Here’s a track I’m working on, based around a couple of envelope filtered samples of Beethoven’s string quartet in A minor, opus 132, 3rd movement. Filtered Beethoven [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Me vs Guarneri Quartet vs Babsy Singer vs Don Henley vs DJ Trace mp3 download, ipod format download Envelope filter is [...]
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Also tagged bjork, effects, electronica, envelope filter, jerry garcia, led zeppelin, mutron, posthuman, stevie wonder, wah pedal
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This weekend my electronica band Revival Revival is doing some shows for the first time in many months. We’ll be doing a lot of what my non-electronic-musician friends consider to be cheating. The lead vocals and guitar will be live, as will some of the synths. Everything else will be canned, recordings played back from [...]
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Also tagged authenticity, electronica, guitar, improvisation, lionel richie, michael jackson, midi, miles davis, pop, pro tools, remixes, revival revival, songwriting
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Thursday, December 3, 2009
Boys And Dance Floors [Audio clip: view full post to listen] 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 [...]
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Also tagged autotune, composing, improvisation, janet jackson, looping, pro tools, production, recording, remixes, revival revival, sampling, songwriting
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Saturday, September 12, 2009
Over the weekend we stayed with Anna’s sister Joanna, her husband Chris and their adorable new baby Lucas. Chris and I spent some of the time talking about electronic music and the internet. He’s a social media professional and a music fan but not a musician, and it was cool to hear his perspective on [...]
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Also tagged book, daft punk, delicious, design, drum machines, electronica, fun, interface, internet, inudge, minimalism, multitracking, remixes, sequencing, social media, tenori-on, toys, visualization, web browser
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This is a picture of my electronic funk-soul-R&B band doing a show. From left to right, it’s Nicole Bishop, me and Barbara Singer. We were the whole band for that show. I did all the beats, samples and keyboards from my computer using a video game controller. Here’s a screenshot of the program that the [...]
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Also tagged book, composing, electronica, hip-hop, improvisation, interface, keybs, mapping, max/msp, midi, programming, sampling, sequencing, synths, video games
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One of the greatest weirdnesses of electronic music is the sampling keyboard. You press a key and any sound recording you want pops out, at whatever pitch. The recent passing of John Hughes made me think of the scene in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off when Ferris samples his coughing and puking on an E-mu Emulator [...]
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Also tagged audio, beatles, book, eighties, ferris bueller, grateful dead, jazz, john hughes, keybs, mellotron, midi, music, recording, recursion, sampling, synths, tape, yello
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In my laptop band Revival Revival, we use Reason for all of our instrumental sounds and sample playback. The newest version has a handy color-coding feature in the sequencer, which makes it easy for me to be able to keep track of which part of which song happens in which order. Having all the tunes [...]
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Also tagged book, electronica, hip-hop, mashups, music, music notation, notation, recursion, revival revival, sampling, screencaps, sequencing, symmetry, visualization
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Saturday, November 8, 2008
I produce electronic music, on my own and with my bands like Revival Revival. We use a lot, and I mean a lot, of samples of copyrighted material. If you’re worried about our legal well-being, be at ease. We have yet to make a nickel from any of it, and if we ever eventually do, [...]
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Also tagged audacity, audio, audio editing, book, copyright, creative commons, electronica, hip-hop, mashups, memes, mp3, music, opensource, pro tools, remixes, sampling
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