Subscape Annex plays Theremin
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RIP Lux Interior
“When I die don’t you bury me at all/ Just nail my bones upon the wall/ Beneath these bones let these words be seen/ ‘This is the bloody gears of a boppin’ machine’”
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Thoughts on a Documentary Movie
I went to see two movies at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in Durham last weekend. When I was walking around I recorded this short podcast about the movie At the Death House Door.
MP3
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iphone podcasting
Just recorded this bit of audio with my iphone. Testing. MP3
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Spoken Wikipedia Articles
I was just reading a Wikipedia entry about Thomas Pynchon. Scrolling to the bottom to look at some sources I noticed a link to some audio. (YES teachers wikipedia is cited.) Of course its in the open source audio format OGG. I had to find an app to open it. Fortunately I have the VLC [...]
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Nocturnal Barred Owl Music
A few nights last week we slept with our windows open. Sometime after midnight but before dawn a LOUD chorus of birds starts making a serious racket. The sound that woke me up first was “hoo, hoo, too-HOO; hoo, hoo, too-HOO, ooo”. Last year at our old house I remember hearing something similar. (I didn’t [...]
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Will DRM disapear?
This is my favorite part of Steve Jobs letter Thoughts on Music:
The third alternative is to abolish DRMs entirely. Imagine a world where every online store sells DRM-free music encoded in open licensable formats. In such a world, any player can play music purchased from any store, and any store can sell music which is [...]
Matryomin
A description of this wonderful music by YouTube user sasayakanaru:
This electronic musical instrument is called “Matryomin“. This was developed by Japanese musician [Masami Takeuchi] ,made by the base of “Theremin” and Russian dall “Matryoshka“.The interval and the volume are controlled by holding up the hand in the antenna in the dall, and changing the [...]
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Audio from Hunt Willard’s talk at NCSB Con 2007
The little Olympus DS-2 with lapel mic I provided to record the Hunt Willard session at the North Carolina Science Blogging Conference work out well. Enjoy this interesting talk about Science and communication.
Hunt Willard, talk MP3 36m 18s
Hunt Willard, Q&A MP3 23m 24s
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Johnny Cash God’s Gonna Cut You Down
I’m not a religious person but, the voice and words of Johnny Cash are so powerful.
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