Music Is Not for Insects

Conducting robots…may be a phobia of mine? How about you?

Never seen Guitar Hero? Here’s your chance to get a taste of how it works right here at the blog with this fun Guitar Hero Widget:

• DavidByrne.com - Art - Playing the BuildingPlaying the building is a sound installation in which the infrastructure, the physical plant of the building, is converted into a giant musical instrument. Devices are attached to the building structure…and are used to make these things produce sound.
• TapeDeck. ▸▸ The tape recorder…fast-forwarded to Mac OS X.TapeDeck is a powerful and fun new audio recorder for Mac OS X Leopard. It’s just like your old analog tape recorder, only better. A lot better.
• Scoop: The Guitar Hero Embeddable Widget | Game | Life from Wired.comThe widget, played with the keyboard, contains three different songs: “Cult of Personality” by Living Colour, “School’s Out” by Alice Cooper, and “Metal Heavy Lady” by Lions. Each is set at only one difficulty level: Easy, Medium, and Hard, respectively.

• Free Music Studio Means No More Excuses | Listening Post from Wired.com

  free online electronic music studio lets you compose with two TB-303 Bass Line generators, Roland TR-808 and TR-909 drum machines and two banks of effects pedals including three delays, crusher, detune, flanger, reverb, a para equalizer and a compressor.

• Harmony Central®: MusicXPC Shipping The Professional M6 And M6x Notebook Computers

  “Pound for pound, the M6x is the finest music production computer…The music producer can work with projects containing over 200 tracks or load over 100 D-Verbs on a laptop that weighs just 6 pounds, costs less than $2000, and runs in near silence.

• JamsBio - The Story of Your Life Through Music

  Essentially, it’s a site where users can reminisce about songs and the memories associated with them; it’s a rundown of the soundtracks of our lives.

• TuneUp - Your Music Collection’s New Best Friend

  TuneUp works seamlessly with iTunes to automatically clean your incorrectly labeled music. It finds your missing album cover art, it lets you know when your favorite bands are performing in concert, and provides you with the best music content on the web.

• Blip

  Blip is a quick way to tell your friends what song you’re into right this minute. You also find out what your favorite people are listening to in real-time — no need to refresh the page. Twitter for music…

• Fender UniversityWHAT IS FENDER UNIVERSITY? Fender® University is an exclusive new music education program for guitar enthusiasts worldwide. The inaugural session will take place Aug. 21 – 24, 2008 in Corona, Calif.
• MUSICPLACE - Home Musicplace is a site that allows you to search for your favorite bands and artists, play streaming songs, download mp3s and make purchases online.
• Guitar World TabsGuitar World Tabs is the new online home for 100% accurate and professionally engraved guitar and bass

  tablature from Guitar World magazine.

GerdTube #2: Videoblog Post on Sharing2.0 (why sharing fuels the net economy…and generates revenues, too)

I received the following email from MENC and thought it might be a worthwhile bulletin for our blogging community:

The Seattle Trumpet Consort is proud to announce the release of our new CD on Origin Classical Records, After Baroque: Music for The Natural Trumpet. Sponsored in part by the Early Music Guild, 4Culture and Origin Records, we will be celebrating with a live concert featuring selections from the CD, plus works of Biber and Caldera for baroque trumpets and voice.

Brian Chin is Co-founder of the Seattle Trumpet Consort, serves as Principal Trumpet for the Tacoma Symphony Orchestra, and is a colleague and fellow teacher of mine at Seattle Pacific University.

This album is an incredible project. I had the opprotunity to sit in on one of the recording sessions over a year ago. The level of musicianship, stamina and attention to detail on all the tracks should not be missed. These guys take their music and instruments seriously:

The consort performs on trumpets patterned after the leading instruments of 18th century Nürnberg, Germany. These instruments are produced by today’s leading baroque trumpet manufacturers: Adolph Egger & Sons, Frank Tomes, and Naumann Trumpets.

You can find more information about the CD release party and the ensemble at their web-site. Bravo! to Mr. Chin and The Seattle Trumpet Consort!

• TuneWiki.Mobi…iLyric Player…a karaoke-like application that synchronizes and scrolls lyrics, real time, in multiple languages. Users enjoy music on the iPhone, iPod touch, or a personal computer and in true Wiki fashion, all lyrics are user generated.

• Interview with Neil Young on Music Piracy, MP3 Hell and Finding Freaks on the Web - ReadWriteWeb

• Merlin Network - Representing the rights of independent record labels worldwideMerlin is a non-profit organisation charged with representing independent music companies in enhancing the commercial exploitation of their copyrights on a global basis.
• Warner Music Group Plays with the Price of Music | Listening Post from Wired.comThe price of digital music could be in flux. Warner Music Group plans to run a test starting this month that will alter the price of certain songs on a number of unspecified online music stores to reflect demand.
• Harmony Central®: Vacuum Tube Valley Holds Vintage Audio and Musical Instrument Sale and AuctionThe legendary personal vintage tube hi-fi, literature and musical instrument collection of Charlie Kittleson, editor of Vacuum Tube Valley magazine, will be on sale June 1, 2008.

• Breaking: Creative’s Flip Video Clone Leaked | Gadget Lab from Wired.com

  Online reseller JR.com is listing a new mystery-cam from Creative, called the Vado, which promises to be very similar to the super successful Flip. More posts about my use with the flip here.

• Canadians Planning ‘First Massively Multi-User Online Music Festival’ | Listening Post from Wired.com

  With so many excellent music festivals coming up this summer, it would take more money and time than most of us have to attend them all — not to mention growing your carbon footprint a few dozen sizes.

• Another Free Album from NIN - Is Free the New Price of Music? - ReadWriteWeb

  It was just a couple of months ago that Nine Inch Nails released part of their new album for free on BitTorrent and via their web site. The rest of the album, the band sold as a $5 download, a $10 double CD, and pricier “deluxe” packages.

• MediaFuturist: Music blogs: The new wall of sound (via CNet)

  “The leading music blogs will become what used to be called record labels,”

• Jango - Free Music - Internet Radio that Plays What You Want! Listen to Music Online Radio Stations
• The Echo Nest

  We develop music search, personalization and interactive applications on top of a platform that automatically reads about and listens to the entire world of music.

• Dorble.com Your music your way. Listen to and download music for free!

  So when a website comes along offering free music, it’s sure to get a good amount of attention. Take Dorble, for example. Dorble is a new site generated from the ashes of a similar site called Gimado. Gimado launched only a few months ago, but didn’t

• AOL, RealNetworks and Yahoo Get $100 Million Bill

  A Federal Court found today that AOL, Real Networks and Yahoo owe $100million to songwriters and composers as back payment for streaming music online.

• Look At Free Music, Look How It Drives Web Traffic To You….

  Free music equals serious web traffic, at least that’s what Coldplay have found with the free release of “Violet Hill” on their website April 29.

• Campuses swimming in flood of infringement notices from RIAA

  Colleges and universities around the country are seeing a significant increase in the number of copyright infringement notices that they receive from the RIAA. Schools that typically get a handful of notices in a month are now seeing several times those i

• Online Music Giants To Pay Up To $100M In Royalties

• Yamaha’s notepad / keyboard hybrid concept: a songwriter’s dream -
• Judge Says Music Sharing Doesn’t Necessarily Equal Infringement | Listening Post from Wired.comOne of the biggest bones of contention between the RIAA and file-sharing lawsuit defendants has been whether making a file available to others constitutes distribution of the file.
• One Decade and Many Markets Later, eMusic Sets Sights on Canada - MarketingVOX“We are excited to introduce the most diverse catalogue of independent music in the world to Canadian music fans,” gushed president and CEO David Pakman.
• About Calabash Music :: calabashmusic.comCalabash is applying the principles of microfinancing to the music industry. Our groundbreaking approach is the creation of peer-to-peer microfinancing of new music projects. We’re using the power of online social networking to deliver start-up capital to
• http://urockhard.com/A Social Network for Guitar Hero addicts… A birthday gift for a friend’s son… But it quickly became an obsession, an addiction. A passion for games and related personal music videos… That’s why we created www.URockHard.com…