Blogs about: Realstrings
Featured Blog
Realstrings 2009
Despite the credit crunch and despite my wife having the toughest year of her life, for realstrings.com it was a ridiculously good year. Thank you to all the producers, composers and record labels w… more →
realstrings
Realstrings 2009
wrote 1 week ago: Despite the credit crunch and despite my wife having the toughest year of her life, for realstrings. … more →
Queensberry
wrote 3 months ago: Love it or hate it, the X Factor / Pop Idol models are keeping the music business going, including t … more →
Strings in Bratislava
wrote 3 months ago: London, Warsaw, Prague, Moscow, Sofia and now Bratislava; recording strings in studio 1 at Slovak Ra … more →
Organic Loops
— 1 comment
wrote 4 months ago: It’s taken me a while, but finally I’ve got a strings loops library up and selling! And … more →
Soundcloud - embed on Wordpress.com
wrote 4 months ago: Finally, some social media gets past the WordPress.com police! (No offense WordPress!) Here’s … more →
Online audio mixer
— 1 comment
wrote 4 months ago: A quick and dirty post to launch my new online multitrack mixer, coded by Chris Savage. Still some … more →
A musician's online identity
— 2 comments
wrote 5 months ago: A musician’s online identity. It’s good to talk. Read it or listen to it. Getting work a … more →
Chord function
wrote 6 months ago: In between prepping scores for an epic Richard Jacques game score and a few pop arrangements, I … more →
So what does a record label do?
wrote 6 months ago: If you follow any of the music advice blogs or twitter streams you’ll know that it’s DIY … more →
real or sampled
— 4 comments
wrote 7 months ago: Is it real? Is it true? It’s part of the human condition to be fascinated by these questions, … more →
My predestination
wrote 7 months ago: I’m not a lyrics kind of bloke! My wife can sing me line after line of songs we talk about, wh … more →
Classical Brits - album of the year 2009
wrote 7 months ago: A quick mention for Jon Cohen’s album for the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards – Journey. I wr … more →
Imperial Ice Stars
wrote 9 months ago: I watched Cinderella on Ice at The Opera House Manchester the other day, performed by The Imperial I … more →
double bass
wrote 10 months ago: Mmmm, how low can you go….. Most of the recording that goes on at realstrings.com is violins, … more →
Essays - do we have to do?
wrote 11 months ago: I do love Web 2.0 tools and the freedom to self-publish they give us! In my experience of education … more →
Introduction to string arranging
— 4 comments
wrote 11 months ago: I’ve been asked to do a guest lecture about string arranging, so I’ve prepared a short i … more →
Henry Priestman - back on Island
wrote 1 year ago: One of the first great gigs I got doing my string thing was for Henry Priestman and The Christians, … more →
Royal Scots Dragoon Guards
wrote 1 year ago: Some jobs come in completely out of the blue – from a colleague of a colleague, that strange n … more →
What makes a composer?
wrote 1 year ago: A most satisfying and fascinating part of my work is interacting with composers, quite a few of them … more →
