Introducing Myself

I was prodded by my friend Jennifer Janik to add some content on all my social media sites that describes not only what I do, but specifically what problems I can solve for you. So here goes.

Hi, I’m Jack Cooper, founder of BerLen Music. I provide professional music engraving services and I am also [...]

The age-old question: What’s wrong with commercial radio?

Although the current vogue is to link directly into an article or journal, I am going to paraphrase and rely on my memory. One of my facebook friends, who works in the music industry, quoted an article that describes commercial radio’s disdain for new music. This is hardly a new idea or a new complaint; [...]

The joy of notating

Notating music is a bit like being a musical stenographer. Well, more like a music typesetter. A lot of projects I work on involve notating directly from an audio source. I’m creating a notated version of what is happening in a song, either in a real compact (leadsheet) method or by adding notation for very [...]