Posts tagged Music
(via NELSON CAN, Danish girl band, EP release January 30 2012!)
I can imagine this doing rather well. And I like it.
New from Disquiet: Instagr/am/bient
An Introduction to Instagr/am/bient: Photos shared with the popular software Instagram are usually square in format, not unlike the cover to a record album. The format leads inevitably to a question: if a given image were the cover to a record album, what would the album’s music sound like?
Instagr/am/bient is a response to that question. The project involves 25 musicians with ambient inclinations. Each of the musicians contributed an Instagram photo, and in turn each of the musicians recorded an original track in response to one of the photos contributed by another of the project’s participants.
Songs With a Brand Name
Shameless self-promotion… Please follow Songs With A Brand Name … where we explore examples of brand dropping in music.
At the turn of the 20th century, Perry Cook, Wang’s Princeton adviser, observes, the principal way of distributing songs was on sheet music and piano rolls, ‘and the principal machine for rendering them was an educated daughter.’ People would sit around, she’d play, maybe everyone would sing…Perhaps, he says, pocket-size computers and easy-interface musical apps are recreating that dynamic, even as they transform it: ‘The hardware’s different, the software’s different — but people are singing together.’
Rob Walker, “The Machine That Makes You Musical”
[Thanks for posting, dianakimball!]
(via futureoflistening)
Marc Weidenbaum asked: “Wondering if there’s a sonic equivalent of (or parallel to) an animated GIF, and if so what it is.”
Tom Moody answered:
It would have to be (a) short, (b) a loop, (c) digitally timed, (d) compellingly misaligned in some way, (e) easily grasped by the listener but containing some subtleties that reveal themselves in repetition, and (f) pattern-based. Obviously we’re talking about the more abstract GIFs here, not a seagull strolling into a convenience store and stealing a bag of chips over and over.
In the process of pondering the question, Moody also recorded an example that fulfilled his hypothesis (MP3).
This cartoon propaganda bit from the Mexican government, about its efforts to stem the narco-violence there, has a surprisingly cool electronic soundtrack. More info at BBC. (I forget how I was pointed to that story.) And also at the Mexican government’s site. (Click the pictures there to watch more like the above, although it seems like maybe all the videos have the same soundtrack?)
Songs With a Brand Name
Friend of Product Displacement, Piotr Ślusarski, has launched Songs With a Brand Name, a directory of songs that mention brands within its lyrics or title. A great feature of the sight is searching for songs that mention a particular brand. Give Pandora a break and check out his site!!
Another Time, Another Way: Tablet Magazine’s Hanukkah album, remixed versions of holiday and Jewish classics. Free download! Here: Anander Mol, Anander Veig - by Marc Weidenbaum > Tablet Magazine - A New Read on Jewish Life
Product Placement Grows in Music Video
“The money spent on product placement in recorded music grew 8 percent in 2009 compared with the year before, while overall paid product placement declined 2.8 percent, to $3.6 billion.”
I think what’s meant is placement in recorded music videos, not in recorded music. Anyway the broader decline seems surprising — and that $3.6 billion number strikes me as small.
