In Your Ear News Spring 2007

Just A Blur In The Rearview

IYE's own Robbin Thompson is back with his tenth album titled "Just A Blur In The Rearview". Already receiving some of the best reviews of any of his releases to date, Blur has been a great album in the making for nearly two years. Featuring a wide variety of new artists to Robbin's material including Phil Vassar (co-wrote title cut), Steve Wilson, Carter Beauford, Rick Eppings and Ellen McIlwaine, the album moves smoothly from Rock, Country, Folk and even Gospel. Blur In The Rearview also welcomes back old friends such as Steve Bassett, Eric Heiberg, Mike McAdam and the Good Humor Band and many others. Make sure to visit your favorite record store, CDBaby.com or Apples iTunes for your copy of quite possibly the best Robbin Thompson album ever.

In Your Ear and VCU's Advanced Course In Computers and Recording - Summer 2007

IYE’s and VCU’s Advanced Course in Computers and Audio Production Summer Session begins June 18th. The 12 classes are geared toward the serious recording enthusiast and is available for credit in certain VCU music degree programs. Those who own or have access to computer based audio production systems and are looking for professional results can now receive the basic training they need right here in Richmond. The curriculum developed by IYE President Carlos Chafin is taught in IYE’s Richmond facility. Class size is limited and the price is a modest $600 for the entire 6-week, 12 class course, so please contact us soon to register. Tours of the facility are welcome, just call us to make an appointment. Please note, we are now an official academic partner for Steinberg/Yamaha software products. Students can receive substantial discounts on Steinberg software including Cubase and Nuendo so be sure to ask for details. Read more

The IYE Studio Concert Series

While many musically informed folks regard IYE's Studio A as the top acoustic music recording space in Richmond, they don’t realize it’s also a small concert hall. Together with organizations like JAMinc (www.jaminc.org), we bring you the best acts you've never heard of right here at the "Ear" every few weeks. Doors open at 6:30PM, music starts at 7:30, cost is around 20 bucks. Since it’s a house concert, we encourage you to BYOB and a covered dish, seriously the food is a big attraction. Recent concerts have included bluegrass and roots artist "The Kruger Bros." and jazz trombonist "Pete Anderson" and his sextet. The concerts are always recorded and often shot on HD Video for future release. To give you a taste of what your missing, go to the Our Work section of our website Recent Work page and listen to a taste of "The Kruger Bros" and "Pete Anderson". To find out more about The IYE and JAMinc. Studio Concerts. Go To Jam Inc Site

New Coke Available At In Your Ear!

Thank goodness we’re not actually serving up New Coke but instead are doing music for the real thing, original Coca-Cola. Specifically, we were tapped by Wieden + Kennedy, Coke’s agency of record to create the music for a TV spot and several radio spots in the current "Coke Side of Life" ad campaign. You can check out the radio spots here in the Our Work section of the site (TV will be up shortly) or just tune in to your favorite station. The TV composition for the spot entitled "Taglines" was composed by IYE's newest composer/engineer/producer Adam Harding and the radio spots were composed by Carlos Chafin and Robbin Thompson. The radio spots are titled "Get Well" and "Office Fridge". They feature great surf guitar styling by Mike Lucas and Dylan Barrows along with some fine country banjo courtesy of Adam. Thanks to Mark Fenske, Brian Murphy, Melanie Fedunok, Patti Stein and all the ultra talented folks in Portand for this awesome opportunity.

Where Hollywood Works

In Your Ear is known throughout Hollywood as the Mid-Atlantic place to record actors for ADR (Automatic Dialogue Replacement).  Over the past year, IYE has recorded numerous acting performances for shows like the Fox’s hit series “24” actress Sissy Specek for lines in “Grey Matters”  and Gilmore Girls star and EMMY nominee Lauren Graham for WB network. Whether it’s a simple radio commercial or a blockbuster movie, we can help pull the production together wherever you’re from.