51 posts tagged “music”
Okay so they misspelled it, but it seems there’s another vinyl record out on EsNtion Music Publishing with a remix of mine on it. Also for sale on Juno, eMusic, etc. How amazing. 37 kHz, I guess only bats will hear that frequency! Here’s a lofi version for you to listen to:
Download Leave - Fruehbel (37Hz remix)
Musicovery is a fun way to discover music by genre and mood. If you are into these kinds of things, there’s of course also Pandora and Last.fm.
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Matt Cuttle from the brand new Games Weasel podcast (executively produced by James Bedford, Moody Glasgow, Adam Curry and Ron Bloom) used a whole bunch of my music. Thanks and happy to be of service! I’m currently producing a new IDM-ish song in my attick studio in Zeist. Yesterday I also - finally! - finished and uploaded the 16th episode of my podcast Sounds Good. It’s once again a video episode, which explains the delay. As much fun as it is, it’s still a lot of work to time and editan entire video episode. Add to that my busy work schedule at Park Post and the fact that we’ve just moved to the beautiful city of Zeist, and you’ll probably understand why it took me longer than ever to produce this episode. Which, by the way, has already been downloaded a staggering 314 times as I type this, not even being online for 24 hours yet.
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From time to time you find a book that’s really something different. Well, “How Music REALLY Works” by Wayne Chase is phenomenal. It covers just about every facet of music. From chord progressions to lyrics, from the origins of music to building your repertoire, this book’s got it covered. The nicest thing about it is Wayne’s writing style, which makes every page fun to read. You can read a few chapters online to see for yourself.
Technorati Tags: music, songwriting, chords, waynechase
Click to Play This is the video by an artist called 45Hz, using a song by an artist called 37Hz. The song is called “Less Than Seven”. The video demonstrates “Perplexing Poultry Philtre v1.0″ programmed on Quartz on the Mac by 45Hz. The PPP concept is invented by science-fiction writer Rudy Rucker (http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2007/04/07/amsterdam-van-gogh/) and is a popular public-domain filter in the future, that enhances reality to make it appear like Escher tilings (http://www.mcescher.com/). PPP v1.0 also puts in practise concepts developed by Finnish Computer Music Pioneer Erkki Kurenniemi (http://www.frif.com/new2004/fut.html). One of his ideas was “Personal Communicator” represented in 1985, special eye-ware that includes a powerful computer, local-area network, microphones and earplugs, and high-resolution cameras and eye-projectors, that allows real-time modification of reality. The concept of reality modification appears also in a recent sci-fi published by Charles Stross “Accelerando” (http://www.accelerando.org/reviews/), where the future superhero Mandfred Macs extends his intelligence with computer-spectacles. The starting scene curiously takes place in Amsterdam - the same place, where Rudy Rucker gave his speech on “Psipunk” - the next step of telephatic communication right in the quantum level. Original realtime capture of the speech was made by Luc Sala/Mindlift and can be viewed on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_bYYpiQNg4). PPP v1.0 generalizes a bit of the PPP concept to allow input from camera and files, and not focusing just on tiling patterns, since there are many other enhancements that yield aesthetic values, too. There are also many limitations one needs to take in account to realize PPP technology that will run on the nowadays computer platforms, and at the moment PPP Technology is more suitable for video postproduction usage than for personal reality enhancement.
To the right of my site, just below my Twitter box, you can see a new sidebar entry where you can buy a new cd from Spin the World, LLC. This cd features my two Bush related hits, “Death of Democracy” and “Bunker Buster”, and many other cool Bush mixes. You can click on the image below to go the MySpace page for G.W.Bush’ greatest hits… PS: I’m also on Jaiku these days.
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My song “Stalker” was used not only once… but twice in Adam Curry’s Daily Source Code DSC-593-2007-05-02. Always a pleasure (Adam also played my song “Death of Democracy” many years ago in the DSC), especially because I listened to Adam Curry many times during my youth. Both when he deejayed as John Holdon for Radio Decibel in Amsterdam and when he presented “Curry and Van Inkel” with Jeroen van Inkel for Veronica Radio. Some of you may not know the influence of Adam on the podcasting phenomenon. Well, the whole idea of adding an audio enclosure to rss was coined by Tristan Louis, and then successfully implemented and used by Dave Winer and Adam Curry. Curry and Ron Bloom are the founders of podshow.com, of which the Podsafe Music Network is part. The PMN is probably the best thing that ever happened to my music. Curry is of course among the pioneers on Second Life. And last but not least, it was a personal email of Adam that convinced me to start my own podcast, which now has an average of over 500 rss subscribers according to FeedBurner and 1500+ downloads for the most popular episodes. Woohooo!!! PS: Those of you who’ve been following my ahem.. cough… “career” may recognize this song as the instrumental of a remix I did for Ellen ten Damme.
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Here’s an interesting thing from the rumor mill, according to Ars Technica: Amazon could be the next major name to dive into the world of unprotected music sales. Various rumors have been picking up over the past couple of weeks that the online retailer was readying itself to launch an MP3 download store in May, which some see as one of the only retailers that will be able to truly challenge Apple’s ubiquitous iTunes Store. [more…] Also a very interesting read from Peter Gutmann, A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection. I especially think this is very true: “[…] there’s only so many things that you can do with (say) a word processor, and at some point you’ve made the last meaningful change and the only thing left to do is repeatedly tweak the eye candy and bump the version number every few years. Windows has the same problem. If you take an eight-year-old PC running Windows 98, put it next to a current PC running Windows XP (with the Fisher-Price colour scheme turned off), the typical user won’t be able to tell you what’s changed without a point-by-point comparison of system features from one machine to the other.” [more…] Powered by ScribeFire.
Technorati Tags: drm, amazon, itunes, apple, windows, vista.word.microsoft
…is not only a quote by Ghandi, but also the name of my latest song which I finished last night. You can play it below, or if you’re subscribing to this site’s feed with your podcatching software, you’ll find it there too of course. “Be the change you want to see in the world” took me over five years to complete (gasp!), which is kinda weird for me. I started programming those beats on March 20, 2002, in the middle of the night, a mere two days before my current relationship started. So this song has always been something special to me that I just had to finish. It’s 80 beats per minute and a bit on a dark tip, but hope you enjoy it!
Download Be the change you want to see in the world
We live in interesting times….: Brussels to target Apples iTunes site By Tobias Buck, Karl de Meyer in Brussels and Emiko Terazono in London Published: April 2 2007 19:04 | Last updated: April 3 2007 02:46 Apple and several big music companies are facing a European Commission antitrust probe after Brussels issued formal charges alleging that the deals underpinning the sale of music through the hugely popular iTunes platform violated competition rules. [more…] And this in the same week that Apple announced it will sell DRM free music on iTunes. Remember Jobs’ letter a few weeks ago? It seems it indeed marked the change of the music industry concerning digital rights management. Meanwhile, my own podsafe music has a lot of exposure via the amazing podsafe music network. So what do you think is gonna happen? Sure, Apple can chain the EU iTunes stores together into one EU store if they have to. But does the EMI deal flag the start of a new era of DRM free music??
Technorati Tags: emi, apple, drm, itunes, europe, antitrust, brussels, podsafe
