Graham English
Songwriter, Recording Artist, and Blogging Musician
Songwriter, Recording Artist, and Blogging Musician
This is a pretty cool list of weird musical instruments and gizmos. But I doubt a self-playing violin is soothing to the ear! :/
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Scrybe is a groundbreaking online organizer that caters to today’s lifestyle in a cohesive and intuitive way. Simple solutions for some age old problems.
I Love Music Video is a simple browser search tool that will help you find your favorite artist videos in YouTube. It also searches Last.fm which is my favorite source of new and different music.
What’s your Last.fm username? Let’s share music tastes.
Web site earFeeder scans your computer’s music library and creates a customized RSS feed for your newsreader with news related to the artists in your music library.
The AGNULA project is trying to create the first computer system tailored specifically for musicians. Best of all, since it’s based around the open source Linux OS, it’s free!
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PersonalSoundtrack is a very small computer that you wear. It detects the speed of your walking or running and plays songs from your music library that match your pace. The speed of the current song changes in real-time to match your gait. Larger and more deliberate changes in pace cause it to change songs. How [...]
Mac OS X only: Freeware Dashboard widget OnTour scans your iTunes music library, letting you know when musicians you like are coming through your town.
If you don’t own a Mac and you’re a musician, it’s really time.
Click here to download.
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The Bad News: My email server broke down and I couldn’t send or receive email for a several days.
The Good News: I can now receive email.
The Bad News: I’m having trouble sending email.
The Good News: I only have 535 email messages left to sort.
The Bad News: I have 535 email messages left to sort.
As much [...]
From ehub:
Features artists, bands, songs, albums and a compilation of newsworthy events in the music world. Any music fan and site visitor may be the featured user. Visitors and regulars may edit the artists’ pages, give their own reviews and ratings on albums and tracks. URL: WikiMusicGuide.
If you’re a performing artist, [...]
Here’s how to hold them accountable. RSS feeds for all senators votes.
Checks and balances with technology. Absolutely brilliant! read more.
Splice Music is a promising new online sequencer. It allows you to mix and match user-uploaded loops and audio files to create your own music. All the music is under the Creative Commons license which encourages musicians to remix each other’s work.
Officials at the CIA and scientists around the world have pondered the “cocktail party problem” for decades. How could they separate one sound - perhaps a voice - from a group of other recorded sounds, perhaps a multitude of voices at a cocktail party? Now, two researchers have found a mathematical solution the problem.
Cocktail [...]
The iconic rocker says the music industry has no right to bitch about piracy when its modern recording technology only screws up good music anyway.
Dylan’s pretty tough on the current state of recording. He’s got good points too. We’ve lost almost all dynamic range in modern recordings. But there’s still good stuff out there so [...]
See what Google Talk users are listening to: Google Music Trends
British band Duran Duran are to create a virtual island within online game Second Life, on which they will perform actual live concerts. Second Life is an online 3D digital world, which is imagined, created and owned by the residents. Are virtual celeb appearances the next big thing online?
What a great idea. I’ve spent very [...]
These performers fit into a wider group of people in the self-made instrument scene, which is particularly vibrant in the San Francisco Bay Area.
“It is one of the main centers for people who make their own instruments and create their setups,” says Pamela Z.
This is partly because of the Bay Area’s high density of tech-savvy [...]
Musiclens lets you search for music using vague criteria like how loud it is or its tempo and mood. Pretty spiffy flash interface as well.
Musiclens is different from Song Tapper and maybe not as good for finding the title of a song. But it shines if you use it to discover new music. I especially [...]
You’d better have a good headline or I’m not going to visit your site. And if I do visit your site but the rest of the article isn’t as good as the headline, then you’ve lost me. I’ll only make that mistake once and then I’ll probably unsubscribe.
Best practice is to provide full feeds and [...]
I voted against this lousy bill for two reasons: because net neutrality and internet build-out are crucial to building a more modern and fair Information Society, and both were pushed aside by the Republicans.
Link: Stopping the Big Giveaway
The amendment failed by a tie vote of 11-11. All ten Democratic committee members voted in favor with Senator Snowe. The eleven remaining Republican members voted against the amendment.
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about grahamI'm a songwriter and recording artist who sings, plays keyboards, and explores the vast world of sound hoping to find some magical moments along the way. I'm also a Mac geek.
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