Having just recently completely reformatted my laptop and upgraded the OS to 10.5 Leopard, I thought I’d share with you my list of must have applications. Generally over the course of time, my operating system fills up with all sorts of crappy little apps that I try but mostly never use. We all have a...

This Wednesday (13/2) I’ll be doing a talk at the Beats N Bleeps night at Glitch Bar & Cinema in North Fitzroy. I’ll demonstrating techniques and tools for Ableton Live that are useful for creating sounds in a generative & novel way. I’ll be chatting around 9pm. I believe that entry is FREE ! Before...

My mate Jon, put me onto this great post from John Scalzi’s Whatever blog. Killer stuff. Sony BMG spokesperson: We’re pleased to announce we are the final major music corporation to release electronic tracks without that pesky DRM! All you have to do is leave your house, go to a selected retail outlet, buy a...

A couple of interesting things popped up today about The Loundness War. Firstly this article in Rolling Stone. It’s one of the best I’ve seen on all the issues around overly loud records and how as audio technology evolves, the worse music sounds – and I’m not talking about content or style. As well as...

Reading boingboing the other day I saw a post to this article in Wired by David Byrne. It’s a killer article detailing the current spread of music business models out there. There are also a bunch of audio files on the page where David interviews Thom Yorke and Brian Eno among others. There is no...

Did any of you read Idoru by William Gibson? You should. In this book Mr. Gibson lays down the idea that our future pop stars will be purely synthetic creations. When you look at the current state of pop music in it’s totality it seems perverse that we should subject humans to all that expensive...