Twitter is an ever-more-popular social networking tool for people and companies to use to send messages and stay in touch with people. If you’re not familiar with twitter, it’s basically like the status line of Facebook, but with some extra (very minimal) messaging components.
A lot of people are using twitter to stay in touch [...]
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Searching twitter for music
Can you hear like a teenager?
Take a listen to this clip. (mirror) … careful, it’s loud.
What do you hear? If you don’t hear anything, you’re not alone.. and you’re probably over the age of 25. If you can hear it, then you likely find it fairly annoying.
As we age, the little hairs in our inner ear lose some of [...]
What successful internet marketers know but musicians do not.
If you’re like the average person who makes music, and unless you have a record label behind you (and even if you do), you probably spend a lot of time trying to market your music on the internet. You have a Myspace page, a Reverb Nation page, and maybe even a website (or >gasp< [...]
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The worst song in the world … and a remix contest !
This is not going to be your normal, run-of-the-mill remix contest.
Background: Around 10 years ago, two Russian artists named Komar and Melamid paid to hire a market research firm to find out the American public’s likes and dislikes in art. They wanted to know what works, but moreover they wanted to know what [...]
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Releasing (and selling) your own records on vinyl
Vinyl is booming. There was one year about 10 years ago that I heard that one model of turntable (Technics 1200’s) outsold all models of electric guitars combined. The industry died down a bit after that, but recently vinyl has seen a resurgence and has been setting sales records (no pun intended).
I’ve released [...]
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Music from sand?
Diego Stocco is a composer, sound designer, composer for video games, and all-round creative guy. Not only are his compositions very interesting to listen to, but he’s got a knack for making his music out of the least likely of sources.
Diego was born in Italy and discovered music at the age of 6 when [...]
Music and Life – Alan Watts
Alan Watts (1915–1973) was a British philosopher, writer, speaker, and student of comparative religion. He
became well known because he popularied Asian philosophies to western audiences.
He wrote more than 25 books about personal identity, the true nature of reality, higher consciousness, meaning of life, concepts and images of God and the non-material pursuit of happiness. He [...]
The guitar store – the fender champ
This picture needs little explanation. The store is called The Guitar Store and it is on Commercial Road opposite Southampton Central railway station, Southampton, England. Yes, it’s shaped like a big Fender Champ guitar amp. Here’s the link.
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