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| From | Stewart Mason <flamingo@theworld.com> |
| Subject | Re: Milstein's song-poems & making mix cd's |
| Date | Tue, 11 Feb 2003 16:35:00 -0500 |
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At 01:21 PM 2/11/2003 -0800, Michael Coxe wrote:
>Stewart Mason wrote:
>>2. Various Artists, DO YOU KNOW THE DIFFERNCE BETWEEN BIG WOOD AND BRUSH
>>(Bar/None) (My buddy Phil Milstein returns to the history of song-poems
>>with a fine selection cherry-picked from all six volumes of his MSR Madness
>>series, including the last two as-yet-unreleased sets.)
>
>This has been getting alot of press. There was an article in Entertainment
>Weekly. Isn't Milstein on the Spectropop list? I remember him discussing
>them & his song-poem website quite a while ago.
Yes, he is. Endlessly fascinating guy, and quite possibly the most
musically knowledgeable person I've ever met. (Yes, he might even know
more than David Bash!) There was also a piece by Jon Parales in Sunday's
New York Times, which -- if I may slip in a plug -- also mentions my own
song-poem station on Live365, Send us Your Lyrics!
>Also, especially if using vinyl or other non-cd sources,
>please make sure the volume has been equalized song-to-song. Nothing
>worse than making the listener tweak the volume after each song.
Amen, brother! I've mentioned this before, but one of the most thoroughly
awesome things about Cool Edit 2000 -- for my money, the single best audio
software ever created -- is that equalizing volume is a one-click process.
(www.syntrillium.com for details, and well worth the $69 download cost.
The $49 audio cleanup module is also essential if you plan on doing much
vinyl-to-CD transferring.)
Jason makes some good points about sequencing and flow, but there's also
something to be said for a CD where the tracks *are* quite alike from song
to song, because generally over the course of 80 minutes, there may be only
slight differences from Point A to Point B to Point C, but Point A and
Point Z are night and day! Those discs take an awful lot of work, though,
and they don't always turn out like they should.
S
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