Amanda Palmer has put up a post on her site that’s a must read for musicians trying to make a dime from their music in today’s inverted music world. Here’s the juicy bits: From: Amanda Palmer Subject: twitter power, or “how an indie musician can make $19,000 in 10 hours using twitter” this story has… Read More How I Made $19,000 In 10 Hours Using Twitter, By Amanda Effing Palmer
DJ Alan D has made a place for himself in the record books by fighting exhaustion to DJ a set that lasted more than five days. Guinness World Records officials were on hand, filming DJ Alan D’s 124-hour mix at Zico Bar in Wishaw, Lanarkshire. The DJ was only allowed a five minute break every… Read More DJ Sets World Record For Longest Set
This is a sneak preview of Spoke, a new iPhone drum machine from The Strange Agency. Spoke uses an interesting circular sequencer interface for making beats. Spoke is not released yet (as of 6/24/2009) and no official information has been released on Spoke’s capabilities.
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Josh Clos produced this documentary short about John Keston and his Gestural Music Sequencer or GMS. Of the Gestural Music Sequencer, Keston says, “I’m considering releasing a beta version of the application in a few months. Soon afterward I plan to release the code as Open Source so that the application can be developed further… Read More The Gestural Music Sequencer Of John Keston
Yann Seznec, aka The Amazing Rolo, captured a set of videos of electronic musicians demonstrating their electronic musical instrument creations at Maker Faire 2009 in San Mateo. In the first video, Elly Jessop, a masters student at MIT Media Lab, talks about her Vocal Augmentation and Manipulation Prosthesis (VAMP).
Image: spuddleyspudd I’ve got no idea what’s going on in this photo, but it’s electronic and it looks sort of awesome. If you’ve got an idea of what’s going on here, leave a comment!. via the Synthtopia Flickr Group
We’ve been looking for a good way for Synthtopia readers to share their music with other readers. If you’re an electronic musician or a label, we want to help people find out about you and your music. If you’re an electronic music fan, we want to help you find out about a lot of great… Read More Share Your Music With Synthtopia Readers!
This video captures Michael Masnick’s Learning From What’s Working: Success Stories From The Music Commerce Frontier. Masnick is the founder of TechDirt – a technology blog that has been a vocal critic of the music industry’s approach to technology, especially DRM and its opposition to P2P file sharing. You can safely skip the first 2… Read More TechDirt’s Michael Masnick On The State Of The Music Industry
Audio gear maker Samson has released a new digital audio recorder, the Zoom R16. The recorder offers 16-track playback and simultaneous recording of up to eight tracks, using Secure Digital (SD) memory. Samson representatives are promoting the Zoom R16 as “three production tools in one device“: a multi-track recorder an audio interface and a control… Read More Samson Releases Portable 16-Track Digital Recorder
