{"id":39,"date":"2011-10-03T14:32:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-03T18:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/spblog\/2011\/10\/03\/electronic-musician-why-im-dissatisfied\/"},"modified":"2016-01-22T09:51:39","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T14:51:39","slug":"electronic-musician-why-im-dissatisfied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/electronic-musician-why-im-dissatisfied\/","title":{"rendered":"Electronic Musician – Why I\u2019m dissatisfied"},"content":{"rendered":"

There\u2019s a lot of reasons why I don\u2019t like the new Electronic Musician<\/a>, recently merged with EQ magazine. The Profile section is many pages, covering musicians who I don\u2019t know in styles I don\u2019t listen to, and they\u2019re almost all guys. I didn\u2019t do a statistical survey, but in the October 2011 issue, there\u2019s a 2-page picture feature of a woman guitarist with a paragraph of comment describing her band\u2019s style. There are 4 women writers with short columns and one of the shortest features, and the editor is a woman. But the majority of features, technical articles, and gear coverage are by and about guys.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s less coverage of various musical styles. For bands I haven\u2019t heard of, the writer may not give a genre label or description of their style, assuming you know. As a classical and sometimes electroacoustic musician I know I\u2019m not they\u2019re target audience, but the technical-digital audio half of my brain always got something out of reading the mag. I used to tear out insightful or technically interesting articles to save. Now, most of the short columns are less technical. When I\u2019ve read the new mag, I\u2019m done with it.<\/p>\n

When I open the new EM to a random page, I always seem to get the profile pages, not the short one-pagers that used to give me new musical and production ideas — the profiles are half the magazine, after all. In October, there are 60 pages of intro and profiles, 20 pages of gear, 28 pages in the \u201cLearn\u201d section – tutorials and tips columns. Throughout, most of the right-hand pages are ads. I don\u2019t like the pseudo-clever label \u201cLust\u201d for the gear and software section. I don\u2019t even like the wider size; it doesn\u2019t fit in my magazine piles neatly. Kvetch, kvetch.<\/p>\n

I did read the whole mag, and there\u2019s still some value in it. I listened to clips on iTunes of the featured bands. I got a few ideas of things to try in the home studio, like checking out more of my own sample library and trying some loops – not my usual modus operandi. I liked the column on career-development collaboration, although it was refresher info, not new. Not enough value to make me forget the problems though.<\/p>\n

I unsubscribed from Keyboard because they \u201cwent back to basics\u201d, i.e. dumbed it down and there wasn\u2019t that much interesting left. Now I\u2019m not sure I want Electronic Musician either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There\u2019s a lot of reasons why I don\u2019t like the new Electronic Musician, recently merged with EQ magazine. The Profile section is many pages, covering musicians who I don\u2019t know in styles I don\u2019t listen to, and they\u2019re almost all guys. I didn\u2019t do a statistical survey, but in the October 2011 issue, there\u2019s a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[129],"tags":[69,70,71],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-business","tag-complaints","tag-electronic-musician","tag-women-in-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120,"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions\/120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}