Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Girl Talk, a "musician" discussed during our talk on tinkering, has just released yet another studio album entitled "All Day" that is available as a free download via his record label, Illegal Art. A large tour to back the album includes a stop in Madison on Monday, March 7. If you haven't seen Gregg Gillis live, definitely check it out (and grab your ticket SOON). Dance party!
Here's a really cool example (www.hitrecord.org) of open source innovation in the entertainment industry. It brings together artists of all kinds: actors, graphic artists, musicians, writers, composers, etc. This is just more proof that open source isn't just for software... it can be applied to anything! Check out a video below explaining the process and check out the website.
After today's discussion regarding tinkering, I couldn't help but post this video. The Avalanches are an Australian DJ collective; in order to produce their most popular and critically-acclaimed album "Since I Left You" (completed way back in 2000 and released in 2001), the musicians compiled 3,500 obscure vinyl samples for just 18 tracks. Impressed by Girl Talk? Just give this a whirl. Make sure you stick it out long enough to hear the mixing of the bird noise...you'll understand.
For a (slightly) less-bizarre and uber-funky cut, check out the album's title track. Happy tinkering!
Being a self-proclaimed music connoisseur and, consequentially, a bit of a music snob, the idea that her (mainstream) weirdness, Lady Gaga, is building the future of the music industry admittedly freaks me out a bit. In an article posted in The Washington Post today, contributor Joe Frontiera gives five reasons as to why today's biggest musical phenomenon has developed into a driving force behind all that is pop.
Whether or not I look to Gaga as the fountainhead of cool and chic is beside the point; it is important to glean that Frontiera has a couple interesting points about what fuels innovation. In the section discussing how Gaga has conquered the Internet (her "Bad Romance" video has over 281,000,000 views on YouTube), the author claims that it is her transparency with fans that has allowed her ideas (although they are typically shocking enough) to stand out from the clutter. Additionally, in the section discussing the Haus group (her inner circle of collaborators), Frontiera goes as far to say "every innovator needs a devoted team." Coincidence that we have touched on these topics in class? Probably not.
So, ladies and gentlemen, here is a woman who gets innovation (yes...she is wearing a dress made out of meat - taken from the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards):
Rah, rah, ah, ah, ah
Roma, roma ma
Gaga, oh laa laa...
Want your bad romance
In a Discovery-News.com interview, co-founder Matt Siegel describes Indaba Music as "a website that allows musicians to collaborate with each other, no matter where they are in the world."
The concept is not new, and many have struggled to market similar solutions in the past, including Rocket Network and ProTools. Most competitors focus on live collaboration (jamming) or remixing, while Indaba seeks to improve traditional, asynchronous multitrack recording. Indaba has taken the lead among pro and semi-professional musicians by combining social networking with a web application that allows users to mix and edit audio in their browsers.
There are currently over 75,000 registered users from 150 countries, including many talented session musicians. Indaba encourages participation through frequent contests and crowd-sourcing in partnership with indie bands and labels. If it continues to grow in membership and quality, Indaba has the potential to compete with traditional record labels through its cooperative, grass roots approach to creating music.
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