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Tag Archives: Music
Feist on Sesame Street
This makes Mr. Grumpy Dude happy. Shut up.
Cassandra Wilson – Harvest Moon
Cassandra Wilson doing my second favorite Neil Young song (after “Needle And The Damage Done”). Incredibly beautiful and simple. This is from the soundtrack to the Wong Kar-Wei film My Blueberry Nights.
You know what's awesome?
You know what’s awesome? Finding the right key to play David Bowie’s “Heroes” in…and then standing in your living room with an unplugged electric guitar at eight in the morning, pretending you’re playing the Reading Festival or Lollapalooza or something like that, shrieking “And we can be HEROOOOOES if just for one day!” at full […]
Mmmm…daddy wants….
MachineCollective is making modular interfaces for DIY hardware. Mmmmmm. In spite of all the smart, multifunctional and state-of-the-art controllers that are commercially available today, there has always been demand for custom physical interfaces and specialized controllers. That’s why we have developed a modular prototyping platform. The prototyping modules are aimed at researchers, artists, musicians, circuitbenders […]
Mystery Cover #1
Here’s a mystery cover I’ve recorded. (Mystery meaning you have to listen to it to find out what it is.) I’m not a big fan of the band in question and never have been, though I sometimes think I’m the only person on the planet who’s not. But this particular cover was requested by an […]
The Violent Femmes do Gnarls Barkley
Violent Femmes – “Crazy” Rad. Rad. Rad.
Dreams, Seen By Man-Made Machines
I’ve been writing my first algorithmic music composition tool in Processing. It’s not terribly complex, though it has stretched my understanding of Java a bit, which is nice. Basically, it loads an array of the steps of a scale — for example, a minor scale is [0,2,3,5,7,8,10,12] steps from the root note. Then you feed […]
Korg Nano Controllers: October?
This site has more news on the Korg Nano music controllers I mentioned a couple of days ago. Apparently they’re scheduled for October 2008. It says they’re going to be £59 for the Nanokontrol and Nanopad and £49 for the Nanokey. I’m hoping they’ll be the same amount in Yanqui dollars — $120 and $100 […]
Even More William Shatner Goodness
This made me grin today.