Here’s a great review of the Digital DJing Workshop where I did a presentation on Branding & Marketing yourself as a DJ. I’m glad people found it helpful and interesting. [English translation]
Rusko shares his views on sound design and his process of beat wrangling on the making of “Rats in My Kitchen.” (Thanks, Michael)
The Dance Pad Purse
My original dance pad broke, so I decided to cut it up to see what was inside. The top layer was actually pretty, so I thought it would make a cool purse. Literally. Hah!
Check out the photos documenting how I made it.
The first layer of the dance pad
3 day seminar led by D.I.Y. guru and Invisible Records CEO Martin Atkins to revolutionize the way you think about the business of your art
| Moldover | West coast electronic artist Moldover will lead a special workshop on electronics and demonstrate the essence of putting your DNA in your work.
“With Komega and Moldover watching over the crowd like proud fathers, you really get the sense that we are at the start of something big.” |
| Greg Kot, Chicago Tribune | Since 1990, Kot has been the music critic at the Chicago Tribune, where he has comprehensively covered popular music — from hip-hop to rock en espanol — and reported on music-related social, political and business issues (see his daily blog, Turn it Up, at the chicagotribune.com). |
| Paul Natkin, photograher | Probably best known for his work with the Rolling Stones (he served as their personal photographer while on tour, including the Bridges to Babylon tour), Paul Natkin stands as one of the country’s premier rock ‘n’ roll photographers. With subjects ranging from the Artist Formerly Known as Prince to Bruce Springsteen to Frank Sinatra (he claims that if you name an artist, he’s photographed them), Natkin has been active in the Chicago music community since 1996 building Chicago Harmony and Trust, a musician’s networking group. For more information, visit their website: http://www.natkin.net |
| Leah Jones, social media coach
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Leah is the founder of Natiiv Arts & Media where she is a social media coach for artists, writers and musicians. Leah focuses on teaching
individuals and groups the skills they need to be successful at online marketing and personal branding. She believes it is up to the artist, and not the label, to build relationships and manage their online persona. More info at: www.natiiv.com |
| One Eyed Doll, Austin TX | {READ MORE} |
Remember the Sleeveface meme (watch the vid on there for an Aphex Twin cameo!) that popped up in 2008? Well, now there’s a book about it, following the trend of single-topic blogs gone analog. Enjoy!
The SEO Rapper describes how web standards and proper design can affect the ranking and conversion of pages on your site with dope lyrics. Ha! Love me some nerdcore hip hop.
So after posting my article on Nudge on Facebook, I ended up creating a little “remix war” with two of my friends, Praveen Sharma & Chris Todd (Phylum Sinter).
So here’s my first attempt: Phylum Sinter: “One for You”
…that I remixed: Phylum Sinter: “One for You (Quantazelle Remix)”
Praveen then did his own original track: Praveen: “Here’s Mine”
…that Phylum Sinter remixed: Praveen: “Here’s Mine (Phylum Sinter Remix)”
That I remixed: Praveen: “Here’s Mine (Quantazelle’s Remix of Phylum Sinter’s Remix)”
…which Praveen remixed himself for the crazily long title” Praveen: “Here’s Mine (Praveen’s Remix of Quantazelle’s Remix of Phylum Sinter’s Remix)”
Check out another fun flash audio toy from Hobnox, the creators of the Audiotool (that I’ve written about before) called Nudge. The above is my little creation. (You have to hit the triangle at the bottom right 2x to turn off playback)
Nudge is a virtual-instrument widget designed for self-expressive online music making & sharing. It’s fun and simple to use and you don’t need to know a single thing about producing music to make your own individual songs in minutes!
Brought to you by the developers of the Audiotool, nudge is yet another example of the pioneering work of the team dedicated to creating the best online music production tools.
Joshua Schnable have me the heads up and he did his own remix:
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Here is a funny mix I did that’s released on “Pirate Party Submissions” on subVariant.
Liz Revision: “OK What the FUCK, Liz?”
[Pirate Party] was an invitation for local artists to hand in the work they wanted to share, for free, on the subVariant site, and be promoted and featured in the local press, music blogs, social networks and the like. Sort of like The Pirate Bay, but totally legal since everyone who handed in music has the right to distibute the works (yes, there is a mighty huge .torrent link at the bottom too…please seed!) (And please note the Creative Commons distribution below it…we may all distribute at will but if you want to commercially use or modify any of these works you gotta contact the artist in question).
Secondly, it’s completely non-curated. Unlike a traditional record label that screens for quality, taste, appropriateness and style, we did nothing of the sort. We’re just helping everyone “pirate” interesting electronic music + art within a local community and also globally through the powr of thar intartr0nz YARR.