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- By Duncan Geere
- 21 August 2012
This beautiful creation is the Pianocade, an open-source chiptunes synthesiser and MIDI controller that's available for pre-order right now »
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- By Duncan Geere
- 21 August 2012
If you're serious about wanting to make music on your iPad, Griffin's Studioconnect supplies almost everything an amateur musician could possibly need »
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- By Duncan Geere
- 10 May 2012
Social media is an incredibly useful tool for musicians to recruit fans, but how do you start from zero? At the Great Escape festival, down on Brighton's rainy seafront, a panel of experts recommended the good old-fashioned mailing list »
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- By Duncan Geere
- 05 April 2012
It's never been easier to make music, thanks to a wealth of apps available for smartphones and tablets that put bleeps and bloops together to create amazing tunes. The latest is Propellerhead's "Figure" »
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- By Duncan Geere
- 02 March 2012
Washington-based brothers Ryan and Hays Holladay, better known as Bluebrain, have announced their latest app-album, just in time for the South by Southwest festival. It's called The Violet Crown »
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- By Rob Boffard
- 06 February 2012
When you're a superstar DJ, traveling is a big part of your life. Getting to gigs involves a lot of waiting around in airports, tracking down lost luggage and crashing out in identikit hotel rooms »
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- By Duncan Geere
- 08 December 2011
Finnish entrepreneur Timo Poijärvi wants to change the way we discover music with Hitlantis -- a visually-impressive rethink of the traditional box of search results »
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- By Duncan Geere
- 07 November 2011
On 5 and 6 November, 2011, a selection of developers from various digital music companies descended on Boston for a hack day »
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- By Duncan Geere
- 02 November 2011
Record label EMI has announced a parnership with the Echo Nest that'll see music and other content be made available for application developers »
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- By Duncan Geere
- 01 November 2011
Apple has announced that its entry-level music creation software, GarageBand, is now available for iPhone and iPod touch devices »
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- By Duncan Geere
- 05 October 2011
Bluebrain, the musicians behind The National Mall, have put together another location-aware album -- Listen to the Light »
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- By Duncan Geere
- 03 October 2011
Oklahoman psych-rockers the Flaming Lips have come up a novel format for their next record release -- a 24-hour song embedded in a human skull »
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- By Duncan Geere
- 27 May 2011
A pair of musicians from Washington DC who go by the name Bluebrain have put together a location-aware album called the National Mall »
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- By Duncan Geere
- 13 May 2011
The popular conception of the music industry with regards to the web is one of an ostrich with its head firmly in the sand. But at the Great Escape festival in Brighton, there's a remarkable amount of optimism about the web on display »
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- By Duncan Geere
- 12 May 2011
Down by the seaside in Brighton, the global music industry is collecting for the annual Great Escape conference -- a bit like South by Southwest, but with fewer ironic cowboy hats and more fish and chips »
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- By Duncan Geere
- 21 April 2011
Pretty much all band-related apps are the same, and they're mostly rubbish. But with a little imagination and creativity, they could be so much more »
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- By Brian X Chen
- 05 April 2011
Apple's GarageBand app for iPad makes music creation so simple that a band produced an entire album with it in just two weeks »
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- By Lewis Wallace
- 01 April 2011
Josh Freese, the songwriting drummer who made headlines by selling bizarre package deals to hype his solo album two years ago, is back with a new batch of elaborate offerings for his latest EP, My New Friends »
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- By Caleb Garling
- 15 February 2011
The Flaming Lips’ new single is a YouTube symphony that requires 12 smartphones to be properly heard »