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This past weekend, we successfully hosted an incredibly exciting teaching, learning, and cultural bridge-building project titled, The Frederick Circle of Musical Unity (FCoMU). FCoMU is a partnership with FCPS’ Academy for the Fine Arts (AFA), Frederick County Public Schools, Abbey Road Studios (ARI – London, UK), YMCA of Frederick County, Maryland Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, and the Hood College Broadcast program.

On December 2nd and 3rd, eleven highly diverse, talented Frederick High School student musicians gathered at the Y Arts Center Recording Studio to record an original composition written by two AFA students. A culturally diverse team of student producers and audio engineers from ARI collaborated remotely with the student musicians and engineers in Frederick to successfully record the song. Next steps include mixing/mastering at ARI, and the creation of a documentary-style video produced by Hood College Broadcast program students.

My thanks to the many people and sponsors who contributed to this amazing project! More to come…

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.