Detailed Proposal for Professional Practice

For my Professional Practices I chose to document my various forms of recordings & Processes. Primarily I will be documenting my personal composition and recordings as well as other artists and groups.

I will be recording variety of instruments for example, Guitar (acoustic & electric), Drums, piano, bass, keyboard, percussion etc. Each instrument poses different challenges in terms of obtaining the best possible recordings. I will combine my experience with additional research to get best results possible. I will also document/research new ways in which to process these recordings to further enhance them.

In the past I have recorded a album for Jazz/Classical guitar trio group (based in Derby), recorded backing tracks for a choir (based in London) for use in practice and performance and worked & recorded various artist with varying degree of experience on their instruments. I have contributed instrumentally to works of other artists.
I have on few occasions have engineered live performances but I am planning to move away from live settings and move into production more.

Currently I am concentrating on my personal composition & recording but also expanding my knowledge in post production. Learning different ways to mixing a song, processing audio, compression techniques etc.
I will be recording a EP for the Jazz trio and possibly another group in the near future, both of which I intend to document fully on this Blog explaining all the aspects of recording and post production.
Another possibility is also documenting live performances of a group I am part of. Although the band/group has been on hiatus since July, there are possibilities of live performances as well as recordings.

To evidence my activities, I plan to use different mediums such as pictures (stills) as well as video (screen capture). These will either be embedded to this blog or I will post links to other websites (possibly YouTube, flicker etc) to be viewed. I will also write detailed explanation for the activities (if necessary) on the blog to accompany the pictures and videos.