Each week the Creators Project chats about the tools of the trade with one outstanding creative to find out exactly how they do what they do. The questions are always the same, the answers, not so much. This week: Damian Taylor, universally recognized music producer and engineer. Read the interview here.

Congrats to The Prodigy for being named Mixmag’s #1 Greatest Dance Act of All Time!

Fader features a stream of the single “Sulk” from Toronto-based Trust. The group’s debut album TRST, produced by Damian Taylor, will be released on February 28 on Arts & Crafts. Also see the band’s video for “Bulbform” here.

Damian Taylor created an extended mix for Arcade Fire’s groundbreaking new interactive video for their song “Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains).” Read more here via Pitchfork.

Here is the Stone Lions remix of Micachu & the Shapes‘ “Low Dogg” from their album Chopped & Screwed. Download the free track here from Rough Trade Records.

Presented by M for Montreal and Joli-Coeur Lacasse
Friday November 18, 2011
Salle Godin, Opus Hotel
1:30-3:00pm

Host:
André Guérette; Opak Media (Canada)

Panelists:
Ivan Evidente; Universal Music, A&R (Canada)
Damian Taylor; Golden Ratio, Producer/Engineer (Canada)
Liz Hart; Miss Management (United States)
Ben Buchanan; The Windish Agency, Agent (United States)
Steven Himmelfarb; Billions Corporation, Agent (Canada)
Ed Thompson; 13 artists, Agent (United Kingdom)

Purchase tickets here.

Back in the days, A&Rs were the guys you wanted to give your record to. Caricaturized by the big ol’ guy in a suit, they represented all the power in getting artists discovered. As years have gone by, this image has faded away and is now replaced by younger hip agents, A&Rs, producers, managers, etc…

This panel will introduce the new A&Rs, by inviting along some key people in the industry who have an important role in breaking new artists. Be it they’re agents, A&Rs, producers or managers, who are the new A&Rs? And how do these people play a role in discovering new artists and propelling them at an international level? Furthermore, how can you reach out to these people?

The New York Times:
Bjork’s Biophilia is “among the most creative, innovative and important new projects in popular culture. Biophilia essentially turns an album into a sort of audiovisual game, delivering a miniature production studio into the world’s willing hands…. The real magic happens when you press ‘play.’ That doesn’t tell the machine to play the song; it means it’s time for you to play the song.”

Read the full article.

This week, we count down to our AES presentation “The Studio As An Instrument” with panelist Damian Taylor (The Prodigy, Arcade Fire, Austra) who tells us about using custom interfaces and robotic instruments to create Björk’s, Biophilia. Click here to view the full article.

Create Digital featured Damian Taylor’s Cyclling 74 interview and software platform that is available for download on both Cycling 74 and Damian’s website. Click here to view the few article.

Damian recently conducted an interview where he talks in depth about the software behind Bjork’s Biophilia. Click here to read the full interview and here to get in on the discussion surrounding the Woodpecker software.