ABOUT ME

To give a background of myself, I will have to start with my own musical interests because the reason we are in this hard stricken business is through our love of music.
The love of music and the music industry that I possess has not passed through my family. No one in my family has had a musical career or loved music as much as I have. However the creativity that flourishes within my family is a big part of why I have this love of music. My father is an architect, my brother is an industrial designer and my mother was a dental nurse although the creativity in dentistry is practically non-existent. My love of music was always a big part of my life. I have always had music running through my veins ever since I came home from that Adelaide hospital nineteen years ago. When I was four I had music and rhythm classes where I would be developing a five-minute drum solos for the class to hear. This never happened however the teacher was extremely impressed at how well I could clap the wooden sticks together. When I was seven year old I began performing the dance routine to Michael Jackson’s song Scream in front of my family every Christmas that proceeded. When high school commenced I began my long awaited drum lessons. The high school band soon followed and the process of making songs and the interest in recording them came into my life. My friends and I all chipped in to buy a very basic recording machine. Our band ‘Broken Q’ became popular around the schoolyards and soon became known as the only high school band that existed in our year level of three hundred kids. Other musicians wanted the fame that we had gathered.

I have always had an interest in recording. Ever since our band made the first recording on my friend’s amateur recording machine I always have wanted to own a more industry standard recording software. I bought Pro Tools with an Mbox then updated the Mbox to a Digi 003.

Recording people playing music was what I felt so passionate about when I was fourteen up until seventeen until I grew closer to thinking that if I were in the music industry, the only way to make money was through being in the business side such as management or publicity.

When I was 16 I developed a vast knowledge in all things business to do with the artists development. I had so much interest in the future of the music industry. I would then be following leaders of media futurists and big players in the game of the music industry. I would listen to interviews and read the recent news of partnerships with companies and statistics of record sales from the IFPI. From then until now I have been intrigued at how the industry will get its legs back and run again. I hear so much discussion from people within the industry and external to the industry that comment that the industry is dieing because of record sales whereas many who understand the industries path would say it is changing and changing for the better as the old industry bosses are continuing to use old traditional ways to put their musical works out to the public.

I have always been curious and I have wanted to discuss this notion of new models, new revenue streams, new marketing techniques and the list goes on.

I have recently been in a band for a little over three months making songs, playing gigs and doing everything that a regular band does. We take our music seriously but we are not a serious band. We understand the pressures and the intense work rate that serious muso’s endure. I feel that if we are to become successful we will need to sacrifice what we have already and work our buts off to get somewhere.

The music that I recently have been listening to include artists like The Strokes, The Sleepy Jackson, Dappled Cities, Lost Valentinos, Queens Of The Stone Age, Justice, Boys Noize, Yusek and many many many more…

I live in Melbourne studying my first year in the Music Industry at RMIT. I have partaken in a number of heated discussions throughout the stretch of the course so far. These discussions are continuously about the state of the music industry, how new technologies will push the industry to the horizon and surface a new approach to music and developing a music industry that flourishes.

I would love to comment on the recent events of the music industry and give you my insight and my research to help any of you understand what the big entrepreneurs of today are doing to make the industry what it will be tomorrow.