Student: Harry van Haaren (09005201)
Chosen blog: Create Digital Music
Chosen post: Wherein the Wii Waggle is Wanted


The blog I chose for this assignment is the blog found at
http://www.createdigitalmusic.com

The blog was setup by Peter Kirn to inform people of the technological advances made in relation to music technology and digital art. At present many co-authors contribute to the blog, this makes it quite a busy blog, where there are about 2 posts made each day.

The topics covered by the author are quite varied, however they all relate in some way to creating digital music or technologies that can be applied to making sounds.

The main focus of this blog is to bring the newest technologies to the attention of the casual digital artist, presenting them with new innovative products and interesting interviews.

The blog is split into many parts, some dedicated to Hardware Reviews, others to Software,
some even to a discussion forum. The main parts are the News and Feature sections.

The blog is written in such a style that everybody with a slight interest in digital music or media will understand the article. Most posts include at least on photograph of the articles attention, and most have a youtube video embedded which provides a live example of the item in the article.

Each blog post has a comments section, and most technology/innovation based posts have at least 20 or so comments. This discussion after the article often provides as interesting a read as the article itself, as it voices the views of many different people and their perspective usually provides new food for thought.

My favorite post in this blog would have to be this post because I have used a WiiMote controller with music programs, and I find the connection between a physical device, ie: "Instrument" and the sonic effect of it quite interesting. The fact that a controller and its effect is totally undefined means that one (with some creativity) can patch any sound to any input, and thus create a unique and preveiously non-existent link between action and sound. Another reason for my choosing this particular post is that it has inspired a lot of discussion, to which I contributed my own thoughts. In this discussion, many people offered thier opinion on the links between live performance, controllers & controller-ism, and instrumentism, from which I took new insight to what is possible with controllers these days!


My comments on blogs:
Comment 1: Create Digital Music, Conrtollers
Comment 2: Twitter & Google Wave
Comment 3: Google groups is Dead
Comment 4: Guitarix