Most forms of media also have an emotional component, so why not combine colors and music? Guitarati is doing just that, and it’s using colors as its starting point towards helping you find the music you’re looking for…
Eight fantastic music scholarships up for grabs at the Institute London’s Institute of Contemporary Music Performance is delighted to announce, in conjunction with its leading partners, the launch of over £30,000 worth of scholarships for deserving stude
MySong, introduced in our CHI 2008 paper, automatically chooses chords to accompany a vocal melody, allowing a user with no musical training to rapidly create accompanied music.
Music streaming firm imeem has acquired SNOCAP, a DRM technology company. “imeem shares SNOCAP’s focus on enabling artists to promote their music in new ways,” said CEO Rusty Rueff.
They work long hours, often to exhaustion. Many are paid by the piece- not garments, but blog posts. This is the digital-era sweatshop. You may know it by a different name: home.
A quest by researchers at the University of Rochester resulted in a 20-second clarinet solo being compressed into less than a single kilobyte of data — nearly 1,000 times smaller than a standard MP3 representing the same audio.
Sensing a gap between MTV’s cheesy reality shows and YouTube’s labyrinth of pixelized musical treasures, music tastemaker Pitchfork Media plans to launch a video section Monday that will showcase live performances and other original content.
For Linux, Mac & Windows: Traverso is a GPL licensed, cross platform multitrack audio recording and editing suite, with an innovative and easy to master User Interface. It’s suited for both the professional and home user, who needs a robust and solid DAW.
Great take by a Venture Capitalist on what’s ahead for the music business…”Having ceded the file based music opportunity (mp3s and drm’d file formats) to Apple, the recorded labels are now getting hip to the much bigger opportunity, streaming music.”
It’s the weekend here and this video is longer…but worth it. Grab a cup of coffee and watch it. Every fine arts teacher should watch this video.
Can’t see the video? Follow this link: Do Schools Kill Creativity?
Wired News – AP NewsNews Corp.’s MySpace said Thursday it will launch an online music venture designed to turn the social networking site’s trove of musician profile pages into portals for selling everything from concert tickets and band merchandise to the music itself.
Misu – Love to ShareMisu is for people who want to discover a whole new world of music. Just connect two or more iPods to your Mac, and watch as Misu fuses their music libraries into one.
LyricWiki API: Get Song Lyrics via CodeWiki.org is a terrific, free archive of song lyrics. How large? At the moment it has over 669,000 content pages. It’s a broad and deep catalog.
celemony_ :: Direct Note AccessDirect Note Access is a technology that makes the impossible possible: for the first time in audio recording history you can identify and edit individual notes within polyphonic audio material. to individual notes within chords. WOW! Watch the video demo at their website. Thanks to V. Keith Mason for this link.
BeeThere – It’s Your Music SceneKeep track of upcoming concerts in your area with BeeThere, a show tracker that lists events for over 800 cities in the United States.
Ok- I’ll admit it…I’m tickled that V. Keith Mason, Coordinator of Music Technology at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee picked my blog (along with several others) to be highlighted in his podcast this week at Music Tech for ME
I had to convince my teenage son that while the show was posted on April Fool’s day, it was not a joke…
(You can find his comments about my blog at 13:30…but listen to the entire podcast )
Here are some of the other ME Bloggers he highlights on his show:
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