MIA BANDWIDTH Bandwidth is a student run, monthly magazine exploring the creative views of Music Industry Arts students. The opinions and articles herein are representa tive of the December/January 2011 Volume 2, Issue 2 December/January 2011 Volume authors and do not reflect the actual views of Music Industry Arts or Fanshawe College. The Magazine of Music Industry Arts Fanshawe 1 The articles herein reflect the sole opinion of the author and do not represent the views of Music Industry Arts or Fanshawe College I Have Something to Say Kevin Guerette Editor This is it folks. We are “A painter paints pictures entering the last leg of our year. First on a canvas. But musicians years will be looking forward to the paint their pictures on summer break and seconds years will silence.” be looking forward to starting their careers. It’s definitely an exciting time! Although it’s in this time where it’s easy to become December/January 2011 overwhelmed by the workload or by reality hitting you in the face: MIA is going by at an alarming rate. I would like to comment that the experience here does not end with the piece of - Leopold Stokowski BANDWIDTH paper saying that you graduate. We all have come to realize that the MIA MIA experience, the music experience, is one of life long learning. When MIA finishes, the gears switch from classroom trial/error to real world that you all have been prepared for So get ready to go out there and take mode. It is now a matter of plugging all this. You are also not alone! You have that world into your own hands! But that we have learned into it and using a made many connections during your first, please enjoy this newsletter! that as a starting point. Although that time here with many talented people. does sound a bit intimidating, realize This is one of your greatest resources! Editor Letter tatters. We need to work together, hand in hand, to make certain that new music is Dan Webster being properly represented and Tech/Promotionsx appreciated. It is up to us to create a friendly and profitable environment for Welcome back to school. I am future musicians and our successors. sure, like myself, most of you are itching to While it is important to find employment or get back into the studios and get our new a way to get involved after we graduate, it projects underway. I hope everyone had a would be beneficial for everyone if we all fantastic break and got a lot of sleep, kept in touch. I plan to engineer and which is hard to get during the term. This produce after graduating, and I can is our second issue and we are very guarantee that I will come across projects I excited about its release. We had some will feel I cannot contribute to in a positive great feedback on the first issue and hope way, or acts that are in need of things I do you enjoy this issue just as much. A big not offer. We are all unique individuals with focus of our first issue was showing that different things to offer and we must keep the future is not so bleak and what I really each other in mind when we come across want to talk about in my address to you is opportunities that do not fit us. the importance of keeping in touch. I have made it a personal goal to get to We are all entering the industry know as many people as I can in an open unsure where it is heading and what the minded manner. I take people for what future will hold for us. The few of you who they have to offer and do not discredit talk to me will know that I believe the them for things they cannot. I know some future of the industry is indeed in our of you reading this may not know me or hands. We need to step up in a positive who I am, but feel free to introduce way and forge a new path for ourselves. yourself at any point. We are the future of Change is exactly what the industry needs. the industry and we must stick together so This is not the first time that it has been in it can flourish and continue. 2 The articles herein reflect the sole opinion of the author and do not represent the views of Music Industry Arts or Fanshawe College CONTENTS First Year Spotlight 4 Second Year Spotlight 6 December/January 2011 On Live Sound 8 The Professional 9 BANDWIDTH MIA Band Promotion 10 In the New Space In Defense Of... 11 Honest, Hardworking Songwriters and Musicians Dusenbury Editorial 12 2011 Predictions Between Charity and Slavery 13 Local Plugs 14 Highpass Filter 15 Record Reviews MIA Picks 2010 21 Credits 22 3 The articles herein reflect the sole opinion of the author and do not represent the views of Music Industry Arts or Fanshawe College First Year Spotlight “I feel more comfortable with my choice of actually making December/January 2011 music my life.” BANDWIDTH MIA Photo by Martin Grenier Photo by Martin Grenier The One and Only Hannah Burley A Powerful Feminine Presence By Kevin Guerette There’s a feeling you get when you are Despite being one of a few women in the around certain people and it changes with program, she has not filtered her identity in any everyone you meet. Sometimes it feels solid and way. As I begin my questioning, it is clear that expansive like a brick wall or a frozen lake. Other Hannah has herself together and is flat out times it feels silly and loose like a dangling string. inspiring to experience. Thus is the power of When I met Hannah for our interview on an early female energy. In an industry dominated by men, Wednesday afternoon, I felt none of these things. it is easy to become engrained in the male ego Instead I felt like I was being placed in a battery and all the fun that comes with that. However charger. Hannah Burley, it seems, is one of the we, like a balanced diet, need the influence of few people who truly radiate who they are (and women in our lives and our careers. Hannah is it’s energizing). one important piece of this multi-layered musical meal. 4 The articles herein reflect the sole opinion of the author and do not represent the views of Music Industry Arts or Fanshawe College pushing down those doors and Hannah Burley Everybody! walking through them. K: Tell us a bit about yourself K: Where do you see yourself after H: I grew up in Cobourg, an hour “I’m pushing MIA? east of Toronto. I heard of MIA from down the doors H: I want to be a waitress (laughs). one of my high school teachers so I No, I definitely want to be in the called and they said to take General and walking music industry. I feel like every class Arts. That's where I spent my first I have I change my mind a little bit. I year at Fanshawe. I got a better feel through them.” didn't know much about engineering of college life so I knew MIA would but the more I learn about it the more be intense. It also taught me to cope I’m interested in. I'm just taking it day by day right now. I'm using this December/January 2011 with being on my own and doing my own laundry. K: Contrast this program with program to narrow everything down. nursing, which is female K: Would you have been dominated. Unfortunately, there K: So have you changed since unprepared if you went straight seems to be a bad stigma for male coming to MIA? into MIA? nurses. Do you feel like women H: Yes. I'm a lot more outgoing now. BANDWIDTH H: I think I would have been more have a bad stigma in the music This program really reinforced that. I mentally unprepared. Last year, I was industry? feel more comfortable with my MIA shyer. This year my goal is to be H: Kind of in mainstream music, you choice of actually making music my more outgoing and put myself out see that a lot. Like Katy Perry. As life. I knew I’d end up in music but I there. soon as you see her, all you see is wasn't sure how much of my life I the whole sex thing. Otherwise, I just wanted to dedicated to it. Music was K: The music industry is pretty think it's unexpected when a girl is always on the back burner for me much dominated by men. MIA is actually interested in a more behind but since coming here it is my life. no exception. Were you aware of the scenes role. You just can't be this before entering the industry? afraid to ask questions. I don't think K: There should be more women in H: I was aware of it but this program I’m as far ahead as I should be music. Thoughts? really opened my eyes to the because I was afraid to ask H: There should be. We add another numbers. I'm so outnumbered! When questions because I was like, "oh I’m twist and opinion on things. We bring you're talking about people in the a girl I don't want to look stupid" or in a different dynamic.