Comments on: What does a music producer do, anyway ?

By: Harshit

Harshit — Sat, 05 May 2012 17:01:33 +0000

Thanks for the details. Had an idea of music producers but this typing of them is new.

By: RL7

RL7 — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 15:04:46 +0000

Great read, Thanks

By: Ian Shepherd

Ian Shepherd — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 14:35:55 +0000

And, click this link to see lots more Eno here

http://productionadvice.co.uk/tag/eno/

By: radiocitizen

radiocitizen — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 01:43:28 +0000

Go to More Dark Than Shark at http://www.moredarkthanshark.org for everything about Brian Eno.

By: Michael Hubertz

Michael Hubertz — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 12:08:20 +0000

Make sure to watch ImmI at work:

The Dewarists, Episode 1 “Minds Without Fear”
feat. Imogen Heap and Vishal Dadlani
-> http://youtu.be/JvTwd4mTwQs

before(!) dissolving into “Neglected Space”
-> http://youtu.be/1gKr8X_zQuI

Speechless, excited, exhausted,
Hubi:-)

By: Michael Hubertz

Michael Hubertz — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 16:29:55 +0000

Update! ImmI and Thomas are on their way to China, Nepal, Tibet now. Postproduction on “Neglected Space” and “Minds Without Fear”, which I haven’t been involved in by any means, should be done soon.

Check out imogenheap.com on sunday!

Thanx again,
Hubi:-)

PS: Need a manicure and some vegetables now…

By: Michael Hubertz

Michael Hubertz — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 12:23:32 +0000

I stumbled upon the term “creative producer” on a ride with the U-Bahn. There was an ad for a somewhat dubiuos “Popmusik-Akademie”, offering an expensive(!) graduated course and I wondered what that might be. Having returned home I saw ImmI’s Heapsong2-announcement on twitter and took the opportunity to try it out.

It worked better than expected, Radiusmusic invited me to the video-shooting and release-party for “Propeller Seeds”. Though unable to join the pomp and circumstance of the celebrity, I went on with Heapsong3 and soon realized that “creative producing” isn’t really that easy as it seemed to me beforehand.
Besides knowing about all those things gifted artists and skilled producers usually do, which you can learn only by watching them at work, you, yourself, need to have gone through the “mind blowing experience”(quoting ImmI) of creating a perfect song, a masterpiece of art.
And that is not an average day in the park. It involves some pretty dangerous journeying through the unknown realms of your imagination. Remember Brian Wilson, or Pink Floyd’s Syd Barret?

The creative producer is the artist’s companion on that journey.

“Neglected Spaces” is due for release while I’m typing this, my fingernails bitten way up to the elbow…

Wouldn’t be possible without Your help and advice, Ian,

Thank You,
Hubi:-)

By: Michael Hubertz

Michael Hubertz — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 12:18:44 +0000

Just listen to “Propeller Seeds” and when You hear a soap bubble burst near the end of the song it’s probably mine.

Hubi:-)

PS: Your blog is amongst the most nutritious ones about music, sound and audio to be found on the Internet (and there are lots and lots of them!) but English is a funny language and in German “over the top” would mean You’re running down that hill again instead of beeing “topper the the top.

Modest, humble and extremely pleased
H.

By: Ian Shepherd

Ian Shepherd — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 15:46:07 +0000

Hi Hubi,

Great bubble Do you know what you would have been doing, if you had been able to make it ?

And of course, you’re right about my over-the-top terminology and all the people I could have mentioned but didn’t – these are just examples to make an interesting post

Ian

By: Michael Hubertz

Michael Hubertz — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 15:27:16 +0000

I do not like the term “god-like genius”, I’d prefer “creative producer” instead. The “crows of desperation, living beyond interpretation”, to speak with Brian Eno.

Amongst them are for example Andy Warhol, who produced “The Velvet Underground & Nico”, the famous Banana, or David Bowie who did Lou Reed’s “Transformer”.

And what about the “goddess-like genies”?
“I’m no fucking goddess but this is enlightenment”, Björk:-(

Immi’s “produced, engineered, programmed and anything in between by Imogen Heap” beats Prince’s modesty(?) by far, and when You hear him giving everything he is able to on Kate Bush’s “Why Should I Love You” from the Red Shoes Album you might catch a glimpse of the power of a “larger than life” imagination.

Hubi:-)

PS: Search Immi’s clarity cloud for “Mathematics” to find my bubble. @Hubi1857 on twitter