I Met The Walrus
July 23, 2008
I discovered recently that the award-winning short "I Met The Walrus", based on a 1969 interview with John Lennon by a 14-year old Jerry Levitan, is available on youtube! So if you never saw it (like me), here you go:
Rush on The Colbert Report
July 17, 2008
Working Together
July 14, 2008
A recent release that I'm quite enjoying is Gonzales's Soft Power, which contains some 70's era-influenced tracks that recall Todd Rundgren, and MFSB. Check out the first single and video, "Working Together":
2001 lolcat
July 9, 2008
The Music Of Sound
July 3, 2008
I'm always fascinated by sound, and how sounds make people feel, and how you can manipulate sound to achieve something completely new.Take this story for example, about scientists reporting what the earth sounds like from space. It's made up of distorted whistles, static and kinda sounds like radio interferences and not entirely musical.
However, by taking that original soundfile posted on their website, I played around with the frequencies and added a ton of reverb, and I came up with something that resembles the sound design of science fiction movies.
Click here to listen to the first track.
[download mp3, 2:06]Then I decided to do something more drastic with the file. I took the track I just finished, and isolated the first two seconds, pitched it up about 400%, stretched out to 4 minutes, messed around with some frequencies and more reverb and it resulted in another completely different sound.
Click here to listen to the second track.
[download mp3, 4:21]It's still not very musical, but it does achieve a mood and a feeling and could certainly be used as background score for something. And all of this was done using some basic computer audio software.
Wanna mess around? Visit Audacity where you can download some free audio software that you can have hours of fun with, and become your very own avant-garde artist!
