ARCHIVE: April 2008

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April 30, 2008

Untracked Link Love & Broken Trackbacks

The "trackback" functionality of my blog has been "broken" for quite some time...it's frustrating.  (If you're new to "trackbacks", a "trackback" is basically a note inserted in the form of a comment in a post's comment section to let the... Read More

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April 29, 2008

Meeting Friends is Good

Spending "chill" time with cool peeps is a good thing.  On Saturday, I attended Megan Moss Freeman's photography exhibit at Greenwich Yoga; funky neon light-play photos in a zen environment...groovy stuff.  Also got to hang out with playwright Tara, cholonic hydrotherapist Xell, youth counselor... Read More

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April 28, 2008

Happy Day! DAW Trials and Tribulations Ended??

Dropouts, crapouts, DAW patheticness, software upgrades gone wrong...my very own personal digital audio workstation Odyssey may finally have come to an end:An Abbreviated History of my DAW Trials and Tribulations:December 2007: After too many crapouts on my 5-year old Dell... Read More

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April 26, 2008

Animoto: Cirque du Soleil and a Bachelorette Party?

So, while I was writing about Animoto's Music Submission Program, Girl Crusade went ahead and gave the music video/slide show creation application a test run...  Without telling me, she slyly combined my song "Spinning Daydream" with a random assortment of bachelorette... Read More

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April 25, 2008

Automagic Music Video Geekery: Submit Songs to Animoto

Remember the blurb in Orwell's 1984 about all music being computer generated in the future?  (I guess that's only partially come true...nice try, George.)  Here's a little computer generated music video creation for ya...Animoto is a web application using Cinematic Artificial... Read More

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April 20, 2008

Free Library of Sounds, Audio Clips, and Loops

It's always nice to find decent free sound libraries that look good, work well, and don't present some kind of a "catch" to use the audio.SoundSnap is a new sound library that seems to fit the bill.  Over 30,000 audio... Read More

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Remember to Back Up Your Audio Projects, Kids

As much as people always tell me to back up my projects...I never have.  Stoopid, stoopid, stoopid.  I learned the lesson the hard way, but not the hardest way.  The most recent version of my lastest song project file was... Read More

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April 14, 2008

The REAL Rock the Cradle Rockstar

This 2 year old has more swagger than Elvis Presley.  And he actually knows the lyrics to "Hey Jude" better than I do.  If you can, stick with it until you get to the "Naaa, na, na na-na-na-naaaa!" part of... Read More

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April 07, 2008

TuneCore Industry Guides - i.e. Link Bait

TuneCore produced a couple "Music Industry Survival Manuals" which are pretty much just over-simplified tidbits of wisdom wrapped around a chunk of advertising.  However, if you're pretty new to music promotion, or you just started a new band, they might... Read More

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April 03, 2008

Rock Band Comic Strip for Rock Bands: Buddy and Hopkins

I know what you're thinking.  "Why isn't there more entertainment created with ME in mind?  Me, me, ME??  Marsha, Marsha!"  No?  Maybe that's just me.  In any case, if you haven't already, check out Jason Nocera's "Buddy and Hopkins" comic strip... Read More

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