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Nacional Records Sampler 2009: The New Sounds of Latin Music

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:11:41 -0500

Nacional Records Sampler 2009: The New Sounds of Latin Music:

I found this free album on the Amazon MP3 shop. It’s got artists like Aterciopelados, IMS, Sara Valenzuela, Juana Molina…good stuff; trust me. I wouldn’t exactly classify the last track [Manu Chao’s ‘Clandestino’] as new since that’s a pretty old song but other than that, it’s a pretty fresh collection.

Check it out and learn a little about these excellent bands from Spanish speaking countries.

"A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at..."

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 10:22:28 -0500

“A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.”

- Abraham Maslow

Dewey Music: making public domain music friendlier

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 22:01:52 -0500

Dewey Music: making public domain music friendlier:

A new (& easier) way to find public domain music from archive.org.

What are the ‘Music Industries’?

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:01:04 -0500

What are the ‘Music Industries’?:

A proposal to refine the media’s use of the ‘music industry.’ By separating and using ‘recording industry’ appropriately, we can better define who’s really hurting and who the RIAA really represents here.

Looks like my muse decided to come back and visit recently. I...

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:50:07 -0500

Looks like my muse decided to come back and visit recently. I hope she stays. I’ll call this one ‘Everything Is Going to be OK’

22 pieces by artists from around the world, each piece created with just 140 characters of code.

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:00:41 -0500

22 pieces by artists from around the world, each piece created with just 140 characters of code.:

This link has been making the rounds on all the geeky sites. So I’m passing it around, particularly because I was surprised to come across Steve Reich’s Piano Phase.

It makes sense that it’d be pretty easy to program a computer to achieve this effect, written as such: f={|t|Pbind(\note,Pseq([-1,1,6,8,9,1,-1,8,6,1,9,8]+5,319),\dur,t)};Ptpar([0,f.(1/6),12,f.(0.1672)],1).play

Concert Record: El Ten Eleven Dec 3, 2009 / Will’s Pub These...

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 22:06:15 -0500

Concert Record: El Ten Eleven
Dec 3, 2009 / Will’s Pub

These guys rocked the house and the crowd wouldn’t allow them off stage (with the power of cheer, not physically you retard!). You’d be insane to not catch these guys live. Thanks for coming to Orlando guys!

RIP Jerry Fuchs

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 22:03:29 -0500

RIP Jerry Fuchs:

Maserati will never be quite the same…

Labels may be losing money, but artists are making more than ever

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:01:51 -0500

Labels may be losing money, but artists are making more than ever:

Good to know…

So I was watching this short Kindle ad from the We Love Stop...

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:59:00 -0500

So I was watching this short Kindle ad from the We Love Stop Motion blog and I thought the chord changes sounded a little too familiar. Lo and behold, I found what it was reminding me of, they just happen to be on different keys. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nTSU-mFWGs

Hm….see the similarities?

Concert record: These Arms Are Snakes Oct 3, 2009 / Will’s...

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:51:13 -0400

Concert record: These Arms Are Snakes
Oct 3, 2009 / Will’s Pub

TED Talks: Itay Talgam-Lead like the great conductors

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:52:00 -0400

TED Talks: Itay Talgam-Lead like the great conductors:

This guy has certainly thought waaay more about conductors than I ever have. :)

XOC

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:40:11 -0400

XOC:

In case you’ve never heard of this guy, I recommend you check him out. That is, if you’re into videogame music. Guy has the entire SMW and Kirby soundtracks out there for free. He recently added the entire SMB3 soundtrack on there (this one is not free though), and I’m on my way to get it. I definitely appreciate his sense of instrumentation.

Ethan Iverson interviews Keith Jarrett

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:17:42 -0400

Ethan Iverson interviews Keith Jarrett:

A bit long, but worth it. :)

Evan Grant: Making sound visible through cymatics

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 22:33:00 -0400

Evan Grant: Making sound visible through cymatics:

Great TED talk, but not quite what I expected. I’ve always had this desire to build something like a digital camera’s CCD but it captures frequencies we can hear (~20-20kHz) and then transposes them to the visible range (~400-790THz). I think that would be even more interesting. :)

Concert Record: Maserati @ Will’s Pub (9/21/2009) You owe...

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:01:46 -0400

Concert Record: Maserati @ Will’s Pub (9/21/2009) You owe it to yourself to see this band live!

AndrewN @ a private party. 8/15/2009

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 22:01:45 -0400

AndrewN @ a private party. 8/15/2009

Birds on the Wires An arrangement based on treating birds like...

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:33:21 -0400

Birds on the Wires

An arrangement based on treating birds like notes on a music sheet. A friend shared this (which was featured on Gizmodo), I thought it’d be cool to share with the world.

Untitled (20090906) I was all fine and dandy with my x64...

Mon, 07 Sep 2009 01:49:00 -0400

Untitled (20090906)

I was all fine and dandy with my x64 version of Windows 7 until I fired up my x32 version of Sonar Home Studio and nothing worked quite as it should*. Thankfully, I found this app called REAPER which happens to have a x64 version and allowed me to record this song idea. I’m considering giving my $60 to them instead. As much as I hate the idea of going through the learning curve, seems it might be worth it. It does have a pretty slick interface. :)

*Disclaimer: The full version of Sonar does support x64 but it’s features and price range are well above what I need.

What do you think of the song (so far)?

Not sure this is terribly interesting, but I found this sheet...

Sun, 06 Sep 2009 15:15:00 -0400

Not sure this is terribly interesting, but I found this sheet with notes I was taking while recording/mixing the demo. I’m surprised I didn’t put a ‘more cowbell’ note in there. :P