MUSIC IS NOT GIGABYTES: Archive

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“Saying things like “I don’t know why indies would be different than a major....”

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Analog Vinyl Sampling →

Inspired by current sampling techniques, either as a piece of hardware or as software, Ishac Bertran takes an analog route emulating the audio tape cut&paste technique by literally cutting and pasting pieces of vinyl to create samples.

Oct 4th

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A very simple question

So, there is the NinjaVideo Case, the point being that some people made several hundred thousand dollars with a platform which is for sharing content. At least this includes a very important point which was mostly absent over the war against filesharers in the past decade: somebody is somehow making money with content he didn’t create and doesn’t have the rights to. It is a whole...

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NodeBeat - iOS Music Sequencer (by AffinityBlue) NodeBeat is an experimental node-based audio sequencer and generative music application for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. i just played a couple if minutes with it, and what a video can not capture are features like “gravity” - so the playing ground reacts to the iphone’s gyro sensors. fun!

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Broke* // Official Trailer Broke* chronicles the stories of artists and executives searching for ways to thrive in the face of today’s music industry challenges. Featuring candid interviews with industry insiders and intimate profiles of some of the brightest emerging musical talent in the country, the film digs beneath the clichés and standard storylines to reveal an industry struggling to find...

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Oramics (by Nick Street) A brief glimpse of Daphne Oram’s pioneering and unique Oramics synthesizer, designed in 1957 after she left the legendary BBC Radiophonic Workshop to pursue the project. This short film features Dr Mick Grierson, Director of The Daphne Oram Collection, acquiring the synthesizer from a collector in 2009. The machine is now in the hands of The Science Museum...

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Cry Baby: The Pedal That Rocks The World (by Joey Tosi) Cry Baby: The Pedal That Rocks The World tells the story of the wah wah effect pedal, from its invention in 1966 to the present day. Musicians, engineers, and historians discuss the impact of the pedal on popular music and demonstrate the various ways it has been used, as well as how its evolution has improved the ability of artists to...

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The Lake The Lake is a sound journey for the iPhone and iPod Touch. All you’ve got is a playing card and all you can do is turn it, once, twice, many times. Every time you turn the card, you will delve deeper and deeper into another world. Created by Patrick Juchli with Holger Müller (Sound) and Bernhard Frey (Design) For Maybe It’s The Lighting...

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Radio Free Europe by U2? Or Radio Free Gainesville by Hot Water Music? Wherever you come from, you will most likely have had contact on some point with a true “meme” from the times before anybody imagined any interwebs. If you ever wondered what that “Radio Free Something” thing is about: here it is, finally, the trailer for Radio Free Albemuth, an indy adaptation of Philip...

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Everything is a Remix Part 1. (w/ HT to ono-sendai for reminding me). Join the proper people club and donate or flattr the project.

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Records, “the most beautiful objects on the planet”? Yep. The Vinyl Factory (by thevinylfactory)

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cheap tape saturation (by recue) with a cassete adaptor for three bucks! it doesn’t get any more DIY than this, does it? (via Create Digital Music)

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I’ve heard about Black Francis doing a soundtrack for the german silent movie DER GOLEM. Didn’t know he postet the whole thing on vimeo… veeery cool! (via cultfilms) the golem: how he came into the world an original score by black francis (pixies) often regarded as the height of german expressionism, the silent, black and white film “the golem” (also known in it’s german form,...

Oct 30th

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"Rock Band 3 'Pro' controllers ship with actual...

Create Dgital Music writes: The Rock Band 3 Fender Mustang Pro-Guitar […] isn’t exactly a full-blown MIDI guitar. It has strings, but in place of fretting those strings, you instead use 102 fret buttons. […] With a street price of US$150, the Mustang is on the high end of game controller, but very much the low end of things that can simulate a guitar with MIDI. […] Just about everything...

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A small personal top something from the past months: A PressPausePlay Outtake of a visit to the vinyl factory The loudness wars Dancing robots One of the coolest music photographs ever made A Sesamestreet-like, NSFW, HipHop-alphabet [The trailer for] a documentary about the chiptune scene Have your ashes pressed into a vinyl after you died a creepy robot mouth “singing” the...

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