A few days back, I tripped across a brilliant idea called Thounds, best-described via the video below:
For those of you without the requisite patience for video viewing, Thounds is a social platform for the recording and sharing of musical snippets, which can be added-to collaboratively by other users within the network.
This is not a terrifically [...]
Published on October 21, 2009 12:18 pm.
Filed under: Notes on Things Seen, People and Other People Tags: Cluster, collaboration, crowdsourcing, music, music business, Thounds
5 Gum Augmented Reality Music Mixer Demo
A very intriguing use of Augmented Reality for content creation, not just informatics and product demonstration. Now it gets interesting.
(via 5gumFrance)
Published on October 13, 2009 7:53 pm.
Filed under: Links, People and Devices Tags: content creation, music
Among the few presentations I regret missing at SXSW was Anthony Volodkin’s panel on music discovery. Thankfully, the entirety of Anthony and Paul Lamere’s Powerpoint presentation on ‘why is music recommendation broken’ has been posted online (and embedded below):
Help! My iPod thinks I’m emo.
View more presentations from Paul Lamere.
Jason Herskowitz, on Globallistic, digs deeper into [...]
Published on March 29, 2009 10:34 pm.
Filed under: Ephemera, Links Tags: music, passive, presentations, radio
I am optimistic about one day learning how to whistle.
I am optimistic about my backyard garden; it was solid clay when I started on it, and now it’s thriving.
I am optimistic about going for a run weekly.
I am optimistic about my lemon tree being fruitful next spring.
I am optimistic about becoming proficient on the ukelele.
*****
Alex [...]
Published on February 23, 2009 2:30 pm.
Filed under: Ephemera, Links Tags: alexander chen, creative talent, music, new album, optimism
Two very insightful interviews posted this morning:
Chris Wilson over at The Marketing Fresh Peel interviews Piers Fawkes of PSFK as part of his Future of Work series. Fawkes opens up on his views of the changes in the workplace that Gen-Y will face:
Gen Yers are going to work for scores of companies and they need [...]
Published on February 13, 2009 11:57 am.
Filed under: Notes on Things Seen, People and Other People Tags: backcatalogue, changes in the workplace, current systems, indie labels, insight, music, music business, people, place, PSFK, relevance, transparency
Henry Owings, publisher of the seminal zine Chunklet, posted recently on an endeavor by Soundscreen Design to publish a collection of the best 7″ record sleeve artwork of the last 2o or so years.
As a fan of Henry’s (the photo above demonstrating proof of my friendship via my Chunklet Neighborhoodie was taken at the 2008 [...]
Published on February 11, 2009 2:10 pm.
Filed under: Ephemera, Notes on Things Seen Tags: engagement, experience, familiarity, fandom, limited-edition, music