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GarageBand: Creativity out of the Box
At Game Girl Advance, Sandford parodies the ilife suite by “announcing” the release of “attic author” (thanks to matt jones for the link): […]Apple is proud to announce an add-on package to our popular iLife ’04 suite of applications — including the easiest to use music playback and purchasing software available, iTunes, and the new,…
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Peripatetic Sound
Walking Through Sound, by David Toop, is all about the potential of the wirelessly sonified urban experience: Electricity liberated humans from darkness but fixed them in space; audio and visual recordings liberated humans from transience but fixed their experiences into frozen memories. Wireless technologies have proved just how willing people are to be disconnected from…
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[grid::ritual] Sounds in Social Space: The Contemporary Chamber Music Concert
Luckily the topic for this month’s grid blogging exercise is ‘ritual’ – it fits into what I?ve been thinking and writing about for the last couple of years – my masters thesis is a study of Brisbane?s contemporary chamber music scene as a subculture. A fundamental principle behind what I?ve been doing is that music…
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8 Days to Go
I haven’t been blogging as much as I’d like for the last few days, but I have a good reason – I’m officially submitting my Masters thesis on 20/01/04, which is only 8 days away. I’m sure this will seem very exciting once it is printed, bound and submitted (mmmm…beer), but at the moment I…
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The Pleasures of Production II
Damn you, antipopper, for pulling out the term “prosumer” before I had even discovered it: Apple?s announcement of GarageBand today was interesting ? it?s bundled with all new Macs from this month onward! There are concerns that Apple?s treading on third party developers? toes, but the emphasis of Apple?s ever broadening iLife suite spans the…
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Digitising Vinyl
The NY Times wants you to know how to rip your vinyl records.
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Hip Hop and the Appropriation of the “Other”
Friday Night Fishfry Forever has been thinking about the politics of appropriation in hip hop, prompted by Timbaland & Magoo’s release Indian Flute. Of course, Western art music composers have always “stolen” from exotic others (their own peasant classes, gypsies, or the “orient”). In recent times, the issue was discussed at length in relation to…
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Microsound
.microsound is an unmediated mailing list oriented toward discussion of the styles of digital and post-digital music promulgated by the proliferation and widespread adoption of digital signal processing (dsp) tools.
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Music and Copyfight
Yesterday I was at QUT for the Digital Music Symposium. Transcription of my scrawled notes follows (does this count as some kind of quasi-live blogging?). Apologies for Bridget Jones-speak in places, as cannot be bothered creating fancy narrative. The room is full of lawyers speaking in loud and rounded tones, hanging their well-suited arms off…
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The continued destruction of mp3.com
As of December the 3rd, the recently sold independent music portal mp3.com will destroy their complete archive of songs by independent artists. From kuro5hin For background on the sale (and ethical failure) of mp3.com, go here.