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LATEST: ENGINEER JOINS STUDIO PLUS NEW WORKSHOPS
We are very excited to have a new engineer/studio co-ordinator in our Bogotá studio.
Pacho is highly experienced in his craft and has already been busy recording local bands - watch this space!
We have also launched a brand new series of 16 hour workshops in the Bogotá studio in four different skills: studio recording, live music engineering, Protools and commercial and authorial rights. Workshops are low cost with free places set aside to ensure no one is turned away.
Carmelo Torres was the first artists to record in the FairTunes studio in El Salado and we are proud to announce that we are now mastering an album with the accordion master in the Bogota Studio. Again - soon coming!
Future Plans
We are now looking to raise funds to record an album with bands from around Bogota and also to stream regular shows from the studio to support the students' work. There are plans in the pipeline for
virtual workshops with artists, producers and music and radio industry pundits in the UK will hold Q&A's with our trainees in Bogota.
Bogota 2011 Round up
FairTunes collaborated with the renowned Bogotá music festival Bogotrax. From February 15-18, Bogotrax ran a music program for 10 young producers from the FairTunes studio in the Boogaloop centre in central Bogotá.
The workshops were aimed at producers that had a particular piece that they wanted to perfect and the course was run by the Colombian musician Amós Piñeros, the Colombian DJ and producer Sonico and the composer Juan Forero. The aim was for local artists to share fundamental techniques for producing music with the live arena in mind. All the artists performed their pieces live on line through a video conference.
Bogota 2010 Round up
In September and October of 2010 we went back to Bogotá for the third stage of the project - building a centrally located studio that could serve musicians from all over the city. This was made possible thanks to a generous donation from the Strummerville Foundation which enabled us to purchase equipment for the studio.
FT director Jon Last and fantastic volunteer Tim Giddings built the studio along with help from local musician Diego Guerrero. The location was hip music venue ‘Boogaloop’ in the Chapinero district at the heart of Bogotá. Read Jon’s Blog to get a flavour of what happened during this third phase.
We are extremely proud to have opened a FairTunes' studio at the beginning of October with a series of workshops sponsored by the ‘Orquesta Filarmonica de Bogotá’ (OFB) and their ‘Hip Hop al Parque’ music festival. FT director Nick Minton ran two week-long courses aimed at young hip hoppers from poor socio-economic backgrounds. The first course was an introduction to studio music production at the end of which the group produced their own track. Listen to the tracks.
The second course, which Nick taught alongside local producer and musician Mike Cerdá, was for a more advanced group and went into more specific aspects of hip hop production.
Since we left the work with the OFB participants has continued, with seven groups having returned to record music to date with FT engineer Estefanía Calderón. The remaining groups are currently recording demos with Estefanía and we are also revising the next wave of applicants who have applied to record their music in the studio.
We are very fortunate to have an indefatigable team in Bogotá consisting of Alix Lesmes, Laurie Sauloy and Ricardo Cubides. We send out our utmost thanks to them. Undertaking the day to day running of the studio is our Colombian administrator Angélica Moreno Franco.
