Digital Pill – working musicians talk about their lives

The hit counter just clicked over to 500,013 so I figure its time to say thanks and talk about what comes next. Its interesting to note that half of that traffic has come from the sax lessons on the site. So firstly I’d like to say THERE ARE MORE coming, starting with a few I’ve [...]

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I’m off on my annual trip to India to study yoga and recharge for a BIG year in 2011. I’ll be checking email every day, don’t go thinking I’ve disappeared, its the 21st century. Back on board 2nd week of January. Thanks to the incredible team here at Digital Pill – Phil Greenwood for all [...]

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A growing trend in music is house concerts. If you have a reasonably sized area in your home you can have some very fine musicians come and play at your house. Today I set up InHouseArts on Facebook. The impetus has come out of the need for independent arts to find a place in the [...]

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As part of my constant striving for technical excellence on the coalface of the ever changing digital learning curve, I am now recording sound separately. This presents me with the opportunity to mix the sound in my studio and general tweak the levels at leisure. This video of Helen Mountfort represents my first effort at [...]

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Above is the new animated logo for the digitalpill.tv LIVE streaming show that begins regular broadcasts this Monday from the Dog Theatre (6.30pm Mon Aug 9th Melbourne time). For people in other timezones, check out the countdown clock in the sidebar (on the right), it lets you know exactly when the next live show goes [...]

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Digital Pill has received funding from ARTS VICTORIA – Victoria Rocks for the 10/11 year. Its greatly appreciated. For now I’m working with the illustrator/graphic artist Kim Lynch to create a new look for the videos and also investigating the live streaming service make.tv to establish a monthly live forum about the music scene. So [...]

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It took 14 months for the first 100k hits and only half that time to reach 200,000 hits for Digital Pill. Well that’s progress. So I am upping the video production yet again and currently awaiting delivery of a Canon 550d to do most of the work of the visuals for the site. The videos [...]

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One of the first videos to go up on Digital Pill just passed the 50,000 hit mark. If you are a sax player go and check it out and see what the fuss is about. Dean Hilson’s stratospheric sax gliss

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I have uploaded Colin Hopkins’ most recent video to Vimeo. Its the first in a series of Digital Pill performances presented by artists in their own homes. I have also uploaded the same video to Youtube but decided to go with Vimeo – another video server – because they offer better audio and I have [...]

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