Dog Daze

Here is an audio drama that I helped write and produce. To my surprise during the writing phase, my group went with my idea and of course made it better. After the script was finalized we recorded the drama as a group. When the recording was done we found sound fx and I took it home for a weekend and put everything together on protools. 

I had the chance to do this type of work when I attended Mid-Ocean School of Media Arts and really enjoyed it, but have not had the chance to do any work since. I had a lot of fun completing this project and playing around with effects. I hope you guys enjoy it. 

Black and Paper

Here is the video I made for my montage assignment in television class. 

After much debate over a concept and trouble finding friends to be in it, I finally came up with this. The story is of a man trying to write a song in a state of depression. He soon becomes frustrated and walks around the town in hopes of finding inspiration. After tossing a coin he realizes he has to clean up his life and begins writing again. 

I could not have completed this if it were not for my good friend Lewis Oman who volunteered to help me out on his birthday when my original actor had to drop out. 

Enjoy!

Making a Country Star

Over the past 4 months myself and Luke Reimer have been preparing a proposal for an Independent Professional Project, which plays a major role in Crecomm next year. The project we proposed is to develop Luke Reimer as a country artist and prepare him for a possible career in country music. My role in this project is going to be producing and recording the 5 song EP, doing all the art work and photography, developing and overlooking the brand and co producing a music video. Luke will be in charge his publicity, social media, planning an EP launch and co producing a music video. To our joy the IPP was accepted with no changes to our plan, and we are set to start research this summer. We will begin recording in early September and the rest will follow. 

Let me be the first to say that I have never been a huge country music fan. So why am I taking on a project developing a country artist? I believe that the more experience I have with different genres of music in both recording and developing, the better chance I will have of someday working in the music industry. On top of this, if you ever get the chance to hear Luke Reimer (which you will) you will realize that he has great potential to go somewhere with his music. 

Look for our project “Making a Country Star” to get underway in September. 

DEADWAX MAGAZINE

Over the past 3 months I along with Jesse Pelletier, Meg Crane, and Holly Abuda have worked on DEADWAX magazine, a magazine about vinyl and the culture surrounding it. It was a lot of work, but was very rewarding in the end. I have posted the editor’s note that I wrote for the magazine below, which gives a good sense of what we accomplished. If you are interested in seeing a PDF of the magazine please leave a comment with your email.

EDITORS NOTE 

Why vinyl? Over the past few years I have become fascinated with this once dead form of distribution. I have never had a large collection, or even a record player for that matter, but something about it intrigued me. The artwork? The sound quality? The rareness? The answer was unclear to me.

I saw a picture of a vinyl record and the idea for DEADWAX came to me. The idea was to explore this fascination with vinyl.

I pitched the idea to Holly Abuda, Jesse Pelletier and Meg Crane, and they were on board. We began to plan our magazine.

When the four of us set out to learn about something we really knew nothing about, we came back with some unexpected, but very cool, results. I learned of a barber shop that hosts fundraising dance parties called “The Guinness Book of Great Records,” Jesse learned that vinyl is dead among radio DJs, Holly learned how to take care of vinyl, and Meg went back to the original question “why vinyl?”

When all was said and done, I realized it is not the artwork, sound quality, or rareness. It is the culture and the people that surround vinyl that make it so fascinating.

Jesse, Meg, Holly, and I hope you enjoy DEADWAX as much as we enjoyed making it. – LT

Front Cover of DEADWAX Magazine

Distances Indiegogo

This week I thought I would plug a band that could use your help. Distances is a great pop-punk band from Winnipeg that I have previously mentioned on this blog. They are currently running an Indiegogo campaign to help raise money to record an album with Stu Mckillop in Vancouver.

Visit the website and watch the video that was produced by Exchange Media. If you feel like helping them out donate what you feel nessacary, keep in mind that there are exclusive merchandise packages for donations.

http://igg.me/at/DISTANCES

 

 

 

 

4 Nights, 3 Days

A few weeks ago one of my best friends, Luke Elliiot Walter, released his first EP.

During Christmas break I asked him if he would want to spend a week doing some basement recordings and see what we come up with. He gave me a lot of freedom in producing his music, making suggestions, and writing parts. I feel that the project turned out really well and it was really cool to see how far he has come as a musician.

I want to thank him for being patient when mixing the EP took a little longer than expected. After I was happy with the mixes I got Grahm Csath, a classmate of mine, to master it. The finished product came out sounding great and Luke has received nothing but good feedback, which he deserves.

If you would like to listen to his debut EP 4 Nights, 3 Days you can do so here.

AD WORDS CAMPAIGN

Today in ad class we were assigned to write 5 potential Google AdWords ads. Let me know what your favourite is! 

 

Winnipeg’s best bands!

Concert reviews and album reviews

Follow the Winnipeg music scene

http://www.logansbrokenrecord.wordpress.com

 

Logan Tanner’s opinion

Watch, listen, and learn…

About all things music

http://www.logansbrokenrecord.wordpress.com

 

Where is Neil Young from?

Winnipeg!

Learn about Winnipeg’s music

http://www.logansbrokenrecord.wordpress.com

 

The next big thing…

Was probably featured on this blog

Read it. Enjoy it.

http://www.logansbrokenrecord.wordpress.com

 

Canada has great bands

Logan has a great blog

Need I say more

http://www.logansbrokenrecord.wordpress.com

 

Keywords:

Winnipeg Music

Live Music 

Album Reviews

Concert Reviews

Logan Tanner

Artist Profiles 

Music Scene 

Winnipeg Musicians 

 

I think this campaign should run in the summer month’s (may-september) when the local music scene thrives with festivals and concerts. 

 

 

A Thousand Farewells

A Thousand Farewells is a book by CBC journalist Nahlah Ayed. The book chronicles the life and career of Ayed, moving from Winnipeg to arefugee camp in Aman at age 7, to becoming a leading reporter for the CBC in the Middle East following 911.

When 911 happened I was 9 years old, far too young to understand the severity of such an event and the impact it had on the world. The book does a good job explaining how the world was at that time and the times following, it also describes the atmosphere and gives an overall sense of what it was like living in Middle Eastern countries during times of conflict. This book helped me further understand a time that I was either to young to understand or did not take the time to follow.

Ayed puts you in situations with her and what it was like to cover such situations. Some of the more memorable being getting jumped by a mob of people in Bagdad and witnessing mass graves be excavated and seeing people dig through bodies to find family members. The book deals with many of the depressing issues that take place in these countries which in turn gives the book a dark tone.

There were some issues I had with the way she arranged the book. At times it seemed hard to follow due to each chapter being a certain period of time, but out of chronological order. The names where very hard to follow throughout the book, as the language is very unfamiliar to me.

I felt that the book was good for what it was trying to accomplish, although I did think that some of the stories within it were cut short  and could have been expanded on.

To be honest I do not read non-fiction that often, the last book I read was This is a Call The Life and Times of Dave Grohl. This book is similar in that it covers the career of one person. As I mentioned before Ayed book is out of chronological order which I found not to work. In This is a Call it is in chronological order and is much easier to follow. Also reading a book about one of my musical inspirations is a quite a bit different than reading a book on a journalist I had never heard of. I found it harder to be invested in Ayed’s book because of this, and to be honest if you were not a journalist or interested in the middle east this book might not be for you.

Being in school and taking a journalism class I learned, and think that journalists in general could learn, that you have to care about your work and be willing to put time into it to be successful. She spends years in these countries and is fully committed to her work. Along with commitment can come danger, the situations that she finds her self in are life threatening and if she didn’t truly believe in letting the world know about the stories then I don’t think she, or anyone for that matter would put themselves in these situations.

I would recommend reading this if you are interested in journalism.

Distances go the distance

Distances is a rising pop-punk band from Winnipeg. The band consist of previous members of Waster, The Afterbeat, and The All Night, as well as a current member of Dangercat.

The band is unique in that all the guitar players sing, adding harmonies to every song, which adds a level of quality that most bands do not have.  The melodic guitar riffs, fast drums, and meaningful lyrics bring a fresh sound to Winnipeg’s punk scene.

Distances is a band that has passed my radar a few times and I cant quite figure out why. When they first released their EP I listened to and enjoyed it, but never thought twice about it. I also saw them live at The Red Cactus and again never followed up on it.  Months passed after the show at the Cactus, and then one of my favourite bands, Living With Lions, came through Winnipeg. Distances had the opening spot and I got to see them for a second time. This time around they had gained a new front man and seemed to have much more energy. This caught my attention and I was very impressed by their set. Among the people at the show Distances seemed to be the talk of the night.

Now that the band had my attention, I went to their next concert at The Windsor where they opened for guitar player Nic’s former band Waster. The band delivered in full, putting on a very tight set and showcasing a new song which showed them going in a darker direction. The band has huge amounts of potential and I would keep an eye open for these guys in the near future.

Listen to their EP here:

https://www.facebook.com/distancesmusic/app_178091127385

Sound City

A week ago today Dave Grohl’s highly anticipated documentary, SOUND CITY, came out. The film focuses on Sound City, a studio in L.A that was home to some of the greatest albums released in the last 40 years, including Neil Young’s “After the Gold Rush,” Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ “Damn the Torpedos,” and Nirvana’s “Nevermind”

The three quarters of the film tells the story of how Sound City Studios came to be, from the ground up and how it came to its closing in 2011. It is told by current and previous owners of the studio and the musicians who recorded there. This makes for some emotional interviews, including one memorable one from Rick Springfield who was managed by a previous owner who passed away.

It also includes interviews from members of Nirvana, Fleetwood Mac, Metallica, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, and many more. 

The last quarter of the film shifts focus to a celebration of the studio and everything it accomplished. Grohl, who bought the antique sound board from the studio when it closed, invites a group of artists who recorded hit records at Sound City to come to his home studio and record on the board once again. The artists are backed by members of the Foo Fighters and collaborate to make a compilation of songs that will be released later this month. 

I recommend this film to everyone, music fan or not. If you do have an interest in the process of recording, then you will be even more invested in this film. If the list of artist who recorded at Sound City does not intrigue you enough to watch this movie (http://soundcitystudios.net/artist-list) then maybe this trailer will help convince you: