About RCM
Rodney Carter Music (RCM) is a boutique audio production studio that provides professional sound with a personal touch. We deliver an infusion of head-nodding beats and engaging music for commercials, video games, and films.
Creators, entrepreneurs, artists, content marketers, and creative directors, partner with us to bring creative ideas and their projects to life. We strive to innovate, inspire and tell our clients’ stories through music and audio production while maintaining the highest quality on time and on budget.
OUR PURPOSE
To create hassle-free audio.
To support indie artists and creators.
To help tell your story via sound design, voice-overs, and songwriting.
Rodney C. Carter
At a very young age, Rodney was very aware of how the media stereotypes black men. But being a black man is only one part of who Rodney Carter is. He is a New York/New Jersey-based singer, songwriter, and voiceover artist, whose artistic and cultural influences serve as the foundation on which he works with clients from the US to South Africa and Argentina, as well as the students with whom he shares whenever the opportunity presents itself.
Rodney Carter [aka ICE] has seen and experienced the various sides of being an artist. He performed in an R&B duo [BRIDGE] with Eric Scott, touring up and down the East Coast. They opened for major artists including Usher, Montel Jordan, and Changing Faces among others. Rodney performed background vocals for rap groups Natural Elements (2-Tons-Tommy Boy and Life Ain’t Fair) and D.M.F.aka C.F.L (You All I Need). Flipping the script, he worked behind the scenes as a producer and songwriter on projects including 2003 independently released Word on the Street. Mr. Carter has also worked with notable producer Charlemagne of Fortress Entertainment, who produced for the likes of Mary J. Blige, Missy Elliott, and Jay-Z.
As a child, Rodney would sneak and listen to [Millie Jackson, Teddy Pendergrass, and Jennifer Holliday on] his mom’s vast vinyl collection of Classic Soul music; as compared to today where music is created, shared, and distributed via digital audio files. Other early musical influences included Run DMC and LL Cool J, along with The Juice Crew, Marley Marl, and Big Daddy Kane before a cultural change introduced him to ACDC, Chicago, Journey, REO Speedwagon, and Def Leppard. The Fresh Air Fund took Rodney from the “hustle and bustle” streets of Brooklyn and Queens to the farmlands of Upstate New York, where his nearest neighbor was about 1500 feet. The cultural differences were very stark going from the urban sounds of Hip-Hop and R&B to the rural sounds of soft and hard Rock. In high school, Rodney was the only black male student, but was somehow able to shape his own narrative. These experiences helped sharpen and made Rodney the person he is today--one who is tolerant and more accepting of cultural differences.
Rodney sees music as a universal outlet of expression, which he says “is valid regardless of perspective.” Over the years, he has seen the consumption of music change, and how the various formats impact societal norms. Carter, however, believes that while the evolution of technology has shrunk the global world, it has made music less personal. If the studio that sits in his Edison, New Jersey apartment is a signal, Rodney Carter is an artist and a writer who loves to create.
