Sounds Of The Solar System
August 16th, 2012
In space, no one can hear you sing… unless of course you are a planetary body whose electromagnetic voices have been captured by passing NASA space probes…
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The Age Of Edible Instruments
July 9th, 2012Music technology has been evolving at a fine pace over the past few years, but although many tasty tunes have been created on newfangled synthesisers, there haven’t been many instruments that themselves have been edible – until now…
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Is Music Technology On The Decline?
May 4th, 2012Music technology has evolved in leaps and bounds over the past two decades in particular, with Moore’s law playing a starring role in bringing high-end audio production into the bedrooms of thousands of DIY artists. But is interest in music technology starting to fade?
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Interactive Music In Games
February 24th, 2012Music is becoming an increasingly significant part of computer games, and this is an industry that composers/musicians should certainly be keeping a close eye on. One Montreal-based game studio in particular is now taking game music interactivity to a new level…
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Musical Sculptures
February 2nd, 2012Music is a pervasive and versatile entity; while it may be difficult to write about it – like dancing about architecture – music can interplay very well with a range of other artforms…
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Musical Gauntlet – RPM Challenge 2012
January 20th, 2012It’s that time of year again, when procrastinating musicians are challenged to take it upon themselves to defy their creative nitpicking and create an entire album in a single month…
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The Mathematics Behind The Sound Of Music
January 5th, 2012There’s a lot going on between us and the music – good vibrations (and bad) interact through a complex combination of physics and biology to move the sounds we hear into our brain. Explaining it all in a rather dynamic and engaging way is Vi Hart…
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Can YouTube Read Your Mind?
December 5th, 2011An interesting clip was published by researchers from UC Berkeley earlier this year, which claimed they had managed to use functional MRI data to create a composite YouTube video corresponding to the visual input received by the test subject…
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Guitar Pedal Effects
November 18th, 2011My first encounter with audio effects processing was a humble distortion guitar pedal. Long before discovering the myriad of mind-bending effects available through computer-based DAW production, I had plenty of fun with the basic delay, chorus and flanger guitar pedals. However, even in the computer studio, there is still a place for pedal effects…
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Creating A Pulse Synth Patch In Absynth
October 28th, 2011There are many ways to create music using a computer, and many philosophies on how deep you should go into the technology. Some are quite happy to browse through presets, while others like to build their own synthesisers from the ground up. While both approaches are perfectly valid, there is certainly a middle ground where knowing even a little bit about patch creation can open up a new realm of sonic exploration…
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