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Wiitar: Combining the Wiimote, MAX/MSP and Mainstage

In Music on 25 June 2010 tagged ableton, bass, cubase, electronic, electronics, guitar, instructions, laptops, logic, mac, mainstage, max/msp, midi, musical instruments, synthesized music, synthesizer, technology, tutorial, wiimote, wiitar with no comments

For the final year of my degree, I was required to create an Experimental System Design. At the time, I was heavily involved with a live version of  The Red Attack, my electronic music played with instruments rather than computers. My set up consisted of an electric guitar running through Logic’s MainStage which was a [...]

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The next step…

In General, Music, Websites on 2 June 2010 tagged bandcamp, facebook, getting yourself heard, mailing list, myspace, promotion, publicity, shop, soundcloud, spreading the word, tracks, twitter with no comments

So you’ve got a brand new website that you want to promote? Recently I finished a website for Frag Records. Once completed they asked me for some hints and tips on how to get their name out there and how to be heard. Off the top of my head I came up with several promotional [...]

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I’m back…

In General, Music, Websites on 23 May 2010 tagged blog, facebook, reformat, social networking redesign, tweets, twitter, Websites, wiimote with no comments

Hello! Well, you may not have noticed I was gone from the social interweb, but I was for a little while. I was finishing off my degree in Music Production and the social world was distracting me. Twitter has become a very close friend of mine and I would spend hours trawling tweets and twoots, [...]

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Covers and Remixes

In General, Music on 20 April 2010 tagged 5ive, covers, DJ earworm, mash ups, Music, production, remixes, sound, the red attack, your song with no comments

I have always been a music fan. Playing violin from the age of 7 and progressing onto guitar, the musical world has always intrigued me, taking me on to study a Music Production degree. Covers and mash-ups I have always had a soft spot for. Even if its covers of your own song but done [...]

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Life in Technicolor II

In General, Music on 1 February 2009 with no comments

Coldplay have been around for years. 9 to be precise. Parachutes was released in July 2000 and debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart and contained the well known hits Yellow and Trouble. Parlophone originally predicted sales of 400,000 units of Parachutes; by Christmas, 1.6 million copies had been sold in the United [...]

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