Archive for June, 2009
Graduate Success Stories – Nic Hentges at Audio Logic Systems
Posted by Travis Norman on Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
S.O.N.G.S. (Stories Of New Graduate Success) is a spotlight on the paths IPR students pursue after graduation and the success they find along the way…
As the Lead Production Technician for Audio Logic Systems Nic’s job description includes prepping audio, video, lighting, and rigging gear for productions as well as on site management of the shows he is involved with. In addition, Hentges may also be called upon to teach seminars, arrange for equipment rentals, handle repairs of speakers, microphones, and cables, and generally insure that each production lives up to Audio Logic’s high standards of quality control.
I was curious as to how Nic first became aware of the company and what circumstances might have lead up to being hired there.
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BROTHER ALI STOPS BY FOOTAGE FA DAYZ
Posted by Travis Norman on Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
IPR’s Artist and industries relations coordinator Brian “Champtown” Harmon has teamed up with the number one urban website in the world allhiphop.com to launch his underground video show entitled Footage Fa Dayz.
The show has been on just four weeks and has already had close to five hundred thousand views. Footage Fa Dayz features vintage interviews ranging back as far as fourteen years as well as current footage with today’s artists. This week Champ has teamed up with IPR instructor Matthias Saunders, known around the world as the Notorious DOP (Director of Photography). Matthias’s skills can be seen on smash classic movies like Ghostbusters; he’s also lent his hand to such notorious artists as Spike Lee.
This week the IPR duo teamed up to do three episodes of Footage Fa Dayz with Minneapolis Rhymesayers recording artist Brother Ali.
Matthias Saunders stated, “It was an honor doing these episodes with Champ and Brother Ali, both of these guys are amazing, their hip hop IQ is second to none.” Saunders continued, “It was hard to edit these episodes because everything champ and Ali discuss is very strong information that could not be left out – I had no choice but to make this a three part series!”
Footage Fa Days episodes of Brother Ali air Tuesday, June 30th along with a special independent week series on allhiphop.com
Click here to watch the interview…
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Create a Music Video and Earn Money Towards Your Education
Posted by admin on Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
Click here to learn about an exciting opportunity to earn money towards your education! Tell people what you plan to study and why. Shoot a documentary about why a college degree is important. Do a funny take on Education Connection jingles. Or come up with your own idea about education. Just do it in a way that will make people laugh, cry, think and share! And keep it to one minute or less.
http://contest.educationconnection.com/about-the-contest/
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Come to the July Alumni Social Hour!!
Posted by admin on Thursday, June 25th, 2009
All IPR Alumni are invited to our third monthly Alumni Event, Tuesday, July 14. This time, it will be casual “Social Hour” at J.D.Hoyt’s across the street from IPR. Click HERE for their website. 
The time is 5:30pm – 6:30pm. Their happy hour is from 4pm – 6pm and appetizers will be provided by IPR. So, be there, and network with all your fellow alumni. Please RSVP by clicking HERE�
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Giving Kids The Experience of a Lifetime
Posted by Travis Norman on Thursday, June 25th, 2009
IPR’s Brian “Champtown” Harmon gave kids the experience of a lifetime in a local anti-gang prevention program in St. Paul’s East Side this Wednesday. Champ has taken on a mentor role in changing children’s lives through sharing his own experiences and choices and talking with them about creating the futures they want out of what they have now, even if it’s next to nothing. Champ’s Detroit Gangland history and his success in the music industry through better judgment, is a wonderful example for the children in these programs and he has recently taken his ability to step in and guide children with similar backgrounds to his own, very seriously. The Detroit rapper has a long history of reaching out to kids on the streets and has no intention of slowing down.
“I’m just getting started – When you know you have the ability to affect someone in a positive way and open their mind to new choices and new possibilities, it’s your job to do it; you should feel honored and I do.” ~ Brian “Champtown” Harmon
A serious Q & A session.
The kids lined up for Champ’s autograph after he spoke.
Champ and Chelsea Starr talking with the program directors after the show.
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Jennifer Davis: Still Rising, Still Affordable
Posted by Rod Smith on Thursday, June 25th, 2009
Newcomers to Jennifer Davis’s work usually succumb immediately.
When, in 1873’s The Renaissance, Walter Pater wrote, “all art aspires to the condition of music,” he couldn’t have been more dead-on. But that was then, when the modern gallery system had only just barely started opening up the art market to regular folks and freeing artists from the tyranny that often accompanied salon exhibitions and patronage. In our century, all art (in this post. strictly visual) aspires to the condition of being less neatly pigeonholed than in Pater’s day: less exclusively the fiefdom of a few rich Europeans, and more a global exaltation supported in part by a force far greater than any elite could ever muster: internet commerce.
Hey big spender! Spend a little time with Tanning.
Whether purely digital with zero commodity value or physical artifacts somebody might potentially pay for, today’s art inhabits the condition of music and then some, especially vis-à-vis distribution. Though collecting unique works by dead celebrities (or living ones) demands a load of dead presidents, the digital marketplace makes opportunity ubiquitous.
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Southern Theater Caps ‘08-’09 “Wordless Music” Series with Icelandic Master, New York Prodigy, Minneapolis Whiz Kid
Posted by Rod Smith on Wednesday, June 24th, 2009
While I can’t roll with the video’s depiction of Parsons, it’s hardly YouTube’s most stupidly sanctimonious. Plus, it’s good to see him getting more attention, especially with Jóhann Jóhannsson’s predictably magnificent track framing it.
Given Minneapolis’s “most literate city” ranking, geological stability (*), resistance to tidal waves, and welcoming climate (compared to, say, Pluto or Hell), we’d have to consider ourselves lucky even if Ronen Givony hadn’t made us (via the Southern Theater) the second beneficiary of his consistently inspired Wordless Music series. Thanks to the impresario’s singular vision and the Southern’s hospitality, we’ve been growing steadily luckier ever since Valgeir Sigurðsson and Nico Muhly booted the series here back in ‘07.
From Jóhannsson’s third album, 2006’s “IBM 1401: A User’s Manual.”
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Learning to Cook with Your Host, the Internet
Posted by Kyle Stallock on Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
How does somebody acquire a particular set of skills? Authorities at the Chongqing Children’s Training Center in China believe an individual’s capabilities might be determined by superior genes. Using DNA microarrays – tests enabling the identification of 13 traits–they recently began testing their theories on 1,000 children.. (Got eugenics?) Eschewing nature in favor of nurture, renowned authors Geoff Colvin and Malcolm Gladwell maintain that 10,000 hours of practice and countless variables yield mastery.
As I have yet to display traces of any talents displayed by the past two generations of Stallocks, Nays, Augustsons, Wikstroms, etc., I’m banking on Gladwell, et. al., especially in the kitchen.
DNA.
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RED BULL MUSIC ACADEMY & LAST OF THE RECORD BUYERS PRESENTS ‘CONTENT UNDER PRESSURE’
Posted by admin on Sunday, June 21st, 2009
RED BULL MUSIC ACADEMY & LAST OF THE RECORD BUYERS PRESENT: Come watch key twin cities and Rymesayers Entertainment artists create music with an unfamiliar collaborator in a limited amount of time and then perform it for you that same night!!! -THE MCS: Abstract Rude, Manifest, St Paul Slim, Carnage, New MC, Sims, & Felipe Cuauhtli -THE PRODUCERS: Blueprint, Medium Zach, O-D, Katrah-Quey, Benzilla, X:144 & Big Cats!
WHAT: Fourteen up and coming national and local independent hip hop emcees and producers will descend upon the studio rooms of the Institute of Production & Recording to create new music with an unfamiliar collaborator. Partnered up randomly, each producer will bring their best beats and each emcee will bring their best rhymes and in a limited amount of time create a new track and then perform it for the public just hours later.
WHO: The seven emcees: Abstract Rude, Manifest, St. Paul Slim, Carnage, New MC, Sims of Doomtree & Felipe Cuauhtli of Los Nativos.
The seven producers: Blueprint, Medium Zach of Big Quarters, O-D, Katrah-Quey, Benzilla, X:144 and Big Cats.
Hosted by Brandon Allday of Big Quarters. For more information on the artists visit http://bit.ly/DgXxL
WHEN: Thursday June 25th, 2009 at 6pm for the artists to begin their 3 hour collaboration, and 9pm for the public to watch each newly formed duo perform their song
WHERE: The Institute of Production & Recording (IPR) 312 Washington Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55401The event is all ages and free to the public.
LIVE STREAM: For those that cannot make the event, the collaboration will be broadcast live online at http://www.livestream.com/contentunderpressure
http://www.myspace.com/contentunderpressurelrb
www.myspace.com/lastrecordbuyers
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The Year’s Scariest Movie? Try “Food, Inc.”
Posted by Rod Smith on Friday, June 19th, 2009
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Let’s hope the real end beats this steaming coil.
We humans have been contemplating the end of the world for so long, the real thing is almost bound to be a letdown. Still, the event’s epic scope and endless possibilities continue to inspire everybody from Left Behind authors Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins to cyberpunk pioneer John Shirley. But for filmmaker Roland Emmerich, global devastation is far more than just another one-off meal ticket: it’s a career.
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Opening in November, “ID4” creator Roland Emmerich’s “2012″ promises different date and premise, same cornball histrionics.
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