#music (595 links)
- MusicTwitters musictwitters.com
DrownedinSound.com explored Twitter and compiled this site to help you to see at a glance music on the Twittersphere.
- Tam Variations | LJ Kruzer audio.ljkruzer.co.uk
LJ Kruzer and Uncharted Audio present the Tam Variations, eight engaging experimental versions of Tam, a piece which features on Kruzer's forthcoming album Manhood & Electronics. Each variation is the end result of methodical sequences of sound processing exploring all the possibilities of computer manipulation of digitised sound data.
- Miami - Crossfade - Miami - Richie Hawtin Ushers in the Twee-J Revolution, a DJ's Twitter Application blogs.miaminewtimes.com
This new Twitter app would basically broadcast 30 second updates of what Hawtin is playing live, allowing anyone following him on the network to see the playlist as it builds up track by track and in real time.
- Indie Music Tech: Band Metrics Announces Music Data Exchange Format (MDEF) indiemusictech.com
Band Metrics decided to create the Music Data Exchange Format (MDEF), a free, open and portable XML based format for the purpose of sharing data relative to musicians and bands.
I Fight Dragons is Chicago's finest (and quite possibly only) NES-Rock band. They have very detailed delusions of grandeur, most of which include gross misuses of Nintendo products in combination with music in the Popular Rock genre.
- Bands & Design | A blog about Bands and Design. bandsanddesign.com
- Kickstarter kickstarter.com
A funding platform for artists, designers, filmmakers, musicians, journalists, inventors, bloggers, explorers...
#design #music #business #social #work #creativity #startup #ideas #entrepreneurship#fundraising#funding #art - Bumps | Stones Throw Records stonesthrow.com
The three percussion experts behind the seminal indie rock / post rock band Tortoise showcase their rhythmical prowess, coming together for Bumps, the self-titled concept break beat record.
- A Mixtape entitled ‘On sleeves’ | Line anytwopoints.com
Been waiting for this to drop for ages. Tim Hecker, Fennesz, Gastr del Sol, Bjork, Speedy J; very good.
- Car brand Scion and music marketing | citizensound citizensound.net
It’s refreshing to see such a big brand being so philanthropic, providing the sort of support most artists would be happy to be connected with, which is so often where big brands can get it wrong.
- Who to send promos to | New Music Strategies newmusicstrategies.com
Answer: people who you know who will probably like it who don't work in the biz. Because not only is it effective, it's also a nice thing to do. Thank you, Dubber, for expressing so clearly something I've spent ages trying to explain to label people.
- WordPress › Last.fm For Artists « WordPress Plugins wordpress.org
Adds a widget to list an artists upcoming shows or your top tracks from Last.FM on your Wordpress blog
- Topspin » Twitter Emerges as a Viable Direct Marketing Channel topspinmedia.com
In the first day of release, Twitter lead the traffic drivers to the Jimmy Eat World site, with more than 22% of all traffic coming straight outta Twitterland. Twitter was third as a driver of revenue, though, driving just over 20% of all sales. Still, with the large number of people reached, and email a smaller percentage of total sales in this campaign than we see on average, it’s very reasonable to conclude that Twitter was a meaningful driver of incremental revenue.
- » That Sony Meeting Song, by Toad songbytoad.com
"Columbia Records, part of Sony BMG, [...] invited [Winston's Zen] in to talk to them and suggested he bring along a couple of other bloggers and make something of a meeting out of it. So last Thursday [some MP3 bloggers] went along, the Sony people booked a table in a pub and we talked about stuff and drank ourselves into a stupour. And what did we achieve? Well honestly, I’d say not an awful lot, really." Worth reading despite that, though.
- Gigulate launches API to create apps for music news data uk.techcrunch.com
The API (available at Gigulate.com/api) will offer developers the chance to build on the Gigulate aggregation platform, which has an engine to pull in trusted music news sources.
- AudioMulch Interactive Music Studio audiomulch.com
Software for real-time sound synthesis, music composition and performance-oriented audio processing.
- Et In Arcadia Ego - The Village Orchestra ruaridh.marciablaine.com
Liner notes for The Village Orchestra's Et In Arcadia Ego. The album is made from samples of tracks the artist really hates (Richard Marx, Chris Isaak, The Corrs, Bruce Hornsby and The Range etc)
- ioda: independent online distribution alliance iodalliance.com
- Free Music Archive freemusicarchive.org
"A social music website built around a curated library of free, legal audio" from WFMU, KEXP, Cash Music, Dublab and others.
- Cylon precursor lives to help you discover new music uk.techcrunch.com
Twitter users sending a tweet with the name of a band or artist to MuZoid receive a reply in less than 2.5 seconds with a link to a bespoke webpage containing gig listings, a discography, a recommendation of similar artists that the user might like. If MuZoid doesn’t know an artist, she makes a note of it and gets busy learning. Once enough information’s available, she’ll tweet back to the original querant with an update.
Gang of Four's Dave Allen on the album as arbitrary audio bundle. "Technically then, we can say that 1930 was the year that the organizing principle for the length of a popular music album was implemented, and with the advent of that organizing principle it is worth noting that musical artists had no control over the length of time their masterpiece would run; they were at the mercy of contemporary technology."
- Is a Last.fm Powerplay campaign right for you? - MTT - Music Think Tank musicthinktank.com
Answer: probably not.
- Simple Synth in Flash joost.zeekat.nl
"A small experiment in subtractive synthesis." I could spend all day playing with this. In fact, I think I will.
a social music game that brings fans and artists together and empowers artists and listeners to determine what's hot by creating virtual record labels.
- Line: Q&A :::Proper Songs::: propersongs.blogspot.com
What I'm tried to do is combine the things I love about electronic music, especially proper techno and electro, with... proper songs.
- The FADER - Freeload: Harmonic 313 Mix thefader.com
- The music social network problem - A Song A Day songaday.co.uk
The relationship between musicians and the people who make music websites is slightly broken. The problem is that anyone developing a new service for bands has to make money to keep the project afloat - and that means pulling in enough eyeballs to sell advertising on the site. The best way to get people to stick around to click on some ads? Make them invest time and energy in creating a profile, and encourage them to continually update it.
- London Music Meet or Freelance Club londonmusicmeet.tumblr.com
A weekly get together between those working in music. Intended to provide a working environment whilst also sharing questions, knowledge and gossip about music and the industry. Every Thursday at Leon in Spitalfield Market. 2pm onwards. Wi-fi available
- Burn down the disco. Hang the iTunes DJ. » VentureBeat venturebeat.com
It [enables] all iPhones and iPod touches with the Remote app installed to find your iTunes Library. When those guests set your library of the source, they can then pick any song from your library to play next. If you’re at a large party with dozens of iPhones, the next song can be crowd-sourced by popular vote.
- Land of Kings landofkings.co.uk
Dalston music fest, 16th & 17th April 2009.
- BBC NEWS | Technology | YouTube to block UK music videos news.bbc.co.uk
Well done, everyone.
- HAND BAKED ARCADE handbakedarcade.co.uk
A temporary social space that can be setup anywhere from a club night to a squatted art space. We build the ultimate retro gaming area, working with whatever space we have from single monitor setups to multiple projected screens and full size arcade machines.
- MusicBrainz Blog » Blog Archive » MusicBrainz Flickr machine tags blog.musicbrainz.org
Using Flickr machine tags you can now tag your photos on Flickr to refer to specific MusicBrainz entities.
Digital had been seeping into our world for about three years and the Napster effect was apparent. Being a small company and working directly with artists, we could really hear and see what was starting to happen. It was a realization that fighting it wouldn’t work; understanding it and being able to grow it was what was going to work. It was a psychological shift for us.
- Reassessing Your Definition of Illmatic « Bandcamp Blog blog.bandcamp.com
Bandcamp now does download codes. Ace. "Not just any download codes, mind you, but the sort you can email to your fans OR zap over to Moo for print-on-demand, great looking, and dirt cheap physical download cards."
- building.jjh - The potential of location-aware music streaming building.jjholloway.com
The more I think about it, the more I want a portable Last.fm player. Not just a client app, but a proper dedicated piece of hardware, with big round love, ban and skip buttons.
- Artists, Bands and Musicians on Twitter - Google Docs spreadsheets.google.com
- BLEEP - Special 5th Birthday feature beta.bleep.com
To celebrate Bleep’s 5th birthday, we asked a select cast of people working in music to pick their 5 favourite releases or tracks from the entire Bleep catalogue.
- The New Worck: The New Worck 207 of Cursor Miner tnieuwewerck.blogspot.com
What a musical trip! 'Round The World In A Blu-Tac Bobcat'! Underground electronic producer Cursor Miner (Lo Recordings) in the mix.
- Line - Bandcamp audio.anytwopoints.com
...and here's the Line site, too.
- LJ Kruzer - Bandcamp audio.ljkruzer.co.uk
Bandcamp have got their custom domains sorted out. Hurrah.
Allows electronic dance music fans to listen to DJ sets like they were albums. Users are able to view tracklists, skip tracks, and jump to specific songs. They have the ability to quickly skim through sets or instantly play any song contained at any point in any DJ set.
- 2009 - The Pull Music Paradigm Shift Emerges - MTT - Music Think Tank musicthinktank.com
Interesting, but sort of scary and wrong at the same time.