Youth Music Initiative Demo Fund

The Youth Music Initiative Demo Fund is a worthwhile project aiming to make music and recording accessible to young people. This video shows various artists explaining how it works and why it benefits young musicians.

Jurassic 5's producer and DJ Nu-Mark on Maschine

Jurassic 5 are a legendary US Hip Hop Band known for loose fitting; hyper funky rhythms and witty, intelligent rhymes. Here their producer and DJ talks about Native Instruments Maschine, which is an innovative tool which affords digital producers more hands on flexibility and live artists more scope to incorporate computer based music into their shows.

Studio Test August 2010

We thought it would be a good idea to put the studio through it's paces recently and have been recording some of the results. This track was created to test out drum kit sounds recorded into pro-tools along with a Roland TR-505 and Korg Ms2000r running through a line 6 space echo modeller and RAK distortion pedal. This is quite a simple, off the cuff demonstration using quite an underground style of music, we hope to show off different styles as we go along to give people a feel for what is possible and stir those creative juices !

Staff Picks W/E 22/08/10

We thought it might be fun to share with you the music the staff in the centre have been feeling from week to week, so here is our first top 10 picks for Week ending 22/08.

The Smiths - Heaven knows I'm miserable now.
Kennickie - Punka
Forest City Lover - Orphans
Amy MacDonald - Footballers Wife
Beruit - Nauntes
Girls Aloud - Sound of the Underground
Kings of Leon - Be Somebody
Hudson Mohawke - Fuse
Nancy Sinatra - These boots are made for walking
Second Hand Machine Band - Don't

A.G.E Blake records Gurdjieff's 'All and Everything'

In June / July 2010, the Music Studio played host to the Scholar Anthony Blake, who has been recording readings from Gurdjieff's Opus 'All and Everything'.

Anthony has worked all over the world, and it may be of interest to music fans, that his work has inspired people such as Robert Fripp (King Crimson, FSOL, The Orb).

Anthony is also a direct descendant of The English Poet and Painter : William Blake.

Audio from Desi Girls 2009 show.

In Autumn 2009 Sikh Sanjog and Jann Pechan put together a show involving a number of woman of varying ages to put on a show celebrating equality, respect and cultural values.

The show was a great success, with a number of girls gaining credit towards their Duke of Edinburgh Awards and audiences delighted by the music, dance and drama provided by the show.

This track was created by Tigerstyle and the girls, who wrote the lyrics, rap and poem along with Polly Phillips. The Track was engineered and mastered at Graphite North and performed along with a full dance routine at the show.