For how demonized some albums are, when you cut it down to just the "bad" parts, it really puts things in perspective. 19 seconds. 42 seconds. 29 seconds. 0 seconds. 10 seconds.
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Friday, February 26
FTRW 2010 - Friday Fun Link - "Straight Outta Compton" Edited to *Only* The Profanity
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Jason
on Fri 26 Feb 2010 11:22 PM CST
Friday, February 19
Friday Fun Link - Code Organ (February 19, 2010)
by
Jason
on Fri 19 Feb 2010 09:17 PM CST
A web site that allows you to "play" the HTML of any web site. This isn't as straight-forward as it sounds...
The CodeOrgan analyses the "body" content of any web page and translates that content into music. The CodeOrgan uses a complex algorithm to define the key, synth style and drum pattern most appropriate to the page content. Firstly, the CodeOrgan scans the page content and removes all characters not found in the musical scale (A to G), and then analyses the remaining characters to find the most commonly used "note". If this is an even number the page is translated into the major pentatonic scale of that particular note, it becomes minor if there is an uneven number. Secondly, the CodeOrgan defines which synthesizer to use. This is based upon the total number characters used on the webpage - there are currently 10 synthesizer effects and the one chosen is picked based upon the percentage of content. Lastly, the CodeOrgan selects a drum loop based upon the ratio of characters on the page versus the number of characters that are actually musical notes - there are currently 10 different drum loops to pick from. Here's my blog. Here's the RPL web site. Here's Google (which sounds like something you might hear if Lawrence Welk provided the soundtrack for your dad's old 8mm home movies.) [Edit: And I had to see if this sounded like bow-chikka-bow-bow (pretty close!)] (via MetaFilter) Monday, February 1
FTRW 2010 - Music Monday - "I guess there's gotta be a break in the monotony/But jesus when it rains, how it pours."
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Jason
on Mon 01 Feb 2010 09:12 PM CST
It's February which means Freedom to Read Week is coming at the end of the month. Every year, I try to do a few posts during that week to celebrate and draw attention to this important subject.
For the past year, I've been bookmarking various stories I've come across that I thought had potential for the week. I've got more than seven but less than thirty but I think I'm going to try to do an entire month's worth of Freedom to Read Week posts (give or take - since I'll exempt myself for a few of those days - some of the Music Mondays, most of the Friday Fun Links and some of the Saturday Snaps - though maybe a pic of Pace reading "Where The Wild Things Are" would be appropriate. That or "Lolita".  )To start things off, here's a bit of background about something I've always wondered - why do some artists prevent the embedding of their videos on YouTube? Buzz band, OK Go, who saw 50 million people watch their "dance routine on treadmills" video on YouTube and catapult them to, well if not massive success, definitely a lot wider recognition. This story isn't really about censorship or Freedom of Expression per se but really is about how business models are changing and confused by technology - the band's label refuses to allow the videos to be embedded (or even viewed in certain countries) because they don't get a share of revenue from ad clicks unless people watch the video directly on YouTube. The band naturally wants to reach the widest possible fan base and explains their side of the story. "four years after we posted our first homemade videos to YouTube and they spread across the globe faster than swine flu, making our bassist’s glasses recognizable to 70-year-olds in Wichita and 5-year-olds in Seoul and eventually turning a tidy little profit for EMI, we’re – unbelievably – stuck in the position of arguing with our own label about the merits of having our videos be easily shared. It’s like the world has gone backwards." The lead singer was also recently interviewed in Time magazine on the subject. Here's the video that started it all - which I've posted before but not in the context of a Music Monday clip and anyhow, it's worth watching again (er, embedding disabled by request). (And here's a semi-related story as a bonus - a member of The Roots which is the house band for "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" - discusses the behind-the-scenes of walk-on music - the themed music that plays for celebrities as they walk onto talk show sets. In most cases, this is straight forward but some music is so expensive to license, even for a few seconds, that house bands are forbidden from using it. This came up because Conan's band played the Beatles' "Lovely Rita" for one of Conan's guests on his last "Tonight Show", Tom Hanks whose wife is named Rita. That ten seconds cost NBC something like $400 000!) Sunday, January 3
Bono's Ten Ideas For the Next Ten Years
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Jason
on Sun 03 Jan 2010 03:57 PM CST
The Messiah Bono, leader of the band, Four Wise Men U2 moonlights as an op-ed columnist for the New York Times among other things.
Here's his latest contribution adding to the various Top Ten Lists that have proliferated at year end. And here's a response from Gawker. (My own feelings on Bono have already been documented on this blog.) Thursday, December 24
Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis - Neko Case Covers Tom Waits
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Jason
on Thu 24 Dec 2009 11:24 PM CST
Merry Christmas everyone!
Monday, December 14
Music Monday - "Whoo-whoot!"
by
Jason
on Mon 14 Dec 2009 08:26 PM CST
This video is called "A Glorious Dawn" - Carl Sagan ft. Stephen Hawking (Cosmos Remix) and if that doesn't hint at how much coolness is in store for you when you click play below, I have only one word - auto-tune!
(found via a Reddit thread on songs that were so awesome you played them at least 10 times in a row) Monday, December 7
My iTunes Library Is My "Pending" List - I'll Pay Everybody Eventually...
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Jason
on Mon 07 Dec 2009 09:53 PM CST
...when I win the lottery or become a multi-billion dollar corporation, whichever comes first.
(And why is the Alanis song, "Ironic" an ear worm that just burrowed into my brain?) (via MetaFilter) Thursday, November 12
"A Master's Degree in Archive Management? What does that even mean?"
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Jason
on Thu 12 Nov 2009 08:28 PM CST
Last night, Jon Stewart had some fun discussing the Master of Library Science's sister degree, the Master of Archival Studies. (Fast forward to 1:40).
Thursday, November 5
A Couple R.E.M. Links
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Jason
on Thu 05 Nov 2009 10:04 PM CST
The Pop Songs blog was set-up for the author to do an analysis of every song in the R.E.M. catalogue. This led to Michael Stipe himself contacting the site and ending up answering numerous reader questions about R.E.M.'s songs and their genesis - how cool is that?
MetaFilter has a thread titled "What is 'Try Not To Breath About?" which has lots of good discussion about what I think is R.E.M.'s best album. I can't find it anymore but way back in the day, there used to be a really cool site where someone had made a bunch of atmospheric graphics with excerpts from R.E.M. songs attached. (In the early days of the Internet and as a big R.E.M. fan, you can't imagine how cool I found this!) I happened to have a couple on my hard drive but unfortunately, didn't save them all (and can't find the site again - assuming it even still exists.) Here's a sample...  Thursday, October 29
Google Maps Navigation, Google Music Search and a Google View of the Internet in Five Years
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Jason
on Thu 29 Oct 2009 08:03 PM CST
This will possibly be the end of GPS companies such as Garmin and Tom Tom (their stocks have already plummeted since the announcement):
Google also announced that soon, any search for a song or band will result in a stream of the song being returned from various partners which will be able to be played in full once and then will revert to a 30-second clip on subsequent listens (similar to what you get from the iTunes store.) If that's not enough of the future is now, here's an interview with Google CEO Eric Schmidt talking about what the Internet will be like in five years . (via MetaFilter and I always want to add "which has lots of additional good discussion - but you already know that, right?) |
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