Illusio: Open Source for #realtime LOOPING

A couple of weeks ago I posted a video the showed a great performance on looping beatbox by Shlomo http://bit.ly/poHhfb and to do that he uses a loopstation machine. Well I want to show you an open source alternative and introduce: Illusio, an open source digital musical instrument that allows the control of real-time recorded loops through collaborative performances based on relationships between sketches and sounds, intended to be ludic and playful. 

from Group Texting to Group Listening Services: Turntable.fm - Outloud.fm - Wahwah.fm...

Turntable.fm: Group Listening Services Connect Music Fans

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About a month ago, Turntable.fm launched to a lot of buzz within the Silicon Valley community and managed to rack up 140,000 members within a month of launch. The music listening site lets users create social music listening chatrooms with strangers and friends. People can either choose to be a DJ, streaming their hand-selected music for the room to listen to, or they can be a listener and just hang out and enjoy the music the DJs choose.

Turntable.fm is the first group listening service to get major attention from the media. Similar services include Listening Room and Outloud.fm. Each service is web-based and simply creates a chatroom where people can listen to music together. On Turntable.fm, users can also add tracks from Turntable’s library of licensed music, which isn’t possible on the other sites. Regardless of the small differences, the existence of these sites demonstrates that the spread of social features and other hooks across the Web have taken a relatively solitary experience, listening to one’s personal music collection, and made it social by recreating the club/concert atmosphere online.

Already, Turntable has gotten the attention of pros within the music industry such as old school rapper Sir Mix-A-Lot and producer Diplo. Sir Mix-A-Lot ran a DJ set on Turntable to promote his new Facebook game MixNMatch. Meanwhile, Diplo managed to sneak onto the service and play a set for unsuspecting Turntable users as well. While this early celebrity participation may seem of little consequence at first glance, it is easy to see how the opportunities for marketers to use VIP talent within these communities could be a good way to build brand recognition. Brands involved in major music festival sponsorships may also want to use group listening services to create live group chat and musical experiences between celebrities and participants, creating a custom room for musicians to promote their music or serve as DJs.

In 2011 we’ve gone from group texting to group photo sharing to group music listening. Turntable.fm and its Web-based competitors are just a taste of what’s to come as media consumption itself becomes more social with more fine-tuned curation of content from friends and trusted experts on these services. Group music listening will start moving into mobile as well. Wahwah.fm promises to recreate the shared listening experience for mobile phones, while MyStream makes it possible for people on the same WiFi or Bluetooth connections to listen to the same playlists. All of these services combine to create an exciting new landscape for music listeners. Group listening services solve the problems of loneliness, discovery, and curation for music lovers and create a social environment that brands and celebrities can use to create more personal musical experiences for participants.

But is it all too good to be true? Everyone in the music industry has an opinion on the legality of Turntable.fm, Google Music, and Amazon Cloud Player, but it’s too early to tell if these services will continue as they are or bend to the whims of the record industry. In the meantime, I’ll keep taking advantage of all these fun new social music services and leave the nitty gritty for the lawyers to figure out.

Simeon.Spearman, 07.05.2011

 

 

Radiohead Lotus Flowers VS Pa Panamericano - is the new Radiohead's videoclip performanced to be hackable? ;)

The new videoclip of Radiohead has a great visual power thanks to the amazing dance of Thom Yorke. It seems like has been designed & performanced to be hackable with many videos starting to use it for fun:
vs Cotton eye joe www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hRlYnTfTmc
vs Scatman www.youtube.com/watch?v=bA5ai8MccM8
vs Lola Flores www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_FCwREOudY
vs La Danza de los Mirlos www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTNFEUiG_Jg
vs Soulja Boy vs Tempz www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_fkzm6t3Ys

BTW don't miss the perfect syncro in 1:25sg

UPDATE: http://dancingthom.tumblr.com

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Around the world thanks to the socialgraph

Introducing the 'We Like The World' initiative, the first trip around the world powered by a network of facebook friends aiming at building a girls' school in Cambodia.
We need you to support this project. How?
- By becoming a fan of facebook.com/weliketheworld. For each of the first 30 000 fans, $1 will be donated to the school project. So , tell your friends to do it also.
- By hosting the Colas family during their trip around the world as of July 2011. For each hosted night, the hotel savings ($50 per night) will fund the school.
- By donating yourself directly. More news soon on this.
Please check facebook.com/weliketheworld