Catégorie : Making Music

Sons of Sarookh: Topango

I’ll let Matt Love, the spiritual leader of the Sons of Sarookh, do the explaining: Hi folks. many long ages ago, I sent a clip from a jam session I took part in to each of you. it was indifferently recorded and performed. I deliberately sent it without any key or tempo information. I wanted…

Ingenuity

[kml_flashembed movie= »http://vincent.knobil.free.fr/media/tinyrv_26_ingenuity.swf » height= »178″ width= »150″ /] So I found the two missing hours today, and here is the result. « Ingenuity » is what happens when you’re improvising a jazzy little walking-bass like thingy on the guitar while absentmindedly thinking about grocery shopping. A couple of notes: The piano part was played, quite nicely I must say, by…

All I need is a couple of hours…

…to finish a song. It was written a couple of months ago, the instruments were recorded a couple of weeks ago, the vocals a couple of days ago, but I need a couple of hours to finish the mix (as you know by now, I’m not a sound-fetichist. Even a crappy digital recording/mix sounds so…

Les Magichiens

Another musical blast from the past: About 10 years ago, I put a couple of songs to music for my brother’s play for children called « Les Magichiens ». Today, I was putting pages for Les Magichiens up on my Brother’s site when I remembered I had demos for the songs lying around, and so I whipped…

Boing Boing: PearLyrics shutown: EFF's open letter to Warner Music

Boing Boing: PearLyrics shutown: EFF’s open letter to Warner Music Copying lyrics off the Web for music you legally own makes you a Pirate, according to Warner/Chappell. Another record label (after Sony) to add to your boycott list, unless you enjoy being treated like a moron and a criminal.

Buy, Play, Trade, Repeat – New York Times

For those of you who might be wondering why I care about evil copy-protection schemes and hasty negative judgements on so-called « pirates », here’s a great opinion piece written by Dean Kulash, the lead singer for the band OK Go, i.e. a musician who has a stake in the matter: Buy, Play, Trade, Repeat – New…

La pâte à son

Go to lecielestbleu.com. Click « enter » and then choose « La pâte à son ». It’s a beautiful little music making-machine. Click on the « ? » for some help bubbles if needed. I’m totally hooked…

Declaring an end to the loudness wars

Declaring an end to the loudness wars. A very interesting article by a very experienced sound engineer, for anyone interested in music and sound. At my very modest level (no pun intended), Barry Diament’s posts on OS X Audio have had a real influence on how I master my recordings. No more loudness for loudness’…

"Trust" on GarageBand: Epilogue

The review process for Trust on GarageBand.com is now over. It got the worst score of any song I’ve posted on GarageBand so far. Actually, over several weeks, I went through the mostly excruciating process of reviewing songs on GarageBand because I wanted to post Leather Jacket. I was only 2 reviews shy of earning…