Our very own up-and-coming record producer DB2 (Daniel Bazan Jr., pictured above in the red checkered shirt) gets a well-deserved shout-out for his work with rapper Najee the 1 in a Sept 9 2011 New York Times article on the new Converse recording studio in Brooklyn. Also kudos to friends/colleagues of the Clive Davis Institute: [...]
Fall 2010 – it’s the start of a new academic year here at The Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music, and we welcome back our returning students and we welcome the incoming class! Lots of exciting stuff happening…
This week the 127th Audio Engineering Society Convention New York gets underway at New York’s Javitz Center. “For over 60 years, the AES has been the largest gathering of audio professionals and enthusiasts on the globe, attracting delegates from over 100 countries worldwide. Workshops, tutorials, technical papers and the trade show floor provide attendees with [...]
“Shoulderpads” comes to us from rioux, the musical project from sophomore student Erin Rioux. In rioux (yep, all lowercase), Michigan’s long legacy of experimental electronic music lives on, and the baritone vocals over quirky synth-pop also remind us of Remain in Light. All music is written, recorded, and performed by rioux. The whimsical video is [...]
Freshman Clive Davis Department student and Pittsburgh native John Rectenwald goes by the pseudonym John Record – a name that suggests an intriguing cross between neo-soul singer-songwriter John Legend and late Chi-Lites’ frontman Eugene Record. Not far off: “Money in the Bank,” produced, engineered, and mixed by Uri Djemal of Madpan Productions, captures a chilled-out, [...]
Clive Davis Department student/dexterous pianist David McTiernan (pictured above, in the red striped flannel shirt on the far right) will take the helm as band director and arranger for a darkly comic Off-Broadway indie-rock musical called Open the Dark Door, playing at the upcoming New York Musical Theater Festival’s Next Link Series. The plot sounds [...]
NYU’s The Gentlemen of Quality present Jay-Z’s new RocNation artist J. Cole this Saturday at the Kimmel Center at 9 pm. Clive Davis Department senior Kaleb Rollins serves as PR chair for The Gentlemen of Quality. Enterprising production-management venture Grand Staff (Kaleb co-helms it along with some of his fellow Clive Davis Department students) provides [...]
Clive Davis Department junior and NYU Reynolds scholar Genesis “Be” Briggs (a.k.a. Lo-Key) was featured in yesterday’s Washington Square News. The article discusses the Biloxi native’s recent collaboration with Tisch graduate / theater director/film director Andrea Wong for her music video “I Don’t Discriminate.” Looks like the video shoot was bubbling over with NYU alums. [...]
The Clive Davis Institute is an innovative undergraduate leadership training program for aspiring creative music entrepreneurs, housed at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. Students who dream of becoming leading executives, recording artists, record producers and music journalists come to us to learn the art and business of creating and selling hit music.