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Fri, 04 Jun 2010 04:35:22 -0700 Stop what you’re doing and check out this guy’s voice http://failedidealist.posterous.com/stop-what-youre-doing-and-check-out-this-guys http://failedidealist.posterous.com/stop-what-youre-doing-and-check-out-this-guys

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Sat, 23 Jan 2010 07:07:37 -0800 Living In a Gangsta's Engineering Paradise - Engineering paradise - Gizmodo http://failedidealist.posterous.com/living-in-a-gangstas-engineering-paradise-eng-1 http://failedidealist.posterous.com/living-in-a-gangstas-engineering-paradise-eng-1

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Wed, 20 Jan 2010 01:43:00 -0800 The Sound of Her Wings - - EP by Martin Bradford Gago http://failedidealist.posterous.com/the-sound-of-her-wings-ep-by-martin-bradford http://failedidealist.posterous.com/the-sound-of-her-wings-ep-by-martin-bradford

Made over the course of 5 years, I've listened to this about 300 times since i heard an early release. It's angst filled, flirts with the line of profound and pretension, but all in all a deeply moving, and beautiful album.

Also made by a buddy of mine. Do him a favour and at least have a listen

 

http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/the-sound-of-her-wings-ep/id349978556

 

<div class="posterous_quote_citation">via emusic.com</div>

 

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Thu, 14 Jan 2010 06:27:38 -0800 Personal Theme Song http://failedidealist.posterous.com/personal-theme-song http://failedidealist.posterous.com/personal-theme-song Inspired by playing around with the RjDj iPhone app www.rjdj.me/ (it uses the
microphone to pick up ambient sounds in the environment and converts
them to music using a sample beat to start with) it seems having your
own personal theme song could now be possible.

Bear with me here...

If RjDj can pick up the pitch, frequency and volume of external
sounds, and translate them, using a sample tune as a base point, by
changing the style and sound of the base point, to say...an orchestra
theme from a 50's movie, (or something more akin to a silent cartoon,
where everything on screen in conveyed not with words with sound)
couldn't this tech be used to pick up the speed of a walk, the sound
of a raucous environment, and adjust the music accordingly?

I love the idea of a beat or tune picking up in temp and volume as I
walk down the street, raising itself into crescendo as I run for a
train, or slowing, and become more melodic and serene as you enter a
library.


Right, I’m off to make this, or at least to jot down some ideas for
implementation.

.........another thought, a "blue mode" would be interesting, think
about it, in the bedroom, with a strategically positioned
microphone...music to "rock" to

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Fri, 04 Sep 2009 04:50:46 -0700 One Michael Jackson Video to Rule Them All. http://failedidealist.posterous.com/one-michael-jackson-video-to-rule-them-all http://failedidealist.posterous.com/one-michael-jackson-video-to-rule-them-all

Just wow. the arrangment is perfect, so is the timing. sounds amazing, but most have taken an inane amount of effort

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Fri, 24 Jul 2009 03:14:00 -0700 Music/ak http://failedidealist.posterous.com/musicak http://failedidealist.posterous.com/musicak Finding it odd how music tastes can change so much over the years, along with the identity that was once an integral part.

My seminal moment in musical taste came standing in HMV, with a limited amount of cash in my sweaty teenage palms, and two albums in front of me. One was a generic and unremarkable rap album, the other a rock album by a politically active and soulful 5 piece.

I made my decision, and instantly not only decided upon musical taste, but clique, and which echelon of teenage society I would socialise with.
Looking back, it seems such an unimportant and childish decision, and it's hard to believe anything of consequence would come of it. But, in my formative years musical preference had more to do with identity that the sound itself. I had joined a youth subset, that banded together against others. a tribe of sorts. Everything was done together, associating with members of another sect was a matter of high treason.

How different things seem now, when I can flit from listening to metal, rock, rap, rhythm and blues, soul, jazz, nerdcore and many others without any sense of recrimination. I wouldn’t now automatically dismiss someone based on musical choice, nor pontificate.

I struggle now to understand my teenage mindset or embracing division so.

Nothing particularly poignant to add, just a realisation that fell into my brain between the first and second cups of coffee on a sleep Friday morning

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