Monthly archive April, 2008

The broken music industry. Why a free anti-piracy DVD for schools won’t work.

This is a website set up by MIPI “an organisation that provides investigative and intellectual property rights enforcement” along with the support of the major music labels & local industry body ARIA. It’s basically a video based on the old shtick where the artists all line up to cry poor about how music piracy is...

The relevance of Art

What if you take art out of its usual context and expose it in the street?

Using a web based app plus Live to make ambient music

This was going to start as a simple post about a neat little online music application that was sent to me by my brother-in-law’s wife but subsequently became something else. This is the little app named Pianolina. Sitting on the Grotrian Pianos web site, I guess it’s a promotional tool. It’s a neat little generative...

Neutrik XLR connector with embedded Swarovski Elements Crystals

Have a look at this: This is not a joke – this is for real. For those of you non-audio types this is can only be described as the audio electronics equivalent of having a set of jumper leads for your car that are gold dipped, covered in burberry and were hand assembled by only...