The World’s Most Amazing Instrument

http://youtube.com/watch?v=MKyH8B1yOf8

Watch and enjoy the World’s Most Amazing Instrument!

Not much else to say. You’ll get a lot more info just watching.

Slow Six, Red Lions, Charlie Everywhere, and On A Scale Of 1 to 10

Saturday, there’s going to be a huge show at Ground Zero (the basement of Nugent Hall). Resident strongman Ryan Jenkins will be opening up with Blair Neal and Kyle McDonald in On A Scale of 1 to 10, followed by the ever classy Red Lions and the super pop/super awesome/super lazzzzzzer Charlie Everywhere.

The headliner, who’s apparently played with Todd before, is Slow Six, an amazing ensemble of violins, keys, drums and guitars. They played here last semester, and were absolutely amazing. They use those sampling and looping techniques we’ve been learning so much about, so it might be a great show to review. Hope to see everyone there.

http://www.gzbasement.net/

Bumps

From the three drummers of Tortoise, i give you Bumps.

this is my personal copy, and some of the best breakbeats and loops i have heard. Enjoy.

apropos of nothing…

the Hang Drum – sounds like a cross between steel drums and tibetan singing bowls, looks like a UFO. check out this crazy awesome video.

Bumps, a great breakbeat album.

and if you are a waffler.

Francis Bacon, on Recording

I’m not sure how many of you subscribe to Music Thing, but I found this Francis Bacon bit of trivia fun and SuperLaser.  Especially for an old dead guy.

Cuz the recording studio is SOOO 1626…   go check it out at the link, where you can actually read it…

not that this is THAT superlaser…

but did you realize that itunes can actually do this?

I mean, not that you NEED to do it this way anymore, but if you’re caught in a pinch or need to teach someone else how to simply edit audio…

I don’t know, maybe it’s a no-brainer anyway, just lemme know if it’s helpful.

t.

Troy Night Out Afterparty

come check it out!

more information at the goodship blog.

MetaSynth – Insanely cool and powerful electronic music studio.

MetaSynth

Used extensively by Aphex Twin, among others. 

Reed Ghazala – Circuit Bending 101

Click me!

 Thanks Jesse, I’ll annotate this post rather than posting again… a quick ebay search for ‘circuit-bent’ brings these results, so you can see that circuit bending can actually be LUCrativo as well…Oh, and that other ‘toy’ I mentioned that is great for bending?  it’s the Musini.And of course, loads more fun to bend than to buy, so DON’T spend your money, and I hope this doesn’t become a distraction, lol!Maybe I’ll bring Reed’s Book in for fun on the break next week.  Once again, thanks for posting, Jesse.