If you would like a more local twist to what you listen to on the radio then the good old BBC might have the perfect solution. Boffins at the Beeb have come up with something which goes by the rather exciting name of The Perceptive Radio. The crux of it is that the material broadcast can alter automatically according to where the listener is and even the current weather...
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Didn’t you just love globes and atlases when you were a kid? Ok, maybe not but there is a new concept out there which you are probably going to enjoy a lot more than standing up in front of the class and trying to pinpoint Borneo or blooming Popocatepetl. The genius behind the audio globe (yes, audio globe) is called Yuri Suzuki. He travelled the world with a Dictaphone...
If you were out and about in London over the last week or so then maybe you were lucky and came across the London Sound Taxi. This is a vehicle which has been designed by sound artist Yuri Suzuki and which gave the noise of the UK capital a whole new sound. Basically, it uses microphones to record the noises which go on around it. The sound of honking horns, yapping tourists...
Internet search giant Google Inc. celebrates the 78th birth anniversary of Robert ‘Bob’ Moog, an American electrical engineer, with an interactive Google Doodle. Bob Moog is the father of the modern electronic synthesizer and in place of the Google logo in the site’s homepage is a digital recreation of the Moog synthesizer. Users of the Google Chrome...
With the continuing growth of music streaming services, Microsoft is rumored to be working on a similar service of their own to bring music to its products. CNET reported this week that software giant Microsoft is under negotiations with a number of record labels regarding a music service similar to Spotify, Pandora, MOG, Rdio and other subscription services. “Negotiations...
Music recording apps for the iPad are becoming more and more popular these days as developers and manufacturers release new software and hardware on a regular basis. Now Wave Machine Labs are announcing their latest Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) for the iPad, the Auria. Music making apps for the iPad are currently seen as more useful alongside musicians’ main recording...
Apple is now in the process of setting up its new iTunes Match service for international customers, but according to reports, people outside the United States are now able to access its sign up page. Countries such as the United Kingdom and France seem to have access to iTunes Match’s sign up page, and other reports claim that it has appeared in Australia and Canada...
If you’ve got love for guitars and guitar playing, but are having problems with music theory and memorizing chords, a device has been developed just for you. The TabStrummer is a new guitar-shaped electronic device that lets you program chords by pressing buttons on the electronic guitar’s neck and be played by strumming, just like what you do on a real guitar. This...
Apple Inc. has finally released the iTunes Match cloud music service, after missing its deadline two weeks ago. The iTunes Match was release alongside the launch of iTunes 10.5.1, an update that fixed a critical security issue that could let hackers push fake updates to Mac and Windows users. Apple’s Tunes Match cloud music service costs $24.88 a year. The application...
Apple’s GarageBand, the popular DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) for the Mac OS X operating system and the iPad tablet, is now made available for the company’s more mobile devices, the iPhone and iPod Touch. The app, which was released for the iPad in March this year along with iMovie, has been scaled down to fit the screens of the smaller iPod Touch and iPhone....