Everybody is familiar with optical illusions, as we encounter them regularly in advertising, movies and student-flat Escher prints, but the area of auditory illusion is much less familiar territory. However, our ears are also susceptible to manipulative trickery…
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Unusual orchestras seem to be the current craze in mainstream TV advertising; Sony’s ‘human sequencer orchestra’ gained quite a bit of coverage when it was released, and now Ford are getting in on the act with an orchestra playing instruments made from Ford Focus components…
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In recent years, a lot of research and development has been applied to the idea that hit songs can be scientifically identified before they become popular. Given the fact that every musician on the planet can now record and distribute their songs worldwide from the comfort of their own bedroom, the sheer volume of music being produced does need a proportionately more advanced filtering system than was necessary even ten years ago. But can a machine really do it for us?
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It’s a well-known fact that many people have no taste in music; in fact, anyone who disagrees with you would fall into this category. We tend to have well-defined comfort zones with regard to what we listen to, whether that be the soporific major-key dronings of afternoon radio or the mangled circuit-bending madness of a honey-coated vintage synth carcass being manipulated by an industrial spin-dryer. It’s probably a safe bet that neither of these (not entirely imaginary) individuals would enjoy listening to the other’s record collection; but is there any way of explaining the vast differences in musical taste that make the music world so very fascinating?
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It seems that an entire year has almost elapsed since the RPM challenge 2007, when musicians around the world took upon themselves the mighty task of writing and recording an album in 28 days. As February is impending once more, the challenge has now been reissued with the marginally less daunting timeframe of 29 days…
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One of the immutable laws of music production is that, no matter what style of record you’re dealing with, you can never have too much cowbell. In fact, one of the most effective ways of predicting which upcoming single is going to be a major international hit is to check its cowbell usage. No cowbell is probably fatal; some cowbell is good, more cowbell is best…
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Today’s title sounds like a bad menu choice from a greasy spoon, but is inspired by my recent discovery of two useful lists; the first being a list of 25 pop track production tips over at the newly-beta music radar, and the second being Bootie’s list of the best mashups of 2007, which are all available for free download…
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Another year gone, another bumper crop of tips, tricks and trivia to summarise. It’s been quite a big year for Podcomplex, with a lot of content added to the blog and a massive database of music opened up in the independent artists section. The OMS platform has itself been evolving, and artists can now sell their music here as well as distributing it for free. But what are the blog highlights of the past year?
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I’m not talking about the incredibly unlikely (yet exceedingly useful) Babelfish – rather, the more sophisticated alternatives to those bulky in-ear headphones bundled with your iPod, Zen or (horror) mobile phone. There is a huge range of earbuds out there designed for people who demand a bit more from their portable music playback equipment…
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Two unrelated points to relate here; the first being that Propellerhead Software have released their educational package ‘Teaching Music With Reason’ as a free download. The ‘reason’ they have decided to set it free is because it was originally designed as a classroom guide for version 2.5 of Reason Adapted, and they are not updating it to encompass the new features of versions three and four…
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