How the laptop became the new electric guitar.

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Home music production for fun and profit
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How the laptop became the new electric guitar.
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About

• Not a lot of musical background.
• Mother was a middle school music teacher.
• Played banjo (poorly and briefly).
• In a couple of pick up punk bands in college
  1984 - 1988.
• Discovered electronic music production by
  accident in 2000.
• Joined mp3.com in 2001.
• Over 100,000 listens.
• Number 1 Ambient song, number 6 Electronic,
  number 46 overall.
• Signed with Raw42 in 2002.
• 32 songs published.
• 2 compilations
• Global Chilled Volume 1 A Selection of
  Downtempo Grooves
• Machinations v4.2 A Selection of IDM Ambient
  Techno Tracks
• Other.
• 2 self-published releases
• This Is How Flat The World Is

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Laptop Music
What Is It? Music produced and performed on the
laptop. References in Popular Culture Rebelart
http//www.rebelart.net/i0008.html Royal
Melbourne Institute of Technology Journal
http//hypertext.rmit.edu.au/dac/papers/Stuart.p
df Hip Chips (laptop music festival in
NYC) http//www.laptopsounds.org/ Wired
Magazine (Issue 10.05) http//www.wired.com/wire
d/archive/10.05/laptop.html The Economist (The
World In 2002) http//www.moby.com/Essays/html/s
oundsDifferent.html
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How To Get Started
Step 1 The Production Software Wide variety.
Cubase, Propellerhead Reason, Abletron Live,
Fruity Loops, Acid. Demo (Acid
SoundForge). Step 2 CD Manufacturing Wide
variety of options. CD-Rs. Discmakers.
Photos.com. Quark. Adobe Photoshop. Step 3
Distribution CDBaby. The Orchard. Digital
distribution. Online CD stores. Physical
stores. Demo (CDBaby). Step 4 Promotion Your
web site. Your press kit (vistaprint.com).
Radio shows. Music websites (electronicscene.com)
. Review sites. Promotional gear
(cafepress.com). Demo (www.dreamdaze.org).
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Next Steps
Step 5 Live Performance Typically solitary
male performer. Face illumitated by screen. Lost
in thought. Occasionally surprised expression.
Small finger movements producing sound. Sodo
something different. Demo (Traktor DJ Studio 2
Arkaos VJ 3.0). Step 6 Publication (orwhere
the money is) Typical fee to a non-commercial
artist is 5000 - 25,000 for commercials. Fees
range up to 150,000 for established
artist. Typical fee to a non-commercial artist
is 5000 for television and film, but can reach
75,000 for non-indie film. Taxi. Raw42. Demo
(Raw42).
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The Last Step
Step 7 Record contract? Per CD you earn less,
but youre established, so you make more from
advertising, T-shirt sales, concerts, and
everything else. Butmaximize your advance and
dont spend it in the studio! Hell, you dont
need to spend it in the studio youve got a
laptop and thats all you need!
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Conclusion
Fun hobby. Not a lot of gear required. Can do
it in your spare time. Wherever you are. Can get
some recognition and earn a few
...maybe. QUESTIONS?
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