#music (617 links)
- NTS RADIO | DON'T ASSUME ntslive.co.uk
- Our Comrade The Electron - Webstock Conference Talk static.pinboard.in
I'm not saying we can't have the fun next-generation Internet, where everyone wears stupid goggles and has profound conversations with their refrigerator. I'm just saying we can't slap it together like we've been doing so far and expect everything to work itself out.
The good news is, it's a design problem! You're all designers here - we can make it fun! We can build an Internet that's distributed, resilient, irritating to governments everywhere, and free in the best sense of the word, like we dreamed of in the 90's. But it will take effort and determination. It will mean scrapping permanent mass surveillance as a business model, which is going to hurt. It will mean pushing laws through a sclerotic legal system. There will have to be some nagging.
- Dopplereffekt - Gene Silencing youtube.com
- Metronomy - I'm Aquarius youtube.com
- Tim Hecker - Chimeras youtube.com
- Orbital - Christmas Chime youtube.com
- Gonzales - Let's Groove Again youtube.com
Dopplereffekt in the FT. WTF.
- Ukkonen - Viva Las Huelgas youtube.com
- DistroKid distrokid.com
Upload your music for free to iTunes, Spotify and Google Play
- Letter to Emily White at NPR All Songs Considered. | The Trichordist thetrichordist.wordpress.com
- beets: the music geek’s media organizer beets.radbox.org
Command line music library sorting against Musicbrainz.
- whitney music box whitneymusicbox.org
"A musical realization of the motion graphics of John Whitney as described in his book "digital harmony" var.17 ftw!
Via linkmachinego.
- Meet The New Boss, Worse Than The Old Boss? -Full Post | The Trichordist thetrichordist.wordpress.com
Actually that’s the number one “new model” that the Digerati suggest. Sell T-shirts at your shows to make money! This despite the fact it’s not new. Bands have been selling t-shirts at live shows since the early 1970s. Recording albums to sell a few t-shirts is a terrible way to make money. Thanks for the advice but no thanks. Plus t-shirts are just as bootlegable as music.
There's a lot wrong with this article but there's also a lot right with it, too.
- mnml ssgs: ssg special - Ukkonen mnmlssg.blogspot.com
Our new ssg mix is a special live set from Ukkonen, who we think represents a bright, strange future of techno: http://t.co/CpPr7khS
I don’t use time signatures. People have mentioned that I use weird ones, but it’s not true! The way I write does not use them at all, it completely side-steps the whole concept. I use combinations of loops that are different lengths. Usually the length of any given loop is a two-figure odd number: 23, 51, 79 or whatever. You start combining four or five of those and you can end up with pieces of music that are made up of short repeating elements but the sound as a whole never repeats exactly, even after 17 minutes.
- musicForProgramming(); musicforprogramming.net
A series of mixes intended for listening while programming to aid concentration and increase productivity (also compatible with other activities).
Via tomtaylor.
- Now Playing nowplaying.jameswragg.com
Unofficial app showing the current BBC 6Music playlist.
- The Amen break: Just a sample | The Economist economist.com
- Best ambient albums of all times scaruffi.com
I'd argue with a few of these (Transglobal Underground? Throbbing Pouch? Deep Forest?) but lots of goodness elsewhere in the list.
Via jamesholloway.
"Until now, the argument in favor of streaming had broadly been that on-demand services fill the same sort of function as radio: a discovery system that leads to purchasing. But the NPD and NARM numbers suggest that, for many people at least, the opposite is true — having music streamed on demand made them less likely to purchase." It's getting harder to stomach Spotify and other streaming services with any hat on.
- Library and Local Files - Spotify spotify.com
- The Loudness Wars: Is Music's Noisy Arms Race Over? - Mike Barthel - Entertainment - The Atlantic theatlantic.com
I want graphs, dammit.
- The Wheels Of Steel: An Ode To Turntables (in HTML) schillmania.com
Pretty flipping amazing.
anytwopoints: Forever Sound.... me new thing. Synth pulse ish. Hmm? http://soundcloud.com/foreversound
- wahwah.fm | the music around you wahwah.fm
An upcoming music service, based on your smartphone. With wahwah.fm, you listen to your music and broadcast it at the same time.
Via tomtaylor.
- A Paper Record Player : Kelli Anderson kellianderson.com
Forum post with 'entire discography with download links and artwork'. Missing some newer releases, though.
That's quite a lot.
- Desert discs: how mobile phones are at the root of Saharan music | Music | guardian.co.uk guardian.co.uk
However eclectic your music collection, it would still need to go some way to match the sheer range of tracks shared by villagers swapping songs via Bluetooth and Sim card in the Sahara. Bollywood classics, Algerian Rai, Kuduro, French ballads – this is just a sample grab of the kind of sounds doing the rounds there, many of which can be found on Music from Saharan Cellphones, a mixtape put together by Portland-based blogger Christopher Kirkley.
- Music Ally | Blog Archive » Spotify reveals €30m payout to rightsholders in 2010 musically.com · Archived on
Unexpected. "In Sweden, both Sony and UMG are making more money from Spotify than from any other retailer – online or offline."
- Linked Data at the Guardian | Open Platform | guardian.co.uk guardian.co.uk
"In the MusicBrainz/Wikipedia case, there is a deeper semantic option. DBTune.org provide awesome music datasets, among which is a MusicBrainz SPARQL service that contains relations identifying DBpedia entities, and consequently Wikipedia data, with MusicBrainz entities. A little bit of painful SPARQL, and your application is suitably enriched. And you are a happy developer because you have confidence in the join." Hawt. Hard.
That message again, just so we’re clear – now every frickin’ band on the planet is making money for the major record labels. [...] The fact remains that in order to be fixed, the whole Myspace architecture has to be rebuilt from scratch, and they’re not going to do that. [...] My expectations were very low, and they have not been raised but confirmed. My account is closed. Tom is not my friend.
What should other artists do? Well, I'm not really bothered. The sad truth is that almost everything almost every artist tries to earn money will fail. This has nothing to do with the internet, of course. Consider the remarkable statement from Alanis Morissette's attorney at the Future of Music Conference: 97% of the artists signed to a major label before Napster earned $600 or less a year from it. And these were the lucky lotto winners, the tiny fraction of 1% who made it to a record deal. Almost every artist who sets out to earn a living from art won't get there (for me, it took 19 years before I could afford to quit my day job), whether or not they give away their work, sign to a label, or stick it through every letterbox in Zone 1.
- Musicity : Welcome london.musicity.info
a programme of curated music that sits at the intersection of sound, architecture and experience
Via russelldavies.
UK independent record label people - please consider sending yr releases to the British Library Sound Archive -
- Paul's Extreme Sound Stretch hypermammut.sourceforge.net
- MuckWork - we do your dirty work muckwork.com
From Derek Sivers: "assistants to do your uncreative dirty work, so you can do what only you can do".
Techno mix from and interview with Russ. "I think with Uncharted it's a lot to do with the people. I refuse to work with anyone who isn't on my wavelength. I do this because I love it so why would I want to spend time arguing with someone or being suspicious of them or they of me? It's a very honest and down-to-earth bunch of people, they are all a pleasure to know and to work with and of course they're all extremely talented." Yes.
- Kone-R In the Mix for Flomotion | Postbocks.com postbocks.com
Kone-R in the mix for Nick Luscombe's Flomotion radio:
There were a handful of records released in the late 70′s and early 80′s that contained computer programs as part of the audio. This is totally insane, and totally great.
The idea is similar to the notion of Free Software, and like with freeware, the word “free”refers to freedom, not price. Specifically, Free Music means that any individual has the freedom of copying, distributing, and modifying music for personal, noncommercial purposes. Free Music does not mean that record labels and musicians cannot charge for records, tapes, CDs, or files.
A mobile web app that connects music to places. Point your mobile browser to m.spotisquare.com. You can just use Spotisquare to check-in on Foursquare, but it also connects Foursquare venues with Spotify playlists. When you find a venue that has a Spotify playlist, you can listen to it in Spotify, and also add your own songs to it.
Via chrisdodo.