iTunes LP format and ituneslp.net

The site iTunesLP.net has a lot of information on how to create an iTunes LP and a sample – a reproduction of Disney’s Fantasia release from 1957 (without the tracks, but with the visuals).
This looks like it could be a good promo item for independent musicians, allowing them to provide otherwise-unavailable items via iTunes LP [...]

Welcome Russian posters, but not spambots

I will give some of you the benefit of the doubt and assume you to to be human and not robotic – please, if you want to post, make it in English (go ahead and use the Google translator or Babelfish – we’ll understand if the English isn’t perfect).
Otherwise, if either I can’t figure out [...]

Korg SV-1 Stage Piano

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@differentskies on Twitter

We’re trying an experiment this year for Different Skies: the @differentskies Twitter ID will be used by all the participants to do updates during the week.
Normally we have a lot of different blog entries that generally end up getting written at the end of the day or even a day or so later – [...]

And now, ahead of the curve with 2.8.4

Apparently there’s yet another nasty worm breaking into WordPress blogs; 2.8.4 blocks it. Looks like I actually beat the worm for a change.

iGenDyn

iGendyn (App Store link) is a moderately interesting synthesis app that’s let’s you play with Xenakis’ general dynamic stochastic synthesis.
It’s essentially a powerful noisemaker. You can make some pretty rough-edged sounds with this; the iPhone gives you surprisingly sensitive control surface. The accelerometer-based controls are less sensitive and harder to make reproduceable gestures with; the [...]

APC40 Hack 1: Monome Emulator for the APC40 on Vimeo

So it’s not necessary to wait for hard-to-get hardware: the APC40 can emulate a Monome, just fine.

Simple Sequencer

A nice eight-step build-it-yourself sequencer at Instructables: Simple Sequencer.

Torley

This is Torley. Torley has fun with stuff. Torley is also adroit and educational. You should be reading his blog.

Harmonia Prohibitorum

I like this blog – just started, but the writer’s funny, articulate, and passionate about electronic music. One of the first posts is on noise: a discussion of the analog recording process, with its inherent noise, versus the nearly-silent digital realm. A blog worth reading.
Harmonia Prohibitorum.