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March 20, 2006
monday 20th mixed (gig) bag
Catching up on a bunch of stuff I've been trying to post. Sorry to folks who have emailed things in and I've not done anything about it! Maybe this can be a new feature! Excitement and hiijinks folks!
SXSW to MPAA STFU
Here's a nice little article about how at the South By South West (SXSW) conference during a seminar on the topic of Future of Darknets (good topic also). But what happened when one of the panel members was introduced... because the panel was hijacked the moment one panelist said, "Hello, my name is Kori Bernards, and I'm from the Motion Picture Association of America." A bunch of folks got a chance to talk back to a representative of a widely loathed organisation.
Results are here on Powazek
Artic Monkeys come to fame by encouraging P2P
There's also a nice peice on the wired blog that talks about the sucess of the Artic Monkeys and how they actively encouraged file sharing to get their sound out there. Nice display of alternative music distribution doing a band no harm commerically.
Wired Blog - The Web's First Rock n' Roll Success?
Pulling the out a SNES Sound Chip...
You can pull a SNES sound chip out and use it as more authentic synthesis/playback of SPC SNES soundtrack files. Useful if you are into chiptunes and retro music. Kinda useless, but also very cool.
Bluetooth Phone Headset + headphones
This is a nice idea. It's an inline bluetooth adapter that allows you to use your mp3 player, and when you get a call it beeps and you use your headphones and the unit has a mic in it. I would put down dollars for this thing. That is all.
Guitar Australia has FREE Guitar Lessons
Nick Fletcher of Guitar Australia has set up a rather groovy site, where you can access free guitar lessons. He's already got quite a bit of content up, with guitar lessons, and tutorials for classic songs as well. A really nice free resource. Nice job Nick!
Guitar Australia - Free Music Lessons
Related: CDM has a nice roundup of free tutorials as well: CDM - Music Tutorial Roundup
That's it for the mixed bag of music news, if you've got anything to submit, email it through to info {at} ausmusician.com.
Posted by funnelbc at March 20, 2006 12:05 AM
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