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
Continue reading »“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
Continue reading »Rondo Alla Turca is Still Hard to Play on Touch Pianist
Touch Pianist is another great HTML 5 Web Audio project, that allows you to play some favorite classical music pieces without having to worry about annoying minor little details like playing the right notes. The web app (and iOS app) responds to key presses or touch events to play the next note or chord in
Continue reading »Spectrogram of a Dial-Up Modem Handshake Sequence
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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