Musician – Page 3

Where little synths come from.

23 June, 20166 May, 2017 Musician 0

No time for a proper post today, so have a silly meme image.

Print your own violin!

22 June, 201625 August, 2016 Classical, Musician 0

Kaitlyn and Matt Hova have put up the files to 3D-print your own violin. Or you can buy parts or a fully-printed example from them. It’s still at the stage of doing it because you can, but it’s actually not terrible.

The vintage synthesizer petting zoo.

15 June, 20161 April, 2017 Musician 0

North Melbourne now has an interactive vintage synthesizer museum where you are actively encouraged to play with the exhibits.

Links.

8 June, 201625 August, 2016 Industry, Links, mp3, Musician 0

Music industry prays for rain, one of Mute’s sound engineers, NEVER run iTunes on your music production computer.

Polyphonic overtone singing explained and demonstrated.

7 June, 201625 August, 2016 Musician 0

I am frankly boggling that you can do this with a human voice. YOU MUST WATCH THIS.

Art of Noise play “Close To The Edit” live, 2004.

27 May, 201625 August, 2016 Musician, Pop 0

Nobody ever thinks of Trevor Horn as a shit-hot bass player.

Links.

5 December, 20154 September, 2016 Industry, Links, Metal, mp3, Musician 0

A Swedish black metal band who studied Catholicism so intensely for more efficient blasphemy that they wound up converting to Catholicism. The pioneering women

The Music Theory Song!

4 December, 20156 May, 2017 Musician 0

Just in case you forgot all this stuff, here it is doing everything the words say as they say it. By David Swenson. The

Musician links.

19 April, 20156 May, 2017 Links, Musician 0

Chord progressions of 25,000 songs analysed, using the database of Hooktheory’s Theorytab. Which itself is ridiculously fun to play with. Audacity is the computer-based

Links for your delectation.

28 August, 201420 October, 2016 Esoterica, Links, Metal, Musician 1

You don’t play the ANS synthesizer (Russia, 1938) with a keyboard. Instead you etch images onto glass sheets covered in black putty and feed

The Moog Music factory tour.

4 May, 20146 May, 2017 Musician 0

Robert Moog’s second company to be called Moog Music still exists and still makes analogue synthesizers. Cool Hunting went on a tour of the

Daniel Miller from Mute’s top five German prog rock albums.

12 March, 201429 March, 2017 Industrial, Musician, Prog 0

Miller is not quite comfortable with the term “Krautrock”, and neither am I. But this is a delight for any decent record nerd, and

BandHub: The Internet recording studio.

9 October, 201310 September, 2017 Musician 49

Remember Res Rocket Surfer and Google Jam? This one is a new thing to collaborate with people over the Internet. (If you sell your

Culture is not about aesthetics. Punk rock is now enforced by law.

13 September, 20133 May, 2017 Industry, Musician, Opinion 73

Record companies complain the Internet will destroy music. Musicians complain that they can’t make a living any more. The unsympathetic public, feeling the squeeze themselves, tell them to get a proper job.

The problem isn’t piracy — it’s competition.

Only a NAZI would set A=440Hz.

28 January, 20127 May, 2017 Musician 0

If you don’t tune to A=432Hz, you are defying the natural order of the universe, and JUST LOVE HITLER.

Just three more!

13 January, 20127 May, 2017 Musician 0

“There are dozens of “art guitars” with multiple necks that can never be played. It’s just about the look for some of these creations.

How to fire a band member.

7 December, 201110 May, 2017 Musician 0

Bluegrass firing squad, and other termination procedures. Leaving them at the truckstop is only the third option on the list. “It is true, however,

Play trumpet so awesomely that your brain explodes! Literally.

5 September, 201110 May, 2017 Classical, Musician 0

You thought trying to make a living as a rock musician sucked? You should be giving prayers of thanks that you’re not a classical

The hope of Audacity.

7 March, 20119 January, 2017 Musician 0

People seem insufficiently aware of Audacity, the open-source sound recording and editing program. This is the four-track everyone desperately wanted twenty years ago. If