Another year gone, and it’s time to take stock of our personal universes once more. As the blogosphere is now busy listing what was best and worst in 2008, I somehow feel compelled to join in (and it’s an easy way to cobble together a post without too much effort). So, without further ado, here is a list of five lists from Podcomplex’s latest orbit of Sol…
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Posts Tagged ‘music technology’
Top 5 Lists Of 2008
Friday, January 2nd, 2009All Music Technology Is Doomed
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008A rather clever and technologically-savvy group of people have set up a new blog called Music Think Tank. This group includes Derek Sivers, Bob Baker, Andrew Dubber and Bruce Warila, who are all active participants in the modern music world and frequently share industry insights on their own sites. This promises to be a stimulating collaboration, as evidenced by yesterday’s post on technology cycles…
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Music Technology Update: Echo Nest Hatches
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008The burgeoning realm of musical analysis software has been boosted by the launch of the Echo Nest, a startup that developed a ‘Musical Brain’ to aid music search and personalisation functionalities. They have already released a rather neat music analysis API, and plan to release new APIs each month…
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Jazz Jam Shuts Down Prefrontal Cortex
Monday, March 3rd, 2008A recent study by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) has discovered that some remarkable transformations take place in the brains of jazz musicians when they begin to improvise…
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Five Ways That Music Fools Your Brain
Friday, February 22nd, 2008Everybody 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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Top 20 Music Technology Posts of 2007
Monday, December 31st, 2007Another 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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Is Technology Killing Music?
Wednesday, December 5th, 2007Few people would argue that technology isn’t changing music – but is technology actually killing music? Certain excerpts from Mark Katz’s book Capturing Sound: How Technology Has Changed Music seem to express the view that the commodification of music is fundamentally damaging to music as a social and cultural artform – and it all began with Edison…
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Music Technology – From The 40s To The Present
Thursday, November 22nd, 2007One of the latest and most visually appealing music controllers is the Tenori-On, a tablet-like live sequencing device that musicians can use to create both musical and visual patterns via its illuminated grid interface. American artist Norman Fairbanks has now released what is billed as the first album composed entirely with the Tenori-On…
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A Quick Fix For Music Mixers
Monday, November 19th, 2007Anyone who makes or produces a lot of music will inevitably develop a preferred way of doing things, and they will tend to apply the same workflow processes to every mixing project. For example, I tend to automatically slap a compressor on the bass track before even listening to it – which works fine most of the time, as I can then tweak the various settings – such as attack, release and threshold – to suit the particular track. However, there are times when it might be better to take a step back, dump all the insert habits and build up a very basic mix without any effects or panning. This can be a particularly useful approach when you’re having a bad mix day and nothing seems to sound right…
Choosing A Music Laptop
Thursday, October 25th, 2007Choosing the right laptop is critical if you plan to use it as the driver of your live music sets. Unfortunately, musicians are not the primary market laptop manufacturers have in mind when designing a new unit, so it’s vital to know what components have the most impact on audio performance…
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