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Posted 3 weeks ago

If you don’t get turntablists, this will help. Kid Koala scratching a trumpet improv over a jazz back track. Changing the speed of the LP changes the pitch. Very expressive and awesome.

(Source: Boing Boing)

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Posted 2 months ago
wearethe99percent: I am the former lead singer of a 60’s band THE CHAMBERS BROTHERS. I performed before thousands at Atlanta Pop2, Miami Pop, Newport Pop, Atlantic pop. I didn’t squander my money on drugs or a million dollar home. I went from 1967-1994 before I saw my first royalty check from a music giant I recorded 7 albums with. I have NEVER seen a penny in royalties from the other 10 albums I recorded. Our hit song was licensed to over 100 films, tv, & commercials WITHOUT our permission. One of the major tv network used our song for a national commercial and my payment was only $625. I am now 72 and am trying to live on $1200 a month. SWEET RELIEF, a music charity is taking donations for me. Only the 1% rich artists can afford to sue. I AM ONE OF THE 99% Zoom

wearethe99percent:

I am the former lead singer of a 60’s band THE CHAMBERS BROTHERS. I performed before thousands at Atlanta Pop2, Miami Pop, Newport Pop, Atlantic pop. I didn’t squander my money on drugs or a million dollar home. I went from 1967-1994 before I saw my first royalty check from a music giant I recorded 7 albums with. I have NEVER seen a penny in royalties from the other 10 albums I recorded. Our hit song was licensed to over 100 films, tv, & commercials WITHOUT our permission. One of the major tv network used our song for a national commercial and my payment was only $625. I am now 72 and am trying to live on $1200 a month. SWEET RELIEF, a music charity is taking donations for me. Only the 1% rich artists can afford to sue. I AM ONE OF THE 99%

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Posted 4 months ago

Diego Stocco - Improv on a Trash Bin

(Source: vimeo.com)

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Posted 8 months ago

Music From A Dry Cleaner. Diego Stocco records a piece of music by using the machines as musical instruments.

It appears he is listening to some kind of tempo track on an iPod, which he plays along to, improvising and recording segments. The segments can then be turned into loops, where that makes sense, and all the pieces composed together in software.

The video is then edited to play the finished track and show which things are making what sounds.

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Posted 10 months ago
“So how did I edit a music video using the brand new timeline in FCPX?” —Kaysha Zoom

“So how did I edit a music video using the brand new timeline in FCPX?”
—Kaysha

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Posted 11 months ago
Which one of these pixel drawings, based on a photograph, infringes copyright? (There is no right answer. It’s anyone’s guess.) Personally, I’d say they were all too low resolution to matter. The image in the top left was created as cover art for a digital download album: an interpretation of Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue album using ultra low resolution synthesiser sounds from video games from the 1980s called, Kind of Bloop. It seems entirely appropriate that this artwork is for the cover of a jazz album. In many forms of music, the important thing is the originality of the song. In jazz - and hip hop, incidentally - the originality of the song is less important than your interpretation of it. The pixel drawing is a reinterpretation of a cover for an album that is a reinterpretation of a reinterpretation. However, it was also a legal bomb. The state of copyright at the moment is improving I think, acknowledging to some extent, the new digital, democratised media we now work with. But it is like a minefield that has mostly been cleared. Odds are good you can creatively act in good faith without worry of having to come up with a $32,000 settlement fee. On the other hand, if you are unlucky, you get hit and wonder if it wouldn’t be better working in a bank. Zoom

Which one of these pixel drawings, based on a photograph, infringes copyright?

(There is no right answer. It’s anyone’s guess.)

Personally, I’d say they were all too low resolution to matter.

The image in the top left was created as cover art for a digital download album: an interpretation of Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue album using ultra low resolution synthesiser sounds from video games from the 1980s called, Kind of Bloop.

It seems entirely appropriate that this artwork is for the cover of a jazz album. In many forms of music, the important thing is the originality of the song. In jazz - and hip hop, incidentally - the originality of the song is less important than your interpretation of it. The pixel drawing is a reinterpretation of a cover for an album that is a reinterpretation of a reinterpretation.

However, it was also a legal bomb. The state of copyright at the moment is improving I think, acknowledging to some extent, the new digital, democratised media we now work with. But it is like a minefield that has mostly been cleared. Odds are good you can creatively act in good faith without worry of having to come up with a $32,000 settlement fee. On the other hand, if you are unlucky, you get hit and wonder if it wouldn’t be better working in a bank.

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Posted 11 months ago

Animated, night time, time lapse photography music video. Very beautiful (and an awful lot of work).

(Source: vimeo.com)