Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Ohhh What A Feelin’ [Audio clip: view full post to listen] 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 autotune, billie jean, eighties, guitar, lionel richie, michael jackson, pop, remixes, revival revival, rock, sampling, typography
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I can’t breakdance. I want to learn. It looks like fun. When I worked for the Parks Department I was involved in their afterschool programs. One of them met in the Alfred E Smith Recreation Center in the housing project of the same name. In the basketball gym, Roc-a-fella (the b-girl, not the record label) [...]
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Also tagged breakdancing, disco, electronica, fan art, funk, grandmaster flash, hip-hop, michael jackson, nyc, turntablism, youtube
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009
My family does not, as a general rule, dance. Maybe individually. Very rarely together. It takes a wedding or bar mitzvah or other major state occasion to get even some of us on the dance floor. When left to our own devices, it doesn’t happen spontaneously. At least not until last Thanksgiving, when we tried [...]
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Today the Michael Jackson fan art I have on my mind (and on the ipod) is “Please Don’t Stop The Music,” sung by Rihanna and produced by a couple of Norwegian guys. It includes a sample of MJ singing “Wanna Be Startin’ Something.” The sample includes both his quasi-Swahili chant and his unearthly woo-hoo. It [...]
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Also tagged beatboxing, book, eighties, fan art, funk, improvisation, manu dibango, memes, michael jackson, pop, recursion, remixes, rihanna, sampling, seventies, songwriting, soul, soul makossa
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Thursday, August 13, 2009
Here’s one of my favorite bits of South Park.
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Also tagged america, beatles, book, electronica, gender, guitar hero, masculinity, recording, remixes, rock, rock band, simulation, south park, video games, visualization
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It’s no accident that music and games share the verb “to play.” Both music and games are semi-structured forms of social learning. As far as I’m concerned, the most exciting thing happening in the video game world is the explosion of music-based games like Dance Dance Revolution.
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Also tagged book, ddr, guitar hero, improvisation, japan, jazz, king of the hill, miles davis, music, music notation, video games, visualization
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Here’s a more specific post on programming various well-known beats. The brain is a pattern recognition machine. We like repetition and symmetry. But we only like it up to a point. Once we’ve recognized and memorized the pattern, we get bored and stop paying attention. If the pattern changes or breaks, it grabs our attention [...]
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Also tagged book, drum machines, drumming, electronica, hip-hop, looping, meditation, music, programming, questlove, recursion, repetition, rhythm, time
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