free standalone pandora player (mac)

In what seems like a past life, the only way to release an album was through a record label. The label had the money to pay for your recording, the ability to distribute it around the world, and the marketing resources to make sure people knew your album was hitting the stores. Today, any resourceful individual with a little bit of money and a lot of creativity can make an album commercially available to the same number of people as a major label.

Python-based music notation system, uses Lilypond as its back end renderer.

What I realized is that I wanted to represent not simply Math Rock, dictionary-defined as such, but also math rock, namely my own personal canon of rock music that triggers certain pleasure centers in me and greatly influences my aesthetics as a musician and listener. 

The package python-musicbrainz2 is a client library written in [WWW] python, which provides easy object oriented access to the MusicBrainz Database using the XMLWebService. It has been written from scratch and uses a different model than PythonMusicbrainz, the first generation python bindings.

filed under "systems I've been wanting to build myself for a long time..."

Ian Rogers, CEO ot Topspin Media's presentation to the Grammy music tech summit.

RIP Yma Sumac.

The turntables first captured my attention while I was a graduate student in composition, after a frustrating period of experimentation with music software. The studio methods that I had been taught seemed disconnected from any direct physical interaction with the sounds. I had a hunger for a more hands-on relationship with my music in performance, and I was tired of only sitting in the audience when my compositions were played.

Brooklyn musician Moldover shows his approach to converting a standard MIDI controller into something more suited to the fast-paced live loop manipulation - aka 'controllerism'. For a more in depth info on his hardware and software techniques be sure to check out Moldover's Approach to Controllerism part 1 & part 2

Woe to the musician who can actually play his or her instrument. In that direction ridicule lies. Ridicule by reason of excessively long solos, of leaden grooves, of unpleasant facial posturing so as to simulate profundity.

it would be naïve to think that just because it's out there, that your music will be available. Don't rely on the kindness of strangers or well-meaning family members who probably don't know anything about the music world—make sure you've arranged for

I have been trying for some time to track down a recording from the mid-1990s. A couple of Russian-born conceptual artists had determined, via a poll of listeners, what the most unappealing kinds of music were -- then created a piece embodying all of them

Oddities from NAMM, 2008 edition

What is called the music business today, however, is not the business of producing music. At some point it became the business of selling CDs in plastic cases, and that business will soon be over.

Wired asked David Byrne — a legendary innovator himself and the man who wrote the Talking Heads song "Radio Head" from which the group takes its name — to talk with Yorke about the In Rainbows distribution strategy and what others can learn from the e

Downtown Music, 1971-1987: An Overview and Resource Guide

A press release from Stockhausen Verlag: The composer Karlheinz Stockhausen passed away on December 5th 2007 at his home in Kuerten-Kettenberg and will be buried in the Waldfriedhof (forest cemetery) in Kuerten.... Suzanne Stephens and Kathinka Pasveer, w

Mark Mothersbaugh, the soft-spoken but articulate owner of Mutato and founding member of legendary new-wave band Devo, is giving me a tour. He’s a little embarrassed about the mess down here

We're curious what you'd do given the multi-track sessions from the title song. So here they are. There are eight tracks: trumpet, sax, fender rhodes, bass, turntables, bass drum, snare, and overheads. Take whatever you like and go for it!

Tomorrow Deutsche Grammophon will launch an online Web Shop containing exceptionally high-quality MP3s of 2400 albums in its catalogue, including six hundred out-of-print items. The bit rate is 320 kb/second, which is, as DG says, more or less indistingui

Moonshine, the newest album from trumpeter/composer Dave Douglas' Grammy-nominated band Keystone, is an album that moves musical genres forward into uncharted territory.

It should have come as no surprise, then, to learn that Tim Berne's Bloodcount will be playing at Joe's Pub on February 3, nor that he is penning fresh charts for the occasion.

Cakewalk 1.0 was the first music software I ever owned; still have the 5 1/4 floppy in the basement...

Welcome to 12-Tone Tees, the only place to get products dedicated exclusively to contemporary classical music. Wear your profession and nerdiness with pride!

Eric Barbour of Metasonix is blogging about odd musical tech. The first time I met him, he was so angry that I thought I could get punched just for being in the wrong place. Every year at NAMM, I seek out his booth; now I can get my fill regularly...

Anthony Braxton offered a one-hour overview of the Tri-Centric theory that forms the basis for understanding and generating his life's work.

"Alex Machacek's music starts where other music ends." John McLaughlin

Keyboardist Joe Zawinul, who played with Miles Davis and helped shape jazz fusion with his band Weather Report, died in his native city of Vienna on Tuesday, aged 75.

I spoke with Mendoza about his solo work, his thoughts on composing and arranging, his recent collaborations with Zawinul, Mitchell and Björk, and a good deal more.

"For" is the new CD by the Claudia Quintet, the genre-defying band led by Grammy-nominated composer John Hollenbeck.

Exploring the intersection of drawing and sound, this show includes experimental scores by more than twenty contemporary composers who relinquish traditional musical notation in favor of their own invented visual systems of pictorial or “graphic” ele

Point Juncture, WA build their "ethereal dreampop" on layers of dub-like beats, melodic/dissonant guitars and droning keyboards with vocal performances from three of the band's members and accents from a rollicking vibraphone and the occasional trumpet bl

Bopsters used to disdain metal as kid stuff; metal dudes thought jazz was for geeks. But both forms — and forms ain't as pure as they used to be — tend to make huge technical demands, challenging the outer limits of fingers and mind.

Ardour is a digital audio workstation. You can use it to record, edit and mix multi-track audio. You can produce your own CDs, mix video soundtracks, or just experiment with new ideas about music and sound.

On The Corner, the most outre project of American master Miles Davis, is "restored" in a 6-cd boxed set. This recommendation is completely unsolicited, but I'm tellin' you: his all-star jam-band stills sounds prophetic after 35 years, and even unedited it

The research team showed that music engages the areas of the brain involved with paying attention, making predictions and updating the event in memory. Peak brain activity occurred during a short period of silence between musical movements—when seemingl

A project that I've been working on this year has just gone into beta release...

Berlin has named a street honoring Frank Zappa. Frank-Zappa-Strasse or Frank Zappa Street — formerly Street 13 — lies on the eastern outskirts of Berlin amid empty industrial buildings in what was communist East Germany.

It's not something you can plan for—it's all circumstance, I swear: You want to play music for a living. You bust your ass paying your dues in tiny clubs with six people in the audience. You think about all the talented jazz musicians out there who can'

Renoise has a unique bottom-up approach to music making. With its vertical timeline and streamlined interface, Renoise lets you have direct control over the composition.

Numerology is a modular MIDI Sequencer for Mac OS X. It takes sequencing metaphors established by the analog sequencers of the 70's and places them in a structured and highly interactive software environment that encourages experimentation and improvisati

In just 10 minutes, you can order a professionally recorded CD and MP3 file. Start here or read more below. Tailored Music has assembled a team of up-and-coming musicians from across North America, with genres including pop/rock, jazz, R&B, country, and m

Kermit Driscoll Benefit Concert FOR THE LOVE OF KERMIT Featuring performances by John Zorn, Bill Frisell's 858 Quartet, John Patitucci, Refuge Trio Monday, January 29, 2007

OpenSound Control ("OSC") is a protocol for communication among computers, sound synthesizers, and other multimedia devices that is optimized for modern networking technology and has been used in many application areas.