Playing the Mid-Hudson bridge.
Some dude banged on a bridge and made some pretty awesome songs out of it.
The Daily Swarm Interview: Steve Albini on Recording 2,000 Albums, Nirvana, How Geffen Tried to Put Him Out of Business.
A really fantastic and thoughtful interview. I hate you, Ryan, for not recording with him.
iNudge is an incredibly cool little music web app that anyone can use.
Don’t miss the instruments on the right…
Super useful graphic of common frequency ranges for various instruments.
For all you bedroom studio technicians.
Audiophiles vs. Audio Files.
Wired goes into the digital divide between tape and computer-based recording. Steve Albini, as usual, is obstinately wrong about everything.
Breakcore artist Jason Forrest has created a prettty awesome looking sampled-based iPhone app.
Check out the video.
A history of the Amen Break: The world's most important 6 second drum loop.
I could swear I posted this before, but the search tuned up nothing.
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Recording Music
I took a nice 4-night 3-day beach vacation this past weekend at some friends’ bungalow in Belmar. Sunday night, my buddy Brian and I goofed around enough to create a few killer tracks (or at least the beer said it was killer). We took turns playing either a push organ or a snare/maracas setup, while we both made up sounds and harmonies.
As usual, we were upset to not have anything to record with. Is a 4-tracker recorder a good idea? I have an iMac and Garage Band. Should I just use that and get a good microphone?
Mind-blowing new auto-tune software
A software company has created a piece of software that allows you to fundamentally dismantle sound and reconstruct or move it around. No more “Cher effects” on auto-tuned voices, which is cool enough. But even cool is that fact that you can take real recordings of strummed guitar chords, break them into single notes, and pitch-adjust inside the chord itself; switching major to minor, or building entirely new chords.
The screencast is pretty impressive, even if you have no interest in audio recording.