Dial-Up Modem? What the heck is that? Just kidding, of course – unless you were born in the late 90’s or later, you’ll be familiar with the sound of a dial-up modem handshake. This is the sequence of tones and noises that two remotely connected computers use to figure out each others capabilities to set
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It Was a Very Good Year – 2014 in Review
So it’s 2015 already. The end of the year kind of creeped up on me, so I’m definitely pushing against the statue of limitations on ‘Year-End Review’ posts, but since 2014 was a good year, it’d be a shame to miss it! At the end of the year on December 15th we celebrated 3 years
Continue reading »Tildemash – An Isolated Studio Track Mashup Generator
Andy Baio of waxy.org created this excellent random mashup generator using Isolated Studio Tracks from Youtube. It uses simple javascript to randomly select from a prepopulated array of Youtube url ids for each instrument (vocals, guitar, drums, keyboard) and fills the page with the embedded youtube video for those videos. Once the tracks start playing together wonderful (or not so wonderful)
Continue reading »Mix Master, Cut Faster – Risset Accelerando
I’ve posted before about Shepard tones and other audio illusions, but here is another one to wrap your head around. Jean-Claude Risset, who created the Shepard-Risset Glissando (a continuous version of the Shepard tones) also produced the rhythmical equivalent – a beat that appears to get faster and faster (and faster and faster). By layering
Continue reading »Friday Fun – 99 Red Balloons played on Red Balloons
Musician Andrew Huang enjoys a good musical (or ice bucket) challenge. Here he is playing Nena’s 99 Red Balloons on a Red Balloon, with the help of some clever sampling and editing!
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