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How Sam Phillips Invented the Sound of Rock and Roll For the next two years, Sun Studio continued to be Sam Phillips' laboratory. While helping to launch the careers of Jerry Lee Lewis, Howlin' Wolf, Carl Perkins, Roy Orbison and Johnny Cash, he remained the mad genius of sound. In 1954, Phillips acquired two state-of-the-art Ampex 350 tape recorders and started playing around with what we now call "slapback echo delay"—the echo that results when you record to one tape machine's record head while also recording the playback (usually the vocals) being played on another machine. The actual physical space between the heads of the machines makes for an audible delay and echo, a unique and iconic sound best heard on tracks like Elvis' "Blue Moon of Kentucky." It soon became one of Phillips' main tricks, and one that few others knew how to do correctly. In 1956, Elvis wanted wanted to use the slapback echo on his first RCA single, "Heartbreak Hotel." The Legacy A Sun control board. Courtesy of Sam Phillips Recording Service, © Hi-Lo Music

PodOmatic | Podcast - ROBO CAST RADIO :: Continuator Continuator The Continuator is a usable musical instrument combining techniques from interactive and automatic learning systems. It learns and interactively plays with a user in the user's style. It is based on a Markov model of musical styles augmented to account for efficient real time learning of musical styles and to arbitrary external bias. The Continuator is an attempt to bridge the gap between two classes of traditionally incompatible musical systems: 1) interactive musical systems, limited in their ability to generate stylistically consistent material, and 2) music composition systems, which are fundamentally not interactive. The purpose of Continuator is to extend the technical ability of musicians with stylistically consistent, automatically learnt musical material. Bernard Lubat at IRCAM Bernard Lubat, world famous jazz musician, poly instrumentist and contemporary music composer, has played with the Continuator at the Festival d'Uzeste ( 2000 and 2001), and at IRCAM in 2001.

crazee kids sound Fair Organ Preservation Society Home | DEEP LISTENING INSTITUTE Rubber Tracks | Converse Music New York City psychedelia aficionados Whitewash have a knack for working within constraints. The project began in 2012 when Jon (bass) and Sam (guitar) met at NYU and started playing along to Ween songs together. When Jon met Evan (drums) in jazz auditions, he convinced him to join them, and they started playing around with their sound with covers of Led Zeppelin, Mac Demarco, and Thee Oh Sees. These experimentations eventually became their debut EP Fraud in Lisbon, a masterful piece of bedroom psych whose whole is greater than the sum of its minimal parts. In the meantime, they’ll be playing shows in New York and embarking on a tour in March.

The Ricardo Christoff Apparatus Hey Young World! Buck 65 and D-Sisive are teaming up - as The Ricardo Christoff Apparatus - for a project called 100 Story Building. But we need your help to make it work… We’re looking for stories. Tell us a story about a person you know - a friend, a relative, a love interest, a co-worker, a roommate… The story should be funny, strange, tragic, inspiring, epic or all of the above. Buck 65 and D-Sisive have laid it all on the line telling their stories with guts and teeth and blood for years and now they want to tell the story of our fellow man/woman/beast. Send the greatest story ever told to 100storybuilding@gmail.com and leave the rest to us. @4 years ago with 6 notes

The Austin 100: A SXSW 2017 Preview Mix Tkay Maidza is performing at this year's South By Southwest music festival. Cassandra Hannagan/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Cassandra Hannagan/Getty Images Tkay Maidza is performing at this year's South By Southwest music festival. Every year, the SXSW Music Festival serves a daunting, days-long feast of sounds from around the world. Picked from a playlist that spanned more than a hundred hours, these 100 songs represent a broad and exciting cross-section of SXSW's many highlights. As in previous years, The Austin 100 is just the beginning of NPR Music's SXSW 2017 coverage, so keep coming back to NPR.org/SXSW for full concerts, photos, videos, commentary and, of course, many more recommendations to come. The Austin 100 Playlist Aaron Lee Tasjan, "Little Movies" [MP3] Nashville, Tennessee Tasjan's spacey, genre-obliterating Americana positively sparkles. Adam Torres, "I Came To Sing The Song" [MP3] Austin, Texas Agnes Obel, "Familiar" [MP3] Copenhagen, Denmark Lyttelton, New Zealand

Avant Garde Project 58 Pauline Oliveros and more Listed: Hauschka's Abandoned Cities Hauschka is a musician and composer from Düsseldorf, performing in what has been dubbed a "post-classical" vein, although he also has many fans in the electronica scene. His new album Abandoned City, written and performed almost entirely on a treated piano, was inspired by the idea of cities that are no longer, or never were, inhabited. It is full of approriately elegiac beauty. Elizabeth Bay A mining town in southern Namibia. Pripyat An abandoned city in northern Ukraine, near the border with Belarus. Thames Town The English name for a new town in Songjiang District, about 18 miles from central Shanghai, China. Agdam Also, Ağdam and Aghdam .A ghost town in the southwestern part of Azerbaijan. Sanzhi Pod City A set of abandoned pod-shaped buildings in Sanzhi District, New Taipei City, Taiwan. Craco An abandoned commune and medieval village located in the region of Basilicata and the Province of Matera in Italy. Barkerville The main town of the Cariboo Gold Rush in British Columbia, Canada.