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Posted by admin on September 11, 2010 | No Comments What the Future Sounded Like Check out this great, 3 part documentary titled “What the Future Sounded Like” about EMS, Electronic Music Studios, the company which made the famous VCS3 synthesizer in the late 1960s, which was used in...
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Posted by admin on July 12, 2010 | 1 Comment iPad: The MIDI & OSC controller... I have read a few articles about how the iPad is going to be the next MIDI controller killer.. It goes like this.. one iPad is going to eventually replace many if not all of the following dedicated MIDI / OSC...
Posted by admin on 2009 Jun 10
It seems that, after the success of his awesome soundtrack for the game Chaos Theory, Amon Tobin is doing more and more soundtrack work.
I found this video here describing the new work that Amon Tobin is doing for the Sony “Infamous” video game. Funny enough, Amon Tobin is nowhere to be seen in the video, but it still has some interesting sound design ideas and...
It seems that, after the success of his awesome soundtrack for the game Chaos Theory, Amon Tobin is doing more and more soundtrack work.
I found this video here describing the new work that Amon Tobin is doing for the Sony “Infamous” video game. Funny enough, Amon Tobin is nowhere to be seen in the video, but it still has some interesting sound design ideas and...
Posted by admin on 2009 Jun 8
The Death of Satellite radio
History is filled with great ideas that have been made obsolete by technology.
Being an eternal music lover, I remember having more cassette tapes than i could keep track of. For most people in third world countries who couldn’t afford to buy LPs, blank tapes were a cheap way to share music and to keep a copy of music we couldn’t afford to...
The Death of Satellite radio
History is filled with great ideas that have been made obsolete by technology.
Being an eternal music lover, I remember having more cassette tapes than i could keep track of. For most people in third world countries who couldn’t afford to buy LPs, blank tapes were a cheap way to share music and to keep a copy of music we couldn’t afford to...
Posted by admin on 2009 Jun 5
In the spirit of our controversial monome 64 vs. Akai APC64 blog post i have written a quick comparison of the newly released Livid’s Ohm64 vs. Akai APC 40 as an Ableton Live Controller.
Akai APC 40
PROS
-Cheap! ($399 with free shipping from some vendors in the USA)
-Available in most music stores. No need to wait for months to get a new unit.
-programmable (only using Ableton...
In the spirit of our controversial monome 64 vs. Akai APC64 blog post i have written a quick comparison of the newly released Livid’s Ohm64 vs. Akai APC 40 as an Ableton Live Controller.
Akai APC 40
PROS
-Cheap! ($399 with free shipping from some vendors in the USA)
-Available in most music stores. No need to wait for months to get a new unit.
-programmable (only using Ableton...
Posted by admin on 2009 Jun 4
The website The Hollywood Reporter gathered a selection of film music experts, composers and film music industry types to publish a list of the 100 greatest film scores of all time.
Here are the top 10:
01 – Godfather by Nino Rota (1972)
02 – Jaws by John Williams (1975)
03 – Star Wars by John Williams (1977)
04 – The Good, the Bad & the Ugly by Ennio...
The website The Hollywood Reporter gathered a selection of film music experts, composers and film music industry types to publish a list of the 100 greatest film scores of all time.
Here are the top 10:
01 – Godfather by Nino Rota (1972)
02 – Jaws by John Williams (1975)
03 – Star Wars by John Williams (1977)
04 – The Good, the Bad & the Ugly by Ennio...
Posted by admin on 2009 Jun 4
For those who think controlling Ableton with a wii controller is awesome, you should check out the work of Gerhard Trimpin (better known just as “Trimpin”), a German artist living in Seattle (and the recipient of a MacArthur Genius Award in 1997) who using machines is trying to “go beyond human physical limitations to play instruments in such a way that no matter...
For those who think controlling Ableton with a wii controller is awesome, you should check out the work of Gerhard Trimpin (better known just as “Trimpin”), a German artist living in Seattle (and the recipient of a MacArthur Genius Award in 1997) who using machines is trying to “go beyond human physical limitations to play instruments in such a way that no matter...
