Moogfest Announces Audiotool Competition
Moogfest, the annual festival celebrating the innovative spirit of synth pioneer Dr. Robert Moog, has joined forces with web-based workstation Audiotool for an exciting and unique contest. Contestants are invited to produce a track using Audiotool’s cloud-based platform, and submit it for a chance to perform at Moogfest in April and an opportunity to be featured
ToneDen Is A Clean Content Hub For Artists
By Ruben Lone The music discovery experience often involves hopping around the multitude of outlets for new music—social media sites, music streaming engines, blogs, and websites. For an artist, the challenge is threading their brand and identity between these bases, and providing ample links between them to give fans easy access to pertinent information and
A Wooden Cube to Inspire a Musical Revolution
by Kira Grunenberg The variety of sounds and effects generated by microchips and circuitry to power the boards, buttons, and switches of synthesizers are only limited by the boundaries of human imagination. This qualifier is nothing to shake a stick at, since human creativity has led to the digital reproduction of nearly any sound, and
The Co-Evolution of Music and 3D
By Carolyn Heneghan Imagine your favorite musician reaching out to you as they perform a live concert on a movie screen. How about playing an inexpensive keyboard made completely with 3D materials? Believe it or not, that future is a reality. With the rise of 3D visuals and 3D printing technology, musicians are finding new
The Rise of the Streaming DJ
By SoundCtrl During this year’s annual four-day MIDEM festival in Cannes, Music Hack Day featured an innovative engineer named Yuli Levtov, who discovered a way to DJ with Spotify streams. The Spotify-enabled app has been a fantasized technology for the last few years, mainly as a result of diffiicult licensing structures and logistics for app
Our Innovative Gear Picks From NAMM 2014
By Carolyn Heneghan Every winter, the National Association of Music Merchants hosts its annual NAMM show, a 113-year-old showcase of established and up-and-coming creators of musical instruments, hardware, software, accessories and more, all on display for the association members media to see. Running from Thurs., Jan. 23rd through Sun., Jan. 26th, 2014, the NAMM show