4 days ago

Create Digital Music Data and images courtesy Mint.com.Mint.com, the online financial management tool, has put its numbers together with market researchers NPD Group to analyze music spending. The results: when it comes to consuming recorded music, digital music continues to rise. At the same time, so does Apple’s grip on the music consumption (Read More)

5 days ago

Create Digital Music Novation’s Launchpad, its affordable (. (Read More)

3 days ago

The Big Picture The Reformed Broker gets all Sciencey on us: > . (Read More)

Oct 26, 2009

Submitted by Antoine Bertier from Google Reader: Click here to view the embedded video.This video demos 12Step – a neural sequencer developed by Ted Hayes at the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) for New Instruments for Musical Expression (NIME).Software used: Puredata 0.41.4-extended, Ableton Live 8, Native Instruments Akoustik Piano.via Tedb0t:first iteration (Read More)

Oct 27, 2009

Submitted by Antoine Bertier from Google Reader: Click here to view the embedded video.Natasha Adorlee Johnson (Natasha and the Rejects) performs Counting Stars, while demonstrating how the TouchOSC iPhone application can be used to control video and sound.TouchOSC was used as wireless OSC to MIDI controller in conjunction with Ableton Live and Resolume VJ Software. Johns (Read More)

Oct 20, 2009

Create Digital Music Digital technology has transformed the listening experience. But there’s little in the way of physical artifacts of that act, and a diminished sense of humanized relationships to an individual being at the other end. From modern radio to Internet-streamed playlists, our listening world is DJed by automated robots in streams (Read More)

Oct 15, 2009

Submitted by Antoine Bertier from Google Reader: Dübreq has released the Stylophone Beatbox, a portable electronic beats machine.The Stylophone pocket synthesizer steps into the future with the all retro classic instrument taking the next leap on the evolutionary ladder. The result is the rocking Stylophone Beatbox delivering the coolest sounds of the new millenium.Stylop (Read More)

Oct 11, 2009

Submitted by Antoine Bertier from Google Reader: Normally, my eyes glaze over about 10 seconds in to the latest demonstration of some guy's attempt to break down the barriers between something and something else, but this one caught my attention for some reason. This fellow, Christian Bannister, (here in PDX, natch, although I don't know him) has made a really cool combin (Read More)

Oct 05, 2009

Submitted by Antoine Bertier from Google Reader: Got half an hour?Then take the time to listen to The Story Of Kraftwerk, an audio documentary that looks at the electronic music pioneers and their influence on musicians over thirty+ years.If you don’t have time now, bookmark this page and give the documentary a listen later or download the MP3 and listen to it at your lei (Read More)

Oct 03, 2009

Submitted by Antoine Bertier from Google Reader: It's already bad enough that you force us to build in ridiculous mono-platform formats so that your host will run our products, but could you please refrain from completely ripping us off in the process? kktnxbai. (Read More)

Sep 30, 2009

Submitted by Antoine Bertier from Google Reader: Click here to view the embedded video.This is a promo for Kraftwerk’s The Catalogue, 2009 digitally remastered releases of their most important albums.The albums include: Autobahn (1974)Radio-Activity – (German title: Radio-Aktivität) (1975)Trans-Europe Express – (German title: Trans-Europa Express) (1977)The Man-Machine – (Read More)

Sep 08, 2009

Submitted by Antoine Bertier from Google Reader: Cool Music Instruments’ Chromaticover is slightly bizarre device that turns your synthesizer into an accordion.The Chromaticover is a hardware chromatic keyboard, with an accordion-style mechanism for both right hand and left hand. The keyboard features magnetic MIDI sensors, with the key touch of a real accordion.The Chrom (Read More)

Sep 05, 2009

Submitted by Antoine Bertier from Google Reader: Daniel Davis has proposed an interesting project, the Multiple Artist Ambient Project, at his blog, Carl Sagan’s Ghost:Brian Eno’s idea of ambient music was birthed from a Zaireeka-like experience: while sick in the hospital, he could hear music being played softly from down the hall. When mixed in with the noises of the su (Read More)

Sep 04, 2009

Submitted by Antoine Bertier from Google Reader: Free Music Friday: Experimental ambient artist Gel-Sol (Andrew Reichel) sends word of a new release, gel-sol’s adventures beyond the plunderworld, that’s available as a free download.The track is a plunderphonic sound mashup.If you’re not familiar with plunderphonics, it leaves behinds the limitations of legal sampling to c (Read More)

Sep 01, 2009

Boing Boing Chris sez, "Online backup startup BackBlaze, disgusted with the outrageously overpriced offerings from EMC, NetApp and the like, has released an open-source hardware design showing you how to build a 4U, RAID-capable rack-mounted, Linux-based server using commodity parts that contains 67 terabytes at a material cost of $7,8 (Read More)

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