I found this picture of Herbie Hancock on some dude’s blog. There was no caption or any other context. So I posted it on my Flickr with a note asking if anyone could identify the computer Herbie is sitting in front of. A couple of days later my friend Mike responded with this video of [...]
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Also tagged book, computers, drum machines, eighties, electronica, emotion, funk, herbie hancock, interface, keybs, music, quincy jones, sequencing, sesame street, synths
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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, dance, ddr, guitar hero, improvisation, japan, king of the hill, miles davis, music, music notation, video games, visualization
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My friend Leo told me that he always faces a conflict when shopping for jazz records. He wants to show love for working musicians by buying their newer recordings, but then, he could always just pick up another Miles Davis album and know it’s going to be ridiculously good. Probably my favorite Miles album out [...]
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Also tagged audio editing, book, funk, improvisation, miles davis, music, music theory, recording, recursion, remixes, seventies, sixties, tape editing
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People have been experimenting with using recording playback devices as musical instruments for a hundred years, but the concept didn’t explode into mass consciousness until the rise of hip-hop turntablism in the early 1980s. The breakthrough moment for a lot of people was Herbie Hancock’s song “Rockit” from his 1983 album Future Shock. The song [...]
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Also tagged book, breakdancing, drum machines, eighties, electronica, funk, herbie hancock, hip-hop, keybs, music, pop, remixes, sequencing, synths, turntablism, vocoder
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“Peter Piper” is the leadoff track on Raising Hell, the third album by Run-DMC. It was their big commercial and critical breakthrough. My stepbrother Dan had it on cassette and it pretty much defined the sound of my sixth and seventh grade experience.
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Also tagged bob james, copyright, eighties, hip-hop, looping, memes, music, nursery rhymes, paul simon, run-dmc, sampling, turntablism
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Friday, February 13, 2009
So the other night my friend Jesse played at the Shorty Awards with his Tin Pan Blues Band. Because it was an awards ceremony dedicated to the best of Twitter, they were projecting people’s tweets about the event itself onto a screen in real time. Some of those tweets were comments about the band. The [...]
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Also tagged book, hip-hop, improvisation, interface, internet, iphone, music, social media, stone age, twitter
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