October 17, 2009
The Producers Conference, Chicago, USA
When:
Saturday October 17th, 2009.
1 PM to 6 PM. Doors open at 12:30 PM.
Where:
Chicago Recording Company
232 E. Ohio St.
Chicago, IL 60611
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Tickets are $30.00.
CONFERENCE FEATURES
James Bernard 1:00-1:10pm
Record: Design Concept and Interface – Creating with ‘flow‘
James Bernard lays out the why, what and how behind the development of Propellerhead‘s recently released Record software. Discover what makes Record so powerful yet transparent.
Matt Piper 1:15-2pm
Unleashing Creativity with Record
Line 6‘s Propellerhead Product Specialist Matt Piper will demonstrate how he stream-lines his creative workflow while offering arrangement tips-n-tricks; covering Record‘s arrange window contextual tools and navigation, comping editor, groundbreaking tempo control, multiple racks, new devices, Line 6 technology, Reason integration and enhancements, file and audio formats, new authorization paradigm, and more.
James Bernard 2:15-3pm
Record: Expanding your Sonic Palette with Reason Integration and Advanced Tips
James Bernard will show how Reason integration works with Record and how it expands your sonic palette. James will also provide advanced tips and tricks with Record that will increase your creative potentials.
John Herndon, Jeff Parker and Joshua Abrams 3:15-4pm
Live Improv Jazz Trio
John and Jeff from the band Tortoise are joined by Joshua Abrams on upright bass and will perform and be recorded in real-time.
Chris Steinmetz 4:15-5pm
Achieving Professional Sound Results
Chris Steinmetz will discuss and review microphone placement techniques, EQ and dynamics settings and mixing techniques to achieve the best sounding recordings and final mix.
Q & A 5:15-6pm
BIOGRAPHIES
Josh Adams
Bassist Joshua Abrams might best be known for his work with Town and Country, but his ubiquity in Chicago‘s improvised music scene proves he‘s one of the most hard-working, creative, and prolific bass players around. Abrams eclectic solo release from two years back entitled Busride Interview (Lucky Kitchen) was followed up by the remarkable Cipher on Delmark where he led the quartet with Guillermo Gregorio, Axel Dorner, and Jeff Parker. He‘s also a member of the trio Sticks and Stones with Mantana Roberts and Chad Taylor. On any give night, there‘s a good chance you‘ll find Abrams playing in one of Chicago‘s famous jazz nooks in groups like the David Boykin Expanse, Nicole Mitchell‘s Black Earth Ensemble, and with artists like Jeb Bishop, Hamid Drake, and in countless other impressive ensembles.
John Herndon and Jeff Parker from the band Tortoise.
Tortoise is a group that resists easy metaphors and analogies, who can be described as sounding like only themselves and no one else. Twenty years after its founding, the band‘s signature and singularly inimitable sound-a fluid intersection of dub, dance, jazz, techno, rock, and classical minimalism, with no part overwhelming or dominating the whole-remains an American and international original.
Chris Steinmetz
Chris Steinmetz is a lauded engineer and producer from Chicago, IL, who has been recording heavy-hitting artists for almost 20 years. His credentials read like a Who‘s Who of legendary musicians and world-class studios: from Paul Simon to Kanye West, from Abbey Road to Skywalker Sound. And most recently, Chicago Recording Company.
Chris‘ latest musical outlet, Stonecutter Records, is a full-service production company and independent record label. It is dedicated to helping emerging and established artists attain continued success.
Matt Piper
Matt Piper, author of Reason 4 Ignite, is Line 6‘s Propellerhead Product Specialist. Piper is an accomplished musician who makes innovative use of Propellerhead software for music production as well as for live performances with improvisational groups and DJ‘s in the thriving underground electronic music scene in Los Angeles.
James Bernard
James Bernard has a long and critically well received career in the music industry, as the Artist Relations Manger, Sound designer and Lead Demonstrator for Propellerhead. James also creates Re-Fills for Reason under his own name, and music for them to showcase what is possible with the software, James travels around the world performing, giving demos and training seminars.
James has released many records since 1993. As Influx on Sapho records, a sister label of UK label Rising High. His first ambient album, Atmospherics was released in 1994 on well respected label Rising High. He also has releases on TVT/Wax Trax Records (Gold selling record as Expansion Union... used in the movie BLADE), Isophlux Records (as Influx and Protocol), Analog Records (as Influx), BML Records (as Influx) and now on Three Sixty Records.
