This video features an Introduction to Game Audio: “How Games are Different from Anything You’ve Worked on Before”, by Brian Schmidt. This video provides an introduction into the ways in which video game music and sound design are fundamentally different from linear media such as television or film. It also covers what to expect when… Read More An Introduction to Video Game Audio
Sotiris (Synthscape) sent this music video in via the Submit A Story page, asking “Can computers generate pleasant melodies, with a little assistance from humans?”: My latest music track, required music “not composed by humans” so i turned to random number generation procedures to decide which notes to play for the harp, flute, choir and… Read More Synthscape’s Forest Spirits
Polychord (App Store link) is an $9.99 iPad musical instrument designed to be easy to play, in the tradition of the autoharp or OmniChord: Polychord is drums, bass, chords, and accompaniment all wrapped into one. Simply press one of the chord circles and your on your way to writing a song. Drums and bass follow… Read More Polychord iPad Musical Instrument
Stantum Technologies has announced that the JazzMutant Lemur – the gorgeous multi-touch music controller – is dead. Here’s the text of their announcement: Since 2002, JazzMutant has been a acknowledged pioneer in the field of Creative Computing and Multi-touch technology, being the first-ever company to develop and bring to the market a product featuring a… Read More JazzMutant Lemur Dead – Did The iPad Kill It, Or Was It Suicide?
Synthesist Dana Countryman has published a new biography of happy synthesizer music pioneer Jean-Jacques Perrey. Description: This book chronicles Perrey’s musical transformation from being just another young accordion player in France, to eventually becoming a pioneer of electronic pop music. By chance, as a young man, Perrey came upon a new French-invented electronic keyboard instrument… Read More Jean-Jacques Perrey Biography – Passport To The Future
via DeftAudio – a quick demo of a new laser harp, 40K points/s, X-Y scanning, 300mW version. Seeing this makes me think that the world needs an inexpensive DIY laser harp kit. Visually, they make stunning MIDI controllers, but they’ll need to be available and affordable before musicians will really be able to explore their… Read More We Need An Inexpensive DIY Laser Harp Kit
This video, by Michael Cobra, demonstrates how he built a DIY Mini-Deadmau5 costume for his son: My 3yo son asked to be Deadmau5 for Halloween after seeing him live at the Treasure Island Music Festival. How could I turn that opportunity down? You can download an instruction sheet fot this project here (.pdf).
Oberheim OBXa + JUNO 60 + D 50 Part 2 was uploaded by: magevers
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This is the awesomely psychedelic music video for Lemon Jelly’s Come Down on Me – a few years old, but still pretty cool.
http://vimeo.com/16786144 This is the music video for Falside’s Drugs.
