I've just returned from Perth Australia after studying there for 4 years to serve NS , i was in a fairly decent band in Perth ( www.seraphim.com.au or www.myspace.com.au/seraphimaustralia) and also a music producer and what i've seen in the Singapore scene is quite lacking to what i've experienced in Perth.
The musos there are quite set on making music part of their careers and are most importantly given government grants to support their music.
i'll give u an example . If i had to spend $40k on a recording but only had $33k , the govt would fork out the remaining $7k if i could show that the band was a proper business etc etc and had a proper recording plan.
Also,plenty of govt grants are given to promoters to organise gigs and bands can also request funding when they go on tour
I also think that Singaporeans in GENERAL * are not supportive of local artiste until they make it big somewhere else 1st. An example would be someone like Stefanie Sun who was exported to Taiwan to be popular before being marketed back to singaporeans.Hopefully this will change as it's very damaging for the local scene.
Also in Australia, there are plenty of management and promo companies that groom bands becos australia has a competitive mindset to export it's music around the world and also the bands in each state want their material all around australia, i don't see much of this in singapore for local bands but only mainly for pop artiste
In terms of drugs ,coming from australia and having experienced many *high* points in the time i've spent there, i think it's sort of a Catch 22 thingy.Personally i've never felt that taking drugs enhanced my songwriting whatsoever , but all my favourite bands in perth swear by it.
Most importantly i think musicians have to make a lot of effort to support their peers at gigs too.In perth when i 1st started out , a lot other musos came to see our gigs and word spreaded and the laymen started to tag along with their muso friends.
Also ,i think that the production/recording industry in singapore is very weak compared to australia/ US/UK/europe , the best Singapore productions i've heard( snakeweed / myx) , while good , cant compare to the best recordings that come out of other countries. So i think there's a lot of work needed to be done there as well.
From what i've seen it seems the musos here in general always try to cut costs and make cheap recordings which do nothing but make them sound amatuerish and bad.I also think that the local bands here should hire proper producers to help them craft the recordings of their songs instead of just telling the engineer what they want
.
WHY ? To quote Rick O neil ( owner of the biggest mastering studio in australia ) :While the customer( the band )is always right , sometimes they do not know what is right for them , and thus need a producer at the helm to guide and enhance the recordings
Hope this helps, i've been studying the music industry ( graduated in BA marketing n media) for quite a while now so these are the trends i've noticed that are different in Singapore compared to Perth
Regards
Roland
The musos there are quite set on making music part of their careers and are most importantly given government grants to support their music.
i'll give u an example . If i had to spend $40k on a recording but only had $33k , the govt would fork out the remaining $7k if i could show that the band was a proper business etc etc and had a proper recording plan.
Also,plenty of govt grants are given to promoters to organise gigs and bands can also request funding when they go on tour
I also think that Singaporeans in GENERAL * are not supportive of local artiste until they make it big somewhere else 1st. An example would be someone like Stefanie Sun who was exported to Taiwan to be popular before being marketed back to singaporeans.Hopefully this will change as it's very damaging for the local scene.
Also in Australia, there are plenty of management and promo companies that groom bands becos australia has a competitive mindset to export it's music around the world and also the bands in each state want their material all around australia, i don't see much of this in singapore for local bands but only mainly for pop artiste
In terms of drugs ,coming from australia and having experienced many *high* points in the time i've spent there, i think it's sort of a Catch 22 thingy.Personally i've never felt that taking drugs enhanced my songwriting whatsoever , but all my favourite bands in perth swear by it.
Most importantly i think musicians have to make a lot of effort to support their peers at gigs too.In perth when i 1st started out , a lot other musos came to see our gigs and word spreaded and the laymen started to tag along with their muso friends.
Also ,i think that the production/recording industry in singapore is very weak compared to australia/ US/UK/europe , the best Singapore productions i've heard( snakeweed / myx) , while good , cant compare to the best recordings that come out of other countries. So i think there's a lot of work needed to be done there as well.
From what i've seen it seems the musos here in general always try to cut costs and make cheap recordings which do nothing but make them sound amatuerish and bad.I also think that the local bands here should hire proper producers to help them craft the recordings of their songs instead of just telling the engineer what they want
.
WHY ? To quote Rick O neil ( owner of the biggest mastering studio in australia ) :While the customer( the band )is always right , sometimes they do not know what is right for them , and thus need a producer at the helm to guide and enhance the recordings
Hope this helps, i've been studying the music industry ( graduated in BA marketing n media) for quite a while now so these are the trends i've noticed that are different in Singapore compared to Perth
Regards
Roland
