One of the things that can really make your music stand out from the crowd and give it a professional sheen is high quality mastering. Mastering is a very different process from mixing which many amateur musicians who record their own tracks unfortunately often ignore. A fantastic place to start to learn about the art
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“It’s Lego, and it’s playing guitar :)”
I’m not sure there’s much I can add to the quote in the title, because what more do you need! Youtube user fastythefastcat built a guitar playing robot using a basic Lego Mindstorms kit and it’s a great addition to the mechanical music files. The top comment on the video gives a little more background.
Continue reading »Climate Data Sonification – Insert Boiling Frog Analogy Here
Daniel Crawford of the University of Minnesota has created a piece which maps over a hundred years of temperature records to a piece for string quartet. The piece breaks the global temperature data into 4 regions and maps the average annual temperature for each region to the musical notes. This is a beautiful piece of
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Since my sight reading isn’t exactly up to par these days, I tried to find good, easy-to-use, online music notation software that could play back via midi so I could hear what a snippet of a score sounded like. (Specifically the background to this Hans Zimmer twitter profile). Digging around I did find Noteflight, which
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