Music from sand

Diego Stucco is a guy who’s passion is music. He’s created a track here using sounds that have been generated only from sounds he’s captured using sand as the input. It’s a great project and the sounds are unbelievably beautiful. The resulting track is sublime. It’s an interesting way to think of the world. To not be restricted to sets of sounds that have been around for years but to create new sounds using nature as the inspiration. I wonder what else can be achieved by looking at other mediums. Click the image above to be taken to his page on Behance where you can view the video and hear the sounds.

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Empire of the Sun – Walking on a dream

The latest sound coming out of the Australia is the crazy duo Empire of the Sun who’s album debuts on iTunes on Tuesday. Their sound is fresh and yet you feel like you’ve heard the music before in a dreamy 80s electro pop kind of way. Fusing the best of a Fleetwood Mac type sound and with the wacky dress sense of a 70s Bowie – they do have the makings of pop superstars. They self profess that music is only half of what they do, seemingly the rest of the time they spend preaching new age sensibilities. Let’s see what the rest of the album brings.

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Music for your digital life #2

Now I’m no big Kylie fan in any way shape or form but every time I hear the song ‘The One’ and especially the Freemason’s mix, it takes me away to a place where pop is infused with a hi energy dance beat on a gloriously bleached out white and pure dance floor. Where the people are bitchy and beautiful. The continuous thumping beat and Kylie’s infexious moans fill you with a musical wonder and a general eurphoric state only usually achievable in other ways. So won’t you…. “love me, love me, love me?”

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Luke Buda

Luke Buda

This site is just insane. And I love it. Created for a Polish born New Zealand singer named Luke Buda. Turning Luke into an etherial spaceman swathed in purple this is a novel way to promote a singer. I’m loving the art direction of this piece, the colour pallette is just lovely. It is trippy to be sure and with the use of some innovate technology like the Oddcast style 3D head that sings along to his own songs, it stands out from your run of the mill flash site. Well deserving of site of the day over at The FWA in my opinion.

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RjDj

RjDj is a new iPhone app that takes the sounds all around you and mixes them into a music track. It is really intelligent in that it reacts to movement from the accelerometer so each time you create a track it will be different based on the audio input and the way you are interacting with the environment. I’m really loving some of these inventive applications that people are generating for the iPhone making use of every facet of the technology. Here the iPhone microphone is being used to capture audible data. You’re able to select from a choice of ’scenes’ that define the general type of audio you’d like to generate but beyond that you are free to be creative. The best way of describing this type of interaction is to think of beatboxing where people use the sounds generated by their person to create authentic soundtracks. Here you aren’t limited to using your voice but can pick up the sounds that all around you happen without you thinking and turn them into a work of art. Truly inspiring stuff. Get the RjDj iPhone 3G application here.

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Lykke Li – Little Bit

I just can’t stop watching this music video for Lykke Li’s “Little Bit”. It is absolutely hypnotic and draws you in to her over exposed hallway world. Her sound is distinctive with that steel drum and the beat rhythmic. I love the way the camera pans back so slightly throughout as the video cuts between shots of people dancing in an almost spasmodic way. It really works with the sound.

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Music for your digital life #1 – The Hours “See The Light” (Calvin Harris Remix)

Calvin Harris

I first heard this track a couple of days ago and it’s one of those you want to listen to over and over. This track is wonky to say the least. It sounds like it’s been put together wrong. It’s off kilter. It sounds broken. And that’s why I love it. It’s delicious. Blending electro computer game bleeps of the 80s with a smooth vocal track this really, really works. It sounds fresh and authentic.

Check it out on arjanwrites.com

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we are the night

I’ve had this album for a week now and I’ve got to say I am loving every minute of it. It is electronic heaven for me having always really liked the Chemical Brothers. They do not disappoint with this their latest album. Do it again is a floor filling, thumping and really catchy number that’s already doing well in the charts. But the whole album is like an ecclectic look through someone’s musical tastes. For example “The Salmon Dance” which is just bizarre in that it talks about the life of a salmon?!? and yet the song is really lively and catchy. This album works on first listen and just keeps getting better. Check it out on iTunes here

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faithfull

I love love love Faithless anyway but this video is just a gorgeous realisation of their vision. Inspired by light painting (check out my light painting blog post tags), this video is edgy and sublime. Exactly how dance music videos should be. Inspiring. Love it.

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today’s sound

pssst did you know about this band……. what a great sound!!!! And what a voice….bless her and her knitting

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