Posted in Audio, Gadgets, Ideas, Music, NPR, Tech Stuff on Mar 6th, 2011 5 Comments »
Whatever Happened To The Audiophile I have a dedicated two-channel listening room. My passion is for vacuum tubes and this set up consists of a KT88 based tube amp, tube preamp, tubed CD player, tubed digital-to-analog converter that is partnered with an iMac for digital files and wonderful pair of very efficient speakers. Power to [...]
Posted in Music, Video on Dec 5th, 2010 No Comments »
Shop Vac from Jarrett Heather on Vimeo. A kinetic typography music video for Jonathan Coulton’s Shop Vac. Created using After Effects, Toon Boom Animate, Illustrator, Photoshop and Premiere. It’s fantastic. Full screen, turn it up. Enjoy. [via Daring Fireball]
Posted in Music, Video on Dec 3rd, 2010 No Comments »
From Yeshiva University’s a capella group The Maccabeats comes this reimagination of Taio Cruz’s “Dynamite.” Happy Hanukkah This is great fun: Singing, spirit, and video. Enjoy and happy Hanukkah. Zoom it out, full screen. [via Boing Boing]
Posted in Creativity, Music, People, Video on Dec 2nd, 2010 No Comments »
Wow, great stuff. The looping is great and his choices of what to loop and how are right on the money.
Posted in Audio, Ideas, Music on Sep 29th, 2010 2 Comments »
One Hello World Leave me a voicemail and I’ll write music behind your narrative. Call it a soundtrack to your thoughts. Listen to these, they’re incredible. Somehow reminds me of The Apology Line. [via Coudal Partners]
Posted in Creativity, Ideas, Music, Video on Sep 14th, 2010 No Comments »
Everything is a Remix from Kirby Ferguson on Vimeo. An entertaining and well thought out discussion of remixing, covering, and imitating music. Three more parts coming which will hopefully cover other creative endeavors like the visual arts, writing, and more. When you come right down to it, everything really is a remix. We’re all standing [...]
Posted in Ideas, Music, Travel on Aug 19th, 2010 4 Comments »
Even though I’ve had an iPod since they came out and sometimes use mine in my truck, I generally make CD mixes to play in my 2004 Toyota Tacoma pickup truck. This morning a CD that I’d left in the truck’s stereo wouldn’t play and wouldn’t eject. In other words it was stuck and the [...]
Posted in Ideas, Music, People, Video on Mar 28th, 2010 No Comments »
Gupta talks about his relationship with Nathaniel Ayers and how that affected his own relationship with music. Excellent talk, amazing playing. Gupta bio at TED. [via Duncan Davidson]
Posted in Animation, Music, Video on Mar 22nd, 2010 2 Comments »
Sonar from Renaud Hallée on Vimeo. Very nice animation driven by sound. Zoom full screen, turn it up, enjoy. [via Coudal Partners Blended Feed]
Posted in Music on Mar 18th, 2010 No Comments »
Universal to Cut All CD Prices to Below $10 Wow, this is significant. This will give Apple’s .99 a song on iTunes a run for their money. I routinely buy albums on iTunes and burn CDs for my car but this way I can have a better quality CD and rip it for iTunes. I [...]
Posted in Music, People, Video on Mar 15th, 2010 3 Comments »
LOOSEWORLD x Waverly Films: Reggie Watts in F_CK SH_T STACK from LOOSEWORLD on Vimeo. Holy shit, Reggie Watts is a genius, no two ways about it. Wow. Blow this up full screen with HD on for the full “stack.” [via Boing Boing]
Posted in Ideas, Music on Feb 21st, 2010 2 Comments »
Playing musical instruments may improve reading Learning to play a musical instrument could help to improve children’s reading and their ability to listen in noisy classrooms, according to new research. “Our eyes and ears take in millions of bits of information every second and it is not possible for the brain to process all of [...]
Posted in Audio, Ideas, Music, NPR, People, Politics on Jan 15th, 2010 No Comments »
Salman Ahmad on Onpoint Salman Ahmad is a bonafide rock star in Pakistan, across South Asia and in émigré communities around the world. As a Pakistani Muslim boy, he caught Led Zeppelin fever in America, came home with a dream of fusion rock-and-roll and world peace — and now argues with mullahs over whether Islam [...]
Posted in Events, Music, People on Nov 20th, 2009 2 Comments »
Washington, Connecticut. If you’re going to go to a kirtan Krishna Das is the person you want leading it. He’s the real deal and if you get into it it will get into you.
Posted in Music, People, Places on Nov 1st, 2009 7 Comments »
Milton, Connecticut. Our good friend and neighbor Bill Lauf did his fall concert at Milton town hall last night and it was his best ever. Even if he were a full time musician, on the road doing concerts all the time he’d be incredible but he has a real day job and writes music and [...]
Posted in Music, People, Video on Oct 16th, 2009 No Comments »
American Masters: Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound. American Masters examines the life and career of recording artist and activist Joan Baez. This is an excellent piece, well produced with lots of great archival footage of this extraordinary person who really walked the walk. The full episode will be online from October 15th through December [...]
Posted in Events, Music, People on Sep 16th, 2009 1 Comment »
Warren, Connecticut. Mary Travers of Peter Paul and Mary has died. Here Will McCabe, Gordon Titcomb, and Bill Lauf sing for her at an Obama fundraiser we put on here in Warren the summer before last at the home of Adil and Zarinna Mulla who were good friends of Mary’s. She made a great speech [...]
Posted in Ideas, Music, People, Video on Aug 1st, 2009 5 Comments »
World Science Festival 2009: Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale from World Science Festival on Vimeo. McFerrin continues to demonstrate his genius. I love this guy. Listen to what he says at the end: any audience, anywhere on earth can do this. Talk about a nature/nurture question. [via Boing Boing]
Posted in Ideas, Music on Jul 31st, 2009 3 Comments »
Ukulele Beatles Fun! This is an incredible collection of instructional pieces for learning to play the ukulele using Beatles songs. Very well done, I think I might get me a ukulele just to use this site. [via Coudal Partners Blended Feed]
Posted in Music, People on Jun 27th, 2009 No Comments »
Jackson Estate Has Piles of Assets but Loads of Debt This is a fascinating piece and as more comes out about the complex mess that was Michael Jackson’s life this piece of it will become messier. However, as this piece states, Michael Jackson was a shrewd businessman even as his personal life was out of [...]
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