Spotikat + Pitchify
SpotiKat is an easy way to find and listen to your independent music using Boomkat or Pitchfork as source and Spotify as media player. Just use the search form on top of this page and find your favorite independent music from boomkat! Pitchfork feeds are found in drop down OTHER FEEDS. Select the country that is associated with your Spotify account in the country drop down menu next to the SpotiKat it button. Use the Facebook or Twitter login button to access services like My Notifications, My Settings and My last found Spotify albums on SpotiKat.
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Pitchify helps you find good music on Spotify. Pitchify collects reviews from the two excellent webzines Pitchfork and Drowned In Sound on a daily basis, then checks if the reviewed albums are available on Spotify. Only albums that have received a rating of 8 or more (out of 10) will be included on Pitchify. Lots of albums are reviewed every day, and thousands of tracks added to Spotify every week. Pitchify tries to sort through the pile, throw away the Gagas and the Nickelbacks and present you with the very best that Spotify has to offer. Albums that are not immediately available on Spotify will be added to Pitchify’s queue, and presented on Pitchify when they become available.
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Chuck D Vs Eclectic Method | Audio Visual Remix
Site here.
Audio by Icarus.
Video by Pixlpa.
Converse ★ Anomaly | Desire
Our latest connectivity track, Desire has launched today. The track was created by Paloma Faith, Graham Coxon and Bill Ryder-Jones and is as the next installment in our line of music collaborations.
The single is available for free download via the website (here) and follows the October release of Didn’t Know What Love Was by Bernard Sumer, Alexis Taylor and Joe Goddard.
Dazed and Confused are describing Desire as “…a stomping hybrid of garage punk, rockabilly and squealing jazz saxophone..”
Hell yes.
Download here.
There’ll be plenty of activity and we have, as is tradition, made an accompanying video, which will launch next week. About that, I am very excited…
For now, here’s the track.
Location Aware App Album
Record companies and artists are beginning to realise that Apps can replace albums and bring fresh revenue streams to a model decimated by piracy. The D.C. band Bluebrain created the world’s first album that doubles as a location aware mobile application. The app will sync songs, and even melodies to a listener’s location as they travel through The National Mall in Washington, D.C. The app ensures a unique listening experience based on the whims of each user based solely on location.
‘The National Mall’ is the first in a series of location-aware musical works that Bluebrain will compose and design for sites around the world in the coming months and years. The second work of this nature, designed for Prospect Park in Brooklyn, New York will debut later this summer followed by a piece that will stretch the entire length of California’s Highway 1.
More here.
John Halen
Awesome.
Download here.
Orelha Negra | M.I.R.I.A.M. X Vhils
Art by explosion.
More here.
How long before it’s in a crappy car ad?
RFID Spotify Player
Interaction Design studen Jordi Parra has created a music player that enables you listen to Spotify via personalised RFID tags that can be attached to the magnetized volume knob. Each RFID tag has a unique ID that is recognised by the player enabling it to pull music linked to that specific tag. RFID tags are be created by connecting the player to a computer via USB, with users able to assign a playlist, album or a Spotify search to different color-coded tags.
More here
ViaTC.
Conductor | MTA ME
At www.mta.me, Conductor turns the New York subway system into an interactive string instrument. Using the MTA’s actual subway schedule, the piece begins in realtime by spawning trains which departed in the last minute, then continues accelerating through a 24 hour loop. The visuals are based on Massimo Vignelli’s 1972 diagram.
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C60 Redux | Physical Digital Music
The C60 Redux concept is a prototype for listening to music, with the focus being brought back to the actual process of “seeing” and arranging music by hand. Developed by some folk at IDEO the player works by enabling the user to place on it cards embedded with RFID. Those RFID chips contain tracks and so you can create your own playlist by arranging them in a clockwise fashion. The physicality of the cards also means each is capable of having its own custom design, or artwork.
Via & here.
Random Spotify Song
Randomization.
Here.
DJ Earworm | United State of Pop 2010
You know the drill.
Link.
Chase & Status | Blind Faith Video
Nicely done.
Longer version here.
Soundcities
The first online open source database of city sounds and soundmaps from around the world, using found sounds and field recording. Soundcities uses recorded soundscapes from world cities made over the last twelve years. The Database is also open so anyone can upload sounds they collect from world cities, thereby making a contribution to the project and making an online sounds archive.
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ViaGMM.
AV Clash
AV Clash enables the creation of audiovisual compositions, consisting of combinations of sound and audio-reactive animation loops. AV (AudioVisual) Clash is composed of 4 audiovisual “objects”, which enable playback and manipulation of four different loops of sound and audio-reactive visuals. Objects can be dragged and thrown, creating interactions (clashes) between them. The sounds in AV Clash are retrieved from Freesound.org, an online sound database. Users can change which 4 sound and animation loops are contained in each of the objects.
Have a play at here.
More here.
ViaCA.
Rave Generator
Old Skool.
Here.
Via3Billion.