Gizmodo has a hands on video review of the much lusted after Tenori-On. It is going to be available May 1st for $1200 but only about a hundred units a month. I smell a black market. Read more at CDM Article 1 & Article2.
Monthly Archive for April, 2008
My adblocker is not working so great lately. I read youtube comments by mistake. I got rickrolled(people still do that?) I get emails at work that have been forward 9 times before they get to me. All that forwarding so that a demotivational poster that I have seen 10,000 times already can add to the clutter of my inbox. I start thinking this Internet business is just a load of crap. The BS outweighs the benefit. We all probably feel like that from time to time.
Luckily, I found Resonance FM the other day and I like this Internet thing again. The cultural backwater I live in would never having anything like it. But I found it in cyberspace. Yea, Internet. To be fair I can’t imagine there are too many other radio stations like it anywhere. You could maybe find similar things elsewhere on the Internet but most likely not in one place.
The fact that it is actually going out of the airwaves makes it much cooler. There are other weird & wonderful web radio stations streaming strange bits to us across cyberspace but to have the weird & wonderful affirmed by bricks and mortar is makes me warm inside. It does a little to renew my faith in a world that seems all too homogenized and bland as a individually wrapped slice of American cheese all to often.
I found this craziness because on simonsound via musicthing mentioning The Tone Generation show. It is cool show and I am looking forward to listening to the next installment. But I liked other things even better. Listen live is great because you never know what it is going to be music, sound art or talk. I like some of the podcasts also. 8bit Adventures of a Bored Office Worker which seems to be a short lived podcast from last year but it might be the most necessary radio show ever(or course I have had the Zelda song stuck in my head of the last coupe decades.) Every station needs an 8-bit show.
Celemony Software’s Direct Note Access is making news outside of music making circles. Technology Review has a pretty good 2 page article on it.
I am not a very big fan of Elvis Costello. And hate tribute guitars normally. But the new Elvis Costello Jazzmaster is pretty cool looking axe. The walnut finish is nice. Jazzmasters have always kind of been the red headed step child of the Fender line. I think even the Mustang and Jaguar have gotten more love lately. But I like the look and the sound of the Jazzmaster. Looking at the Elvis model I discovered there is a J. Masic Jazzmaster also. I have always liked Dinosaur Jr and J.’s playing is wonderful and truly original. But it is sparkly purple. Even if it sounds great ick.
This video of a neat little cigar box is from Tuttle Soundlabs. You can find more cool gadgets from them here.
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Hobnox has this flash based audiotool as they called it. Amazing what they can do with flash now or online apps period for that matter. It is basically simulations of 2 303’s & 1 909 clones, a line mixer and some guitar effects pedals. You can route things anyway you wish which makes it fun as hell. You could make a whole album with setup people have done it. There is currently no way to save or export but I am interested in what will happen with this and other things like it in the near future.
For now it is great fun to screw around with at work. I think iIam annoying the piss out of a co-worker but hey it is my break/lunch/need some time to keep from going crazy time by running drums through never ending delays and crazy acidy baseline time.
links: hobnox audio demo hobnox homepage
Ah, crazy life. I can’t believe it was only yesterday. But it was yesterday I posted about the new Pitchfork.tv. Well, on it today is a video tour of Death by Audio’s pedal making empire.
Good viewing lovers of noisy music or noisy gadgets.
I just found this crazy little box on the web. This I have posted quite a bit of video related stuff lately this Analogue Video Synthesizer is fitting. Be sure to check out the video of it action. It can really mangle. You should explore the rest of the site also. It is a bit odd but the is some cool stuff to be found.
