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This is the “teaser” video promo for an upcoming Stars of the Lid feature film. 

Stars of the Lid is an Austin ambient music group, made up of Brian McBride and Adam Wiltzie.

According to McBride, the band’s name refers to “your own personal cinema, located between your eye and eyelid”, suggesting the colors and patterns one can see with closed eyes.” Read more…

A few months before the release of Gary Wright’s Dream Weaver, the artist visited with his childhood friend, Gil Markle, in his recording studio in the countryside of Massachusetts. He brought his synthesizers with him, which were hooked up to a 16-track tape machine.

A 45-second promotional spot for an album still in Wright’s mind’s eye was recorded. Thirty years later, Markle scripted some video to it.

In this video clip, How Audio’s David Alexander talks about basic wave types and how they relate to the oscillator of a synthesizer.

What is the role of an Oscillator in a synthesizer? What are the basic wave forms? What are frequencies?www.HowAudio.com.

Vivian Caccuri’s Submersed Songs is a sound installation that generates mp3 player remixes through the movements of four live fish. The animals’ movements and the proximity among them work as a parameter for mixing and spatializing the audience’s music tracks in real time.

This system constantly mashes-up two different songs recorded by different users. The two tracks are submitted to different modification processes, building a real time continuity between the swimming of the carp fish and the levels of distortion- which can vary from an intense reverberation to a simulation of hearing underwater.

DJ Ruthless Ramsey scratches the decks - tape decks. Read more…

A demo of Noise.io - an iPhone synthesizer - with Chemical Brothers’ style arpeggiation/sequencing.

C.H.District - ConTrust

Official video for a tune from M-Tronic’s Table of Elements 2.0 sampler.

Noteflight today launched a very cool Web-based application that lets you create and edit music, in standard notation, using a standard Web browser.

The score can be played directly from the browser, shared with individuals, published online or printed as sheet music for use by live musicians. Scores may also be embedded in other pages such as blogs or personal websites.

Here’s an example from the Noteflight site: Read more…

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