The place João Bordalo calls home: Tag music

Creating "Smack my bitch up"

bordalix — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 03:07:00 -0600

What a great peace of music reverse engineering. Jim Pavloff uses some samples to re-create the classic music from Prodigy:

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Impressive collaborative music

bordalix — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 11:41:00 -0500

In Bb 2.0 is a collaborative music and spoken word project conceived by Darren Solomon from Science for Girls, and developed with contributions from users. 20 different YouTube videos embed in the same page, each with one instrument playing a tune, but where harmony is very well achieved. The videos can be played simultaneously - the soundtracks will work together, and the mix can be adjusted with the individual volume sliders. And you can combine any choice of instruments and play a different music each time, worth a try.

The Cloud Player

bordalix — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 17:40:00 -0600

The year is yet to begin, and the app to watch for in 2009 has just popped out: The Cloud Player, a "iTunes in the cloud" with friends sharing music. It's a all new ball game for the music industry, a brand new way of listening to music. Don't you love these spikes of evolution? Did I mention it's open source?

Apple soundtrack

bordalix — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:09:00 -0500

With only Mac OS X sounds, this guy composed a music, using, of course, GarageBand. How geek can you get?

Music for free

bordalix — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 18:29:00 -0600

Totally legal, more than 190.000 licensed Creative Commons tracks.

Jamendo allows artists to promote and publish their music. Artists have the opportunity to show their creativity, and the public has a place to listen to, download, and share new music.

If you find an album that you like, you can share it on your blog, write a review, or donate directly to the artist. Some artists will even include the list of people who donated in the booklet of their forthcoming albums. A great site for both artists and fans. Everybody wins, except for the big record labels of course.

Find music through music <sup>tm</sup>

bordalix — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 08:18:00 -0600

Via the lessig blog:

This is easily the coolest technology I’ve seen in years: Go to the Creative Commons search page. Click on the OWL Music Search tab. (Depending upon the browser, you might need to run a fake search to get it to come alive — we’re working on this, but just type anything in the search bar). You’ll then see OWL’s Music Search interface. Drop an MP3 on OWL. It will analyze it and show you similar sounding Creative Commons licensed music. You select the part of the song you want to match; it finds the closest match it can find.

Jumpcut

bordalix — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 06:00:00 -0500

Forget Flickr, loose YouTube, the new kid on the block is Jumpcut. Imagine a place where you can upload your own media (photos, clips, songs) or grab other's public media to create your own movies. Yes, that's right, create your own movies.

Mac fans, like me, will love the interface similar to iMovie. The big difference is that this one is easier to use, even being web based (great job guys).

In order to test the service, I uploaded 4 Pixar clips and a song from Fatboy Slim, and mixed my first Jumpcut movie. If you have 7 minutes to spare, take a look at it.

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Update: Published the "Making of". Bare in mind that this is version 3, since previous version was cut off to soon, and the first one add titles explaining each part of the process of creating the video.

But somehow the system is faulty, because the timing of appearence of the titles was wrong when viewing the movie, so I decided to cut all off and have only the screen capture.

Also, the screen capture has bad video quality, and some problems with the sound, but I blame that on my lack of experience with Snapz Pro.

When I made the movie, I wished to:

Have one music across all movie;
Mute the clip's music on the first two clips;
Syncronize the disco lights in the second clip with the music;
Add a movie title;
End the movie at the same time as the music.

So, with no further due, this is the making of Birds of prey:

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Does math predicts music success?

bordalix — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 06:27:00 -0500

These guys strongly believe it. But hey, what about free jazz?