I recently launched VirtualMusic.tv, a new freeform webzine covering virtual culture, virtuality, music, imagination, the future, and videogaming. Featured editorial and narrative content from the community is shared in writing, graphics, and videos. Our ideas today will be the technologies of tomorrow. Filmmakers and writers wanted.
Multitouch may be next GUI—is there a doubt? For decades we’ve used the mouse, but as GUI technology improves we’ll find more limitations in a mouse-based system. Clayton Miller’s 2009 project called 10/GUI demonstrates the potential of multitouch. According to Miller, “the industry is now at a crossroads.” […]
Piano music is as popular in Second Life as it is in real life. The setting is a virtual world—the music is real, interactive, and on key. This vivid photoset features pianos and players (avatars) in Second Life. 11 photos and 1 video. […]
Terry McBride—CEO of Nettwerk—talks here about imagination. He argues that with music, context trumps content because music creates emotional bookmarks in our mind. Simply, the song is an emotion. These emotional bookmarks are significant because they enable us to travel backwards in our memories to when we experienced the music. Consumers are in control of the music industry, and access rules. […]
30 Seconds to Mars, 50 Cent, Adam Lambert, Adele, Al Madrigal, Alice in Chains, All Time Low, Allison Iraheta, Andrew Bird, Anvil, Backstreet Boys, Barry Manilow, Ben Harper & Relentless7, Bill Burr, Bon Jovi, Bonnie Raitt & Taj Mahal, Brad Paisley, Carrie Underwood, Chad Daniels, Cheap Trick, Chicago, Chickenfoot, Chris Cornell, Cirque du Soleil Zumanity, Cobra Starship w/ Estelle continue. […]
Bill Burton: "Sometimes we limit ourselves by what we believe we can do. We don't even start. We don't even try." Burton delivered this powerful point in his TEDx talk last week, called How To Have A Christmas Number One Single, where, citing RATM's rise to UK Xmas no. 1, he exemplified the boundless force of social media, and, through a storytelling memorization activity, he demonstrated the limitless—but often unrealized—potential of the human mind. […]
My solo eclectic rock music project The Spin Arounds is a unique mesh of indie-pop, new wave, and post-punk with solid drum beats and colorful lyrics. Upcoming in 2010 is my second full album release, called Kaleidoscope. The 2007 debut album, Black Light One, is available free on Last.fm.
My idea for Kaleidoscope was to make a collaborative album full of remixes. Although I'm putting that on hold for now, I wanted to share one track that I recorded for it last year. I went back to the mix last month, added an the extra guitar riff that it needed in the chorus, and mastered it. I think it's fitting considering that the album is a bit of an illusion LOL but whatever who needs albums? […]
Barring logic, I knew from deep inside that writing music was one path I needed to follow. I began learning to program HTML in 2003 mainly because I wanted to use the web to share my music with my friends. […]
Prince wrote it. It was stuck in my head for about a decade. You know it probably by the Bangles. It's called Manic Monday. It's total punk-rock. I, uh, had to change the sex of the vocals LOL. […]
This is a new rock song I'm writing called Fade Away. I missed some notes but you'll get the idea I reckon. Oh, and I'm 6'1" so it's hard not to cut off my head. The chorus is D# A# Cm G# A#. […]
I’m launching a new website this week called VirtualMusic.tv which I’ll talk about at the end of this article. First I’d like to share a story and four life lessons that have helped bring me to today. […]