Archive: Discovery
Archive: Discovery
Can Pono Change the Face of Mainstream Audio Quality?
By Jason Epstein “WE’RE NOT CHANGING MUSIC. WE’RE LETTING MUSIC CHANGE YOU”, is the message emblazoned across Pono’s landing page. PonoMusic promises to take artist-approved master recordings and put them in the listener’s hands, with fidelity anywhere from 6 to 30 times that of a regular MP3 file. This is Neil Young’s (a man who is
London’s Music Tech Fest Comes to Boston
By Kira Grunenberg With a plethora of digital devices and music players perforating modern life, you’d think that the relationship between music and technology would be a more widely discussed topic. Despite the many startups that merge tech and music, a dedicated platform that brings together the growing, lucrative music technology sector is still quite
Inside The Moog Room at Rough Trade NYC
A disorienting blend of whirrs, beeps, hisses, sirens, and the occasional chord stab inundates the open, concrete warehouse of New York’s recently opened Rough Trade record store. In an elevated boxcar just past the building entrance, the legendary synthesizer company Moog has installed several rigs of modular synthesizers, open to the public for play, experimentation, and
Soundwave Doubles Down with Desktop Music Capture Update
By Kira Grunenberg You might wonder why a widely successful mobile-only app would expand to the stationary side of the technologic border. That’s what Soundwave has done with their most recent update, now available in the iTunes App and Google Play stores. However, the tagline for the update, “Soundwave moves to capture desktop music,” is assuredly
[Interview] Nick Klimchuk, CEO of Encore
By Carolyn Heneghan “Notice the sea of screens at concerts? Live music events are the number one usage occasion of smartphones, and yet there is no go-to concert app,” said Encore CEO Nicholas Klimchuk in a recent press release. “We’re trying to change that with Encore.” You probably noticed it at the last live show
Stream The Heart of Austin SXSW Showcase This Week on Your PS3
By Carolyn Heneghan Total bummer you couldn’t make it to SXSW this year, right? All of the amazing concerts with tons of big-name and up-and-coming artists to discover, just out of your reach this time around. Wouldn’t you love to be a fly on the wall and catch all the action from afar? Now, with