Music of Sound

I’ve invested lots of thinking time & research into launching a new parallel site to this blog & I thought I’d share some of the resources & sites i’ve been using to formulate my plans… My new site is hopefully only a month or so away from going live, but as with all things it will be a continual work in progress… Accordingly, please add any links to sites or resources relevant to online music/media distribution in the comments that you think I should also check out… thanks!

Thinnerism: Constraints to overcome towards the total netlabel

Media Futurist – Gerd Leonhard

Liz Rosenthal – Power to the Pixel

Peter Broderick

Fans, Friends & Followers by Scott Kirsner

Andrew Dubbers New Music Strategies

Bob Baker

Music Think Tank

Dave Kusek – Future of Music

Creative Commons

How To Negotiate A Creative Commons License: Ten Steps

The Workbook Project

Lawerence Lessig – Remix

Digital Audio Insider

Know the Music Biz

HypeBot

David Byrne’s Survival Strategies for Emerging Artists

This speech given by Jim Griffin at Midem 2009 is definitely worth a read for an overview:PDF here

that sound would be perfect in a drum&bass or dubstep tune!

& excuse the lack of posts this week; we finished the final mix for Under The Mountain last friday, screened the mix yesterday afternoon & are now busy making all the subtle changes with deadline of finishing by the end of Wednesday. Then its print master & deliveries… and then I’m on holiday!

Got 3 new modules coming for my synth; a Doepfer theremin controller (cant wait to try it bending AFG subsonics) plus a Doepfer Waveshaper and a Flight of Harmony Plague Bearer… which will hopefully arrive to coincide with my newfound freedom! Being too busy to make music is one of the best forms of delayed gratification!

from a youtube commenter: “The device works by sending two ultrasound beams. One has the carrier wave and the other has the modulating wave. People don’t normally hear either, but when they cross, they add up and the difference of the two signals becomes audible e.g. 48 kHz + 46 kHz produces what is called a beat frequency of 2 kHz which people can hear.”

More info here: “The last key property of HSS is its ability to focus sound. The ultrasonic waves don’t dissipate, traveling pretty much straight ahead. So sound from an HSS speaker can travel 150 yards without distortion or loss of volume, while anyone outside the path hears nothing.”

Company site here

thanks for the tip Michael!

I just love the planar grid that slowly undulates – it makes me think of a certain kind of slow music…..

First trailer for Where The Wild Things Are by Spike Jonze