Rick Reifenstein

Today was "Music Business Day" in the Office/Studio. There were several new pieces that were ready to be included in the catalogs of both Jingle Punks and Music Dealers.While Music Dealers has always been online for as long as I have been using them; Jingle Punks used to be snail mail centric until a few months ago. I was really excited when the Punks went electric on the submission process. I know feel like I don't have to wait till I have a full CD's worth of music before I burn and ship to New York. This round of submissions were full of diversity. Some orchestral with a beat. Some very ambient almost atmospheric. Two that were more Windham Hill acoustic piano and guitar pieces. Unfortunately other issues came up here at the house so only Jingle Punks got the new music. Music Dealers updates will have to wait till tomorrow. I haven't heard from John Johnson at Darkstone Entertainment as to whether he received my CD or if he has had a chance to listen. I unders

The birds are singing and the trees are slowly putting on their green. It's mornings like this and the evenings that follow that refresh my energy when things get busy. They are about to get busy. In an earlier entry I wrote about the possibility of my job changing a bit. Well it appears those changes are green lit. Starting...when ever I can swing it, I'll be spending half my time at the Digital Media Lab at the Univeristy of Virginia putting my 23 years of experience in music and audio production to work. I am excited to have the opportunity to do some instruction. The DML is the place on grounds for students, faculty and researchers can go and use and recieve instruction on how to use, digital media equipment. There are all kinds of projects being worked on. Audio, Video, Photography, Art, Virtual Reality, and Interactive Software Development, are areas that the DML works in. I'm very excited about the opportunity to be working in this team. I have some other thin