Oct 23 2008
mystro2b’s daily links 102308
- Review: Wii Music Puts Improv Before Gameplay | Game | Life from Wired.com
Playing one of Wii Music’s songs, you can look at a chart that shows you exactly how the tune is supposed to be played. But if you diverge from the pattern, adding or skipping notes, you aren’t penalized — in fact, you’re rewarded, as the game automatically fills in harmonious, pleasing notes anywhere in the piece. At the end of each song, you give yourself a score based on how much you liked your performance.
- Berklee Shares! | Music, Education, and Technology
Berklee Shares is a wonderful educational resource filled with free music lessons based on Berklee’s curriculum. The lessons are in the form of videos, interactive PDFs, Flash activities, MP3s and more.
- Bret on Social Games: The Rock Band Effect and the Historical Value of Musical Performance
James’ essay is about the economics of creativity, specifically how the value of any creative endeavor changes according to a society’s perception of that value. He uses the history of musical performance to demonstrate his point, specifically how the value of live virtuoso performance dropped in status once recorded music emerges, at which point society rewarded the talent of recording music
- MediaFuturist: Artists and Audiences in a connected World: my presentation at the Scottish Audience Development Forum in Edinburgh (”Getting Attention 2.0″)
This was a really invigorating event, with lots of nice, smart and open people that were really interested in what the future holds for the Arts, i.e. the creators, the creative industries and the organizations that want to serve them. My task was to address how the broadband-enabled, always-on world of digital natives equipped with 4.5 billion mobile devices impacts on emerging cultural practice.
- paper cd case
Use this website to create a PDF file which can be printed and folded to create a paper CD case. For folding directions, see the about section. To add more tracks, a mailing address, or graphics to the case, use the advanced form. Mix CD cases created with the advanced form can be optionally added to our public mix CD database. To create a case for an existing CD, use our CD search engine to find the CD and it will fill in this form for you. Jewel case inserts can also be created.
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