SoundCloud is an awesome website for streaming music. It’s so simple to create a track these days on your computer and then upload it. Nothing new there.
The interesting thing about Sound Cloud is that you can post comments along this blue line shown:
At any point in the song, you can click your mouse onto that point and write a comment. Maybe ‘nice drop’ or ‘i love these drums here’ or even ‘that sounds a bit sketchy, maybe you should change it’. It is able to help musicians understand which specific parts of their songs are liked and which could be removed. This is just another step towards a completely interactive world- we’re helping the artist make their songs better.
A couple of years ago, the band Radiohead released all the parts of their single ‘Nude’ for people to download on iTunes and rearrange. You can download the bass, drum, guitar, string FX and voice stems, remix them and upload them to the Radiohead website, where you can listen to the top 10 best versions.
While people have been remixing for a long time, I hope that in the future bands will allow people to remix their songs for free. The world’s largest collaboration, all thanks to the internet.
was a fantastic day in Melbourne today.
summer is coming
no more darkness at 5pm
no more sleeping with blankets
no more wearing 5 layers of clothes
no more fucking beanies
today i walked through a park. yeah.
and i really enjoyed it. i felt like there was music playing like this song by Bill Withers (who?) or someone with a “soulful” (possibly not a word) voice.
anyway, as i was walking i realised that i actually wanted to stay outside, rather than rushing to get home because of the temperature. summer’s gon be good as i’s reckon
Dis week we talked about Spatial Montage, Spatial Narrative and Multiple Perspectives. I loved all the things Seth showed us regarding ’split-screen’, and I started thinking about how this could be “the future of cinema” as Seth prophecised. There has already been a film made called “Timecode” (Mike Figgis; 2000) in which there are four screens, each showing a different character. The audio track then plays the track that the director wants us to focus attention on. It think this would look really cool but it’s not actually that groundbreaking.
It is, however, an investigation into better use of “screen space” something which is brought up in the textbook “New Screen Media: Cinema/Art/Narrative”, a book which apparently speaks about breaking narrative conventions in film and exploring space in the screen.
Another interesting and bizarre thing we saw was a Youtube clip of this guy, John Cage creating sounds by playing 12 radio channels together and seeing what comes up. To me, it sounded like a lot of weird noise; no harmony, rhythm or beat, so why would anyone want to listen to it. Sounds like art for art’s sake, but decide for yourselves…
Wats the deal with people trying to get famous as a singer/musician/watever using Youtube. It worked for Justin bieber, but now everyone hates him- check out these facebook groups.
Everyone wants to get famous “the easy way”, and it would seem that the best way to get your face out there is over the internet. But I think you really need a) talent and b) a miracle (eg. Usher discovering your video) (shout out to usher). Maybe the internet has made the world so much smaller (not literally, more like “oh what a small world” kind of way) that everyone thinks that their dream of everyone knowing who they are is much more attainable.
On the other hand, the internet has now created so many different communities, that maybe people just wanna upload their vids so that other musos can check them out, review them, contact them or whatever.
Either way, you no doubt feel as though you are making a bigger impact on the world by playing over the net rather than playing at the local pub in front of 5 peeps. Thank godd for the internet
I was only gna tell you about this one blog that I love looking at, hipster runoff, but I thought I’d show you another one which was kept by my friend George for about 6 months, which he called Oligarchical Machinations (not very catchy, I know).
Hipster Runoff, written by this guy who is known only as Carles, is a sort of pop culture blog. Carles writes about why things are popular eg. films, music, fashion, Lady gaga in this really funny, ironic way which really draws you in, though I can imagine a lot of people would be thrown off by it.
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This blog is so relevant and important to lot of people that there is now a lot of advertising on the blog. I love the way he writes; he’s never really “serious” or formal, but still manages to say some really interesting things. The fact that he says them in an informal way is much more engaging for his target audience. Anyway, you guys should check it out for yourselves.
ALSo, big SHOUT out to my friend George. He hasn’t done any posts on Oligarchical Machinations in a long, long time but every post he left, mostly reviews of concerts, films and music were intelligent, funny and interesting, so check it out.
In this week’s lecture we spoke about Jill Walker Rettberg. According to her blog “jill/txt”, Jill does research on “how people tell stories online”. One such thing that Jill had recently researched the Discovery Channel’s “Social Experiment” called “The Colony”. Basically, you log onto “the colony” and it is presents a page that looks a lot like your Facebook page. It then shows fake “status updates” from your friends which are all about this imaginary pandemic. Well, between you, me and the blogosphere, THIS THING SUCKS. Seriously it’s so unrealistic and I find it kind of sad and weird that the Discovery Channel has created a simulation in which all my friends are DYING of a horrible plague. How is this supposed to make me feel? Scared? Of what? Oh yeah, a FAKE pandemic.
JWR thought this was pretty stupid as well, but you should check it out for yourselves here.
The only thing I liked about it is that you could post your own comments.
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