Thursday, December 3, 2009
Boys And Dance Floors Revival Revival vs Janet Jackson mp3 download, ipod format download Right-click or option click the links to save the track to your computer. There are as many different ways of writing songs as there are songwriters. Barbara Singer and I have arrived at a good one, so I figured I’d share [...]
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Also tagged composing, Improvisation, janet jackson, looping, pro tools, production, reason, Recording, remixes, revival revival, Sampling, songwriting
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Here’s Revival Revival’s arrangement of Lionel Richie’s classic “Dancin’ On The Ceiling.” Ohhh What A Feelin’ Revival Revival vs Lionel Richie vs Michael Jackson mp3 download, ipod format download Vocals, guitar and bass by Babsy. Beats, loops and production by me. The beat is from “Billie Jean.” We love this song. Here’s the original.
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Also tagged billie jean, dance, eighties, guitar, lionel richie, michael jackson, pop, remixes, revival revival, rock, Sampling, typography
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Saturday, October 3, 2009
Okay, so we’ve all firmly established that he’s not exactly Mr Personality. President Obama called him a jackass. Even before he disrupted the MTV awards, a lot of my friends disliked him intensely. This dislike crosses racial, class and gender boundaries. And yet, I like Kanye’s music better than just about anything that anyone is [...]
Filed in Emotion, Key Musicians, Music, Race and Identity
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Also tagged depression, drum machines, electronica, Emotion, hip-hop, kanye west, lil wayne, masculinity, pop, posthuman, remixes, t-pain, taylor swift
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See a followup post about female remixes of “A Milli” Lil Wayne and I have some differences of style and taste: about facial tattoos, about drinking cough syrup recreationally, about jewelry on one’s teeth. But we agree about music. He brags constantly that he’s the best rapper alive. I think he makes a pretty good [...]
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Also tagged america, anxiety, class, cole porter, comedy, computers, drum machines, Evolution, hip-hop, Improvisation, irony, kanye west, lil wayne, memes, michael jackson, minimalism, natalie portman, natural selection, Recording, recursion, remixes, Sampling, snl, Social Media, t-pain, white people
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See a followup post on the Gregorys’ breakout hit, the “Bed Intruder Song.” The Gregory Brothers (including a sister-in-law) are musicians here in Brooklyn who have a series of videos called Auto-tune The News. Here are a selection of their better episodes as of this writing.
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Also tagged anxiety, audio editing, comedy, computers, Evolution, hip-hop, joe biden, katie couric, martin luther king jr, mashups, Music, Music Theory, news, Politics, pop, rnb, steven mithen, tv, youtube
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Auto-tune makes producing music easier. It can also make understanding music theory easier. The way you dial up different keys and scales doesn’t just guide your ear, it also guides your eye. Your voice can produce a smooth continuum of pitches. To sing, you eliminate most of those possibilities, vibrating your mouth and throat only [...]
Filed in Math, Music, Music Teaching, Music Theory, Software
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Also tagged audio, binary, electronica, harmony, hip-hop, informationtheory, john coltrane, kanye west, lil wayne, Math, Music, Music Theory, pro tools
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Wednesday, December 3, 2008
My experience with Auto-tune has felt like stepping out the door of a rocket ship to explore a whole new sonic planet. Auto-tune entered my musical life mainly from my work with Barbara Singer, who I met in 2003. She posted in the Craigslist Musicians section about this gig she had at the now-defunct Korova [...]
Filed in Math, Music, Software
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Also tagged audio editing, electronica, fourier, fun, hip-hop, imaginarynumbers, kanye west, karaoke, lil wayne, multitracking, Music, Music Theory, pop, posthuman, pro tools, quantum, revival revival, Software
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