Key Of Grey

Photo courtesy of Signal To Noise June 18th, 2010 - Signal to Noise has created something they're calling the Analogue Tape Wall which is a traveling installation. It consists of a glove that users can use to stroke over a wall of analogue tape. The glove contains a tape head on the finger tip which allows the tape to be played. In the video embedded below, it seems like the collection of tape doesn't have much to do with each other in a ... Read More

Photo courtesy of oschene October 26th, 2009 - Do people still burn mix CDs to give to one another? Well, if you do, here's an Instructable for creating a pretty insane "origami" paper CD sleeve. Not only does it look crazy, it will kill a good chunk of time if you have nothing better to do. You can even print onto a provided template, so you can personalize the CD case with whatever you want. As you can see in the picture above, you ... Read More

August 16th, 2009 - IndabaMusic has a new remix contest featuring legends Crystal Method. If you win the remix contest for their new song "Come Back Clean" (featuring Emily Hanes and Samantha Maloney) you win the adulation of Crystal Method, get to visit their LA studio, and the most important prize of all for readers to this site, a MicroKorgXL. Two runners up will get a skate deck and signed album, and 10 others will get the signed album. The contest is open ... Read More

June 6th, 2009 - I have a fairly decent iTunes library which I cull fairly regularly. Problem is that, I don't have an iPod that's big enough to house all the music. I've looked at several solutions to stream my music online on a music server, but I've been discouraged by the number of steps required. Enter pulpTunes. Lifehacker reports that it pretty much only takes opening a firewall port to the internet, besides installation of the program of course. That sounds pretty ... Read More

May 14th, 2009 - I'm having problems posting and I'm desperately trying to fix it. Sorry for the inconvenience. Update: It turns out that the error was caused by the "Tweet This"  plugin I was using. It's been disabled and everything should be working correctly. We now return to your regularly scheduled programming. Read More

December 30th, 2008 - A few days ago, I posted about learning and how I felt that a good mentor would go a long way in developing musicianship skills. Well, the Institute of Contemporary Music Performance in the UK, is holding a worldwide scholarship audition. For each of its four main disciplines (guitar, bass, drums, and vocals), they offer one full scholarship, as well as one partial, to the Higher Diploma program. The Higher Diploma is a one year program that fast ... Read More

Photo courtesy of Jose Goulao October 15th, 2008 - According to LiveScience, a sport psychologist at Brunel University in England helped create a danceable "soundtrack" for runners in a recent half-marathon. Apparently many of the runners felt the soundtrack invigorated the race. Professional runners, according to the report, "use music as a legal drug". Before races, they listen to laid-back music, and then during the race, more upbeat tunes. Interestingly, the effects of music on your performance may not work as well if the ... Read More