For more than a century, since he captured the spoken words “Mary had a little lamb” on a sheet of tinfoil, Thomas Edison has been considered the father of recorded sound. But researchers say they have unearthed a recording of the human voice, made by a little-known Frenchman, that predates Edison’s invention of the phonograph by nearly two decades.
Add comment | March 27th, 2008
Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails have been taking turns giving the music industry the finger. The British band made headlines last October for releasing In Rainbows without the support (read: control) of a record label, and Trent Reznor’s group followed suit with last month’s Ghosts I-IV.
Read the full article at Wired
Add comment | March 27th, 2008
This is a video of Ableton Live co-founder and electronic musician Robert Henke (Monolake) presenting a workshop in Christchurch, New Zealand. Topics include 64-bit summing and the monodeck.
Add comment | March 22nd, 2008
Here I have an LED “cube” being controlled by MIDI via Arduino. This is a work in progress.
Add comment | March 20th, 2008
The KORG DS-10 is a music-creation software for the Nintendo DS that combines the superior interface of the Nintendo DS and the design concept of the famous MS-10 synthesizer.
Click here to watch the demo on youtube.
Add comment | March 14th, 2008
Direct Note Access is a technology that makes the impossible possible: for the first time in audio recording history you can identify and edit individual notes within polyphonic audio material. The unique access that Melodyne affords to pitch, timing, note lengths and other parameters of melodic notes will now also be afforded to individual notes within chords.
Simply put, it is now possible to manipulate the pitch of individual notes within chords. This is not MIDI, it’s digital audio.
Prepare to have your mind blown.
Add comment | March 12th, 2008
I have a project due tomorrow, in which I am required to make the infamously bad movie look good. I think this is a success.
Add comment | March 6th, 2008
