Pinboard: bookmarks for ohskylab tagged 'audio'

"You can use a woolly smartphone 'sock' as an improvised windshield. One with a fairly open weave will produce less muffled results than a sock with a microfibre lining. Pulling the sock about half way down the phone lets you get at the touchscreen and also creates a small but necessary air space around the microphone."

audio wind beaufort
august 2010 by ohskylab

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Paul's Extreme Sound Stretch
ambient audio editing effects music opensource tools sound time dsp stretch
august 2010 by ohskylab

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DJ TechTools | MacBook USB Port Inequality

"For MacBook and MacBook Pro users, the choice of which of the two available USB ports to use for your sound card hook-up may have never occurred to you. New evidence is showing, that especially with the new i5 and i7 models, you might be missing out on performance by choosing the wrong port."

audio mac macbook macbookpro usb via:antimega
july 2010 by ohskylab

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The Conet Project - Recordings of Shortwave Numbers Stations [ird059] : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive

"The first comprehensive collection of Numbers Stations recordings released to the public."

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june 2010 by ohskylab

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SolarBeat
art astronomy audio music data flash visualization space solar planets orbit time via:thegingerbloke top
april 2010 by ohskylab

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Why records DO all sound the same | Word Magazine

"There's a little-watched video on Maroon Five's YouTube channel which documents the torturous, tedious process of crafting an instantly forgettable mainstream radio hit. It's fourteen minutes of elegantly dishevelled chaps sitting in leather sofas, playing $15,000 vintage guitars next to $200,000 studio consoles, staring at notepads and endlessly discussing how little they like the track (called Makes Me Wonder), and how it doesn't have a chorus. Even edited down, the tedium is mind-boggling as they play the same lame riff over and over and over again. At one point, singer Adam Levine says: "I'm sick of trying to engineer songs to be hits." But that's exactly he proceeds to do."

loudness mastering audio sound recording compression music
march 2010 by ohskylab

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C O D E O R G A N
web music audio flash dlkw top
february 2010 by ohskylab

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The Loudness War Analyzed « Music Machinery

"I’m interested in looking at the loudness for the recordings of a number of artists to see how wide-spread this loudness war really is. To do this I used the Echo Nest remix API and a bit of Python to collect and plot loudness for a set of recordings. I did two experiments. First I looked at the loudness for music by some of my favorite or well known artists. Then I looked at loudness over a large collection of music."

music audio statistics visualization echonest python compression loudness mastering
february 2010 by ohskylab

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In Search of the Click Track

"Use this application to look at tempo plots for any song to see which bands have a machine controlling the heartbeat of the band. Type in the name of an artist and/or track and get a click plot of the track. If a machine is setting the beat for the song, the click plot will show only small deviations from the average tempo. A flat line means a machine is setting the beat."

music audio click tempo echonest api
february 2010 by ohskylab

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The Echo Nest : The Musical Brain

Lots of rather exciting music analysis APIs.

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february 2010 by ohskylab

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find the band - At last.fm I can spotify similar artists!

Uses the Last.fm API to find similar artists on Spotify. Very nice.

last.fm tools music audio api search spotify
february 2010 by ohskylab

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Live Performance in the Age of Supercomputing

"This fragmentary text is the attempt to sum up some thoughts of mine about performing electronic music live."

monolake music software audio performance technology live roberthenke
january 2010 by ohskylab

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Turn Me Up! | Bringing Dynamics Back To Music

"A non-profit music industry organization campaigning to give artists back the choice to release more dynamic records."

music audio sound compression processing loudness mastering
january 2010 by ohskylab

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Rhizome | Steve Goodman's "Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect and the Ecology of Fear"

A review. "Goodman [aka Kode9] explores the power of sound as a tactic of irritation, intimidation, or even permanent harm. Goodman analyzes "environments, or ecologies, in which sound contributes to an immersive atmosphere or ambience of fear and dread--where sound helps produce a bad vibe."

via:matski audio sound infrasound kode9 stevegoodman
january 2010 by ohskylab

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Robert Henke talks with Rashad Becker about Mastering
via:matski music audio vinyl techno interview mastering loudness
january 2010 by ohskylab

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Google Text-To-Speech (TTS) | Weston Ruter
audio google tts html5
december 2009 by ohskylab

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Electronic Poetry Center: Sound Poetry
music mp3 audio art sound archive experimental poetry soundpoetry
december 2009 by ohskylab

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REAPER | Audio Production Without Limits

"A digital audio workstation: a complete multitrack audio and MIDI recording, editing, processing, mixing, and mastering environment." $60 for the discounted license - bargain.

tools music audio mac djing osx
november 2009 by ohskylab

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TonePad

"If you like Andre Michelle's ToneMatrix or the Tenori-On, then you will absolutely love this app." Spending way too much time with this. Wish you could chain sections together.

iphone music apps tenori-on audio
october 2009 by ohskylab

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Wheel of Stars

"A musical clock made of stars. To make this, I downloaded public data from Hipparcos, a satellite launched by the European Space Agency in 1989 that accurately measured over a hundred thousand stars. The data I downloaded contains position, parallax, magnitude, and color information, among other things. I used this information to plot the brightest stars, and cause them to revolve about Polaris (the North Star) very slowly, as the stars appear to do. Like the night sky, this is a sidereal time clock -- it takes nearly 24 hours for the stars to fully rotate."

astronomy top visualisation via:awhite music audio flash art data time space stars
october 2009 by ohskylab

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British Library - How to make a pile of walking compost sexy and the joys of drawing penguins

"The British Library launches the ICA Talks from the 1980s online [...] The recordings feature a kaleidoscopic range of leading cultural figures debating the social and artistic currents of the 1980s". Salman Rushdie, Steve Reich, Richard Dawkins, Alan Moore...

audio speech britishlibrary ica archive
september 2009 by ohskylab

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BENGE: Twenty Systems (Expanding Records) | themilkfactory

"With Twenty Systems, Edwards creates twenty tracks, one for each of the years between 1968 and 1987, and each built using just one synthesizer. The list of makes, Moog, ARP, Roland, Serge, Korg, Yamaha, Oberheim, and models used is likely to send shivers down the spines of many aficionados, and the accompanying liner notes provide much needed information on each machine."

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september 2009 by ohskylab

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Make: Online : How-to: Hacking RjDj with PD
music audio programming iphone rjdj pd sound tutorials
september 2009 by ohskylab

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freesound :: home page

"A collaborative database of Creative Commons licensed sounds."

creativecommons audio opensource sound samples
september 2009 by ohskylab

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British Library - Archival Sound Recordings

"Explore 44,500 selected recordings of music, spoken word, and human and natural environments"

music audio uk library media archive recordings bl sound
september 2009 by ohskylab

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Rowdy pub sessions in England and Yanggona ceremonial chants in Fiji

"The British Library launches new traditional and world music collections online at http://sounds.bl.uk. Featuring unique field recordings, live performances and out-of-print commercial releases, this latest addition to the JISC-funded Archival Sound Recordings website provides a sample of musical traditions across the globe - offering a glimpse of cultural experience around the world."

via:russelldavies music audio sound bl
september 2009 by ohskylab

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Moodstream™ by Getty Images
design tools music audio flash art photography visualization getty
september 2009 by ohskylab

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Adactio: Journal—Re-finding five numbers

Simon Singh’s Five Numbers radio series on huffduffer

maths mp3 audio radio
august 2009 by ohskylab

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Festival

"Offers a general framework for building speech synthesis systems as well as including examples of various modules. As a whole it offers full text to speech through a number APIs: from shell level, though a Scheme command interpreter, as a C++ library, from Java, and an Emacs interface. Festival is multi-lingual (currently English (British and American), and Spanish) though English is the most advanced."

tts audio accessibility speech tools
july 2009 by ohskylab

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Si Begg :: 24 Bit Error Collection

Si Begg's next release out for free. "Don't get me wrong I'm all for me making money out of my music. But as I say, i'm not exactly churning out platinum hit singles here. I'm thinking its more likely I'll make my money a) from possibly licensing the tracks to compilations b) PRS royalties from radio play etc c) maybe getting the tracks used in film and TV d) gig, remix and production work encouraged by generally raising my profile. All of which is more likely to happen the more people that get to hear and hopefully enjoy my music."

sibegg music audio mp3 free promotion marketing electronic
july 2009 by ohskylab

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Share Spotify Playlists at ShareMyPlaylists.com

"Share your Spotify playlists with the world and discover new music"

music social audio playlists spotify
july 2009 by ohskylab

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Playdar - Music Content Resolver

"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 more."

web music software audio metadata aggregator xspf resolver
july 2009 by ohskylab

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SoundCloud Threatens MySpace as Music Destination for Twitter Era
via:roamin music twitter myspace soundcloud audio streaming
july 2009 by ohskylab

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Jasuto

"The first truly modular synthesizer for the iPhone"

music software audio iphone synthesizer top
june 2009 by ohskylab

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S3 Radio - Permanent Bedtime
audio s3 aws interesting shippingforecast permanentbedtime uk shipping bbc radio
june 2009 by ohskylab

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Type | A record label

New Type Records site. Nice.

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june 2009 by ohskylab

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Kiddie Records Weekly

"Kiddie Records Weekly began in 2005 as a one year project devoted to the golden age of children's records. This period spanned from the mid forties through the early fifties and produced a wealth of all-time classics. Many of these recordings were extravagant Hollywood productions on major record labels and featured big time celebrities and composers. Over the years, these forgotten treasures slipped off the radar and it became our mission to give them a new lease on life by sharing them with today's generation of online listeners."

music audio mp3 vinyl retro nostalgia culture
june 2009 by ohskylab

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Play me I’m yours

"This June, 30 pianos will be delivered to the streets of London as part of Sing London and the City of London Festival 2009. Located on streets, in public squares and parks, train stations, and street markets, the pianos are there for any member of the public to play."

london events pianos music audio top
may 2009 by ohskylab

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MusicTwitters

"DrownedinSound.com explored Twitter and compiled this site to help you to see at a glance music on the Twittersphere."

music social audio community aggregator directory drownedinsound
may 2009 by ohskylab

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Tam Variations | LJ Kruzer

"LJ Kruzer and Uncharted Audio present the Tam Variations, eight engaging experimental versions of Tam, a piece which features on Kruzer's forthcoming album Manhood & Electronics. Each variation is the end result of methodical sequences of sound processing exploring all the possibilities of computer manipulation of digitised sound data."

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may 2009 by ohskylab

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Miami - Crossfade - Miami - Richie Hawtin Ushers in the Twee-J Revolution, a DJ's Twitter Application

"This new Twitter app would basically broadcast 30 second updates of what Hawtin is playing live, allowing anyone following him on the network to see the playlist as it builds up track by track and in real time."

twitter djing audio richiehawtin music via:maebh
may 2009 by ohskylab

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Bumps | Stones Throw Records

"The three percussion experts behind the seminal indie rock / post rock band Tortoise showcase their rhythmical prowess, coming together for Bumps, the self-titled concept break beat record."

tortoise music drums breaks djing audio mp3
may 2009 by ohskylab

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Car brand Scion and music marketing | citizensound

"It’s refreshing to see such a big brand being so philanthropic, providing the sort of support most artists would be happy to be connected with, which is so often where big brands can get it wrong."

music audio promotion branding
may 2009 by ohskylab

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Coda.fm | Music albums BitTorrent downloads directory
music mp3 audio bittorrent filesharing p2p tracker
may 2009 by ohskylab

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» That Sony Meeting Song, by Toad

"Columbia Records, part of Sony BMG, [...] invited [Winston's Zen] in to talk to them and suggested he bring along a couple of other bloggers and make something of a meeting out of it. So last Thursday [some MP3 bloggers] went along, the Sony people booked a table in a pub and we talked about stuff and drank ourselves into a stupour. And what did we achieve? Well honestly, I’d say not an awful lot, really." Worth reading despite that, though.

music mp3 audio copyright distribution
april 2009 by ohskylab

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AudioMulch Interactive Music Studio

"Software for real-time sound synthesis, music composition and performance-oriented audio processing."

audio music software windows synth
april 2009 by ohskylab

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Et In Arcadia Ego - The Village Orchestra

Liner notes for The Village Orchestra's Et In Arcadia Ego. The album is made from samples of tracks the artist really hates (Richard Marx, Chris Isaak, The Corrs, Bruce Hornsby and The Range etc)

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april 2009 by ohskylab

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FACT magazine: Download/Interview: The Village Orchestra (Full Album)

Really enjoying this album. "We’ve hooked up with the excellent Highpoint Lowlife label to give away The Village Orchestra’s 2005 full-length Et In Arcadia Ego for free."

music audio ambient free mp3 highpointlowlife thevillageorchestra distribution top
april 2009 by ohskylab

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ioda: independent online distribution alliance
music distribution audio promotion digital via:sideb0ard
april 2009 by ohskylab

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Free Music Archive

"A social music website built around a curated library of free, legal audio" from WFMU, KEXP, Cash Music, Dublab and others.

web music social mp3 audio creativecommons radio podcasting wfmu
april 2009 by ohskylab

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Simple Synth in Flash

"A small experiment in subtractive synthesis." I could spend all day playing with this. In fact, I think I will.

music flash audio bass synth
march 2009 by ohskylab

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Line: Q&A :::Proper Songs:::

"What I'm tried to do is combine the things I love about electronic music, especially proper techno and electro, with... proper songs."

music mp3 blogs audio line unchartedaudio hotpockets interviews
march 2009 by ohskylab

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Last.fm – the Blog · Introducing Boffin: Last.fm's music knowledge meets your local mp3 collection

"Wouldn’t it be great if you could tune into your local music like you do with Last.fm radio?" Yes. Yes it would.

last.fm music mp3 audio top
march 2009 by ohskylab

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Def Jux Free Tracks Playlist, a playlist by Definitive Jux, on Fairtilizer
music audio defjux fairtilizer free mp3 top
february 2009 by ohskylab

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RA: Inside the dark art of mastering - Feature / Interview

"What a mastering engineer does—and why they're vitally important to every note of music you hear.

music audio mastering top residentadvisor
february 2009 by ohskylab

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SoundManager 2: Javascript Sound For The Web

"By wrapping and extending Flash 8's sound API, SoundManager 2 brings solid audio functionality to Javascript."

javascript web audio tools music flash api via:tomtaylor html5
january 2009 by ohskylab

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Line - Bandcamp

...and here's the Line site, too.

bandcamp music line dns audio unchartedaudio
january 2009 by ohskylab

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LJ Kruzer - Bandcamp

Bandcamp have got their custom domains sorted out. Hurrah.

bandcamp music ljkruzer dns audio unchartedaudio
january 2009 by ohskylab

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Open Source Flash MP3 Player

"An open source flash MP3 player which can be customized and integrated into websites easily. It has 5 different versions that lets you only use a "play button" or a player which lets users to choose tracks from multiple files."

web mp3 audio flash free music
january 2009 by ohskylab

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Rumblefish Music Licensing Store: online music licensing for TV, film, video games, podcasts, and more
music software audio distribution licensing media
december 2008 by ohskylab

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Rumblefish | Sonic Branding and Music Licensing

Find and license music for any project—TV shows and advertisements, movies, websites, video games, podcasts, and more."

music business mp3 audio licensing
november 2008 by ohskylab

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Buzzmachines.com - Jeskola Buzz free modular software music studio

"Free modular software based synthesizer. What this means is that the entire system is based on objects, which may be routed in a modular fashion, giving you the freedom to be as creative as you want."

tools music software windows audio free opensource tracker
november 2008 by ohskylab

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People’s Music Store | New Music Ideas

"Is this the next killer site - or a bit of a dead duck? Let’s have your thoughts in the comments please." Look forward to the comments on this. Haven't spent enough time using PMS but like the concept and the people behind it are very friendly.

music shopping audio mp3
november 2008 by ohskylab

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