Archive for the ‘music’ Category
This weekend I tuned in to a major radio station for the first time in a very long time, and was greeted with an advertisement I didn’t expect. Instead of load local car salesmen or a screechy techno beat inviting me to a night club where ladies get in free on Tuesdays, I was [...]
I’ve undertaken a new musical collaboration with a very eclectic (and eccentric) group of guys called STFUnity. The project for me started when Bill mentioned putting together a completely virtual collaboration between he, Jason Blain, and myself. The idea was that rather than the traditional setting of getting a couple musicians in a room, rehearsing [...]
Back in June, I wrote a short piece on changing my music studio environment. At the close of that piece I mentioned a buddy of mine was selling an old Alesis DM-5 kit, and that I would soon be incorporating that into my setup. Although 6 months isn’t exactly soon, I managed to tackle [...]
I built some speaker stands recently for the home studio. Rather than go through the trouble to add all the steps here, I just created an Instructable for it. You can find it here:
DIY Speaker Stands for Cheap
I got the original idea from these guys, but I thought they were a bit small so I [...]
I started drumming in a new band sometime last year called the Ascended Masters. When I joined we were a trio, though the band has expanded to a quartet/quintet with the inclusion of a horn section. Progress with the band has been quick as of late, even if the ramp up was a bit logarithmic. [...]
I would be the first person to say that for the most part, MIDI is perfectly acceptable as an interface between musical devices, and has survived for as long as it has because of how dead simple it is. MIDI is still plenty fast, and in terms of interoperability, has yet to be bested. However [...]
UPDATE: This is no longer the latest version, I fixed some bugs for Mac users and reposted. To get the latest version click here.
Since I don’t have a touchscreen to test this with, I’m releasing the 01 version with mouse functionality, along with a few GUI functions to change the midi out port and the [...]
I’ve had Christmas surprises in the past, but my wife pulled a fast one this year that is particularly noteworthy.
As many of you know, I’ve been taking tabla lessons for the last few months, and having a lot of fun at it. I had been borrowing a pair of my teacher’s [...]
Since the last post I’ve had to make far more changes than I expected. If you looked at the previous examples, there was using a loop to create the hex buttons, making translations to relative to other translations on the screen. In the process I completely lost track of the absolute position of the button, [...]
Earlier this year while reading Harmonic Experience by W. A. Mathieu, I was introduced to the concept of lattices to represent tones, chords and keys. These lattices can be used to represent the basics of music composition in a visual way that makes more sense than standard scales on staffs. Here is an example:
The lattice [...]