Fluke: Play FLAC in iTunes
I don’t know how this escaped me for so long, but I just discovered a plugin for Mac OS X that allows iTunes to read and play FLAC files. It’s call Fluke. Very easy to install and use. And it’s free. I...
View ArticleSpeaking Piano
A short break from shipping out the first wave of preorders… Kudos to my buddy Patrick’s feed for that and all the other great posts.
View ArticleFLAC: What it is. Why you want it. How to use it.
We want you to know about FLAC files because it’s a relatively new way of downloading excellent sounding music. Sounds better than MP3, sounds as good as a CD, uses no packaging or shipping products,...
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Money Vid + Miles Phones
After a short tour out East and back, I’m back in the office working away. It was a great trip, but good to be home and away from rest stops and fast food. A few things that were sent to me over the...
View ArticleSkratchbox
Never ceases to amaze me what creative people can do with bare essentials and contact microphones… While watching that, all I wanted to do was run the sound into a Kaos Pad and maybe some delay and get...
View ArticleAre you ready to meet the grandfather of the synthesizer?
Berna vintage electronic studio from Tobor Experiment on Vimeo. Berna 1.0 (MAC OSX) Vintage Electronic Studio Between the 1950s and the mid 1960s, long before Robert Moog and Wendy Carlos injected...
View ArticleNewport Archives
I just got wind of Wolfgangs Vault opening the flood gates of archived material dating back to the second Newport Festival via Ben Ratliff’s article at the Times. “…posting free streams of a handful of...
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Stanford Mobile Phone Orchestra
The Times gives front page coverage: Ge Wang, the assistant professor of music who leads the two-year-old Stanford group, says the iPhone may be the first instrument — electronic or acoustic — that...
View ArticleSpin
This will make Jim happy: Vinyl Records and Turntables Are Gaining Sales from the Times. The bins above the boxes hold new records — freshly pressed albums of classic rock as well as vinyl versions of...
View ArticleOld-industry bootleggers complain about sagging sales
In a classic case of irony sent on by Greenleaf commenter Mike Grimaldi, “Scorpio” talks about the golden days of smash hit bootlegs and how the Internet has ruined his business. From NY Mag: The music...
View ArticleEarly Bird Special
Lot o’ guitar noise happening on my speakers as of late. This fit right in. Early Bird Special: Old and Busted: Songbirds. New Hotness: Avant-noise birds. Thanks Graham.
View ArticleChime
I subscribe to a few tech blog feeds and a lot of my friends I’m linked to via Google Reader have similar interests. There’s an endless supply new devices, apps, and games announced almost daily. Such...
View ArticleA New Listening Project
I have a new listening project. It’s a pretty mammoth undertaking. As you can assume from my job and past posts, I am an avid listener of music. I love vinyl. I love CDs. I love digital. All means to...
View ArticleSpotlight on Stanford Lively Arts
There’s a great feature on Stanford Lively Arts director Jenny Bilfield posted yesterday at the MetroActive site. An excerpt from the story of how Reich’s Double Sextet came to be: Upon hanging up the...
View ArticleSampletoy
Again with a techy post for those of us musician iPhone users… Sampletoy looks much like the Korg Kaos pad, a really cool tool for any instrument. Gonna be downloading this one soon. From...
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Discovery and Deletion: Alphabetical Listening, Pt 2
Last month I started a listening project in which I vowed to listen to my whole iTunes library in alphabetical order sorted by songs. Last week, I updated and said I had stopped due to the strains in...
View ArticleThis Is Beautiful
As blogged at more than 95 theses. PRODUCED AND MANAGED BY: Scott Haines COMPOSED AND CONDUCTED BY: Eric Whitacre Representing 12 Countries: Austria, Argentina, Canada, Germany, Ireland, New Zealand,...
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You Built What?!
One of the coolest things about electronics is that you can make pretty much anything electronic. With MIDI, synths, triggering, software, etc the possibilities are endless. Case and point. The...
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Writing on the road
I played a one-off in Iowa City this past week. We’ve always had a good turnout at this specific club so we decided to bring a lite horn section with us to kind of cement us in there. Funny how adding...
View ArticleElectribe for iPads
The iPad is all the rage at the moment. I have to say, as cool as they look, I’m going to stick with my iPhone for the moment. There’s an interesting perspective on this technology over at Boing Boing...
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