Author: Bill Lord, Executive Director

Sloan School of Music of Urbana and Hagerstown, is our latest Frederick Circle of Musical Unity (FCoMU) sponsor! Our thanks to Sloan Music for providing us with a quality drum kit to use during recording sessions in support of FCoMU.

Many thanks to Wegmans, our latest sponsor of the Frederick Circle of Musical Unity project. Wegmans is kindly funding lunch for the Frederick student musicians and audio engineers on the weekend dates we are recording our tracks at the Frederick YMCA Recording Studio.

This video explores how recording with several XLR to USB adapters colors the sound. Mic Talk Time features a look at the recently debuted sE V2 Switch.

We are incredibly excited to announce an educational, cross-cultural partnership between The Global Z Recording Project and the educational arm of the world-famous and historic Abbey Road Studios, the Abbey Road Institute. The project – Frederick Circle of Musical Unity – is delivered in a hybrid format, with participants being in Frederick and London, connecting and recording synchronously via cutting edge remote recording technologies. The project features the innovative application of Audiomover’s exceptional product, Listento. This past week, Frederick and London stakeholders conducted a successful tech-test between the Frederick YMCA’s Recording Center, and Abbey Road’s Angel Studios in the UK. More on this amazing partnership soon!

Global Z is most grateful to have received a Creativity Operating Support Grant from the Maryland State Arts Council.

Global Z has received GuideStar’s 2023 Candid Gold Seal of Transparency.

Many thanks to the Maryland State Arts Council for their financial support via a 2023 MSAC Arts Relief Funding Grant.

Episode 31 of From A To Global Z is available for public viewing. This production is a tale of musical woe and the final foray in this mini-series dedicated to exploring the many and varied reasons why bands break up. We will delve into a single tragic case study about the heartbreaking saga of 1970s platinum rock band, Badfinger. Their tragic story has important lessons about about the music industry, and surrounding yourself with the right people. For ‘Mic Talk Time,’ we have a real beauty – it is Austrian Audio’s OC16.

I am so incredibly excited about what we have accomplished this year. Please visit our Facebook site to read all about it. Many thanks to our Board Members, volunteers, collaborating partners, and the foundations/organizations who contributed to our numerous successes! Just wait ’til you see what we have in store for 2023 🙂
Happy New Year and may you find peace through music.