Brian Eno On Singing (1)
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British composer, artist and activist Brian Eno was a founding member of the rock group Roxy Music, has produced recordings by Talking Heads and U2 and created the genre of ambient music. Eno’s latest album, Everything That Happens Will Happen Today, is a collaboration with David Byrne. He recently talked with NPR, as part of their This I Believe series, about the importance of singing: Singing: The Key To A Long Life by Brian Eno ...
Buddha Machine 2: All-in-One $25 Ambient Box Gets a Sequel (3)
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In the midst of the US election, I missed an important announcement: the smash hit Buddha Machine, a mysterious little $25 gadget that generates its own ambient music, has a sequel. You might think of Buddha Machine 2 as Buddha Machine Pro. New features: A bigger sonic palette, with nine loops Pitch bend (which the creators describe as being “like a whammy bar for your buddha box”) Three colors (well, it is a consumer product ...
ONST: Square-Enix’s Rad Original Non-Soundtracks (1)
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When talking about the good ol’ Square-Enix days, back when most every game they published was either very good or at least interesting, it’s impossible not to note their stable of composers. Nobuo Uematsu, Yasunori Mitsuda, Yoko Shimomura, and a number of other remarkable musicians have received more international acclaim and love from listeners of their videogame soundtracks than most Japanese traditional musicians. You may have noticed that we ourselves have something of a penchant ...
Tracking Voices: Attack, Sustain, Decay (1)
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In trying to understand something like “Track,” I find that as a new angle is uncovered I need to make note of it before it slips back into the aether. Part of understanding is explaining something to yourself, and then trying to explain it to someone else. It’s turning a shard of a mental image into a story. Understanding the signal-to-noise ratio in that transmission is one measure of success. Sometimes a transmission can carry ...
For voters, the political is psychological (4)
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An article in the Association for Psychological Science's AP Observer points out what TEDsters like Jonathan Haidt have known all along: Our psychology, and our emotions, likely play a larger part in how we cast our votes than any careful consideration of the issues. As Haidt reminds us in his 2008 TEDTalk, ideology, whether liberal or conservative, is based on implicit psychological preferences, with liberals valuing new experiences and flexibility while conservatives favor stability and ...
Brian Eno's *Bloom* Raises the Bar for Musical iPhone Apps [IPhone Apps] (5)
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Brian Eno, the father of ambient music and one of the greatest musical minds of our time, has just teamed up with musician/programmer Peter Chilvers to create one of the coolest, most unique iPhone apps to hit the App Store yet. Called Bloom, it's "part instrument, part composition and part artwork." It's also a must-get. Unlike most music-creation apps, it doesn't take an existing musical instrument and cram it awkwardly into the iPhone's interface. Instead, ...
Bloom: Brian Eno's ambient music app for iPhone (4)
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Filed under: Audio, Fun, Games, iPhoneBrian Eno is one of my favorite composers, so I was thrilled to hear that he was releasing a new composition tool for the iPhone. It's called Bloom, and it lets you generate, play and visualize ambient music. It's hard to explain how this works, but you basically tap the screen in different places to generate sounds. The sounds you play repeat periodically to form a composition. Because the notes ...
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Would be nice if I had an iPhone test this! I love Brian Eno!!
Godfather of Ambient Creates iPhone App (2)
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Seemingly not content with having fathered an entire musical genre, pioneered generative music, produced U2’s Where The Streets Have No Name, collaborated with Bowie and generally rubbed-shoulders with a raft of modern music legends, Brian Eno has now released his first iPhone app dubbed Bloom ($3.99). Developed by Peter Chilvers, in collaboration with Eno, the app is described as, “Part instrument, part composition and part artwork…” The idea is that anybody can play with Bloom ...
The Genius of Lester Bangs: Selected Excerpts (1)
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Any music fan worth his or her salt needs to read Lester Bangs. That’s because unlike most “rock” critics, Bangs was first and foremost a fan. And a passionate, “music is my whole life” kind of fan at that. Objectivity was not in his vocabulary and politeness can fuck off because Bangs told it like it was. Crude, rude, and unapologetic, Bangs words were snarling, blaring off the page with the volume and rhythm of ...
Lessons in Innovation from Spore (1)
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Electronic Arts finally released Sims-creator Will Wright's newest game, Spore this week. I'm not really a gamer, but it looks to be an intriguing and engaging game. I actually saw a demo of a prototype a couple of years ago (Wright demo'd it prolifically during its long gestation period), at an outstanding talk Wright gave along with composer/producer Brian Eno in San Francisco. The talk, put on by the Long Now Foundation, explored a common ...
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