Free Download: Gel-Sol’s Adventures Beyond The Plunderworld

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 create works that aren’t defined by our… Read More Free Download: Gel-Sol’s Adventures Beyond The Plunderworld

Can LaDiDa For The iPhone Make Reverse Karoake Sexy?

Remember how universally reviled Microsoft Songsmith was? iPhone developer khu.sh has taken the idea behind Microsoft Songsmith, reverse karaoke auto-accompaniment, and packaged it as the iPhone app LaDiDa. Can khu.sh succeed where Microsoft failed? It’s not clear from the video or the information on the khu.sh site how flexible LaDiDa is, in terms of styles… Read More Can LaDiDa For The iPhone Make Reverse Karoake Sexy?

Native Instruments Snow Leopard Compatibility

Native Instruments has conducted initial compatibility tests with Mac OS X 10.6, which have shown all current NI products to work without any specific issues under standard installations of this operating system. However, users involved in professional audio production or live performance should be cautious about upgrading to Mac OS X 10.6 until compatibility with… Read More Native Instruments Snow Leopard Compatibility

New Roland Connect Site Features New Gear, Mind-Numbingly Bad Web Design

Roland has a new Web site, Roland Connect, to introduced its Fall lineup of new gear. It’s worth checking out, but you may find the new site frustrating, because of some bad Web design decisions. Like the way they present their new lineup: This is new gear, right? So, how is someone supposed to know… Read More New Roland Connect Site Features New Gear, Mind-Numbingly Bad Web Design

Amazing, Hypnotic Music Video – Spheres

Spheres is an absolutely gorgeous, hypnotic abstract music video by Regis Hervagault: 42000 HD frames at 50p for a duration of 14 minutes, this is my own little space opera inspired by the teachings from Anaxagoras of Clazomenae. philosophy.gr/presocratics/anaxagoras.htm Using a variety of software including open source tools and custom scripting, i designed a mesmerizing… Read More Amazing, Hypnotic Music Video – Spheres