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New HTML5 Tools Make Your Browser Sing and Dance
HTML5s tag gives you a way to embed audio files directly into a web page without requiring a plug-in. But the audio element could do a lot more than just offer Flash-free inline audio players on your favorite MP3 blogs. The audio player element could end up fueling a whole new class of web applications online ...
New Orleans' Jazz Fest Wraps up Another Stellar Run
NEW ORLEANS After two weekends of sublime and riotous roots music from more than 400 national and regional acts, the city's 41st Jazz & Heritage Festival ended its run Sunday. Though one headliner was a no-show (Aretha Franklin) and opening day was plagued by thunderstorms and heavy rains, the crowds appeared to be in keeping with ...
May 3, 1815: Blown Away by Horn with Valves
1815: A Prussian composer reports a new contrivance. A local chamber musician has modified his brass concert horn, adding valves that allow him to play all the notes in the chromatic scale deftly and with total precision. Brass instruments were exceedingly limited at the time, and the invention put the concert horn technically on par with ...
Recording Studio in a Pocket: Tascam Dr-08 Digital Linear PCM Recorder
Audio Recorder Flexes Dual Mics for Strong Fidelity Recording different types of audio is tricky. One recorder might be great at soaking up a quiet conversation, but take it to a rock concert and your audio will sound like a coffee grinder crammed with ball bearings. That's not the case with Tascam's DR-08. This linear (meaning ...
Pearl Jam Jolt New Orleans Jazz Fest with Powerhouse Set
" I'd like to make a toast to the fine folks at BP," Eddie Vedder said, raising a bottle of wine at last night's show in New Orleans. “Send your sons and daughters to clean up your fucking mess." While Pearl Jam rocked the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, the oil spill in the Gulf ...
Recording: Crafting the Magic of the Beach Boys
Ive been lucky to be included in the Beach Boys inner circle since the late 70's and I've worked on many of their records but nothing quite prepared me for being given carte blanche to arrange, record, and produce background vocals for a founding member of one of the greatest vocal bands of all time. The ...
4 Ways to Survive a Jazz Double Bass Session
Many home engineers might cringe in fear at the thought of a double-bass player walking in to record a jazz session. The instrument itself is large, has strings made from sheep's intestines, and isn't likely to show up in your usual rock and roll scene. Not to mention that jazz players aint impressed with hammer-ons, sweep ...
Is Anytime Access Worth It? The iPad 3G Review
iPad Wi-Fi + 3G In the five weeks or so that I've been spending time with an iPad, little has made me back off my initial review that while not for everybody, Apple's freshly conceived tablet is indeed a game-changer, a stunner of a machine that promises a profound long-term effect on media, mobile entertainment and ...
West Coast Cool: The Jazz Sound of '50s California
When someone talks about “West Coast jazz" or “cool jazz," they're almost invariably referring to a style performed by jazz musicians in California (and primarily in Los Angeles) in the '50s and early '60s. As opposed to the hard-bop sound dominant on the East Coast during that time, the West Coast sound was a bit mellower ...
Multi-Instrumentalist/Composer Fred Frith Interviewed at AAJ...And More!
Since emerging in the 1970s with the fearless British group Henry Cow, multi-instrumentalist Fred Frith has built a career that's as comfortable in the realm of contemporary classical music as it is the equally innovative arena of free improvisation. From collaborations with John Zorn to his latest “rock" group, Cosa Brava, Frith refuses to sit still; ...
