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Posts Tagged ‘music technology’
Music Technology Rules Of Thumm
Wednesday, October 24th, 2007Napster Wireless Downloads Far From Ideal
Monday, October 22nd, 2007Napster and AT&T have struck a deal that will allow Napster’s database of over five million songs to be downloaded directly by users of the AT&T mobile network…
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Free Downloading Music Is The Way Forward
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007In one sense, last week’s online release of In Rainbows was nothing new – after all, thousands of artists have released albums for download before this. The essential difference, however, is in the magnitude of money and hype involved – Radiohead are a major act previously signed to a major label and have sold millions of records worldwide. Even if sales of the latest album are only a tiny fraction of previous releases, they stand to make far more money from this one – simply because they control the entire production and distribution process. So what are the implications for the music industry in the face of this breakaway?
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Music Tech To Puzzle Over
Monday, October 15th, 2007Douglas Edric Stanley is professor of digital arts at Aix-en-Provence school of art, and he has created a music sequencer controller that’s based on the infamous Rubik Cube…
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Free Download Music Sites On The Up
Friday, October 12th, 2007Breaking away from traditional music distribution models was very much the central theme this week, with the official digital launch of Radiohead’s In Rainbows album being received with such enthusiasm that the site’s server buckled under the influx of downloaders…
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Last.fm – Is It The Best Music Download Site?
Thursday, October 11th, 2007The London-based online music platform has become one of the greatest success stories of Music 2.0, as their acquisition for $280 million by CBS earlier this year illustrates. Last.fm is clearly a very robust model for music distribution: but why?
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Music Development On The Upsell
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007Online audiences are growing daily, and the most highly valued new sites have a number of things in common: they allow huge numbers of people to interact with one another, they provide simple means for users to post their own content and they provide easy access to existing content and/or services – for free. DRM now seems doomed, so how can the music industry adapt to capitalise on the ever-increasing numbers of music consumers online?
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Get Reason – How Reason 4 Gets Reason Rocking
Thursday, October 4th, 2007The Propellerhead Software team have released version 4.0 of their flagship software studio, Reason – but should you run out and get Reason four straight away, or wait until you finally get the hang of those combinator split patches in Reason 3?
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Music Technology Not a Scratch on Hancock
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007Herbie Hancock is a Jazz legend, a progenitor of hip-hop and one of the driving forces behind the development of electronic music across a whole range of genres. He has always embraced technology as a tool for self-expression, but what is his secret to such prolific creativity over the past few decades?
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Reason 4 Released: Buy Reason 4 Now or Get a Reason 4 Upgrade
Saturday, September 29th, 2007For some people, having a virtually infinite rack of software units with which to create an even more infinite (?) array of interconnections and arcane routing that emits sounds the likes of which the universe has never witnessed would be enough to keep them busy for decades. Not Propellerhead Software though… they’ve just released Reason 4, which throws a few new devices into the rack for good measure…
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