November 2011
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Diary of A Zombie sound contest winners →
I got a ‘silver award’ for my entry into the Accursed Farms’ sound editing contest. Not bad for a couple of Sunday evening’s work! :)
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October 2011
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Surgeon’s hobby creating cigar box guitars » Boing... →
…I might have to look into adding this to my list of hobbies.
September 2011
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August 2011
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No Judges In The 'Karaoke Cab,' Just Good Times →
So, how long until the RIAA or ASCAP come hassle him? Any bets?
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Des Ark: Daytrotter Session (recorded Aug 16,... →
“The Very Prettiest Pain”
I’ve been a fan of Des Ark for a long while and I’m happy to see Aimée back in action. I think it’s inherently impossible for her to stop writing and playing music; the fact that she shares it with the world is our gain. :)
Click here for more of her beautiful music.
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Reaper (v4) is out! →
Reaper has been the studio software for me for a few years now (Sonar convert, actually, due to x64 OS upgrade). If you record audio on your PC or Mac you owe it to yourself to try it out. The license is super-cheap (seriously, check out the ‘competitors’) and super-reasonable.
There’s a list of features that I love about this app, but I won’t bore you; just note this: the...
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May 2011
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Imaginary Marching Band: Sensor-equipped glove... →
I gotta get me one of these!
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otomata →
Cellular automata + grid music == awesome pie!
April 2011
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Composer Collecting When Stadiums Scream 'Charge' →
This just sounds silly. Wouldn’t there be some statute of limitations on this? Why now?
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Neuroscientists Reinvent Microphone Based On... →
Good: better mics Bad: gonna cost you your soul & your left nut
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Of Neuroscience and Jazz →
I like the theory, but he’s just using a major chord as the most complex example. Let’s throw in some sevenths based on his formulas:
-major seventh
-minor seventh
-dominant seventh
-minor major seventh
If you ask me, the dominant 7th wins the beauty competition. Sonically, the minor-major is one of my favorite chords though. :) Which waveform do you like best?
Here are...
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A Little Jethro Tull In Space →
Duet from space! What’s not to like?
March 2011
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Buke and Gass: January 29, 2011 Bell House →
I’m really digging this band right now…so I need to share with the world! :D
(via NYC Taper)
February 2011
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Zorch (a band from Austin TX) →
So I went to a Tera Melos/Marnie Stern show this Feb 24. The opening band was a little discovered jem from Austin, TX called ‘Zorch.’
Here’s my question to you. Has there been an increase in indie bands with ‘spastic’ drummers or is it just the music I’ve been attracted to lately (see: So Many Dynamos, toe, This Town Needs Guns, Tera Melos, etc)?
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Chess Music →
Oh boy, it’s been a while. Anyway, a guy translates chess moves into musical notes, with some interesting results.
September 2010
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VexFlow →
Remember that music notation using JS & <canvas> thing I mentioned some time ago? Well, the author has open-sourced the code and the code is available via github.
Developers unite (and make it better)!
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Caroline Phillips: Hurdy-gurdy for beginners... →
About this talk
Caroline Phillips cranks out tunes on a seldom-heard folk instrument: the hurdy-gurdy, a.k.a. the wheel fiddle. A searching, Basque melody follows her fun lesson on its unique anatomy and 1,000-year history.
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Musopen raises $40,000 to set classical music... →
Followup on the Musopen kickstarter project, now up to $58K+ donated!
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Think Music Heals? Trombone Player Begs To Differ →
What’s in your brass instrument?
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Musopen Wants to Give Classical Music to the... →
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Play Music With Tuned Beer Bottles →
My two favorite pastimes together for great good! This beer’s label has markings for several notes on a musical scale.
Delight as you play a minor A scale backwards as you drink!
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August 2010
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Ask a real musician: 5 classic male metal singers →
A classically-trained, New York-based voice teacher reviews 5 metal singers. The initial reaction to Ozzy is priceless!
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Realtime Audio Processing with Arduino →
How to use an arduino for fun as an audio processor for your instrument. Arduinos rock!!
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Dexter’s Lab (CN remix v1.22)
I’ve...
July 2010
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Inception's musical secret →
This nice little observation about a detail in the Inception soundtrack has been making the rounds…
[via BoingBoing]
June 2010
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David Byrne: How architecture helped music evolve... →
David Byrne postulates that venues (clubs, chapels, arenas, cars, mp3 players) shape music instead of the other way around. You could say he’s a step short of declaring a ‘survival of the fittest’ paradigm where the music best suited to the venue is the one that becomes successful.
Strangely, it kinda makes sense a little bit…
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Lawrence Lessig: Re-examining the remix - TEDxNYED →
Need I say more?
May 2010
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$5 or less album sale! →
All records are $5 or less (or more if you choose to)!!
Records by bands like Tera Melos, This Town Needs Guns, Rx Bandits, Omar Rodriguez Lopez…
I could go on, but I’m gonna go check it out now. :P
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TEDx: Johanna Blakley-Lessons from fashion's free... →
Johanna Blakley talks about the fashion world’s lack of copyright protections and discusses how the other art/creative mediums can learn from this.
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The Swinger →
A product of Music Hack Day, this piece of Python code will apply ‘swing’ to any piece of music. How does it do it, you ask? Well, it alternatively ‘extends’ and ‘compresses’ (time-wise) the beats of a song, giving it that ‘daa-ts daa-ts’; or, swung note, if you’re more musically inclined.
I suppose this wouldn’t quite work with a band...
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End of the song →
Have you ever seen that Monty Python skit where two mafia guys try to extort some protection money from an army base general?
Strangely (sadly?), this story (and a few others that I’ve heard of) makes me think of that skit. You open a nice little coffee shop and things are good. Shortly after, an ASCAP rep comes to your door ramming this ‘copyright infringement insurance’...
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