Category Archives: Craft

Joined ASCAP

By cburdick | Published: April 26, 2010
I’ve always thought these performance rights organizations were one step removed from the mob.  Tons o’ money sloshing around, some incredibly powerful legislation and court cases at their back, a near monopoly on the services they provide. But they also provide great resources and the main way for composers to earn income for performances of [...]
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Upgraded to Sibelius 6

By cburdick | Published: April 18, 2010
After years and years of using Sibelius 1.4 for my notation software, I finally upgraded it to Sibelius 6. So far, with only a week of using the upgrade, I’m pretty impressed. Before the Dynamic Parts feature, you would extract parts into separate files and then worry about syncing them back up with the score [...]
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Argh! Curse of the composer

By cburdick | Published: September 18, 2009
Anyone steeped in a trade pays attention to certain details that perhaps most people don’t. For me as a composer, it really bothers me when artists ruin an otherwise excellent song by mispronouncing the words. Here’s two current pop songs that drive me nuts: 1. I’m Yours by Jason Mraz. He puts each syllable with [...]
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