Author Archives: Ruben Kenig

Connecting the dots: Learning to read music is worth the effort

Matt Stevens, the excellent loopist and guitarist, posed a question on Twitter recently, “Is it important for musicians to be able to read music?” This is a perennial discussion point amongst musicians and often seems to divide down the lines of those who already can and those who can’t favouring their own state. I’m in the can […]

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Can we increase tangible collaboration between independent musicians?

Last night I awoke to find I had drifted off in front of the television. That’s never a great feeling but I happened to hear something I wouldn’t normally have which softened the blow. There was a poker tournament on and they were interviewing a young British poker player who had just lost his imaginary money and been eliminated from the tournament. […]

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Independent, impecunious and heading for the recording studio: An exhortation to prepare excellently

A lovely coincidence of information occurred today that give me a chance to beat a drum for using good studios to record your music, if at all possible, and to do this sensibly by preparing thoroughly for the recording sessions. The first element is a great blogpost from warriorgirl announcing the release of the She Makes War album Disarm. […]

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