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Music Blog Zeitgeist of 2007 / The Hype Machine
The Music Blog Zeitgeist is where we gather the best music of the year, as determined by the global community of music bloggers. Read more about how it's made.I’m in Dallas — or more accurately, Richardson, a silicon suburb north of the city — to meet with David Hanson, a maker of realistic (i.e. human) looking robots. We’re collaborating on a piece that, if all goes well, will be part of a group show at The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid this summer. Some time ago, the curators invited me to be part of a tech-oriented art show, and I suggested approaching Hanson to make a singing robot for which I would write and record a song. Hanson’s robots flirt with the uncanny and test our notions of what it means to be human.
David Byrne Journal: 03.28.2008: Dallas
Watch the Parody Videos That Got YouTuber StSanders Banned | The
Earlier this week, YouTube pulled the plug on funnyman and media artist Santeri Ojala , whose hilarious and popular "shredding" videos poke fun at the world’s great guitar players. YouTube said it received three complaints of copyright infringement and automatically suspended Ojala’s account. YouTube has a standing policy to suspend accounts after three complaints from copyright holders, whether the complaints are valid or not.
Moogs in outer space! Well, almost. NASA recently published several audio recordings collected during the Cassini-Huygens space probe’s exploration of the Saturnian system , and it couldn’t sound more like a theremin-laden soundtrack to a 2001: A Space Odyssey sequel.
http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2007/11/cosmic-recordin.html
Recently, I wrote a piece for Wired magazine about some of the changes in the music business from an artist’s point of view (see article here ). Amongst other things, I laid out a variety of possible distribution models, while also claiming that the lower price of recording these days leaves artists less dependent on record labels to bankroll the studio costs than in the past. “Make records for almost nothing?
David Byrne Journal: 01.09.2007: Correction?
Acoustic Guitar Central: The Roots of Country Rhythm Guitar Less
The sound recording industry came into being around the turn of the last century, but it wasn't until the mid-1920s that the branch of pop and folk music we know as country music would debut on a commercial recording. Texas fiddler Eck Robertson is credited with the first "hillbilly" recording in 1922 (the fiddle tune standard "Sallie Gooden"), and record companies such as Columbia, Victor, and Okeh soon saw the value of expanding their catalogs to include rural folk music. Some of these recordings would sell in the hundreds of thousands, and country music, once solely found in backwoods parlors, country churches, and roadside dance halls, began to be heard on phonograph players and radios around the country.