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Spark of Being and the Mojo
When Dave came to me about making Spark of Being happen live (and knowing that DJ Olive was on sabbatical) I was presented with quite a predicament. Olive’s sounds are inseparable from the film and...
View ArticleGeoff Countryman and the Mojo.
If you’ve seen the live performances of Spark of Being recently, you’ve heard Geoff Countryman with the band, tweaking his new instrument, the Mojo. He’s agreed to post about the idea and the...
View ArticlePro Tools 9 to launch
I have Pro Tools. But truth be told, I’ve never dropped down the dough for the 002-3 needed to run the software. I even sold my mBox a couple years ago. Since, I’ve just relied on the generosity of my...
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The Beatles On iTunes
I was looking around the Apple site for a refurbished iMac yesterday and found the iTunes announcement page. I was curious as to the “Big News.” But this morning, I’m a little let down. First, I’m a...
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musings on nancarrow
Authored by Curtis Macdonald: After a long hiatus, I’ve delved into more of Conlon Nancarrow‘s work for player piano. Inspired by an excerpt from Study No. 33, I’ve programmed a drum set improvisation...
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sampling the harpsichord
Image of the Harpsichord Mechanism Often the music left on the cutting room floor can become the seeds for future projects. A lot of time was spent searching for exotic sounds while in the process of...
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The Greenleaf Cloud Player
We’ve been hard at work on a new way for our community to access our catalog of music. It’s all done, and we’re adopting the buzz term of the year for this delivery system: the Greenleaf Cloud Player....
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Why Spotify is the best, and the worst.
Spotify raises some serious issues for artists and independent labels these days. Jim Tuerk, who works with us here at Greenleaf Music, has done a lot of thinking (and a lot of listening) around...
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Music Morphing
Looking forward to Cheltenham Festival in May. Aside from playing a set with the Quintet plus vocalist Heather Masse, I’ll be part of a panel with Dave Stapleton and others called “Setting Up Your Own...
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Why we’re using Bandcamp
Bandcamp is a microsite storefront used by a lot of independent musicians to sell their music. They offer downloads in almost any format you can think of in a clean shopping cart, embeddable player...
View ArticleThe Freesound Project
The Freesound Project aims to create a huge collaborative database of audio snippets, samples, and recordings, all released under the Creative Commons Sampling Plus License. Developed for the upcoming...
View ArticleNINJAM: Jam sessions via the Internet
Justin Frankel, the creator of Winamp, has just released a new software package called NINJAM. We’ll let him describe it, but if you’ve been searching for a way to play with your band without having to...
View ArticleRadio and digital music: Too little, too late?
BusinessWeek has an article about broadcast radio stations beginning to offer digital music sales on their websites. More than 100 U.S. stations will sell music this way by fall, says Jeff Specter,...
View ArticleSong IDs — Your Way, Right Away?
thedigitalmusicweblog reports: Burger King, of all outfits, has launched a call-in song recognition service tied into its Cok Roq music act. It’s a little complicated, but users call a number, play 15...
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The Handydandy
The Handydandy consists of five media artists from Austria (Bauch Bernhard, Gross Luc, Kirisits Nicolaj, Savicic Gordan, Waldner Florian) using their mobile phones as musical instruments. The mobile...
View ArticleBeam Me Up
We’re getting closer to the kind of hand-held devices used to convey large quantities of data in the Star Trek series. To me, it seems it’s just a matter of time before all of our information will be...
View ArticleInternet is the new radio?
Slashdot has a post about how the Internet is affecting how music and people meet. Richard Menta from MP3 Newswire recently posted an article that describes how the Net has shifted his tastes from main...
View ArticlePaypal micropayments
According to a shareholder.com press release: PayPal, the global online payment service, today announced new micropayments processing fees for digital goods. The new pricing will provide merchants with...
View ArticlePearl Jam’s “Digital Bootlegs”
Yet another way that musicians are using the Internet to offer products they previously couldn’t: SEATTLE – Beginning with Pearl Jam’s sold out concert at the Gorge in George, Washington on September...
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