Coconut Radio is now an HD Video on YouTube – DIY Video TIPS

The Coconut Radio video was a real pleasure to work on for the last year. Through the process I learned a lot about making videos. Let me share some of the experience and offer some tips.
The project was something I undertook alone. I had asked for some help from friends but realized [...]

New music, new technologies, new distribution of my CD

Hi folks. I have been busy though I’ve neglected this blog for the better part of 6 months. My last posting was March when I wrote about playing a show at Labspace Studio in Toronto’s east end. Since then I’ve been working on the music I recorded with my pal Paul Schedlich, working on websites [...]

DJing and making music – Korg microKONTROL and Ableton Live

For about the last three years I have been determined to get my hands on a keyboard controller and finally the beast is here! After doing lots of research and waiting until I was ready to really make use of it I went over to Long and McQuade and hooked myself up with the Korg [...]

Technology for musicians: backing up – portable computing and recording

I’m going to share some ideas with you about how you can improve where your musical life meets your technological life. It horrified me to read recently about a semi-famous Canadian electronic band that lost an album because their “harddrive got fried.” In this day and age, that’s almost unheard of, but it does happen. [...]