CSM4

Music and Business

Location base social networking mapping

An interesting video showing the geotagged bursts of mobile device based social networking activity during the recent SXSW festival in Austin Texas. From here on in, web 3 is going to be all about the geotagging locations… Read more

Music Business Session 7

Presentation Link:

http://prezi.com/r7gil1ehuuzg/

Task

Identify potential funding opportunities for your work or programmes that may support an area of study

This research can be placed in your business portfolio as a means of revenue

Useful Links:

Arts Council England

Arts Council Wales

British Council

Wales Arts International

NESTA

PRSF

Princes Trust

Welcome Trust

Arts & Business

Redbull Academy

European Cultural Foundation

Useful article in view of forthcoming elections
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/arts-funding

Document overview of Arts Funding in the UK
GuidetoArtsFundinginEngland

iamamiwhoami

Some beautiful videos from mysterious artist iamamiwhoami. Each video/track has a coded number for a name,that the blogoshere is currently trying to crack. The mystery surrounding the artist is causing a huge amount of internet chatter and hype.
iamamiwhoami youtube

It is rumoured that iamamiwhoami could actually Christina Aguilera
(I think it’s more likely Jonna Lee )

RIP A&R, here’s the MAP

a network of established music bloggers have an alliance that finds and helps to break new music otherwise untouched by PR and A&R
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2010/mar/15/music-blogs-map

Embedding Flash from other sites

One main aspect to having your own site is being able to publish and show the world your creative products, be that music, video, photos or games. Flash powers about 90% of online video and sound content and is probably what you watch your Youtube videos in and listen to music online (unless on a mobile device like the iphone).
Vimeo, Youtube and Soundcloud use flash, and they offer easy ways for your include video or players on your own site.

Read more

Ading Flash to your site

Adobe’s Flash is a great tool for creating rich interactive experiences online – it powers much of the video, music, games and animation on the web and although the new upcoming HTML5 and CSS3 promise to deliver similar experiences, only the most modern browsers will display them correctly, so it’s fairly safe to say Flash won’t be going anywhere any time soon. PLEASE NOTE: This is how to embed a Flash SWF file that you have created yourself – for instructions on embedding Flash from other sites – for example youtube, Vimeo, Soundcloud, Flickr etc see here. Read more

Arduino Mario!

Designed by a student from Carnegie Mellon University, This is Mini mini Mario on Arduino! complete with the theme music.

Record Labels: Change or Die

An interesting article on the current state of the majors and a look at their options…

http://gizmodo.com/5481545/record-labels-change-or-die?skyline=true&s=iRecord

tutorials and web surgery session Friday 12th

10.00
10.20
10.40
11.00: Guy
11.20: George
11.40: Dewi
12.00: Tim
12.20: Alfie
12.40: LUNCH
1pm: web surgery – venue TBC

Steampunk Inspired lego sequencer

musician Yoshi Akai wrote his master’s thesis on how to turn color into sound, and he’s been dreaming up unorthodox ways of producing music ever since. Case in point: the Lego Sequencer MR II, a contraption that uses three-dimensional Lego structures to emulate a three-channel, eight-step sequencer, where each differently colored plastic brick produces a different sound and complex combinations (including tremolo and overdrive) are possible when the blocks are stacked.

Read More and see a video here:

http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/steampunk-sequencer-generates-audio-from-lego-blocks/

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