YouTube just launched a library of royalty-free songs you can use in your videos. The generic-but-not-bad tracks let you add some audio spice without risking a copyright-related takedown. [YouTube via Verge]
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Here’s a fun little music video about aliens cut from movies and TV shows by our friends Eclectic Method. Aside from the song hypnotically inducing you to nod your head, the video also reveals what Hollywood thinks aliens will look like: green, large brained and funny looking. How many of these movies have you seen? I’m betting a lot.
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Get your notebooks out, class is about to start. Nerds are cool….nothing else to say here.
The team at RockStar games have wasted no time capitalizing on the popularity of not only the game Grand Theft Auto V itself, but the music gamers are able to listen to inside the vehicles of the game. This is otherwise known as GTA Radio, having become a rather interesting side-project and powerful result of […]
Nowadays it’s quite possible to create and play music live using a computer. You can also use MIDI controllers to make it easier for you to interact with music software and audio files. However, pushing keys and fiddling with knobs isn’t intuitive or fun to watch. Computer Orchestra manages to be both by letting you be a conductor of computers.
Computer Orchestra was made by three students from the art and design university ECAL. Simon de Diesbach, Jonas Lacôte and Laura Perrenoud designed it to be a crowdsourcing interface for uploading samples and then triggering them on different computers using simple hand gestures.
The idea is that you’ll upload samples to or download samples from a website, then you’ll assign those samples to your “musicians” – in this case, the members of the orchestra are all laptops. Using a Wi-Fi connection, a Kinect sensor, a programming language called Processing and the software library called SimpleOpenNI, you can then trigger those computers to play by waving your hands towards them. There also seems to be other gestures that vary the way the computers play the samples.
I know it’s very impractical, but it also seems like a lot of fun. Perhaps it’s possible to make a simpler version of this with a Leap controller and an array of color or light sensors. Using one laptop per sample seems like overkill, although it’s a sight to behold.
[via Designboom]
The fine people of Canada may still not have access to Spotify, but Greece, Turkey, Taiwan and Argentina are all getting the ad-supported music-on-demand service starting today. Yes, that’s at least one new country for three separate continents — Spotify’s really spreading the love around with today’s expansion, apparently. According to the company, that puts Spotify in 32 total “markets” worldwide, comprising 24 million “active users” — not too shabby for seven years of existence!
The company’s last big expansion was in April, when it arrived in Mexico, Malaysia and several other territories. Here’s hoping it finally arrives in Canada some time this year as well — our Canadian staffers are getting awfully antsy.
Filed under: Internet, Software
Source: Spotify
Pyle Audio has introduced its latest audio offering, the Disco Jam Stereo Speaker System, a compact “party machine” that offers, among other things, an integrated disco ball. The setup is on wheels and comes with a handle, making it easy to wheel into a location and remove after the party is over, and is being […]
It’s very likely that Future is from another world, because the music he’s put out in the past year is on a different level. Produced by Mike Will Made It, "Sh!t" is the latest single off his upcoming November release Honest.
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Mentioned almost as a footnote in today’s release on their larger SteamOS headline, Valve has let it be known that they’re entering into deals for multimedia delivery as well. Speaking on music, TV, and movies specifically, Valve has suggested that both SteamOS and Steam – the software client you use on your Windows, Mac, or […]
The new Surface Pro 2, with its prodigious computing capabilities, has been built as a computing productivity machine for just about anyone. Spreadsheets, editing video and mixing music are all in the new Pro’s wheelhouse, and that last task is why Microsoft is also revealing the Surface Remix Project and the Music Cover to go along with it. The Music Cover, as you might expect, comes with pressure-sensitive buttons that allow budding DJ’s to craft and fine tune their next remix. It has 16 programmable pads for easy access to instruments and sounds, while there are pause / play and slider controls to adjust the volume and tailor transitions to your liking. And, just like the regular typing cover, it’s backlit, so you’ll be able to mix on the fly at any late-night sonic soiree. There is one downside, however: the Music Cover only works with the Surface 2, Surface Pro and Surface Pro 2, so original RT owners need not apply come October 22 when it goes on sale.
Filed under: Tablets, Microsoft
Source: Surface #RemixProject
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