The first day of the Spotjobs Melbourne Careers Expo was a huge success for Abbey Road Institute.

Abbey Road Institute Head Trainer and internationally renowned sound engineer, Lance Krivé, together with staff member and DJ Carly Gray, hosted an impressive display at this major event, the first stand to meet your eyes after entering the beautiful Royal Exhibition Building.

Thousands of high school students attended the event, getting the opportunity to try their mixing skills on the renowned Midas Heritage 3000 – an industry standard mixing console for international stadium level touring acts – at the Abbey Road Institute stand, providing a huge drawcard for music-minded attendees.

We greatly enjoyed interacting with the the next generation of DJs, audio engineers and producers and giving them a hands on taste of professional music industry technology. The feedback from students and teachers alike was universal excitement about the unique possibilities and exclusive opportunities offered by Abbey Road Institute.

We are excited about the next two days of this premier annual event, and invite anybody considering a change of career or tertiary study – including adults and mature-age students – to drop by the Expo this weekend and pay us a visit – we look forward to seeing you there!

Get your FREE ticket here: http://www.careerexpo.com.au/free-ticket-to-expo/

The Spotjobs Melbourne Careers Expo
Royal Exhibition Building, Nicholson St, Carlton
Friday 21st July 10am – 3pm
Saturday 22nd – Sunday 23rd July 10am – 4pm

Abbey Road Institute Australia is honoured to present Beau McKee, Alex Braithwaite and Jimi Maroudas as the speakers on our producers’ panel for our upcoming Open Day on August 26th.

These three producers between them bring years of experience from multiple genres across the global music industry. Having earned numerous ARIA and Grammy nominations and awards and even more #1 charting hits, these three producers have a wealth of knowledge, and on August 26, will be sharing it all with you!

We invite all budding young producers to come along, armed with all the questions you’d like answered about success in sound production, ready to gain invaluable insight into production techniques and the recording industry. This is a rare opportunity and not to be missed.

Before opening to a Q&A session with attendees, the producer’s panel will focus on topics such as:

What are the most important attributes a young producer needs to generate work?How did you go about establishing your personal brand and reputation in the Industry?

How would you describe the state of the Australian Music Industry today?
What role will Producers play in the digital online space that the Industry is rushing towards?

DATE
Saturday 26th August

VENUE
Abbey Road Institute
1/135 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia

PROGRAM

11:00am Greetings & tour
12:00pm Paul Ledingham CEO presentation
1:00pm  Producer panel and Q&A with Beau McKee, Alex Braithwaite and Jimi Maroudas
2:00pm Competition winners announced
3:00pm Conclusion

To register for the Open Day the CLICK HERE! We look forward to seeing you there!

Abbey Road Institute is proud and excited to announce that multi platinum awarded, Aria & Golden Guitar nominated producer, mixer and engineer Jimi Maroudas will be joining us on our Producer Panel at our upcoming Open Day on August 26th!

A multi-instrumentalist from childhood, Jimi’s skills on the guitar, bass, drums, singing and songwriting helped lay the foundation for his emergence as one of Australia’s premiere producers. Starting his career at the world-renowned Sing Sing Studios in Melbourne, Maroudas had the opportunity to work with and learn from some of the world’s top producers including Grammy award winners David Bianco (Mick Jagger), Adam Kaspar (Nirvana), and Mark Wallis (U2).

To date Maroudas has amassed a solid discography, peppered with multi-platinum, award winning artists. Several albums he has worked on, including The Living End’s State of Emergency, Pete Murray’s See the Sun and Eskimo Joe’s Inshalla have reached #1 on the Australian Charts. Jimi’s contribution to Eskimo Joe’s Inshalla scored him an ARIA Award nomination for Engineer of the Year in 2009. Jimi also produced the single Cameo Lover, delivering Kimbra the 2011 ARIA Award for Best Female Artist and winning the prestigious Vanda & Young Songwriting competition. Maroudas has also appeared on backing vocals in You Am I’s Deliverance album and played guitar on Olivia Newton John’s Duets record.

Jimi will join Abbey Road Institute alumni Alex Braithewaite and Oakland Studio’s Beau McKee on our Producer Panel on the 26th of August discussing:

What are the most important attributes a young producer needs to generate work?
How did you go about establishing your personal brand and reputation in the industry?

How would you judge the state of the Australian Music Industry today?
What role will Producers play in the digital online space that the Industry is rushing towards?

…and also answering your questions!

To register for the day please click here. We can’t wait to see you there!

And the winner is…

Abbey Road Institute would like to extend a huge congratulations to MIKI aka Aleks Mikić for winning the Abbey Road Institute Vinylized Production Contest with his original track, “Discussed”. A singer, rapper and producer hailing from Sydney, MIKI wowed the panel of judges with his creative use of the samples provided from Loopmasters. MIKI clearly demonstrated his unique and original style of production and impressed the panel by layering original vocals by both singing and rapping on the track.

The huge prize pack that MIKI has won includes having “Discussed” professionally mastered for vinyl by Studios 301 Steve Smart, EMI’s original vinyl mastering engineer. Ditto Music will provide global distribution of the track on Beatport as well as provide a Ditto Music PR & social media starter package to help create and manage all his new fans. And of course lastly, MIKI will receive 50 copies of “Discussed” pressed to 12” vinyl records thanks to our friends at Zenith Music.

You can listen here, the winning track:

Last Saturday 3rd of June, Abbey Road Institute once again opened it’s doors to Melbourne’s most enthusiastic, aspiring producers to experience life as an Abbey Road student for a day. The day was jammed packed with a new format designed to give attendees more hands-on, one-on-one mentoring in specialised areas of music production.

The day started out with our head trainer Lance Krive giving a brief history of sound recording, outlining the influence Abbey Road Studio in London, the first ever purpose-built recording studio, had on how sound recording developed. He also detailed many artists through the decades that utilised the studios at Abbey Road and the specialised recording techniques that were developed within its famous walls.

In the second part of the morning session, Lance Krive went through an introductory class of Pro Tools, a Digital Audio Workstation (or DAW as it’s known in the industry) that is the industry standard software for recording and mixing music. Students were able to open up a pre-recorded session that was prepared on their own computer workstation in our custom designed labs and follow along as Lance detailed his process of mixing. After an hour of practical guided learning, it was time for a lunch break.

After lunch, Paul Edwards, Abbey Road Institute’s National Academic Coordinator briefly described the course content and entry requirements for the Advanced Diploma of Sound Production before explaining how the rest of the afternoon sessions would run. The remaining part of the day saw three mini tutorials running simultaneously with students being able to choose what area they would like to learn.

Bradley Toan, ARI’s Senior Technical Officer was stationed in the Avid S6 desk, demonstrating how to utilise the desk with Pro Tools by working on a mix. Julian Davis was stationed in the API 1608 desk and talked to guests about signal flow on an analog desk. In the lab, Alex Braithwaite, our Ableton trainer, set up a session in Ableton and demonstrated how he composes and arranges tracks and even delved into a little mixing at the end. Guests were able to move freely between the areas, asking questions and picking up tips as they went.

The feedback from our guests was extremely positive, most looking to undertake full-time study or start our new part-time course, which will become available later in the year. If you or anyone you know would love to attend an event like this, make sure you send an email to melbourne@abbeyroadinstitute.com to express your interest for our next event.

On Friday the 26th of May, Glenn Bennie an APRA AMCOS writer services representative visited our Melbourne Campus and delivered an informative and interesting masterclass to our knowledge-thirsty Abbey Road Institute students.

The presentation was designed by APRA AMCOS to assist writers and composers in all musical fields to better understand the different streams of income they are entitled to when publishing original works.

Glenn covered so many practical topics and helped our students gain a deeper understanding of:

– APRA AMCOS history
– Basic copyright law and information
– APRA AMCOS writer membership breakdown
– Information on licensing
– Royalties and how they are earned and distributed
– How streaming and royalties work and the current shift in the market towards the digital streaming platforms

Glenn also shared some of his first-hand tips for working with co-writers and his viewpoints on the benefits of being an APRA AMCOS writer member.

Abbey Road Institute students were also able to ask questions about the finer points of publishing rights such as audio manufacturer licenses for artists wanting to release cover versions, APRA AMCOS relationship with overseas societies and recent revenue figures and revenue ratios.

Abbey Road Institute would like to thank APRA AMCOS and Glenn Bennie for presenting this masterclass, providing our students with so much amazing knowledge of the industry and it’s workings!

The Open Day at Abbey Road Institute on Saturday 13th of May was a huge success, with more potential students through the door than ever before.

A wonderful group of enthusiastic people of all ages greatly enjoyed meeting tutors, students, and producers. A special highlight was touring the facilities and experiencing demonstrations of our studio equipment, with guests amazed by the amount and quality of the technology at Abbey Road Institute.

The Student Panel of Rochelle, Charlotte, Eric and Phoenix gave guests the inside info on the experience of being a student at Abbey Road Institute Melbourne, while the Producer Panel of Chris Arnott, Alex Braithwaite and Mitch Cairns provided invaluable insight into the industry.

Up-and-coming artist / producer Mikhail was thrilled to win the Chris Arnott competition, and looks forward to developing his music further under the mentorship of the renowned Studios 301 producer! To hear Mikhail’s winning entry, go here: soundcloud.com/aktor-music/akta-jiving-original-mix

A huge thank-you to Chris Arnott and Studios 301 for the amazing prize, and to all three producers, Chris, Alex Braithwaite and Mitch Cairns for sharing their knowledge, and to students Rochelle, Charlotte, Eric, Phoenix and Lauren for your invaluable help throughout the day.

Places are filling fast, please book soon for your VIP tour.

Well, once again we’ve come to the end of Expo and WOW, what an absolute fantastic 4 days! Over 30,000 career seekers have been through the door over the last 4 days and I’m pretty sure we met most of them! What a fantastic forum to hear everyones stories and have conversations about their passions and future dreams in production.

Abbey Road Institute students Lachlan, Ming and Charlotte loved explaining how quickly they’ve been able to launch their careers and captivated expo attendees with the skills they now have in their arsenal, due to the intense, practical, fast-tracked and mentor-centric course that only Abbey Road Institute can provide. We all loved the networking, laughs and opportunities these careers expos provide.

Friday was another exciting day at The Age VCE Careers Expo with Kelli Wright and ARI students Sunshine and Alex manning the Abbey Road display.

Today’s expo attendees – VCE students and coordinators – were in for extra fun today, with ARI bringing along a Novation Circuit: a synthesiser and drum machine. Attendees declared this by far the “coolest” part of the Expo, and were lining up to play with it!

Quite a number of students signed up on the spot to come along to our Open Day on Saturday May 13th, to check out all the awesome equipment on offer at Abbey Road Institute.

We look forward to seeing many high school students from the Expo at our Open Day, and look forward to meeting many more potential ARI students, including adult and mature age students, at the Expo this weekend!

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The first day of The Age Careers Expo was a huge success for Abbey Road Institute.

Student Advisor and National Engagement Manager Kelli Wright hosted a high tech display at the in-demand event, alongside current Abbey Rd students Logan and Rochelle.

Thousands of high school students attended the event, and all three Abbey Road representatives greatly enjoyed interacting with the future DJs and producers of the next generation.

The feedback from students and teachers alike was universal excitement about Abbey Road Institute’s education initiative.

Kelli and our Abbey Road student volunteers are looking forward to the next three days of this major event, and invite anybody considering tertiary study, to drop by the Expo and pay them a visit.

The Age VCE and Careers Expo

The Grandstand, Caulfield Racecourse, Station St, Caulfield East, VIC
Thursday 4th – Friday 5th May 9am – 3pm

Saturday 6th – Sunday 7th May 10am – 4pm