Showing newest 41 of 50 posts from March 2010. Show older posts
Showing newest 41 of 50 posts from March 2010. Show older posts
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Monday, March 29, 2010
Romain Loubersanes ShowReel 2010
Showreel 2010 from Romain Loubersanes on Vimeo.
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Free Phoenix Live Album
Phoenix have released a free live album recorded in Sydney. It features eight tracks from the album Wolfgang Amadeus.
Download here
Thursday, March 25, 2010
U-N-I - A Love Supreme 2.0 CD & DVD
19 tracks on the CD - several new unreleased tracks and album versions of tracks off their now legendary mixtapes. 6 music videos, 2 live performances and a documentary entitled "A Love Supreme: U-N-I & Ro Blvd. - The Documentary".
This will be my number 2 album of the year behind Ocelot - No Requests. Maybe this will be a kick up the ass to Pac Div to roll out an album this year!!! Fingers crossed!
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Sunday, March 21, 2010
SunChips Compostable Bag
That compostable SunChips bag is out on shelves now. It's made from corn and will compost within 14 weeks in a "hot, active compost bin."
This compostable bag is made from Natureworks PLA (Plant Materiel). It will compost into a nutrient for the soil within 180 days. Compostable is regulated, as opposed to Biodegradable which really doesn't mean anything because almost everything biodegrades eventually...even plastic (Only it takes 500 years)
Frito-Lay deserves a high five for making this happen. They won't say how much it cost to develop the bag; only that it was "not a cost-savings."
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Saturday, March 20, 2010
Vince Clarke
Vince Clarke is a man synonymous with synth pop and a legend in the history of electronic music. He’s famous for founding three of the most popular and lasting musical acts in history: Depeche Mode, Yazoo and Erasure. But his distinct sonic output depends upon another feat: he has spent the last 30 years amassing one of the world’s most impressive collections of rare, ‘holy grail’ analogue synthesizers.
In 2004, Clarke left England for the unsynthesized woods of Maine, where he constructed a temple for these monolithic machines he calls ‘The Cabin,". and began branching out into (gasp!) software synths too. Recently Motherboard made a pilgrimage to Clarke’s purpose-built digital/analogue studio to meet the musical titan, hear the story of his musical journey, learn how to make the perfect pop song, and get a little demonstration of one of his signature moves: building a drum pattern from a wall of modular synths. To Clarke, music is still magic even now, an alchemy in which he gets to make “something from nothing.”
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Kitteh Kitteh
The Tail Gunner from tokyoplastic on Vimeo.
Tokyo Plastic has released the first of a series of short films based around what goes on in the dreams of a cute little kitty. Website series to come at KittehKitteh
Catzilla from tokyoplastic on Vimeo.
Thursday, March 18, 2010
The Mac Startup Sound
OMT in San Francisco #3: 'Let it beep' from One More Thing on Vimeo.
Interesting stuff about Jim Reekes, the designer of the mac startup chime. The above video is an interview with him on his design thoughts behind the chime. (It's english after the intro) Below is an excerpt from Music Thing
"The startup sound was done in my home studio on a Korg Wavestation. It's a C Major chord, played with both hands stretched out as wide as possible (with 3rd at the top, if I recall). This just sounded right to me. I wanted something really fat, heavy bass, high notes, and a sharp attack. The chiffy sound was from pan pipes and something like a stick hit (I'm testing my memory here). I wanted lots of evolving timbres, stereo phasing, and reverb for further richness."
>>"Mac people are very familiar with the sound, after restarting their machines too often. In fact, that was one of the issues I was conscious of when designing the sound. Turning the Mac on is one thing, but being forced to reboot from a crash is a totally different experience. I wanted to avoid a sound that would be associated with the crash. I wanted it to sound more like a "palette cleanser".
Brian Wilson
Ive been on a massive beach boys kick lately. They were a band that i just never got into. Sometimes you have to find even the biggest and most obvious things in life on your own terms. At any rate Ive listened to pet sounds every day for about 2 or 3 weeks now and learning the back story to a band that I always thought was the representation of safe and old fashioned pop is anything but. The video above is the first part of a documentary on Brian Wilson that is spread across some clips on youtube. I highly recommend continuing on to the other ones. It's really a compelling and tragic narrative behind these songs. I know it's old news to most of you but for those of you like me it's a fantastic story to come late to. start with Pet Sounds.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Pedestrian bridge for La Roche-sur-Yon
A pedestrian bridge designed by New York-based architect Bernard Tschumi and French firm Hugh Dutton Associés has opened in La Roche-sur-Yon in France. The tubular lattice bridge connects the old centre of Atlantic coast town with newer districts across the TGV railway tracks.
More at dezeen
Plancast penguin logo design process
Really great in depth look at the development process of the Plancast penguin over atISO50. You know, if you're a big nerd and into that sort of thing.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
I want to live in this film
"The 2007 documentary Great Expectations is a journey through possible and impossible architecture projects since the beginning of the 20th century, from concrete illusions of grandeur to underground grass-covered dwellings. The viewer is introduced to utopian visionaries like Buckminster Fuller and Archigram and their ideas of how to build a better world. With the help of animation, unrealized projects come to life in this film that shows astounding visions of a world as it could have been and may one day still become."
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Oval Apreesh
I used to get yelled at for playing this record in the tour van full of hardcore kids back in the day. Markus popp may be one of the most underrated artists outside of the IDM scene.
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Saturday, March 6, 2010
Maddow on Liz Cheney's Attack Ad
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Friday, March 5, 2010
Switched On Austin
If these guys do this right its gonna be a mecca for synth nerds.
Switched On goes beyond the scope of the typical musical instrument store by offering vintage equipment rentals, repairs, restoration, modification, education, and local access to the international marketplace.
Studio, live and sampling rental services bring rare, vintage instruments within reach of those on who can’t afford to buy them outright. Helmed by LZX Industries’ Lars Larson, the repair department offers a unique specialty in restoring and modifying music electronics. Switched On will provide workshops, classes and clinics in DIY electronics, modular synthesis, and computer music production. Consigning your gear at Switched On gives you access to an international marketplace normally exclusive to internet sites like Ebay. Now there exists a physical space to meet, consult, discover, buy, sell, and trade. The mission is to foster and expand Austin's community of electronic musicians.
"Making musicians comfortable with the vast choices electronic music brings and making those choices human is my personal quest. With Switched On I’m looking out for the shoestring musician who simply wants the greatest sound ever.” -John French (co-owner)
Switched On Austin
1111 East 11th Street
Suite 150
Austin, Texas 78702
Hours starting 2/28/2010
Thurs - Sat: 11:11am - 9:09pm
Sun - Wed: 11:11am - 8:08pm
Aids Tv Spot (NSFW)
I wish that America could just be this blunt and honest about our public service campaigns. The sad truth is we are only starting to back away very slowly from abstinence only education. Bag up kids.
Lego Sequencer
Artist and design Yoshi Akai treats analog electronics as an art form, a sculpture, an instrument, and an exercise in interaction design, all wrapped in the velour of vintage hardware design. For everyone who misses the deco elegance of meticulously-engraved surfaces and tastefully-appointed enclosures of early-century electronics, Yoshi’s work will be a special treat.
More at Create Digital Music
House SGLight by Grau.Zero
Portuguese architects Grau.Zero have completed a house in Santo Tirso, near Porto, where one end peels up from the ground. Called House SGLight, the project consists of two rectangular volumes that have been ‘bent’, one kinked horizontally and the other towards the sky.
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