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Songster is Facebook’s First Music-Creation Social Game
Dr. Dre never had it this easy. Music-creation social site, Songster, launched at SXSW on Wednesday for the musicportion of the conference. Songster lets you feel like a musician and mix various beats and vocals to make your own tracks.
Rest of the story via Mashable via Play Songster
DIGITALS: A clever music video that uses the sounds from devices and highlights the digital soundscape we all live in
A mashup made in 15 minutes by Moi
Source: thelisteners
Songs I overplay #2: So @HopieSpitshard comes hard on Drakes “motto” track. I honestly don’t have much to say about it other than “go run and play it.” I’ve been on constant rotation on my iTunes especially while I’m working on something. Well done Hopie, well done.
Source: SoundCloud / hopie-1
A little video from The Kiehm and my music crew
Art by: The Kiehm
Music by: The Listeners, my music crew
Video by: Ryan Dunn
Source: thekiehm
Honestly I can’t remember when I put this instrumental together. I was either 2006 or 2007.
The sample came directly from a record player that was connected to a RCA to photo Y cable that was directly jacked into my old computer’s microphone input.
Check out “Abstract Movements” - @Lontastic, Produced by The Listeners from Lontastic’s new mixtape “LAXTL.” Download the full mixtape here
Source: thelisteners
Since March (or April) of this year I’ve been focusing a lot of my time with researching and immersing myself into music-based gaming from a UX standpoint.
As a designer I have a need for something that’s visually beautiful and as a creative something that’s unexpected. Sony’s Sound Shape seems to have come up with a “gamified-tool” that encompasses a whimsical design style that I find to be a refreshing detour from the complex visual nature of hardcore music creation software all while focusing on the idea that the product has to be fun to use and ends in the user feeling like they created something worth while.
I like it.
Songs I overplay #1: My buddy Niko Villamor (@villadoesntrap) and @javisfaux came through on this remix of “Decay.” There’s something about the contrast of the worn vinyl sample sounds meshed up with the digital distortions of a CD or bad signal processing that make this song the most “on” offbeat track I’ve probably ever heard. Good job guys.
Source: SoundCloud / Javis FauX
