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Tambour
"Tambour is a musical game about attacking and countering with rhythm." Really nice: definitely musical, interesting balancing mechanics, and I love the range of inputs. Also it looks good, which helps.
game  music  rhythm 
9 weeks ago by infovore
Rob Ricketts — Graphic Design & Typography
"A series of informative posters detailing how some of the most notable drum sequences were programmed using the Roland TR-808 Drum Machine. Each sequence has been analyzed and represented as to allow users to re-programme each sequence, key for key." Gorgeous. (If I had to pick, I'd take Voodoo Ray - which is a lovely piece of drum programming amongst many other things).
art  design  music  drummachine  808  techno  posters 
9 weeks ago by infovore
BeepStreet - software - on the wave
Sunrizer - basically, a tiny JP8000 clone.
syntheszier  ios  ipad  app  music 
11 weeks ago by infovore
SoundPrism by Audanika - Music like you've never seen before
Multi-touch instrument thing.
app  music  ipad  sound  texture 
11 weeks ago by infovore
DM1
"DM1 is an advanced vintage Drum Machine. It turns your iPad into a fun and creative beat making machine."
app  ipad  music  drums  drummachine 
11 weeks ago by infovore
polychord: iPad App for Music Creation and Performance
Curious scale-based texture performance instrument.
app  ipad  music  synthesizer 
11 weeks ago by infovore
Shruthi-1 | Mutable instruments
"The Shruthi-1 is a hybrid digital/analog monosynth. Its hardware design is deceptively simple, but the sonic range is wide: sometimes grungily digital like a PPG-Wave, fat and funky like a SH-101, videogame-y like a Commodore 64, weird and warm like an ESQ-1 ; but more often than not, truly original." Looks nice, not expensive at all.
diy  hacking  music  instruments  synths  synthesizers 
11 weeks ago by infovore
Repatcher | Open Music Labs
"rePatcher is an Arduino shield that allows you to “repatch” your Max/MSP or Pure Data patches with a 6 x 6 patchbay matrix. It also has 6 general purpose control knobs for modifying parameters in your patch. Since it does all of this over USB, it can be hacked to work with any other program that can accept a serial stream." Oh, very nice.
maxmsp  pd  puredata  music  serial  arduino  shield 
february 2012 by infovore
MURK AVENUE, I FOUND ICE CUBES 'GOOD DAY'
A process of elimination leads to discovering when Ice Cube's "good day" was.
music  icecube  rap  investigation 
january 2012 by infovore
This Is My Jam - The Future Of Music Sharing Online? - NME Blogs - NME.COM - The world's fastest music news service, music videos, interviews, photos and free stuff to win
"I also think there's tremendous value in creating a dedicated music graph (as opposed to a social network that also has music); it's in your best interest to follow (or unfollow!) someone regardless of whether you're strangers or best friends. It's all about the music you're going to get from that person in your playlist of jams." Yep, this - which is the thing I always try to explain about TIMJ. I don't follow the list of people I follow everywhere else; I follow people who make my playlist of music better/worse. It means I discover all manner of new music, but I hope nobody takes it personally. (About the worst thing you can do on TIMJ is just import all your Twitter contacts and not add anyone else ever).
music  social  graph  thisismyjam  mattogle  flaneur  discovery 
january 2012 by infovore
notes.variogr.am - Why music ID resolution matters to every music fan on Facebook
"I cannot think of a worse fate: hearing something worse than John Mayer when you have to click on a link that says John Mayer. (Consider clicking on a Google search result for your dentist’s office phone number and getting your ex-girlfriend instead.)" This line is very funny, but the whole post is a shrewd explanation of the importance of resolution, and the fist Facebook makes of it. I hope consumers will discover they care about this more than they thought, too.
api  music  echonest  facebook  resolution 
october 2011 by infovore
KeygenJukebox.com - Streams Keygen Music Directly to Your Web Browser!
This is brilliant: mp3s of the little mod/tracker music tracks that accompany keygens, cracks, and intros. Hundreds, and it's strange to say "hey, PHOTOSHOPCS4CRK is my favourite!" A weird little bit of culture, perfectly captured.
music  demoscene  cracks  mp3  tracker 
october 2011 by infovore
ishback» Blog Archive » Creating music samples with vinyl records
"Driven by my devotion for vinyls and analog processes (perhaps a bit of Dj wannabe too), and emulating the audio tape cut&paste technique, I tried to make the vinyl sampling a bit more analog – literally cut and paste pieces of vinyl to create samples." Cut & Paste with physical vinyl; bonus points for excellent Delia Derbyshire video.
sampling  vinyl  lasercutting  music  records 
october 2011 by infovore
DJ TechTools  |  Interview: John Beez and the Fretless Fader
"The Fretless Fader concept involves a cross fader which can move vertically as well as horizontally, allowing an extra parameter to be controlled simultaneously with the traditional fader movement – most notably, pitch. It’s probably best demonstrated in video..." Nice chat about productising this, but seriously, the first video is marvellous - it's "Drunk Trumpet" all over again...
turntablism  modification  hacking  music 
september 2011 by infovore
Sky Orchestra balloons serenade London - video | Culture | guardian.co.uk
"Seven hot air balloons, each with speakers attached, took off at dawn and flew across the capital. Each balloon plays a different element of a musical score, together creating an expansive audio landscape." Marvellous.
balloons  music  ambient  cities 
august 2011 by infovore
Sound Of The Funky Drummer « liner notes
More comprehensive notes from Gavin Bradley - this time, on the legacy of Funky Drummer.
jamesbrown  clydestubblefield  funkydrummer  music  samples  breaks  loops 
july 2011 by infovore
Total Deconstruction: Buffalo Stance « liner notes
"What fascinates me about this evolution is not just the multiple levels of cut-and-paste that went on through these productions, but the fact that this exposes a clear example of the sort of rewriting/rethinking that sometimes must happen before a song hits its apex.  Cherry’s rap on the b-side of ‘Looking Good Diving’ isn’t the fully realized version of the lyrics she went with on ‘Buffalo Stance,’ and neither is her confidence in place, yet, vocally." Marvellous, fascinating deconstruction of the mighty "Buffalo Stance"
buffalostance  music  nenehcherry  timsimenon  sampling 
july 2011 by infovore
Review: Patrick Stump @ Water Rats | Londonist
"Patrick Stump survived The Scene, then." I went to see Patrick Stump play some music. Then I reviewed it for Londonist.
londonist  patrickstump  music  reviews  writing 
may 2011 by infovore
cityofsound: Stadsmuziek, by Akko Golenbeld
" A physical model of Eindhoven rolled onto a drum and attached to a piano. A form of player piano with the city as the score." Just beautiful.
playerpiano  cities  music  art  eindhoven  architecture 
april 2011 by infovore
Bfxr. Make sound effects for your games.
Nice lo-fi sound effect tool.
music  sounds  games  eightbit  lofi 
march 2011 by infovore
Classic arcade game deaths (Boing Boing Video) - Boing Boing
Totally lovely montage of arcade-game death/loss animations. Watching this: I really forgot how beautiful Afterburner looked in the arcade.
music  games  nostalgia 
march 2011 by infovore
tantramar: More and Moore
"Where does this go from here? DVD boxes that have screens on them, that are players too. Or perhaps simply projectors. Player and media combined as a single usage item. Experiments like this have been around for ages but are mainly novelty items. I think we need more of this silliness, relating to what I said recently about dreaming and being experimental. We need seemingly crazy ideas like stickers that are screens. That's how we create the new stuff, from the random throw-away ideas." More hopeful monsters.
music  mooreslaw  invention  hopefulmonsters 
march 2011 by infovore
Team Teamwork - Big Boi - Shutterbugs (Super Metroid) From the...
Shutterbug vs the Super Metroid soundtrack, from the new Team Teamwork joint. Oh yes.
music  games  mashup  bigboi  teamteamwork 
march 2011 by infovore
Time & Materials
Matt Brown and Mark Slater, writing about music and things. Looks set to be like a cracking little blog.
matthewirvinebrown  markslater  music  blogs 
february 2011 by infovore
Touch
Reviews of Phill Niblock's "Touch Three": drones created by stripping out attack/release/breath sounds from acoustic performers, and then gluing them together. What we're listening to right now, too. (It is better than that description makes it sound).
music  phillniblock  drone  miminalism 
february 2011 by infovore
irvinebrown » Music for Shuffle
"I set myself a half-day project to write music specifically for shuffle mode – making use of randomness to try and make something more than the sum of its parts... Over an hour or so, I wrote a series of short, interlocking phrases (each formatted as an individual MP3) that can be played in any order and still (sort of) make musical sense." This is brilliant, and I do like Matt's ear.
matthewirvinebrown  music  shuffle  randomness  media 
january 2011 by infovore
blissblog - 10 for 2010
Simon Reynolds' list of records from 2010. It is long and deserves returning to, which, at some point, I shall.
music  lists  simonreynolds 
december 2010 by infovore
Isle of Tune
Music sequencing by drawing small towns: things by roads are noises; cars are your cursor. Currently in Flash; coming out for iOS soon. Worth checking out some of the best examples to see what's possible. It's a bit fiddly, but utterly delightful
music  sequencer  towns  whimsy 
december 2010 by infovore
Music from Saharan Cellphones. This is amazing.... | intercourse with biscuits
"Sahel Sounds rounded up music salvaged from the discarded mobile phone memory chips in West Africa." Wow; the after-life of dead electronic media made real.
music  culture  media  data  storage  africa 
october 2010 by infovore
Halcyon Preview on Vimeo
"Halcyon is named for the mythological bird of ancient Greece, said to charm the winds and seas into a calm during the Winter Solstice. It is a spacial action puzzle game and interactive stringed instrument designed specifically for the iPad." Lovely.
games  zachgage  ipad  music 
october 2010 by infovore
Future Of Music - Music Hack Day
""Future of Music (2010)" is a Mac OS X app that scans your iTunes library and computes the music you are not supposed to listen to anymore based on your preferences. It then helpfully deletes it from iTunes and your hard drive. Skips the recycle bin. Just like other recommender systems, it uses a lot of fancy math (and data from Echo Nest and last.fm) that really doesn't matter in the end. Just click the button and let it take care of your life."
music  itunes  recommendation  trends 
october 2010 by infovore
Halo: Reach Audio - Sound Mixing in Halo: Reach - Popular Mechanics
"Here's how important the music is: In all of the Halo games to date, Bungie has left out the option to turn the music off." Nice article on Marty O'Donnell's work for Bungie; I really enjoyed the shot of the "stripey room".
games  audio  sound  music  martyodonnell  halo  bungie 
september 2010 by infovore
Go behind the scenes with Red Dead Redemption's accompanists | Joystiq
Nice, if somewhat DVD-extra-y, video on the RDR soundtrack. The most interesting footage is of the recording sessions and the musicians. It's a shame we're still at layering everything at same tempo/key, when it comes to interactive scores; I miss iMuse. But otherwise: great stuff.
music  recording  games  reddeadredemption  soundtrack 
july 2010 by infovore
Sixty years of the Fender Telecaster | Music | The Guardian
"In other words, it beggars belief how an object designed six decades ago doesn't look – or, more importantly, sound – kitsch or outdated. The Telecaster's younger and less elegant sibling, the Stratocaster, tends to go wildly in and out of style, but this guitar remains as unimpeachably cool as ever."
guitars  music  fender  telecaster  design 
july 2010 by infovore
Emo « Matthew Sheret.com
"Emo’s rise coincides with the explosion of social networking, the fracturing of commodification, the emergence of micro-trends, the mainstream adoption of alt-porn tropes… Emo’s the musical centre of a pop-culture whirlwind that doesn’t really seem to have been explored much, and when it has it’s often been addressed either in dismissive or alarmist tones." As an emo apologist, I really need to write more in response to this - they're topics I've covered in my head several times.
music  writing  emo  mattsheret 
june 2010 by infovore
Passion Pit « Levi's Pioneer Sessions
Passion Pit cover Smashing Pumpkins' "Tonight, Tonight".
passionpit  smashingpumpkins  music  cover 
june 2010 by infovore
Hands On: Rock Band 3 Adds Keyboards, Realistic Pro Mode | GameLife | Wired.com
"But then, nobody’s expected to be able to sight-read the Pro guitar tracks. It’s meant for actual students of the guitar. And if you use the game’s slowed-down Practice mode, the game packs the potential to become a real tool for learning to play music." The notion that Harmonix were always a music company, who just happened to make games, becomes ever more true. Proper tab notation, proper strings on the Pro instruments? Well done.
harmonix  music  education  games  rockband3  rockband 
june 2010 by infovore
Kon + Amir Present: The 50 Greatest Hip-Hop Samples Of All Time
Great list: interesting selection, well-justified, and lovely to have all the original songs to listen to as well. That's this afternoon's listening sorted, then.
music  sampling  hiphop  culture 
may 2010 by infovore
ReBirth for iPhone — Home
Blimey, ReBirth, entirely ported to iPhone and on the App Store. Looks finickity, but it was loads of fun, and for $7... I might end up with that.
rebirth  music  software  propellerhead  iphone 
may 2010 by infovore
Spotify - the next generation - Spotify
Blimey. Spotify want to own social music - linking out to Facebook and creating a more public Spotify profile - but, more to the point, they also want to own music playing, by making your own library available inside the Spotify app... and even offering wireless sync of your own music.
music  spotify  product  social  facebook  integration 
april 2010 by infovore
Soundshapes: Amit Pitaru/Zach Gage bring Sonic Wire Sculptor to iPhone - Boing Boing
Hard to explain, but a must-watch; lovely spatial music sequencer/toy. (And: I miss Offworld :( )
sound  music  3d  spatial  sequencer  iphone 
april 2010 by infovore
The online portfolio of John Finley
"I missed the selection, the album art, and the dusty trays and hand-written CD-Rs. The absence of the compact disk reminded of another format that had recently gone away: the 3.5" floppy diskette. The Floppy Stereo attempts to recreate that ceremony within a single device. An album's playlist file is stored on a floppy disk, complete with the album art. When it is loaded, the playlist is read and retrieves the songs from my MP3 collection." There's a similar tactility in the 3.5" disk to, say, an eight-track cart. I like that.
hardware  music  media  clunkclick 
april 2010 by infovore
David Byrne's Journal: 03.18.10: Collaborations [updated]
"Is writing ever NOT collaboration? Doesn’t one collaborate with oneself, in a sense? Don’t we access different aspects of ourselves, different characters and attitudes and then, when they’ve had their say, switch hats and take a more distanced and critical view — editing and structuring our other half’s outpourings? Isn’t the end product sort of the result of two sides collaborating? Surely I’m not the only one who does this?" Something else that's been on the pile (to link) for a while now.
davidbyrne  music  writing  creativity  collaboration  process 
april 2010 by infovore
Yoshi AKAI - Lego Step Sequencer
"The Lego Step-sequencer is 3 channels 8 steps sequencer. The different coloured Lego pieces each have their own sound. Connecting the Lego three-dimensional makes complex sound. This is building sound more than playing sound."
music  lego  stepsequencer  hardware  electronics 
march 2010 by infovore
Jonas Friedemann Heuer - portfolio - Noteput
"“Notput” is an interactive music table with tangible notes, that combines all three senses of hearing, sight and touch to make learning the classical notation of music for children and pupils more easy and interesting."
music  learning  education  notation  interaction 
february 2010 by infovore
Revisiting the click track « Music Machinery
"Over the weekend, I wrote a web application that takes advantage of the new [EchoNest] APIs to make it easy to get a click plot for just about any track. Just type in the name of the artist and track and you’ll get the click plot – you don’t have to find the audio or upload it or wrestle with python or gnuplot." Echonest is bloody magic.
echonest  music  drumming  drummers  rhythm 
february 2010 by infovore
Serious Jazz, Celtic Punk on RBN | Plastic Axe
"I saw these two videos of Rock Band Network tracks over at RBDLC and couldn’t resist sharing them. The first is a serious jazz tune: “Footloose and Fancy Free” by Bill Bruford’s Earthworks. The thing that’s interesting about this is that the “guitar” track is actually piano — something Guitar Hero has done in the past but Rock Band has generally shied away from. But what’s even neater is that the “vocal” track is actually a sax line, intended (one would assume) to be played with a sax or other horn; the “lyrics” are simply the notes being played." There's no question that building tunes for RBN is hard wokr, but god, this Bill Bruford video is stonking, and the sax-as-vocal idea is cracking.
jazz  rockband  rhythmaction  music  games  rockbandnetwork 
january 2010 by infovore
Review: Maestro: Jump In Music - Tiny Cartridge - Nintendo DS & DSi News, Media, Videos, Imports, Homebrew, & Retro Junk
"Two music games got it right on the DS this year, both eschewing fancy controllers, instead focusing on the system’s touchscreen to present their engaging concepts: Rhythm Heaven and Maestro: Jump in Music." Ooh, sounds interesting - will have to hunt that down. (Via Simon Parkin)
ds  games  music  interaction  play 
january 2010 by infovore
It Took Seconds
"Every day a song is posted, one second shorter than yesterday's. A tumblr by Tom Ewing." Awesome.
music  blogs  yearlongprojects  tomewing 
january 2010 by infovore
The official game music on Spotify thread of awesomeness - NeoGAF
Spotify playlists of videogame soundtracks, and links to soundtrack albums as well.
games  music  soundtracks  spotify 
december 2009 by infovore
Brad Sucks Rock Band Preview « Brad Sucks
Brad Sucks has converted his own material to Rock Band tracks in Rock Band Studio, and will soon be selling them straight to your 360. Harmonix really are bringing something to the game here - amateur/unsigned musicians can now use Rock Band to sell music (with appropriate notecharts, obviously), in the same way they started to use MySpace as promotion a few years ago. Awesome.
music  future  media  rockband  rockbandstudio 
november 2009 by infovore
the-inbetween.com: [ Bleeping Beats, Chiptunes, and Hyperdub 5 ]
"When you look at the dubstep scene you realize quickly that it’s a fairly young genre. Not in terms of its own existence as a named thing, but as a measure of the age of many of its prominent musicians. They’re of the generation that doesn’t know a world before the Nintendo Entertainment System and a lot of the music reflects that... If you had a giant Venn Diagram of dubstep and 8-bit chiptunes, you’d see a large overlap between the two. Why dubstep is particularly prone to this, more than other electronic styles, I don’t know. Maybe it has to do with its relatively lo-fi, home studio feel of the genre? ... There’s a hidden, untold history there, but it’d be best told by someone that knows the genre, and its players, better than I do. In the meantime, I’ll continue enjoying it until it’s pillaged and destroyed for all its worth." Mike on the overlap between dubstep and chiptune culture.
music  dubstep  chiptunes  hyperdub  8bit  games  overlap  crossover 
october 2009 by infovore
GameSetWatch - Sound Current: 'An Indie Game Composer Chat: Penny Arcade Edition'
Nice interview; some particularly good stuff on generative music, and a generation that grew up on iMuse wanting to do more with game music than just churn out Red Book Aduio.
games  indie  independent  music  imuse  generative 
october 2009 by infovore
andrewsalomone.com » Blog Archive » Breakbeats Sampler
"Here is a needlework sampler I’ve made based on the tradition of needlework samplers and the processes used by producers to create contemporary musical compositions."
breakbeats  music  embroidery  needlework 
october 2009 by infovore
Slub: Making music with live computer code
Me, talking to the chaps from Slub about livecoding and the like, for Wired. Turned out alright, I think. Shame there wasn't space for it in the print edition in the end, but online now.
slub  music  programming  art  livecode  livecoding  wired  article 
october 2009 by infovore
The Undeniable Case For Pink Floyd: Rock Band | Edge Online
"And if you the beat the game? An animation plays, showing Waters and Gilmour sitting at a pub, chatting like old mates. And as the screen fades to black, they share a little fist bump." Chris' column really is a lovely addition to Edge Online. This is a good one.
beatlesrockband  pinkfloyd  music  games  chrisdahlen  writing 
september 2009 by infovore
Cruise Elroy » The Beatles: Rock Band
"I’m unfamiliar with a lot of the songs we do, and though I get to know them pretty well during the testing process, I rarely have a chance to get sick of them thanks to our relentless schedule. So when faced with a year of testing 45 very familiar songs for The Beatles: Rock Band, it seemed inevitable that I’d end up a Stones guy when the project was through. Then, last night at the company release party, I hung out in front of an Xbox with some thirty coworkers and sang along to Beatles songs for over four hours at the top of my lungs. When I woke up this morning, I actually yawned blood." Well done, Dan.
danbruno  beatlesrockband  music  games  testing  dedication 
september 2009 by infovore
Insult Swordfighting: It's not called "Rock Band: The Beatles" for a reason -- Video Game Reviews and Rants
"I've developed a habit of delivering a drum solo at the beginning of every Rock Band track -- just a little wailing away while the song cues up. It's a way of making the songs mine. You can't do that in The Beatles. Hit a drum pad before the song starts, and nothing happens, because that sound isn't on the original recording... More important, it's the game's way of making sure that you don't dare mess with perfection! I'm not a huge fan of that attitude. Past -- and, technically, current -- Rock Band games are about engaging with the music on an equal level. This game, though, is a ball-washing of the highest order. Maybe the Beatles are more deserving of such treatment than any other band, but I don't think any band deserves that treatment. Not now that I've seen the alternatives." Mitch Krpata on his problems with Rock Band: The Beatles.
rockbandbeatles  mitchkrpata  games  music  creativity  improvisation  writing 
september 2009 by infovore
Pitchfork: Album Reviews: The Beatles: Rock Band
"The Beatles: Rock Band is the total opposite [of Rock Band 2]. The "characters" are untouchable, and the tracks don't even toss you a freestyle section. Your only choices are to get the song right, or not. Sure, it's a cliché that most videogames make you save the world, but at least in those games, you know you're needed. I've never felt less important in a game than this one." Chris Dahlen makes an excellent point in the midst of his excellent (and otherwise uniformly positive) review of The Beatles: Rock Band for Pitchfork.
chrisdahlen  savetherobot  beatles  beatlesrockband  music  harmonix  games  writing  customisation  player  focus 
september 2009 by infovore
A Different Kind of Blue — The Bygone Bureau
"Kevin Nguyen talks to the minds behind Kind of Bloop, a chiptune cover album of cool jazz masterpiece Kind of Blue." A good interview with some of the Kind of Bloop gang; Shnabubula's "All Blues" is utterly marvellous, so it's nice to hear more from the artist.
kindofbloop  music  chiptunes  interview  jazz 
august 2009 by infovore
Rock Band Network
"Use our tools to author playable tracks. Upload and submit your tracks for review by the Rock Band Creators community. Approved tracks become available in the Rock Band Store and on the Xbox LIVE Marketplace*, and you get a cut of every purchase." Um, as pointed out elsewhere, this is utterly brilliant. Harmonix are smart cookies, and thinks like this remind me why.
harmonix  games  content  publishing  music  rockband 
july 2009 by infovore
When I Enter the Office, the Imperial March Plays — GIANT ROBOTS SMASHING INTO OTHER GIANT ROBOTS
Thoughtbot discover their RFID door-lock system has an API. A short bash at some code later, and they now have theme songs when they enter the office.
physicalcomputing  music  tunes  themesong  thoughbot  software  hack  code 
july 2009 by infovore
Mashuptown.com: Mighty Mike's "Gloria Gaynor vs. Fall Out Boy"
There is nothing about this that is not amazing.
falloutboy  gloriagaynor  mashup  music  mp3  awesome 
june 2009 by infovore
nullpointer » Drum machine draughts
"I’ve always been interested in the relationship between gameplay and musical performance. Theres a remarkable structural similarity between certain game systems/mechanics and compositional ones. There is also a risk/reward/challenge aspect that is core to both practices. Anyway, for a short talk I took part in for the Leeds Evolution Festival I wrote a quick augmented chess/draughts app." And the result is a video-processing step-sequencer. Nifty.
openframeworks  music  video  imagery  augmentedreality  chess  draughts 
june 2009 by infovore
hublicious's spotify Bookmarks on Delicious
Alf's spotify searches for independent record labels. Super, even if the Ninja Tune list is a bit Cinematic Orchestra heavy. (I like the Cinematic Orchestra, but I like other things, too).
music  spotify  recordlabels  labels  playlists  sharing 
june 2009 by infovore
Rock, Paper, Shotgun: Dr Who’s new toy » RPS At E3: APB - The Most Important Game At E3
"Jones said how most open city games tend to come with about 100 licensed tracks, but that they realised that most players would far rather listen to their own mp3 collection. But this is an online game. So they’ve done a deal with Last.FM to use their technology in such a brilliantly imaginative way. If you’re listening to a favourite track in your car, and drive past some other players, should they have the same track on their hard drive the game will find it, and they’ll hear it from your car as you go by. Should they not have it, the game will find a track that’s similar and play that instead." Just that quotation alone is remarkable, but it really does sound like APB is something special; let's just hope it's a success.
games  realtimeworlds  apb  music  streaming  lastfm 
june 2009 by infovore
Tom Service on Susan Greenfield's missed notes | Music | guardian.co.uk
"There was an implicit value judgement in Greenfield's talk between the "purely sensory experiences" of raves or today's computer games, and the cognitive activities of reading a book or listening to a symphony, which, because they make us "see one thing in terms of another thing", involve a more mature mental engagement. For Greenfield, the Beethoven was a higher experience because it offered an "escape from the moment", where a rave was about losing yourself to the "thrill of the moment". I think that's a flimsy distinction, since both are about submitting to the sensory power of music. I'd like to see the difference in brain activity between somebody "escaping" life's mundanities and another person "thrilling" to the implacable now of the beat."
guardian  music  psychology  susangreenfield  throwawaycomment  games  cognition 
june 2009 by infovore
Dubious Quality: Design Brilliance And The Timing Window
"...what I'm hearing is the actual drum line recorded by the song's drummer, and I'm triggering those sounds by playing notes within the designated timing window. And that timing window, even on Expert, is quite a bit more generous than real life. It's the difference between truly playing a beat and merely invoking a beat. When I play Rock Band, though, that difference is camouflaged so subtlely and so well that I never even notice. That's a beautiful bit of design, isn't it?" Yes, it is. Bill Harris on the magical quantize that you forget exists in Harmonix' games. This, incidentally, is something I'm convinced Neversoft never got right, especially in the horrendous Guitar Hero 3.
rhythmaction  games  guitarhero  rockband  billharris  music  quantize  timing  interaction  design 
may 2009 by infovore
BBC iPlayer - Jaguar Skills: 25/05/2009
"Master of the mix Jaguar Skills provides a special soundtrack to round off Radio 1's Gaming Weekend. " Available until June 2. It's epic. Get it.
music  bbc  jaguarskills  mix  awesome  games 
may 2009 by infovore
Dubious Quality: Family Matters
"He's going to like that album, and then he's going to ask you about The Police, and he's going to want to know why they aren't together anymore. How are you going to explain what happened to Sting? You know, when he started singing about turtles and ponies and became an obsessive Beanie Baby collector. What are you going to say?" Bill doesn't want to have to explain Sting to Eli.
thepolice  music  sting  billharris  writing 
may 2009 by infovore
Cover versions - a set on Flickr
"Classic records lost in time and format, re-emerged as Pelican books. Just for fun." The Penguin thing is a bit over-done, but there's a care and attention to detail here that really sets them apart.
books  music  design  covers  album  penguin  pastiche 
may 2009 by infovore
Propellerhead - Record
"Record gives you unlimited audio tracks, world class effects and mixing gear, and a whole new take on music recording." Lovely: seamless Reason integration, virtual Line6 Pods, and a DAW-ish bit of software that works the way my brain does. Excited!
software  recording  propellerhead  record  music  audio 
may 2009 by infovore
DJ's and their living rooms - Rhythmism.com
Scans from a German magazine: messy, full of records, sometimes computers.
photographs  howwework  lifestyle  music  dj 
may 2009 by infovore
Festive 50 - Lists between 1976 and 2000 « www.indiefy.co.uk
John Peel's Festive 50s the Spotify playlist edition. Obviously, there are holes, but nice that it exists.
spotify  music  johnpeel  history  lists  charts  radio  festive50 
may 2009 by infovore
Bronze Age Fox - Impossible! info
Pop band from Bristol, made good singles, got a deal, rather than touring recorded an album, album got shelved by label that had wanted them to tour, band broke up, album now sees light of day from SVC, for three quid. Phew!
music  brongeagefox  publishing  download  album  pop 
april 2009 by infovore
Playdar - Music Content Resolver
"Playdar is a music content resolver service - run it on every computer you use, and you'll be able to listen to all the songs you would otherwise be able to find manually by searching though all your computers, hard disks, online services, and friends' music collections." Feels a lot like Audioscrobbler did when that first launched; it'll be interesting to see what user-friendly services get wrapped around it.
music  audio  playdar  lastfm  resolver  server  access  listening 
march 2009 by infovore
Help! My iPod thinks I’m emo - Part 1 « Music Machinery
Ooh, this looks like a very interesting write-up of a thoughtful SXSW session. Marked as something I need to follow up on.
toread  music  recommendation  collectiveintelligence  filtering  code 
march 2009 by infovore
YouTube - Finite Simple Group (of Order Two)
The Klein Four are "the premiere a capella group of the world of higher mathematics". Judging from this video: yes, so they are.
music  video  humor  maths  mathematics  closeharmony  kleinfour 
march 2009 by infovore
Pitchfork: Poptimist #21
"We write and listen and play music in a cultural environment in which there's intense excitement and anxiety around the idea of music as a social object, not just a commercial one... in order to understand better the ways in which songs are becoming lines in listeners' conversations, we need different ways of thinking about how they've played that role for musicians too." Tom Ewing on music as fanfiction.
music  sampling  fanculture  fanfiction  tomewing  poptimism  answerrecords 
march 2009 by infovore
Fall Out Boy Trail
It's Oregon Trail, but where you take everybody's favourite emo band on tour of the states. Surprisingly deep and detailed, an affectionate tribute to Apple II entertainment and the rigours of being a touring rock band. It is very silly, and somewhat ace, and will be getting a blog post in due course.
games  music  parody  pastiche  retro  falloutboy  oregontrail  affectionate  appleii 
march 2009 by infovore
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