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Martin Atkins teams up with Presonus and bubbles enthusiastically about the benefits of being in the “now”. The main point he puts over here is that promotion is now all about you YOU, taking responsibility yourself, not entering into a blame culture and being highly self-directed to achieve your ambitions, could be a very useful stance, what do you think?

I had the pleasure of dropping into SAE New York and meeting up with Udo, the School’s Manager, who kindly gave me a tour of the NYC Music Production School, located on the 9th floor of the Herald Center, 1293 Broadway.

The area is unusually circular in design (in a good way) which gives the spaces a sense of fluidity, and the school’s equipment list which fills the spaces is impressive, (big shiny desks and gear everywhere). It was even better seeing students working in very small groups on musical projects, I even saw one studio with a 2 inch 24 track multi-track recorder doing the business, awesome, that old skool tape sound still alive!

Along with the tour Udo gave good conversation about what they get up to in the vibrant city of New York which I found really interesting to hear, it must be a rush to study in an area with such a buzz around you, both inside and outside.

New York (NYC) is a seriously vibrant place and the phrase “the city never sleeps” is without a doubt true, which I’ve experienced before.

Whilst I’m on the subject of NYC, I’d love to hear what you’ve found in town, including bands, clubs, venues etc, what have you seen?

If you are into electronic music production in any “serious” way, and have done your homework looking at monumental pioneering electronic music concepts over time, then you’d know what a Theremin is.

An interesting piece of kit that has been featured on a variety of records over time such as the Beach Boys Good Vibrations, among many others.

However, we’ve never seen a cat playing one, until now, takes all sorts!