CREA MÚSICA. Spectrum Color and the Circle of 5ths (Fifths) Seaquence. Mthrfnkr.com. The A-Z of pop in 2012. RADIOACTIVE ORCHESTRA. Music visualization. Resonant Frequency: Five Thoughts on Music Scarcity. A couple of weeks ago, there was a post on Altered Zones highlighting a track identified only as "AutoTune", a track that had apparently originated somewhere in Niger. The reason the song was identified by country instead of artist, with a title that described the predominant element of the music rather than what it was actually called, is because it was taken from the memory card of a discarded cellphone found on a trip to West Africa, so more precise identification wasn't possible.
A number of songs gathered in the same way were assembled onto a cassette release called Music From Saharan Cellphones Vol. 1, put together by the SahelSounds blog, and the origins and details of each are similarly obscure. Most of what we know about these songs from this tape is that someone living in a certain part of the world thought enough of them to put them on their mobiles and, presumably, listen to them. It's not a lot to go on, which is part of the fun. Xenomania: Nothing is Foreign in an Internet Age. The internet broke all the rules about music. How we acquire it, how we discover it, how we listen to it...even how we watch it.
For over 20 years music journalist Simon Reynolds (Generation Ecstasy, Rip It Up and Start Again) has documented the ever-morphing world of sound...which is now no longer changing as much as blowing apart entirely online. The past is retrievable at a touch, and geographical boundaries are meaningless. In this essay for MTV Iggy, he traces the internet-enabled rise of "xenomania," as it leads to the next frontier, "the future-hunger," of music.
Words by Simon Reynolds Imagine the media as a hydraulic system: broadband has dramatically expanded the pipes and channels through which cultural data, including music, passes. All those Analogue Era deterrents and blockages have now been swept aside by the torrential every-which-way data flows of Web 2.0. Infinite choice + infinitesimal cost = nomadic eclecticism as the default mode for today’s music fan. Sahelsound. Hearts of Space. Rainy-Day. Guitar Tuner @ Chordbook.Com. The guitar tuner can be put in repeat mode (just click on or off the (R) buttons. So you can here the tunings and tune to them. This page also shows you how to make some common alternative tunings to your guitar. Standard guitar tuning Traditionally used to create a Celtic or ethnic sound, this tuning has been used by many guitarists including Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin. Open C tuning - with the 6th string dropped down to C this gives a big dynamic range to your guitar sound Drop D tuning - dropping the 6th string down to D is a easy way of giving adding an extra dimension to the bass strings where you can easily make octaves Open G tuning is a great tuning for blues guitar work.
D minor tuning is a rich minor tuning Open D tuning is a great tuning for blues or slide work This is a variation of a tuning used by guitarist and songwriter John Martyn (he actually uses CFCCGD). Guitar Scales @ Chordbook.Com. This page shows you some common scales on the guitar. You can use the repeat and speed buttons to practice along. blues BLUES The basis of most popular music! A kind of variation of the pentatonic in combination with the chromatic scale, it fits well over basic songs that do not modulate (change key), if the song changes key you could use a chromatic/ whole time shift and fit another blues scale into the new home! Chromatic CHROMATIC Fantastic for finger work and again getting you to new keys, chords quickly. Chromatic inflexions in solos give it a bit more colour and expression, or can do!
Diminished 7ths DIMINISHED 7THS A 4 note version of the major arpeggio. Dominant 7ths DOMINANT 7THS As these scales start on the 7th degree of the scale usually, you can use them to shift key or get you into a new harmony fast, really good when a track shifts up a semitone or tone. harmonic minor major MAJOR SCALE An essential! Major arpeggio melodic minor (ascending) melodic minor (descending) minor whole tone. TuneGlue° | Relationship Explorer. Liveplasma. Musicovery. Music Roamer - Discover New Music. Stereomood – emotional internet radio - music for my mood and activities. AUPEO! – Personal Radio. Music Video Awesomeness. Latest Songs From MP3 & Music Blogs / The Hype Machine. Mantis Online Multitrack Recorder. Música visual. Feedback loop label. Musipedia: Musipedia Melody Search Engine. Music to use » Search. Windows Mixing/dj, Free downloads @ MP3Machine. DJ Player: Mix Your Own Tracks. 100 legal sites to stream and download free music | MerryCode. Music is life, I never found anyone who’s life isn’t influenced by Music.
Why the best things in life like Music are not free? Actually, there is more legally available for free Music than you think. image by nothingatall Here is a list of 100 sites that let you stream or download music for free legally! DeezerDeezer is the French-based service which is one of the largest and very popular music recommendation search engine. 8Tracks awesome site, with last.fm integration! Mog The Most Sophisticated, User-Friendly Music Player on the Web. Clown Basket ClownBasket is the songwriter’s forum to share their own original music with the world. so here is a way for you to get your original music out there! My Band Stock My Band Stock is a type of fan funding tools, where artists raise money from their fan base to record music.
Groove SharkGrooveshark is a very nice music site which competes with all best web-based music sites. Mix CloudMixcloud helps connect radio content to listeners. Also read: Classic Cat - the free classical music directory. Remove The Lyrics From MOST Songs. Pitchfork: Home. PureVolume™ | We're Listening To You. Download MP3s from Streaming Music Sites. From Wired How-To Wiki Have you ever been annoyed that services like Muxtape (which is currently unavailable, thanks to the RIAA), Favtape or other playlist-based music sites don't let you download songs?
The better sites offer a link to purchase the songs through the iTunes Store or Amazon.com, but the rest just stream the music. And once the player moves on to the next song, that song is gone. Or is it? Most services like the ones above rely on Flash or JavaScript to obfuscate URLs and make it difficult, though not impossible, to download the actual files.
In this guide, we'll show you how you can grab just about any file you want by exploring your browser's cache. NOTE: Depending on the copyright applied to the song you're downloading, using this technique may violate the copyright of the content owner. Music resources Why this works When you stream music content from a site, your browser has to download the file and store it for playback. Using Firefox Using Internet Explorer Using Safari. Reagenz: Workshop 009.1. Sleazy Beats Recordings. Discobelle.net.