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- Why records DO all sound the same | Word Magazine wordmagazine.co.uk
"There's a little-watched video on Maroon Five's YouTube channel which documents the torturous, tedious process of crafting an instantly forgettable mainstream radio hit. It's fourteen minutes of elegantly dishevelled chaps sitting in leather sofas, playing $15,000 vintage guitars next to $200,000 studio consoles, staring at notepads and endlessly discussing how little they like the track (called Makes Me Wonder), and how it doesn't have a chorus. Even edited down, the tedium is mind-boggling as they play the same lame riff over and over and over again. At one point, singer Adam Levine says: "I'm sick of trying to engineer songs to be hits." But that's exactly he proceeds to do."
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."
- :: soundtransit :: home soundtransit.nl
A collaborative, online community dedicated to field recording and phonography. On this site, you can plan a sonic journey through various locations recorded around the world, or you can search the database for specific sounds by different artists from certain places.
Skype™ Voice Calls (as MP3), Instant Messages, Email, Appointments, Contacts all organized and under control in Outlook
- Audacity: Free Audio Editor and Recorder audacity.sourceforge.net
- Comments on 15069 | Ask MetaFilter ask.metafilter.com
What sort of process, programs, and materials is one required to go through to convert these tapes to mp3?
- Melodyne celemony.com
Melodyne is a multitrack audio recording and editing application that lets you process and manipulate audio files in a revolutionary but musically intuitive way.