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Nice absurd video from Femme En Fourrure: Plump Bisquit

Sun, 20 Dec 2009 17:32:00 +0100

Underworld wires tallest building Dublin up with 100,000 led lights for new video

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 18:12:00 +0100

Great idea: Wire up the tallest and ugliest building in Dublin with 100,000 led lights and let it synchronize with the new single of Underworld. Nostalgic tune!

How auto-tune has become one of the hottest brands in the US

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:37:00 +0100

Everybody knows the sound of auto-tune by now. But where does it come from? Popular news blog Rocket Boom has made a funny overview of the history of auto-tune:

In the US auto-tune has become a nation wide hype. Watch the very funny gimmick in the huge popular The Ellen DeGeneres Show (Why don't they broadcast this in the Netherlands?):

Try it yourself? Check out the demo of Auto-Tune from Antares Or, do it the iPhone way.

And of course, when a hype starts, it began on YouTube:

Sounds great and looks great: The new video of Digitalism, Jupiter Room

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:30:00 +0100

Inspiring remix of eighties television series Cosmos featuring astronomer Carl Sagan

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 19:13:00 +0100

It looks like I am in my space oriented period now. Last week I watched on a movie channel 2001: A Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick. I hadn't seen the movie for more than ten years. The stylistic capabilities of Kubrick are still striking. They make me very conscious of the infinity of space. A couple of days later i found by accident the remix of Carl Sagan's Cosmos, a popular scientific television series from the eighties presented by world famous astronomer Carl Sagan. Amongst others he was trainer and advisor of the Apollo 11 crew who landed in 1969 on the moon.

Think beyond the common sense

Again I was struck by the great stylistic approach of the television series from the eighties. It forces to think beyond the safe common sense. It's strange that in our times there is less attention for the spiritual beauty of our universe. It's merely about religions and their clashes than about our scientific chances in the universe. I personally get much more relief from the predictive words of Carl Sagan:

A still more glorious dawn awaits

Not a sunrise, but a galaxy rise

A morning filled with 400 billion suns

The rising of the milky way

Watch the very nice remix of the televison series Cosmos by Melody Sheep/John Boswell:

Watch also the very interesting gathering of a.o. Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking. Especially the argument of not asking fundamental questions anymore:

And last but not least. The second video of John Boswell's project 'Symphony of Science':

Logic Pro 9 review

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 09:00:00 +0100

Good Logic Pro 9 review focussing on the new Flex Time feature.

Can't get enough of the Brett Domino Trio: I Kissed a Girl (And I Liked It)

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:00:00 +0100

Pure Brillinace: The Brett Domino Trio doing Katy Perry's I Kissed a Girl:

Great Performance at Britain's Got Talent:

Ultimate holiday season gift for nerds, tech freaks and retro fans

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 09:00:00 +0100

Look no further. The ultimate holiday season gift for nerds, tech freaks and retro fans is here. Brilliant marketing too:

You can buy the Stylophone Beatbox at 100 Milligrams

Charming Bollywood duet on the iPhone

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 09:00:00 +0100

Charming Bollywood demo of the iPhone app LaDiDa featuring the lovely CEO of the company with her brother/business partner/cousin/lover (who will tell):

Better late than never post: Brilliant David Letterman Top Ten parody: Ten ways to come clean to your wife.

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 09:00:00 +0100

The Letterman parody from the Dutch comedy show Koefnoen was broadcasted already a week ago, but it's too funny to let it pass this blog. Especially for all you Letterman fans out there: Ten ways to come clean to your wife.

Sample madness with Star6 on your iPhone

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 16:58:00 +0100

I bought Star6 lateley for the iPhone. It's a sample player for a maximum of 6 samples. The fun is the very smooth real time manipulation of the samples:

Korg brings sampling back to hardware with the MicroSampler

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 09:00:00 +0100

It looks like it's fun to work with, but it's usage has much limitations compared to software samplers. Still, Korg's new MicroSampler looks great and bring's back the joy of sampling with hardware.

Celemony Melodyne's polyphonic note analyse is near the holy grail

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 09:00:00 +0100

Put a musical piece in the new Celemony Melodyne and it analyses every single note of it. Very impressive but it isn't flawless.

Some interesting iPhone groove apps

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 09:00:00 +0100

Overview of some interesting groove apps for the iPhone: Drum Sequencer; JR Hexatone Pro; Slice; SoundGrid and last but not least KJ Sawka's Drum Banger. The possibilities of the music apps on the iPhone still amaze me.

Trance Lead

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:00:00 +0100

Tutorial on how to program a trance lead.

Dirty Bass

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 09:00:00 +0100

Tutorial on making dirty basses in Reason 4.

LaDiDa

Sat, 12 Sep 2009 09:00:00 +0100

Reverse karaoke. A new hype? Just sing first the song acapella and listen afterwards to the result with the music. The CEO of Khu.sh sure knows how to sell her gear ;) Check out LaDiDa iphone app.

Auto tune

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:00:00 +0100

Sound cheesy and auto tune yourself everywhere on your iPhone with the I Am T-Pain iPhone app.

Logic Studio

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 09:00:00 +0100

Nice detailed review from CDM's Peter Kirn of the new Logic Studio with Logic Pro 9. Like a real Apple nerd I'm going to attend the Logic Studio seminar in the Okura Hotel Amsterdam on september 12th 2009.

Modular on iPhone

Tue, 19 May 2009 09:00:00 +0100

Make your own modular synth on your iPhone with Jasuto. Warning: The app is just as amazing as complex. You need to read the documentation on the developer's website.

iPhone sequencers

Thu, 14 May 2009 21:26:00 +0100

Matrix step sequencers for the iPhone: Melodica, Tripper, ToneBoard and ToneMatrix. They are all to a certain extent very cheap alternatives for the Tenori-On.

NanoKey

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 09:00:00 +0100

Last review in the Korg nano series: the Korg nanoKey keyboard controller.