Posts Tagged ‘music technology’



A Second Chance For Pianos

Monday, December 3rd, 2012

The piano was a music technology breakthrough when it was first invented around the 17-18th century – although there had been similar designs of instruments (harpsichord, hammered dulcimer), the piano was remarkable in the range of expression it allowed…
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Is Music Technology On The Decline?

Friday, May 4th, 2012

Music 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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Top 5 Lists Of 2008

Friday, January 2nd, 2009

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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All Music Technology Is Doomed

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

A 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, 2008

The 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, 2008

A 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, 2008

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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Top 20 Music Technology Posts of 2007

Monday, December 31st, 2007

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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Is Technology Killing Music?

Wednesday, December 5th, 2007

Few 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, 2007

One 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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