Oct
23
2008
- 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.
Oct
20
2008
MoreCowbell.dj
Basically, you upload a song of your choice (in MP3 format) and then add either “Cowbell” or “Christopher Walken” to it by means of the provided slide bars. When this has been dealt with, you hit the “Gimme more cowbell!” button and away you go (or away go Messrs. Walken and Ferell, that depends on the vantage point of the user).
Check out some Weezer with more cowbell I created:
Tomorrow, Lala Media Inc. will announce an interesting new approach to selling digital music. It’s based on a new type of license it secured with the four major labels and 170,000 indie labels, that lets consumers pay a dime to own a song that they can listen to whenever they want so long as it’s on the Web (Actually, the first listen is free; you pay your dime if you want to listen more than that). Then, if you decide you want to download the song to your hard drive or listen to it on your iPod or any other device, you can buy it for another $.79 (or $.89 if you haven’t taken that middle step of paying the dime). That gets you a DRM-free MP3 version of the song.
Cycles in Music | Future Of Music
There is a lot of discussion these days about free music and the decline of the power and influence of the major record labels. However, I would argue that music has always been free in one form or another, throughout history and that the relationship between the artists and their fans – the artists and their patrons is what really matters.
Jul
16
2008
- Class D Amplifiers Are Shrinking and Greening Your Electronics | Listening Post from Wired.com
Technology has democratized the music industry in many obvious ways — notice how every band, regardless of stature, has a MySpace page? But one of technology’s more subtle effects has been to make our sound systems smaller, lighter and greener.
- Make Your Own Music game – TVOKids.com
Fun interactive mixer for kids…
- YTMND – Gustav Holst and the Venture Brothers pay homage to MARS, Bringer of WAR!
Mars: The Bringer of War like you’ve never heard it before….
- A VC: Reblogging Music
I’ve tried most every web music service there is and right now, almost all of my web-based listening is hapening on the hype machine and tumblr. … are two different takes on the same idea. Build a music service around the music people blog about.
- Articles Of Faith: Embrace boredom and ignite imagination
EVERY SUMMER, PARENTS hear the lament, “Mom, I’m bored!” In the world of the busy child, the cry “I’m bored” may stir guilt in the parental heart. “Have I failed as a parent?” wonders the fully scheduled, multitasking dad or mom…
- Coordinating fireworks to music | Digital Noise: Music & Tech – CNET News.com
Watching this year’s Fourth of July fireworks display in Seattle, I wondered how they coordinate the fireworks with the musical soundtrack–
- McInblog: Culturegraph and Steely Dan
I’m also a fan because they’ve accepted a couple of my submissions (one Sting-related and one Michael McDonald related). The one that wasn’t accepted is probably only funny to die-hard Steely Dan fans…
- More music for the kids | Digital Noise: Music & Tech – CNET News.com
I’ve had a lot of time this summer to watch how the next generation interacts with music and technology, and it’s making me feel like my parents. Two stories to illustrate my point:
Jul
08
2008
- Pixar Movie WALL-E | EM magazine Featured Interview with Sound Designer Ben Burtt for WALL-E
George Lucas may have conjured up R2-D2 in the film Star Wars, but Ben Burtt gave him a personality. Without the chirps and beeps that made up his voice, the famous droid sidekick would have merely been a silent hunk of metal.
- Led Zeppelin Uncomfortable Lending Music to Rhythm Games | Game | Life from Wired.com
Despite the success of Guitar Hero and Rock Band, you won’t see Led Zeppelin’s iconic tunes pop up in either game any time soon, according to the Wall Street Journal.
- Secrets of Stradivarius Explained | Wired Science from Wired.com
Scientists may finally have discovered the secret of Stradivarius violins.
- Listening Post’s Top 10 Hottest Music Sites | Listening Post from Wired.com
Change is the only constant in the music business, and that goes double for the digital music business. Nonetheless, we’ve assembled a list of the 10 hottest digital music websites in the world.
- TinySong | Type in a song and make a free music link to share music with friends
- Rhapsody To Sell MP3s via Web, iLike, MTV and Yahoo | Listening Post from Wired.com
As of today, you no longer have to use the Rhapsody application to purchase music from the company, and all of the single song downloads in its store are available as unprotected MP3s.
- Electronic Musician’s interview with mastering engineer Bob Katz.
Bob Katz has strong opinions and is adamant in his condemnation of the “loudness race” — the continual increase in average level, and the consequent reduction of dynamic range, that has resulted from the heavy compression of CDs.
- July 2008 Tech Page | EM Tech Page on Tinnitus
Among the maladies to which electronic musicians are especially susceptible, hearing damage caused by prolonged exposure to loud sounds…When you’re young, you normally don’t think about the consequences of cranking the amps to 11,
Jun
07
2008
- Welcome – SoundCloud
SoundCloud is an online audio platform for music professionals. We got fed up with the crappy tools available for sending and receiving music and felt we’d do things a little different. This is our version of how things should be.
- MP3 4U – Where MP3 Lunatics Run The Asylum!
Charting the MP3 Universe! Our sources find the best MP3s so you can enjoy a steady supply of excellent music.
- Royalty Free Stock Music, Production Music, Music Cues, Production Elements, and Sound Effects
AudioMicro is free to join. Upload and Sell your wholly owned stock music, sound effects, music cues, production music, and production elements on AudioMicro. Research, Locate, Purchase, and Download stock music and sound effects for your projects.
- ArtistData
ArtistData empowers musicians and music organizations to extend their reach and do less data entry.
- Audio: Perfect Pitch: Online Only: The New Yorker
This week, Sasha Frere-Jones writes about Auto-Tune, a pitch-correction software program used in pop music. Here Frere-Jones talks about how Auto-Tune has become a pop-music phenomenon, and demonstrates how it can transform the human voice…
Jun
02
2008
- eJamming AUDiiO | Home
Now you can collaborate and record with ANYONE in the world (no matter how slow their broadband Internet connection) with NO LATENCY ISSUES.
- Macworld | Creative Notes | Recording acoustic, electric guitar into your Mac
I am constantly confronted with choices as I continue on my journey of recording my first music album. For a guitar player one of those choices is the tone you want for a song, or even a particular part of a song.
- Macworld | Editors’ Notes | Apple is music industry’s Public Enemy No. 1
Honestly, given the amount I write about Digital Rights Management, you’d think that I’d rather the industry kept using it, just so I’d continue to have fodder for writing and writing—and occasionally talking—about it.
- EMBRACING TECHNOLOGY | mycentraljersey.com | MyCentralJersey.com
Amy Burns has become a tech specialist in the area of elementary music…president of the Technology Institute for Music Educators, a na’l nonprofit corporation that assists music educators in applying technology to improve teaching and learning in music.
- How Guitar Hero Works on the DS video and other Video Games videos at 5min
Very clever and funny video…
- SongCast – Music Distribution
SongCast is a music distribution service that delivers independent music to the world’s most popular download retailers, including; iTunes, Rhapsody, Amazon, Emusic and Napster!
- veewow – create and share video playlists | YouTube playlists
- Sound and Audio Stock – AudioJungle
AudioJungle is a brand new audio community serving up thousands of stock music loops and audio effects by independent authors for use in your projects. Join us today, and together we’re going to rock the web!
- Lala | Home
…LaLa will have a time rising above its peers. The new music social experience has put together a set of features however, that may make it stand out. Lala combines a social network, a music store, and an online music library.
May
28
2008
- Harmony Central®: Martin Guitar Introduces Pat Donohue Custom Edition
Many know Pat Donohue as the guitarist in The Guys All-Star Shoe Band on Public Radio’s popular A Prairie Home Companion, an extraordinary picker who plays jazz, blues, swing and folk with equal flair and often blends all four in his music.
- Wired News – AP News
The same belt and pulley machines that stamped and shaped the world’s first metal kazoos circa 1900 still stamp and shape kazoos today. The machines are still in the same building, making the same ker-thwunk sound as they perforate, fold and shape.
