Colossal posted up an article and video about a sea organ installation in Croatia constructed back in 2005. It sounds kinda cool. Check it out at: http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/11/the-sea-organ-makes-perpetual-music-with-ocean-waves/?mc_cid=2f7907f1d8&mc_eid=b70530c66d
I recently stumbled across Slipperman’s Distorted Guitars from Hell again – it’s great reading for music recording and mixing engineers, although can be a bit random and waffling at times. One of the issues is that it was published in a sprawling online format which can be hard to read or come back to. I … Read more Slipperman’s Distorted Guitars from Hell
Ian Shepherd from Production Advice UK has put together a nifty infographic showing the current state of loudness for online music platforms. For the big 3 of Apple Music, YouTube and Spotify, it shows how mastering any louder than -11LKFS is a waste of time and dynamics. Check it out at: http://productionadvice.co.uk/online-loudness/?awt_l=LnRBg&awt_m=3j4kGiVYo8WrcYV
AudioTechnology magazine has a feature in their latest issue which covers recording and mixing of retro drum kit styles covering the 50’s through to 70’s. It’s a pretty cool resource: http://www.audiotechnology.com.au/wp/index.php/how-to-bang-on-retro-drums/
A couple of months ago there was an ABC Radio National Big Ideas program that presented a talk by Kim Williams on the state of arts in Australia. Williams is a media executive, musician and entrepreneur who has managed large organisations including Musica Viva, FoxTel, the Australian Film Commission and more. In the talk, which … Read more Kim Williams on Science and the Arts
I found it interesting that Steve Albini was the keynote speaker at the Face the Music Conference in Melbourne late last year. Albini is best known for engineering a tonne of “records” for bands including The Pixies, Nirvana and Smashing Pumpkins, but also for his own bands Big Black, Rapeman and Shellac. Many years ago … Read more Steve Albini: the internet has solved music’s problem
An interview in the field with Chris Watson: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02npwg1
I came across an interesting open-source “sequencer for digital art” called Iannix. It is quite versatile for creative use, but is essentially a way of interfacing digital drawing or art with sound synthesis. Check it out at: http://www.iannix.org/
This clip uses some techniques that one of my Installations class groups would have loved to have pulled off quite this well… CYMATICS: Science Vs. Music – Nigel Stanford from Nigel Stanford on Vimeo.
This neat little video doing the rounds of the internet at the moment discusses how studies indicate that playing music is good for your brain. Duh.