Articole Interesante (De Citit La Cafea)

[Guest]

Un topic cu articole interesante (care au legătură cu muzica) culese de pe net, numai bune de citit la cafea.

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Iggy Pop Talks U2's New Album, Piracy During a Lecture on "Free Music in a Capitalist Society" for BBC's annual John Peel Lecture
 

I think that prosecuting some college kid because she shared a file is a lot like sending somebody to Australia 200 years ago for poaching his lordship's rabbit. That's how it must seem to poor people who just want to watch a crappy movie for free after they’ve been working themselves to death all day at Tesco or whatever, you know.

 

http://pitchfork.com/news/57060-iggy-pop-talks-u2s-new-album-piracy-during-a-lecture-on-free-music-in-a-capitalist-society/

Edited October 14, 2014 by Guest

[sam]

Brian May a plătit 12.500 de euro pentru a-şi transporta chitara în avion, la "business class"

http://www.mediafax.ro/life-inedit/brian-may-a-platit-12-500-de-euro-pentru-a-si-transporta-chitara-in-avion-la-business-class-13513449

 

Chiar asa sa fie oare?!?

[Posho]

The Foundations of Scientific Musical Tuning by Jonathan Tennenbaum

Reprinted from FIDELIO Magazine, Vol .1 No.1 , Winter 1991-92

 

http://www.schillerinstitute.org/fid_91-96/fid_911_jbt_tune.html

 

 

A Brief History of Musical Tuning

Reprinted from FIDELIO Magazine, Volume I, No. 1, Winter 1991-92

 

http://www.schillerinstitute.org/music/rev_tuning_hist.html

 

Multumesc mult pentru articole. O mica miriiala critica, altfel astea-s chiar de povestit da' dupa gustul meu nu la cafea ci la un coniac dupa cina .

Personal gasesc interpretarile lui Kepler in materie de muzica pur si simplu niste idealizari geometrizante care tin mai degraba de meta-ceva decit de fizica, dar e doar gustul meu, iar matematica folosita de el nu e cea potrivita. Ma mir foarte ca nu e mentionat in articol Andreas Werkmeister, cel caruia ii datoram sistemul folosit de noi azi. Iar pentru un institut purtator de asemenea nume  (Schiller) chiar ma asteptam macar la o referinta la Zarlino pentru sistemul natural.

Bon, daca mai bagam si ceva "singularitati" si ceva salata "new age" (alde Deepak Chopra lipseste, zau ) ) ca in primul articol cred ca ne-am lamurit, insa discutia chiar mi se pare ca merita purtata. Ofer eu coniacul

Edited November 27, 2014 by Posho

[SolDiez]

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/12/141202123840.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily%2Ftop_news%2Ftop_science+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Top+Science+News%29

[ADIDAS]

http://www.danfintescu.ro/industria-muzicala-din-romania-criza-normalitatii/

[sam]

http://www.vintageguitar.com/19478/maestros-rover-r0-1/

[ramurel]

„Nu e rău, e bine”. Fenomenul punk în vremea tovarășilor

 

Încă de la sfârşitul anilor 1960, Nicolae Ceauşescu a anulat propriu-zis scena naţională de rock...

 

  E, aiurea ! Bă, nu mai băgați sforăieli d-astea, că vă și crede "ăștia micii" ! O fi fost dezagreată de partid sau dintr-astea, pe cale oficială, de "pe teren" realitatea nu era chiar așa groznică ! Nu mă refer la unii persecutați, ci în general. ( Și mai și auzeai, din când în când, pe un disc Electrecord "Hei, hei, nașule, dă-te dumneata-ntr-o haltă jos !" )

 

  Cât de persecutat era rock-ul pe vremea aia, f'tui mama mă-sii, iar UTC-ul organiza excursii la concerte rock, la Budapesta... Și TimRockul troznea de mama focului an după an, cu săli arhipline... 

 

  Mă leși ?!

 

O fost greu cu comunismu', da' deja e tot mai enervant anti-comunismu' ăsta. E mort, dă-l dracu', nu-l mai scărmănați atâta !

 

Late edit : Revizuiesc un pic : se poate ca toți anii ăia să-și fi pus amprenta asupra evoluției în general a fenomenului și a dezvoltării lui, spre culmi  de bla-bla... Dar acuma, după peste dojdă' ani cine se mai poate plânge că-l oprește cineva să se desfășoare. Acum, desigur, s-a dat frâu liber creației și open-mind-ului, iar pe scena punk stă un pitic care urlă la tine "Să-ți dau la M.U.I.E.eeee / Să-ți dau la M.U.I.E ", iar în primele rânduri, toate fetele e-n ecstaz

 

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Edited December 15, 2014 by ramurel

[ADIDAS]

Macar e amuzant. LOL! Nimic nu e mai distractiv decat personajele imaginare. Pacat ca nu are si D-zeu un nr magic sa ne distram si cu ala.

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2512002/Satan-calling-Colorado-woman-gets-48-text-messages-666-number-claiming-devil-himself.html

Edited December 22, 2014 by ADIDAS

[Posho]

Charlie Hebdo: o decriptare completă, pagină cu pagină, a ultimului număr…

 

https://cabalinkabul.wordpress.com/2015/01/09/charlie-hebdo-o-decriptare-completa-pagina-cu-pagina-a-ultimului-numar/

 

 

Il pierdusem de-o vreme pe Dan Alexe. Iata-ma redescoperindu-l datorita tie. Multumesc mult!

[Guest]

Big balls of cartoon fire – Umorul Charlie continuă, iată ultimul număr…

https://cabalinkabul.wordpress.com/2015/01/15/big-balls-of-cartoon-fire-umorul-charlie-continua-iata-ultimul-numar/

 

[Guest]

Recording Guitarist: A Mobile Recording Reality Check
 

If you own a smart phone or tablet, chances are you already know it’s a great tool for capturing musical ideas anywhere, anytime. How cool is it to carry a recording studio in your purse or pocket?

Meanwhile, ingenious app developers are doing amazing things with iOS and Android software. There are powerful multichannel DAWs, from Apple’s GarageBand to such third-party options as Harmonicdog’s Multitrack DAW and Music Studio by Alexander Gross. There are fine amp simulators like IK Multimedia’s AmpliTube for iPad and Positive Grid’s BIAS. Positive Grid even offers Final Touch, a frickin’ mastering suite for iOS!

But just how good can phone and tablet recordings sound, given the devices’ hardware and software limitations? What are the best results you can expect from their humble built-in mics? How much of an upgrade should you expect when you connect third-party mics and audio interfaces? In other words, can a mobile device be more than a musical notebook? Can you create keeper tracks?

I wasn’t sure either, so I tried a few experiments while home for the holidays, far from my studio gear.

 

http://www.premierguitar.com/articles/21878-recording-guitarist-a-mobile-recording-reality-check

[Guest]

LA Studio Musicians Income Fell 68%
 

The lack of work for studio musicians is sending a shockwave through the industry and it's being felt across the nation. Already this year we've heard from frustrated music industry professionals in Nashville who's job security remains uncertain. With artists, musicians, and industry leaders fleeing the country to record at lower costs, what we're feeling on our own soil is the strain of a crippled industry.

According to a report released on Dec. 15 by the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy, recording-session wages have dropped 68% over the last 15 years. A profession once generating $50 million in income for its workers hit an all time low of $15.5 million in 2013. Studio musicians in LA desperate for change are looking to their union leaders and expressing their frustrations - and they aren't the only ones frustrated.

 

http://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2015/01/la-studio-musicians-feeling-the-strain-of-runaway-recordings.html

[Guest]

Punk music archive to preserve Washington DC music history
 

Washington, DC, is known as a pretty conservative town, so it might surprise you to know the US capital has a lively - and loud - history of punk music.

Indeed so much so, that now the DC Public Library has created a punk rock archive.

The library even had a punk show in the basement to launch the initiative, which includes collecting paraphernalia dating back to 1976.

It is an unusual combination of loud music and quiet book-stacks which musicians and historians say will help preserve an important part of the city's history.

 

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-30821333

[Guest]

Josef Kappl, fost membru al trupei Phoenix: „Nu mi-am strâns copilul în braţe până la vârsta de 15 ani“
 

Muzicianul Josef (Ioji) Kappl povesteşte pentru „Weekend Adevărul“ momentele de glorie trăite în anii ’70 alături de ceilalţi membri ai trupei Phoenix, dar şi despre drama personală: a fugit din ţară fără să apuce să-şi vadă copilul, care s-a născut la câteva luni după evadarea lui din România comunistă.

 

http://adevarul.ro/entertainment/muzica/josefkappl-fost-membru-trupei-phoenix--nu-mi-am-stranscopilul-brate-varsta-15-ani-1_54ba9ca8448e03c0fdb11eb8/index.html

[Guest]

What I Learned from Judging Pornhub’s Song Search Contest

http://noisey.vice.com/blog/what-i-learned-from-judging-pornhubs-song-search-contest

[Guest]

Nick Mason drives you around Pink Floyd's seminal locations in a Ferrari California
 

Rock music and cars, if not co-dependent, certainly go together pretty well. But few people have made them co-exist as successfully as Nick Mason. The only member of Pink Floyd to play a part in every one of the band's often turbulent incarnations, Mason's North London HQ is a working shrine to a life keeping time and keeping the flame for one of the world's greatest bands, but also a testimony to his parallel career in motorsport and cars. As you'll see above.

 

 

 

What did you make of the U2/Apple debacle?

It's been interesting seeing how badly that went down. Let me be completely clear about my position: if Apple had come to me and said, 'Nick, we want to release your album in exchange for £50m', I couldn't have thought of a better idea. [pause] Radiohead did something similar a few years ago [2008's In Rainbows], and it worked. But this has backfired. It's made everyone think again about how they want their music delivered, given or sold. Look, U2 are a great band, and Bono's an extraordinary individual, so this isn't an anti-U2 tirade. But it highlights a vital aspect to the whole idea of music in the 21st century. What's also interesting is that Apple seem to have got off scot-free. No-one's blaming them. Apple has done great things, but it has also contributed to the devaluation process. That said, iTunes is already beginning to look rather passé, and instead it's Spotify that looks like the future. What we need is another two or three billion people using it, then it would make more sense for musicians. At the moment, the pay-out, particularly for unknowns and only slightly-knowns is… pathetic. Pink Floyd is certainly not saying, 'we won't do it like that'. We'll stream, but we'll stream with higher quality audio, and with a lot more video, or other graphic interfaces that will make it part of a fuller entertainment experience.

 

http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/entertainment/articles/2015-01/14/video-nick-mason-tours-pink-floyd-seminal-locations-in-a-ferrari-california

Edited January 19, 2015 by Guest

[Guest]

Below the lines in the ice: the sonic world of icebergs
 

No exhibition about the Arctic would be complete without some reference to icebergs. It just wouldn’t be right. During the planning of the British Library’s current exhibition, Lines in the Ice: seeking the Northwest Passage, icebergs, or more specifically, the sounds of icebergs, cropped up in a number of meetings and so the hunt for these sounds began.

A common misconception would be that icebergs are silent, white giants, moving noiselessly through the freezing waters of the polar seas. In fact, this couldn’t be further from the truth.

 

http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/sound-and-vision/2015/01/below-lines-in-the-ice-the-sonic-world-of-icebergs.html

[Guest]

Save our sounds: Treasure trove of British noises could be lost within 15 years

The British Library has warned that its unique archive of sound recordings dating back to the 1870s need to be digitised urgently or many will crumble to dust.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/save-sounds-treasure-trove-british-4980082

[Guest]

These 20 Unorthodox Instruments Are Making the Music of the Future
 

The Margaret Guthman Musical Instrument Competition doesn’t crown any old clarinet or guitar. Nicknamed the “X-Prize of musical instruments,” the annual Georgia Tech competition showcases the revolutionary ideas and innovations that are changing the way music is made and experienced, and highlights some of the best instrument makers in the world. “A lot of what the judges have to deal with is trying to define for themselves what it means to be a musical instrument. Then they can begin to understand what is an effective or a particularly exemplary or transformative example,” explains Jason Freeman, an assistant professor at the school of music in the preview video.

This year, the competition featured 20 semifinalists, with instruments that ranged from sculptable interfaces to the Space Age string instrument, the Yaybahar. Below, check out the nominees, and stay tuned for the winners who will be announced in February.

 

http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/these-20-unorthodox-instruments-are-making-the-music-of-the-future

[Guest]

Vinyl’s difficult comeback
 

On an industrial estate in Röbel, 90 miles north of Berlin, the vinyl presses at the Optimal factory were grinding and pumping away. They made a percussive racket – regular clunks, wheezes, and hisses, underlain by a droning hum – and created a distinct aroma, sharp and metallic, suggestive of steam engines and old cars: not instantly recognisable to a British visitor like me, perhaps, but the singular smell of things being made. My guide to the Optimal plant was its operations director, Peter Runge. Together, we watched copies of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds’ Live From KCRW tumble from one of the machines.

 

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jan/07/-sp-vinyls-difficult-comeback

[Guest]

Bob Dylan Does the American Standards His Way

In his first interview in nearly three years, the legendary singer-songwriter talks about his new disc, ‘Shadows in the Night,’ his love for Frank Sinatra and about life in his 70s.
 

For a man who has lived in the public eye for more than 50 years, Bob Dylan is fiercely private. When he’s not on stage — since 1988, he’s maintained a performance schedule so relentless it’s known as the Never Ending Tour — he slips back into anonymity. But early last summer, Dylan’s representatives reached out and told me he wanted to speak to AARP The Magazine about his new project. “I don’t work at Rolling Stone anymore,” I told them, thinking it was a case of crossed wires, since I put in 20 years there. No, they said, there’s no mistake; he wants to talk to your readers.

And now, after five months of negotiation, a cross-country flight and days of waiting, it is less than an hour until our interview, and I still don’t know exactly where I will meet the reclusive artist. Driving down into the late October sun from the hills of Berkeley, California, toward the San Francisco Bay, I wait for a phone call with directions to a certain floor of a hotel. Then I’ll be given the room number, told to knock, and wait.

 

http://www.aarp.org/entertainment/style-trends/info-2015/bob-dylan-aarp-magazine.html

[Guest]

Steve Albini on the surprisingly sturdy state of the music industry – in full

 

The music producer, Shellac frontman and author of seminal 1993 essay, The Problem with Music, spoke in Melbourne about the advantages of the internet, the death of the major label system, copyright law and that ‘purple dwarf in assless chaps’.

 

 

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/nov/17/steve-albinis-keynote-address-at-face-the-music-in-full

Edited January 23, 2015 by Guest

[Guest]

Understanding Earth by Eavesdropping on Urban Noise

Researchers are tuning in to urban seismic noise, the man-made signals from human activity, to view geologic structures and track the rhythms of cities.

http://www.livescience.com/49458-human-seismic-noise-earth.html

[Guest]

Unprecedented Music Piracy Collapse Fails to Boost Revenues
 

A survey carried out by music industry group IFPI has revealed that just 4% of Norwegians under 30 are now using illegal file-sharing platforms to obtain music, down from 70% in 2009. But while that achievement is unprecedented, overall music industry revenues have remained static.

 

http://torrentfreak.com/unprecedented-music-piracy-collapse-fails-to-boost-revenues-150126/

[Guest]

Watch Damon Albarn and Brian Eno’s 40-minute tribute to Terry Riley’s ‘In C’ with Africa Express

 

Last year, Africa Express brought together Malian musicians and Western musicians including Damon Albarn, Nick Zinner and Brian Eno to perform Terry Riley’s masterpiece ‘In C,’ right in time for its 50-year anniversary. The recording got a physical release this week via Transgressive.

http://www.factmag.com/2015/01/26/watch-damon-albarn-and-brian-enos-40-minute-tribute-to-terry-rileys-in-c-with-africa-express/

 

Edited January 27, 2015 by Guest

[Guest]

An auditory tribute to Harry Beck's Underground map, the skeleton which has long lent shape to the city in the minds of Londoners. Here sounds were collected from along London's canals and lesser rivers. Completed in March 2012.

http://www.soundsurvey.org.uk/index.php/survey/waterways/


Recordings of background atmospheres and incidental noises from all over London. Many form part of a sound grid series recorded at evenly-spaced points across the city, each marking the centre of a square on the map below.

http://www.soundsurvey.org.uk/index.php/survey/soundmaps/

[Guest]

Inside album leaks: how do they happen, how do we stop them, and do they even matter?
 

Digital album leaks have been happening for more than 20 years, but it’s been a long time since they were this prominent in the news.

Two of 2015′s biggest records – Björk’s Vulnicura and Madonna’s Rebel Heart – leaked several months before their planned release dates, with different consequences: Björk’s label have stated that they will not take legal action, while Adi Lederman, the man who leaked demo versions of Rebel Heart‘s tracks, was tracked down and arrested in Israel. But if leaks are nothing new (and in fact, people being arrested over leaks and artists rush-releasing albums to counter leaks is nothing new either), why are they currently being debated so furiously – and not just in terms of the processes and morals behind them, but related issues such as whether music publications should acknowledge them?

 

http://www.factmag.com/2015/01/29/inside-album-leaks-bjork-vulnicura-madonna-rebel-heart/

[Guest]

All About the Bass: How Baleen Whales Hear Very Low Frequencies
 

Baleen whales, the largest creatures on Earth, can send extremely low-frequency underwater calls to one another. But little is known about how they actually process these sounds. Now, researchers have found that the whales have specialized skulls that can capture the energy of low frequencies and direct it toward their ear bones to hear.

 

http://www.livescience.com/49636-baleen-whales-skull-acoustics.html

[Guest]

100 Years of Earthquake Data Becomes an 8-Day-Long Orchestral Arrangement

 

If the Earth's tremors were performed by a full orchestra, it might sound like creative technologist David Johnson’s “data auralizations.” Using 100 years of global earthquake data—a set that consists of over 780,000 points—he created The Poseidon Ensemble, a generative orchestral composition and visual animation that runs for nearly eight days from beginning to end.

http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/en_au/blog/100-years-of-earthquake-data-orchestra

 

 

Edited February 2, 2015 by Guest

[Guest]

Pădurile din Transilvania prind viață pe noul album Negură Bunget
 

Succesul trupei de metal Negură Bunget se datorează combinației dintre black metal și elemente sonore din folclorul românesc, o formulă câștigătoare de public local, dar și internațional. Mai adaugi și versuri criptice despre mitologie, simbolistică, Zalmoxis și păduri și ai o rețetă perfectă, dacă vrei să dai din cap, dar să și bagi ceva la cap.

 

http://www.vice.com/ro/read/padurile-din-transilvania-prind-viata-pe-noul-album-negura-bunget-108