I’ve recently been listening to an interesting podcast called Moonshot, a tech-futures podcast (from Australia) looking at impossible ideas, the people creating them and the steps people are taking to …
Monument Valley’s soundtrack in stunning Vinyl
The double vinyl pack of the epic Monument Valley soundtrack is up for sale as pre-order from iam8Bit. I’ve got a copy ordered :) Source: TheVerge and iam8bit
Christmas Music season
A post on the planning, data analysis and market research leading into the Christmas period for radio and online streaming services. Mariah Carey, Bing Crosby and Jose Feliciano have seen …
How the new Skype Universal Translator works
Skype have written a blog post explaining how their Skype Translator works which is currently available as a preview-release for the Spanish language. The blog includes a short Behind the …
Ayrton Senna’s 1989 F1 lap data visualized by Honda
With over 100 sensors and 6.5 billion data points delivered in real-time, today the F1 is as much as about predicting the future as it is about shaving milliseconds on the circuit. …
Documentary of Sound Designer Ben Burtt (1989)
This 10 minute documentary from 1989 covers the efforts into sound design in the 1990’s, including the recording of sounds for films and television. Ben Burtt is an American sound …
BBC Radio 4’s Archive on 4 – The Sound of Sport
When we think of the sound of sport on TV or radio, it’s generally commentary. But what’s around the commentary? Broadcast sport would be nothing without the crowds, the kicks, the …
Learning about the Sennheiser HD-25
Recently I’ve been looking at getting myself a new set of headphones for the iPod and I came across the Sennheiser HD-25. Here is a thorough and quite detailed review …
A list of Electronic Music Genres
I came across this really useful list of Electronic Music Genres from Wikipedia. With rapid increases in styles and unclear labels of Electronic music (in my part) over recent years, …
Is that an iPod in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
Happy New year, and welcome to the first post of 2005. I’m really excited to be back online and looking forward to a really great and exciting year head here …
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy on BBC Radio 4
The new series of Douglas Adams Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by will be airing on BBC Radio 4 this coming Tuesday.
The W3C SSML becomes a W3C Recommendation
The W3C Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) has become a W3C Recommendation on 7 September 2004. This standard, aims to enable access to the Web using spoken interaction as an …
Interview with Greg Joswiak on how AirTunes works
Cafedave posted a link to a Macworld article that briefly explains how AirTunes works. It is an interview with Greg Joswiak, Apple’s Vice President of Hardware Product Marketing. There are …
Language, music, syntax and the brain
A really interesting high-level article by Aniruddh D. Patel and published in Nature Neuroscience which looks at the comparative study and cognitive theory of music and language and its representation …
WireTap lets you record any audio in OS X
Ambrosia, the company who developed Snapz Pro X, a screen capture tool for the mac, have developed a nifty cool new utility called WireTap, that let’s you capture any bit …
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