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About Category "Music"

Posts on music, making music, recording music and everything else music should be associated with this category.

Beautifully Haunting: A Blessed Unrest by The Parlour Trick

Beautifully haunting, the album A Blessed Unrest was released on 2012-12-12 and is described by its creators as "Haunted chamber music and dark, dreamy ambience composed, arranged, and performed by multi-instrumentalists Dan Cantrell & Meredith Yayanos."

Audience:

Those who like their music to be intelligent, different, and with a haunting beauty.

Serendipity and German Popular Music

How my horizons have been broadened with regards to popular music from Germany.

Audience:

Music lovers who would like to hear something different.

Published:

Friday, 24th April 2009;
last updated on Tuesday, 29th September 2009

Open Source MIDI Control Surface

I am in the process of designing a simple MIDI control surface, all design information to be released under a Creative Commons license.

Audience:

Anyone interested in building their own simple MIDI control surface, for fun or profit.

Published:

Thursday, 27th November 2008;
last updated on Friday, 28th November 2008
iPod Nano with Sennheiser headphones

Enter the eyeProd

Smiffy meets the eyeProd, er, iPod Nano.

Audience:

Anyone in the market for a personal music player - even if they think they are too old for such things.

Published:

Saturday, 19th April 2008

Linux Recording - Second Thoughts

Audacity seems like an easier option for audio recording under Linux.

Published:

Sunday, 22nd October 2006;
last updated on Saturday, 10th March 2007

Shine on you Crazy Diamond

Smiffy reflects on the passing of Syd Barrett.

Published:

Wednesday, 12th July 2006;
last updated on Tuesday, 24th October 2006