"I've seen many good looking electronics projects in my time, but few of them can compare with the simplicity, style, and elegance of the build that I am about to show you."

"Spectrograms of various file formats that you would encounter as a DJ/Producer/Audio Enthusiast. This test was done using a WAV purchased on Beatport, then converting it into MP3 using the LAME encoder in foobar2000 and AAC using the Itunes converter."

"But whether [Apple] Siri becomes the model for how humans interact with computers in the future or whether it gets laughed off the stage of technical innovation like so many AI systems that have come before hinges on whether it can tell the difference between “Andrew” and “Andrea”—especially when I’m in a crowded coffee shop, speaking with a Southern drawl, with a stuffed-up nose from a bad cold."

"The concept: In realtime you get to remix Rick Astley's legendary 'Never Gonna Give You Up'. You do it simply by pushing a bunch of buttons on a physical, custom built controller. You can change all the elements of the song and for example make a nice mashup of black metal, rap, gospel, gameboy sounds and Spanish vocals. You can also change the intensity and mood of the mix. It's just about as weird and fun as it sounds."

"We’ve been flooded with complaints recently because our YouTube videos can't be embedded on websites, and in certain countries can't be seen at all. And we want you to know: we hear you, and we’re sorry. We wish there was something we could do. Believe us, we want you to pass our videos around more than you do, but, crazy as it may seem, it’s now far harder for bands to make videos accessible online than it was four years ago."

"Feature-wise, an iTunes LP is a DRM-free album in high-quality 256kbps AAC format, along with digital extras (visualizer(s), photos, videos and interviews) wrapped in a custom WebKit-powered site."

"The Chameleon Guitar -- so named for its ability to mimic different instruments -- is an electric guitar whose body has a separate central section that is removable. This inserted section, the soundboard, can be switched with one made of a different kind of wood, or with a different structural support system, or with one made of a different material altogether. Then, the sound generated by the electronic pickups on that board can be manipulated by a computer to produce the effect of a different size or shape of the resonating chamber."

"Check out this clever headphone mod. Maker Iwan Roberts reconditioned this pair of headphones using coconut husks and some twine as a gift for a friend. They're perfect for listening to a MAKE Podcast and rugged enough to bring along on the occasional three hour tour."

"The most unwanted music is over 25 minutes long, veers wildly between loud and quiet sections, between fast and slow tempos, and features timbres of extremely high and low pitch, with each dichotomy presented in abrupt transition. The most unwanted orchestra was determined to be large, and features the accordion and bagpipe (which tie at 13% as the most unwanted instrument), banjo, flute, tuba, harp, organ, synthesizer (the only instrument that appears in both the most wanted and most unwanted ensembles). An operatic soprano raps and sings atonal music, advertising jingles, political slogans, and "elevator" music, and a children's choir sings jingles and holiday songs. The most unwanted subjects for lyrics are cowboys and holidays, and the most unwanted listening circumstances are involuntary exposure to commercials and elevator music."

"A surgical procedure performed by a team from Boston University, Massachusetts led by Professor Frank Guenther, has enabled a mute man to speak again. An electrode implanted in the patient’s brain made it possible for the patient to produce vowels by thinking them, using a speech synthesizer. In the future, this breakthrough may help patients with similar injuries produce entire sentences, using signals from their brains."

"This is the entire N.W.A. Straight Outta Compton album edited down into just the "explicit" content."

"The opening chord to A Hard Day’s Night is also famous because for 40 years, no one quite knew exactly what chord Harrison was playing. ...it took a Dalhousie mathematician to figure out the exact formula."

"The Complete Resource for the Do-It-Yourself Musician"

"No practical use for this contraption, but pretty friggin' cool nontheless."

"The Analysis & Resynthesis Sound Spectrograph (formerly known as the Analysis & Reconstruction Sound Engine), or ARSS, is a program that analyses a sound file into a spectrogram and is able to synthesise this spectrogram, or any other user-created image,

"...I will present a brand new, original short story set in the first year of the Sovereign Era universe. These stories — official Sovereign Era canon — are from some of the most respected authors of podcast fiction"

"Porn for the Blind is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to producing audio descriptions of sample movie clips from adult web sites. This service is provided free of charge."

"this portion of moby.com, 'film music', is for independent and non-profit filmmakers, film students, and anyone in need of free music for their independent, non-profit film, video, or short.""

"Nickelback, you lazy, talentless bunch of wankers ... And here's the proof" An oldie but a goodie.

"XSPF is the XML format for sharing playlists. It is open -- No proprietary lock-in. It is portable -- You should be able to send a playlist to your friend and have it work. It is well-engineered -- Most playlist formats get the easy things wrong."

"To avoid some sort of ear STD, get your offspring the Belkin Rockstar, a circular six-jack headphone splitter"

Free music score web sites!

"w00t is a free, internet-only release composed entirely from fragments of music from video games."

"An Australian performer who has had an ear grafted onto his forearm ... The ear does not function, but he hopes to have a microphone implanted to allow others to listen to what his extra ear picks up."

A collection of blackbox recordings.

A free VST plugin listings site.

A site with VST downloads plus much audio software info.

"REAPER is a powerful Windows application for multitrack recording and editing of audio."

An article on my wiki listing my favourite net radio streams.

OMG, WoW skillz aren't linked with age or culture!

A blog with a wide range of mp3s available for download.

"The reactable is a collaborative electronic music instrument with a tabletop tangible multi-touch interface."

"Following a gruelling audition process, one solo worm was hand selected to perform its own music, without proviso, upon a specially adapted and destabilised FM synthesis circuit disembowelled from a Yamaha PSS-470"

Electronic dance music mix sharing website.

Best music discography site on the web.

"The labyrinth at Chartres is a unicursal path winding in 552 steps through 11 concentric rings into the center. In order to hear the sound of this path I have changed the steps into cats purrs."

"The color names for these different types of sounds are derived from a loose analogy between the spectrum of frequencies of sound wave present in the sound ... and the equivalent spectrum of light wave frequencies."

"It would take many weeks of intensive work to examine all of the Hatto recordings, but it seems clear that at least some of these great performances are identical to other performances available from other recording companies."

"Laptop Battling at it's finest."

"Almost two-thirds of music industry executives think removing digital locks from downloadable music would make more people buy the tracks, finds a survey."

"7. Skateboarding while recording vocals. ... I can't use a skateboard to save my life and no, the doppler effect doesn't work on short distances which was a real bummer."

External Firewire, 24-bit/192kHz, 8 XLR/line, 2 ADAT lightpipes, 8 outs.

"On Monday, Microsoft filed a mystery application with the FCC for an enigmatic wireless device that could be used to talk over the Internet. ... Microsoft goes on to say that the device would use OFDM as its communications protocol, not WiFi or Bluetooth

"Record companies have stopped protecting audio CD's with DRM, which makes copying music a lot easier."

"Six lightboxes mounted on the wall packed with buttons, IR sensors en dails. Below each "lighbox track" is speaker is placed so you know immediately where to control which sound."

"That's right. [Microsoft] took hardware support away from the most ubiquitous sound API implemented in games over the past several years."

"Don't worry, he's running a Linux file server on it."

"Bacterial Orchestra is a self-organizing evolutionary musical organism. It consists of several audio cells. Every cell listens to its surroundings and picks up sounds trying to play them back in sync with what it hears."

As the title.

Audio and music equipment retailer.

" One sound effect that has found a following with many sound editors and observant movie fans is a distinctive scream named Wilhelm."

Very handy app for ripping real media streams.

"For a deeper look into the musical characteristics of rock and roll, Joe Burns analyzed a sample of 100 rock and roll songs, from the years 1955 through 1959, on chord progressions, time signatures, and melody lines."

Basic article on dance music progresion.

The story of a remix.

Thoughts on generative music.

"The classic physics experiment involving sound, a tube of propane and fire."

Tom Mabe cranking a telemarketer.

Cheatsheet that lists notes with their frequencies plus other info.

How to [not] make a remix kit.

P2P streaming software.

Free streaming server software.

News and stuff on open source DJing software.

Nifty CD/DVD burning app.

"'Eavesdrop: a wealth of found sound' is a collection of anonymous recordings found at thrift stores, yard sales, and in trash bins over the past four years."

ST:TNG like multitouch OLED(?) controller surface for audio and visual applications.

An audio equipment store.

Get info on and a copy of the mighty K-Lite Mega Codec Pack here.

An archive of phreaking and hacker related sounds and recordings.

The SOS review of the M Audio 1814. Has an ADAT lightpipe which would come in handy for future expansion.

A rather good ripper app.

A rather spiffy a/v converter app.

"The custom software in this work draws musical patterns in the form of translucent arches, allowing viewers to see--literally--the shape of any composition available on the Web."

An mp3 stream featuring the latest voice posts to LiveJournal.

Some free instruments and effects.

Crystal is a semi-modular software synthesizer featuring both subtractive synthesis and frequency modulation (FM) synthesis with a hellofa load of other features.

Recordings of phone pranks.

A free VST effect.

Get the highlights of Adam Buxton and Joe Cornish's most excellent Xfm radio show.

Lots of information on different video formats and equipment.