Scratch. A real history lesson.

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Broke* // Official Trailer

Broke* chronicles the stories of artists and executives searching for ways to thrive in the face of today’s music industry challenges. Featuring candid interviews with industry insiders and intimate profiles of some of the brightest emerging musical talent in the country, the film digs beneath the clichés and standard storylines to reveal an industry struggling to find a new identity and an artist who’s simply trying to establish one.

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40 Sad Portraits Of Closed Record Stores: Pics, Videos, Links, News (via @tapejens)

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Barcodas - iOS barcode music generator by http://www.nr74.org/

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New Björk album “Biophilia” is an iOS app. (via digitaltools)

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Cry Baby: The Pedal That Rocks The World (by Joey Tosi)

Cry Baby: The Pedal That Rocks The World tells the story of the wah wah effect pedal, from its invention in 1966 to the present day. Musicians, engineers, and historians discuss the impact of the pedal on popular music and demonstrate the various ways it has been used, as well as how its evolution has improved the ability of artists to express themselves musically. The film features interviews with Brad Plunkett, the inventor of the pedal, plus many other musical luminaries such as Ben Fong-Torres, Eddie Van Halen, Slash, Buddy Guy, Art Thompson, Eddie Kramer, Kirk Hammett, Dweezil Zappa, and Jim Dunlop. These professionals explain how a musical novelty transcended convention and has become timelessly woven into the fabric of modern pop-culture.

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GAME BOY MUSIC (but not the kind you’re thinking of)

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Generative Online Sound Sequencer - Otomata

Otomata is a generative sequencer. It employs a cellular automaton type logic I’ve devised to produce sound events.

Each alive cell has 4 states: Up, right, down, left. at each cycle, the cells move themselves in the direction of their internal states. If any cell encounters a wall, it triggers a pitched sound whose frequency is determined by the xy position of collision, and the cell reverses its direction. If a cell encounters another cell on its way, it turns itself clockwise.

This set of rules produces chaotic results in some settings, therefore you can end up with never repeating, gradually evolving sequences. Go add some cells, change their orientation by clicking on them, and press play, experiment, have fun.

http://www.earslap.com/projectslab/otomata

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NodeBeat - iOS Music Sequencer (by AffinityBlue)

NodeBeat is an experimental node-based audio sequencer and generative music application for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad.

i just played a couple if minutes with it, and what a video can not capture are features like “gravity” - so the playing ground reacts to the iphone’s gyro sensors. fun!

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EightBitBeats - a social 8 Bit music sequencer

Created as part of the 48-hour Node Knockout programming competition, where teams of programmers were to create a web-based app in a weekend using node.js

The idea is interesting, yet not polished - with a little more work this could be a fun collaborative site, but the basics are there. You have a sequencer board, with six types of instruments. A Mega-Man sprite runs from left to right as the timer. Other participants can join in, setting up their own sequences, composing together. You can chat and interact. You can’t, though, save your compositions, and each online user can only operate one type of instrument at a time, and if you change your instrument, you lose whatever you have been working on.

The video above best demonstrates the idea, using the Streetfighter II track ‘Ken’s Theme’ as an example.

For more info about the development from a coder perspective, this post gives all the details you need.

Otherwise: http://eightbitbeats.com/

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