Audition Recording Tips
I recently gave a presentation to the Juilliard PreCollege brass department about recording; covering basics about sound and the equipment used, as well as important things for our students to keep in mind while making audition recordings (“audition tapes”).
Later, I sat down with Rebecca Braun, the Juilliard Pre-College’s Performance Activities Coordinator, and author of the PreCollege Newsletter, to answer some questions for the Newsletter related to making an audition recording. She wanted to share some of the information I had taught the brass class with the whole student body.
Recording Manhattan Ramble with Mike Boschen
I followed Mike around Manhattan for two and a half hot summer days to make this recording. We wanted to record trombone improvisations at a wide variety of NYC locations. Mike would be accompanied only by the sounds of the city, and would improvise while inspired by the sounds of his environment at each location. Many of the spots had significance to Mike. Some of them we included because we just thought they would sound cool. All the spots were outside; some secluded, some crowded, some popular, some unknown, but all very “New York”.
Recording David Sampson’s Breakaway With Ray Mase and Kevin Cobb
Bove Audio Recording Session Notes
Musicians: Ray Mase and Kevin Cobb, trumpets
Music: David Sampson: Breakaway for Two Trumpets and Electronics
This challenging piece for two trumpets is performed along with a recording of a pre-recorded synthesizer. We want a recording where we can remove each part separately, and play along with the other!
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