipertioli: Metal Machine Music ... Lou reed revising it in 2010 

  • Neil Patrick Harris: 

  • Microphones on award shows ... hell

  • Lemony Snicket

  • „Hey, Doogie Howser ... you are great in that other show“

  • Garage Band ... for the podcast

  • Dating ... Guys ... Late

  • Magicians: DerekDelgadio ... Close Up Magic ... dark side of magic

  • Hosting awards ... Oscars: 11. Preis, oscars am Ende ... jeder weiß eh schon, wer gewinnt ... tricky

  • Kimmel!

  • Directing: improv comedy movies

  • 7 years old ... pocket ... being are friend

Twenty Thousand Hertz: The Music in Speech

http://pca.st/episode/73c8bcba-6d44-4adc-a1cb-079ff8db16a9 (3.4.2018)

  • Drums and bass to spoken words in a movie

  • Pheobe Judge‘s voice

The Hans Zimmer Composer Round Table

https://youtu.be/GDJeo67LqWA (2.4.2018)

  • It’s about the relationship of the players to their instruments

  • Spitfire: https://www.spitfireaudio.com/shop/a-z/olafur

  • 60 Cellists on a library 

  • Oboe Story: samples können die Magie eines Spielers einfangen ... Oboe Spieler hat sein Instrument in die Themse geschmissen, samples sind noch da

  • Batman Begins: method acting in recording ... machine gun ( clicktrack) in the ear

  • GOT: viele Stile, bench watching reveals the musical ideas

  • Writing something „NEW“ ... Auftraggeber: „I don’t know ...“

  • sampling orchestras hat mehr Jobs für Orchester erzeugt !!

  • again: real players count 

  • Pianissimo im Orchester: wenn du den Spieler neben dir hörst, bist du zu laut ... creates positive tention

  • Performance Pride

  • Playing with confidence 

  • writing architecturally ... Größe von Räumen & Co

  • Tourist in Florenz: harmonizing with himself In chapel 

  • Use everything that makes an interesting sound for the appropriate moment ... libraries