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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 May 29
The mixing of electronic music and hip hop is nothing new. Back in 2000, The American hip hop crew Anti-pop Consortium were unexpectedly signed to UK electronica label Warp (which happens to be the most popular electronica label on the planet) with their innovative brand of idm beats backing up their avant garde rhyming.
Other idm artists such as Prefuse 73, Amon Tobin, Machine...
The mixing of electronic music and hip hop is nothing new. Back in 2000, The American hip hop crew Anti-pop Consortium were unexpectedly signed to UK electronica label Warp (which happens to be the most popular electronica label on the planet) with their innovative brand of idm beats backing up their avant garde rhyming.
Other idm artists such as Prefuse 73, Amon Tobin, Machine...
Posted by admin on 2009 May 28
I have been looking for some hardware device to play my music live with Ableton, since the prospect of just using a laptop is not very appealing, so i was thinking about purchasing a used monome unit (since buying a new unit is pretty much impossible).
As i watched the price for used monome 64 units plummet on Ebay (due in part to the recession, i am sure) from $900 to around...
I have been looking for some hardware device to play my music live with Ableton, since the prospect of just using a laptop is not very appealing, so i was thinking about purchasing a used monome unit (since buying a new unit is pretty much impossible).
As i watched the price for used monome 64 units plummet on Ebay (due in part to the recession, i am sure) from $900 to around...
Posted by admin on 2009 May 28
The case has been made against remixers like Girltalk, who borrow snippets from all kinds of musicians and build entire albums he profits from, without paying a dime to the original copyright holders. I actually don’t enjoy Girltalk’s music that much.. it think it is more of a novelty, but i wouldn’t see myself actively listening to any of his albums.
Is he a...
The case has been made against remixers like Girltalk, who borrow snippets from all kinds of musicians and build entire albums he profits from, without paying a dime to the original copyright holders. I actually don’t enjoy Girltalk’s music that much.. it think it is more of a novelty, but i wouldn’t see myself actively listening to any of his albums.
Is he a...
Posted by admin on 2009 May 27
CIO magazine has published this interesting article about Keith Curtis, a programmer with Microsoft for 11 years who’s left the company in 2004 and wrote a book about why Microsoft will fail.
According to Mr. Curtis, Microsoft’s model of building software is destined to fail because it doesn’t let software programmers cooperate and contribute, and thus stifles...
CIO magazine has published this interesting article about Keith Curtis, a programmer with Microsoft for 11 years who’s left the company in 2004 and wrote a book about why Microsoft will fail.
According to Mr. Curtis, Microsoft’s model of building software is destined to fail because it doesn’t let software programmers cooperate and contribute, and thus stifles...
Posted by admin on 2009 May 27
One of the most interesting social network models to develop of late are artist funding websites.
Artist funding websites work like this: Artists sign up and pitch their projects to the public via the website.
Users go on the website, browse through different projects and if they find something interesting, they sign up and donate money to the project until it meets its budget or...
One of the most interesting social network models to develop of late are artist funding websites.
Artist funding websites work like this: Artists sign up and pitch their projects to the public via the website.
Users go on the website, browse through different projects and if they find something interesting, they sign up and donate money to the project until it meets its budget or...
