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
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Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts
Friday, 30 October 2009
Turlough O'Shea (09004486)
Student: Turlough O'Shea (09004486)
Chosen Blog: himynameisMARK
The blog that I have chosen to review is himynameisMARK. himynameisMARK is a blog by Mark Hoppus. Mark Hoppus is an artist and producer and also has a great interest in music technology. He is very experienced, and often utilises some music technology in his live performances. He is known best for playing bass in the American bands Blink 182 and +44, but has also produced for a number of bands including New Found Glory and Motion City Soundtrack. He is always striving to please his fans, and design, or come up with new devices.
Some of his posts include pictures from Blink 182's tour, remixes of songs, mash ups of songs, new music technology and interesting news in general. Most of his post would be of photos, or tour news, however, there are many video and technology posts. Some posts include ideas he's had for new equipment, and new equipment he's just acquired.
himynameisMARK's post's aren't the most frequent. He could go about a week without a post, and then have a few in the one day. looking back at his archived posts, I've discovered that the volume of his posts vary. Sometimes there could be posts every day for a few weeks, and then suddenly no posts for a week. I have received 12 posts from himynameisMARK. This was many more posts than Music Technology | News, Multimedia Production and Computer Music Guide, I have received 5 posts in my google reader from Music Technology | News, Multimedia Production and Computer Music Guide. I received these posts every few days.
I would think the chosen audience would range from about 12 to 30 year old. IO think the desired audience would be Blink 182 fans, +44 fans, people interested in music technology and anyone looking for something interesting. The language used is quite simple. There wasn't anything that i wasn't able to understand, with the exception of a few new terms. The design of this blog was quite interesting. There were many embedded videos, pictures and links in some of the posts. To select archived posts, you clicked on the month of the post you wanted. There are many interesting graphics along the sides and on the header of the page. There is also an external Twitter embedded in the side of the page. There is a blog roll of all other similar blogs along the side of the page.
Chosen Post: the Octopus Ears
My favourite post from the blog himynameisMARK is called "the Octopus Ears". The post is about in ear monitors. these in ear monitors are quite good, and have octopus logo's on them. Mark talks about comparing them to his old in ear monitors. He also compares them to his studio headphones. Unfortunately I do not think that Mark posted the results of his comparisons.
My Comments on Blogs:
Octopus flash drives
In ear monitors
+44 docking stations
How Twitter started
Chosen Blog: himynameisMARK
The blog that I have chosen to review is himynameisMARK. himynameisMARK is a blog by Mark Hoppus. Mark Hoppus is an artist and producer and also has a great interest in music technology. He is very experienced, and often utilises some music technology in his live performances. He is known best for playing bass in the American bands Blink 182 and +44, but has also produced for a number of bands including New Found Glory and Motion City Soundtrack. He is always striving to please his fans, and design, or come up with new devices.
Some of his posts include pictures from Blink 182's tour, remixes of songs, mash ups of songs, new music technology and interesting news in general. Most of his post would be of photos, or tour news, however, there are many video and technology posts. Some posts include ideas he's had for new equipment, and new equipment he's just acquired.
himynameisMARK's post's aren't the most frequent. He could go about a week without a post, and then have a few in the one day. looking back at his archived posts, I've discovered that the volume of his posts vary. Sometimes there could be posts every day for a few weeks, and then suddenly no posts for a week. I have received 12 posts from himynameisMARK. This was many more posts than Music Technology | News, Multimedia Production and Computer Music Guide, I have received 5 posts in my google reader from Music Technology | News, Multimedia Production and Computer Music Guide. I received these posts every few days.
I would think the chosen audience would range from about 12 to 30 year old. IO think the desired audience would be Blink 182 fans, +44 fans, people interested in music technology and anyone looking for something interesting. The language used is quite simple. There wasn't anything that i wasn't able to understand, with the exception of a few new terms. The design of this blog was quite interesting. There were many embedded videos, pictures and links in some of the posts. To select archived posts, you clicked on the month of the post you wanted. There are many interesting graphics along the sides and on the header of the page. There is also an external Twitter embedded in the side of the page. There is a blog roll of all other similar blogs along the side of the page.
Chosen Post: the Octopus Ears
My favourite post from the blog himynameisMARK is called "the Octopus Ears". The post is about in ear monitors. these in ear monitors are quite good, and have octopus logo's on them. Mark talks about comparing them to his old in ear monitors. He also compares them to his studio headphones. Unfortunately I do not think that Mark posted the results of his comparisons.
My Comments on Blogs:
Octopus flash drives
In ear monitors
+44 docking stations
How Twitter started
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