Sometimes on the internet, you find some great sites. This is one such site. “You Are What You Hear” is a great site that has concert recordings from great artists such as Dave Liebman, Michael Brecker, Chris Potter, John Scofield……to name a very few. Well worth spending some time getting some of the recording here. [Continue]
Found a very interesting article about how MP3 compression came about. It is, at times, rather techie, but very interesting none the less. But what is MP3? The usual explanations usually take one of two forms. The long version, available in technical papers, is written in jargon and filled with math. The short version, often [Continue]
Wired magazine is running a story pondering the MP3 format, how long it will last, and where surround sound is going to fit in. Basically, it looks like it will be around for a while even though better formats, like AAC or MP3Pro, are out. AAC is part of the MPEG4 standard, but a lot [Continue]
After nearly 3 years of faithful service, my 3rd generation iPod died. It wasn’t the battery. It was the hard drive. The hard drive finally decided to check out. I was sad. For the last 2 or 3 weeks, I’ve been going through iPod withdrawal. Shuttling my music files between home and the studio is [Continue]
Final batch of backgrounds for Walt Weiskopf’s book Around the Horn. They were encoded using AAC compression supported by iTunes and Quicktime. They are zipped for easier downloading. Enjoy! Band in a Box files for all these. Inverted Diminished Whole-tone Tune for Bb Instruments (10.2 Megs) Half-Diminished Holiday for Bb Instruments (7.6 [Continue]
More backgrounds for Walt Weiskopf’s book Around the Horn. They were encoded using AAC compression supported by iTunes and Quicktime. They are zipped for easier downloading. Enjoy! Band in a Box files for all these. Locrian Lope for Bb Instruments (26.3 Megs) Dorian b2 Debacle for Bb Instruments (10.4 Megs) Mixolydian b6 Fantasy for Bb [Continue]
Four years ago, I did some backgrounds for the Etudes found in Walt Weiskopf’s book Around the Horn. Well, technology has changed. The original backgrounds were done with Band-In-A-Box version 11 for PC , exported to Midi, and then rendered using a variety of sound modules. Fast-forward four years, these backgrounds were done using [Continue]
Found this via Slashdot: Indy is a free p2p music download system, which is a new way for independent musicians to find their listerners. From Buzzsonic News, "Indy uses collaborative filtering, a system similar to that used by Amazon to recommend books, etc, to prospective buyers, to learn about your musical preferences in relation to [Continue]
This is from a Slashdot.org article: "The Ogg Vorbis format came out far ahead of MP3, MP3Pro, RealAudio Surround, and Windows Media 9 Beta in a comparison of different audio formats by Germany's respected computer magazine c't. More than 6,000 people took part in the test. Heise says Ogg's dominance was most pronounced with 64 [Continue]
The New York Times has an excellent article about entitled Where Music Will Be Coming From. Very well done. Gives a little history, where we are now, and where we are going. Update: 03/17 23:48 GMT by E :Here are two more interesting articles, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” and [Continue]
I came across this article about a new compression technique that is shaking the tech world. Basically, there are two types of compression schemes. There is Lossless, where NOTHING gets lost, and Lossie(I think that is the term) where redundant data is thrown out to save space. Formats like JPGs, PNG, GIF, MP3, WMA, ASF [Continue]
MP3 Newswire is running two articles that contain their top 8 MP3 winners and losers for 2001. Rolling Stone has also run their own digital music winners and losers list for 2001.” Not a lot of suprises here……. [Continue]
NPR has an excellent article about the growing trend of ‘real’ radio stations abandoning streaming media due to concerns about advertising, royalties, and (you guessed it) the DMCA. Basically, stations are finding that web streaming isn’t increasing their listener base, but is increasing their costs. Meanwhile, there’s a [Continue]
The Washington Post has an article detailing the results of having a “a diverse panel of listeners: two members of the National Symphony Orchestra, a high-end stereo salesman, a record producer, a composer and two guitarists” comparing MP3, MP3Pro, Windows Media Player and Vorbis formats. It pretty much says that the formats are not as [Continue]
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