Tag Archives: Music

Making music with iPad

Get ready to make some wicked tunes on your iPad! We created a custom Touch OSC templates designed for the iPad. 16 Sample drum pad, and two 26 key keyboard layouts. Each note and pad has been pre-programmed to work with your DAW. You’ll get three custom templates along with the accompanying OSCulator template. Works right out of the box once you connect it to OSCulator. Includes rotary dials and multifaders for using them as MIDI cc’s to control your live effects. Read more By Noe Ruiz for pixil.info, April 20 2010

Feelosophy 3D sound exhibition launches in London

Launch of the Feelosophy exhibition, which will run during the London Design Festival. The work at Design Bridge is focused around a brand’s ‘sensory codes’, going beyond just the visual aspects of a brand and exploring scent, sound, touch and taste, here they have documented their own experiences of the Clerkenwell area as part of the exhibition. For this project Design Bridge have been working with Sonic ID’s Martyn Ware, who is creating a soundscape for the exhibition based on our recordings. Martyn is a founder member of Heaven 17 and The Human League and has worked with artists such as Nick Zinner, and more recently on Inspired by Stage for the Vintage at Goodwood festival. You can hear Martyn Ware’s soundscape as part of our Feelosophy, which is at 18 Clerkenwell … Continue reading →

TwitterDJ

Twitter DJ is the latest from Richie Hawtin, who’s already spent much of his career pioneering new technologies as a DJ, producer and label owner, from the development of midi enabled DJ mixers such as Allen & Heath’s Xone92 & 3D mixers, to Final Scratch DJ Technology. The Minus developed application utilizes feeds from an updated version of Traktor’s standard broadcasting technology to send 60 second updates during Hawtin’s set of what’s currently playing to a designated Twitter account. Anyone following the Twitter group can obtain a unique insight into how a DJ builds the atmosphere and dynamics of a set, track by track, all in real time. Read more By TwitterDJ

SXSW® – Tomorrow Happens Here

The South by Southwest® (SXSW®) Conferences & Festivals offer the unique convergence of original music, independent films, and emerging technologies. Fostering creative and professional growth alike, SXSW® is the premier destination for discovery. Posted on Youtube by sxsw, 22 Sept 2009. Visit site

How Much do Music Artists Earn Online?

For years, we’ve heard the music industry talk about declining sales and profits — often unconvincingly tying these numbers to piracy) — but what about the artists? How much do they earn when their music is distributed online, compared to selling CDs? It’s a very hard question to answer because much of this data is kept secret and it varies from country to country. Still, David McCandless, author of the book “Information Is Beautiful,” rolled up his sleeves, researched the available data and created this beautiful infographic that shows how hard life is these days for most music artists (unless they’re Lady Gaga). McCandless discloses that the data was very hard to research and that it may not, therefore, be 100% accurate. He also warns that “these figures do not include … Continue reading →