A group named Kasio Kristmas made up of Platinum and Gold-winning artists has recorded one of the most experimental Christmas albums I've heard in a long time. Their album is a collection of traditional Christmas songs which blend nostalgic sounds of 1980's arcade games, New Wave, Synth Rock, Modern Electronica, Chip Tunes, Disco, Jungle, Exotica and [...]
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NoiseAddicts has just launched up a (very) beta version of our digg-style social bookmarking site specifically for musicians and music lovers.It’s a place to read music related news, stories and links, to interact with others and waste some time.For bloggers, it’s a place to promote posts on your own music related blog !It’s called NoiseAddicts [...]
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This is pretty interesting - Youtube, Carnegie Hall and the renowned Composer Tan Dun (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) have teamed up to create an online, virtual musical Youtube orchestra. Participants are invited to learn one or more of a piece specially written for the contest, and play along with a virtual conductor video which [...]
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Just like you and I, rock stars all have parents too. In the deep dusty corners of the Life Magazine archives, these pictures have turned up - famous 70’s rock stars with their parents, taken in their parents’ houses.These pictures are strangely humanizing, showing these rock stars at their parents place. They all [...]
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$21,000. It could buy you a car, it could be a down payment on a house, you could take off on a couple of amazing vacations, have a really nice wedding, or it could pay for your sick mom’s liver surgery. Better yet, how about 3 meters of speaker cable?The crazies [...]
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Let’s pretend for a moment you are P. Diddy and you just bought a diamond encrusted ipod.What the heck are you going to use for earbuds to listen to it without looking like trailer trash? You can’t just use those silly regular $3.99 white things. Well, we’ve found just the thing.What could make your listening [...]
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No, this isn’t an article from The Onion … really, I promise!I grew up watching MTV (and it’s Canadian counterpart, MuchMusic). It showed music videos 24 hours a day, 7 days a week from bands like Van Halen, Rush, Kraftwerk, The English Beat and all sorts of cool bands. Shows were hosted by [...]
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This is one of the most creative uses for an iphone I’ve seen so far. RjDj is an iphone/ipod app that uses your motion and the sound occurring naturally around you to make music. The application takes samples through the built-in microphone and uses input from the accelerometer and produces songs.This is [...]
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Our friend nanotechnology has produced a flexible, stretchable, transparent material thinner than paper that can be used as a speaker. This new material can be inserted into clothing, wallpaper, right into the ears or onto windows. The material has been developed by Chinese scientists and is made up of carbon nanotube films [...]
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NoiseAddicts Readers live longer!Some say that laughter is the best medicine, and research seems to back this up - studies show that laughing has a positive effect on the cardiovascular system.As it turns out, Music might be an even better medicine than laughter .Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore have [...]
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Oliver Sacks is a Neurologist who has spent a career investigating oddities of the brain and its capacity to confound humans. He has written a number of extremely compelling books on the subject, beginning with the book Awakenings.A number of Years ago I read an Oliver Sacks book entitled ”The man who mistook his wife [...]
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Chaaaaaang!……“It’s been a hard day’s nightAnd I’ve been working like a dog”This first chord that starts A Hard Day’s Night is one of the most recognizable and famous opening chords in rock & roll. It’s played by George Harrison on his 12 string Rickenbacker.A hard Days NightThe other reason that it’s famous is because [...]
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Maybe … but not in the way you were thinking. Many people beleive that a violin’s tone gets better with age. This is subjective of course, however there is a fairly large concensus when it comes to this. There are a few reasons why the age of the instrument could affect it’s [...]
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