Links of Potential Use and Interest for Computing, Audio and Music Module

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Studio Bookings (Only accessible within the firewall)

Notes & Rhythms - Reading Music

• MusicEd - Music for Education at www.musiced.org.uk
• Berklee Shares: free music lessons, mp3, quicktime and pdf files download
• Ricci Adams' Musictheory.net
• The basics of counting rhythms.
• Clapping Exercises
• Music Theory For Songwriters
• Songwriting Tips & Tools - The Muse's Muse
• BBC Song Writing Guide - Writing Lyrics
• Latin Precussion: Percussion Leader for 40 Years
• Lydian-Dominant Theory for Improvisation

Cubase

• Cubase
• Cubase Updates 4 Mac

CubaseSoSNotes

• Sound on Sound Cubase tips
• June04-May06 links
• Dec01-May04 links
• Nov 2000 - Scale Correction
• Dec 00 Logic Edit function 1
• Jan 01 Logic Edit function 2
• Feb 01 Studio Module
• Mar 01 Manipulating Note Lengths
• Apr 01 Interactive Phrase Synthesiser
• Ma 01 bits and bobs
• June 01 Exporting Audio/External MIDI Instruments
• July 01 Score Editor in VST Score/32
• Aug 01 Score Editor
• Sept 01 Mastertack Hitpoints
• Oct 01 Extract Tempo from audio
• Nov 01 VST Channel settings+ channel mixer
• Dec 01 Eliminating Phase problems
• Jan 02 Arrange Window
• Feb 02 Controller Editor
• Mar 02 External effects into signal path
• Apr 02 Recycle Support in Cubase

Sheet Music sites

• African-American Sheet Music, 1850-1920 - (American Memory from the Library of Congress)
• Free Sheet Music - Free Piano Music
• Musica Viva - Free sheet music downloads and more
• Virtual Sheet Music - Classical Sheet Music Downloads

Soundscapes

• freesound
• Soundtravels
• soundscape_FM
• Cronotopos
• BBC - Radio 4 - The Sound of Life

Music & Audio you can legally download

• freesound
• Creative Commons South Africa » Rip. Sample. Mash. Share.
• National Sound Archive
• Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project
• Lost and Found Sound: Audio Artifacts
• Precious Voices: Preserving the voices of the past for generations to come.
• downloadable music & localized cultural resources
• Swarm Music
• Thai Elephant Orchestra
• CLASSICAL MUSIC ARCHIVES
• BBC - OneMusic - Sample Bank
• BBC - OneMusic - Virtual Studio
• History and Politics Out Loud: a searchable archive of politically significant audio materials
• The Public Radio Exchange
• Pandora
• IT Conversations
• IT Conversations: Clint Bajakian - Game Audio Production
• Physics Today July 2004- Particle Tracking Tunes Up Music
• Magnatune: MP3 files and music licensing (royalty free music and license music).
• Resonance 104.4 fm - Audio Archive
• BBC - Radio 3 - World Music - Fela Kuti Feature
• BBC - Radio 3 - World Music - Baka Pygmies
• BBC - 1Xtra - TX - Documentaries
• Borror Lab Home Page
• Sound Portraits
• Trojan Radio
• Windows Noises - Flash Animation
• NASA online VLF receiver
• ! D*I*R*T*Y digital culture !
• carbonatedjazz
• Videogame Music Archive - 16,000+ Game Music MIDI files

Instruments, Technologies & Types of Music

• Traditional Japanese Music--printer friendly version | National Clearinghouse for U.S.-Japan Studies
• Carbon fibre violin
• Audio insectry: the worm-powered synth - Engadget - www.engadget.com
• The SynthAxe
• "The Vocoder"
• CATHEDRAL | pitchWeb
• oozak |kazoo
• The Classical Guitar Home Page
• The Flamenco Guitar Home Page
• Mandolin Cafe
• 3dmusic
• The Cowbell Project
• Chiff & Fipple:  The PostStructural Tinwhistle Internet Experience
• MIDI Guitar Unofficial Home Page
• Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music

Interfaces

• Welcome to the World of VinylVideo!
• Pandora
• Song Search by Tapping - Search for music by tapping the rhythm of the song's melody.
• BBC - Arts - Sound Kit 1
• DarwInstruments: Better Sound Through Evolution
• The News-Gazette Online
• ESPiano
• SONASPHERE
• Dot Matrix Music
• Flat Surace Control Via Sound Waves
• Live Algorithms for Music
• Audiopad
• Motorola’s spray-on ringtone wall - Engadget - www.engadget.com
• Executive High Tech @ CES - Water Symphony Musical Rain Drops - Engadget - www.engadget.com
• The Silent PC
• musicplasma : the music visual search engine
• BBC - Music Live - The Commonwealth Studio
• Phraselator
• Pianographique
• S O U N D T O Y S . N E T.....

Accessibility

• Speaker allows deaf musicians to feel music
• drake music project

Culture

• Audio overboard
• Old ears on young bodies may affect college students' learning
• BBC NEWS This is Cambridge calling...
• mobile clubbing
• FreakyTrigger - It's a Summer Festival in a web browser
• BBC - collective - watch & listen
• The Official B-Boy Summit Website @ http://www.bboysummit.com

Copyright

• On The Media-- FAIR USE FOLLIES
• Darknet
• Podcasting Legal Guide - CcWiki
• Banned Music
• DRM is a complete lie
• Courtney Love Does The Math
• University Channel - Rip, Mix, Burn, Sue: Technology, Politics, and the Fight to Control Digital Media
• FREE CULTURE by Lawrence Lessig (and friends):
• US sees growth in CD sales market
• Free legal downloads for $6 a month. DRM free. The artists get paid. We explain how… | The Register
• Pledge Allegiance to the Penguin
• Sample the Future
• The Remix Masters
• How I Learned to Love Larry
• Take My Music . . . Please
• frontline: the way the music died | PBS
• Creative Commons
• Lawrence Lessig
• RIAA Radar:
• A Visit to Copyright Bay

Resources

• Grand Illusions - Articles - Directory of Tunes
• Music Acoustics Publications from KMA in Sweden
• KTH Speech, Music and Hearing :: Home
• Sampling (music) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Musical Instrument Digital Interface - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• The Redland Papers - Issue10
• Noise-Induced Hearing Loss
• Here and Now : Headphones and Hearing Loss - 1/11/2006
• The MASSIVE database
• Transom: A Showcase & Workshop for New Public Radio
• Art Ludwig's Sound Page
• Videos about MIDI
• UEA Electroacoustic Studios
• Recording Bird sounds
• Learning The Lessons of Nixon » 4 Minutes About Podcasting
• Perfect Sound Forever
• Access to Music
• BAIN CMS/ATMI 2002 (Kansas City): Presentation Page
• BBC - Radio 3 - Africa on your street
• Salford University School of Music, Media and Performance
• Rane Professional Audio Reference (A)
• welcome to ihub: home of thehub1449am
• MUSICNETWORK HOME PAGE
• International Conference on Web Delivering of Music 2002 - WEDELMUSIC 2002
• The Beat | BBC World Service
• U L T R A S O U N D / 2 0 0 3
• SARC
• NME
• IRCAM
• ICMA

Artists & Bands

• Kid Beyond
• TWOTW
• Delia Derbyshire! (delia-derbyshire.org)
• Dead Marvins
• Synthesiser pioneer Dr Moog dies
• Alvin Lucier- Music On A Long Thin Wire
• OHM- The Gurus of Electronic Music
• David Byrne
• David Toop-musician, writer and curator of sound
• knowledgeofbugs.co.uk
• Seize the Day
• memory plains returning - yamanaka nash
• Leon Hunt
• blacksmoke

Trivia & Stuff You Should Read

• MIDI or Virtuoso?
• Mozart or Salieri?
• Aussies deploy toad-blasting audio killing machine | The Register
• Streaming audio using water (and other radio hacks) | The Register
• kissthisguy.com -+- The Archive of Misheard Lyrics
• Behold the Rocklopedia Fakebandica!
• Artists Against Success
• Commercial Breaks and Beats :: The UK TV Advert Music Database
• iPod vs. The Cassette
• iTunes iSbogus
• THE WORLD OF SOAP THEMES - Index Page
• The Greatest Album Covers That Never Were

Software

• BitTorrent
• Indy.TV
• LilyPond - Download
• MULTIMEDIA RESOURCES
• http://www.vivaldistudio.com/index.asp?lang=E&vr_http=
• GoatCactus Software
• Music Shapes
• Vocaloid

 

Collected but not yet classified

• Connexions - Sharing Knowledge and Building Communities
• Seeing the Whole Symphony
• Sheet Music Collection: Lewis Music Library: MIT Libraries
• chord house ::: chords and scales for guitar and piano
• Reading Music
• Tutorials
• teoría - Music Theory Web - Espacio dedicado a la teoría musical
• Archival Sound Recordings Project
• Virtual Instrument Museum
• Textbook Revolution
• The School of Sound
• Film Sound Design - Film Sound Theory
• Beyond The Soundbytes - Conference
• Institute of Jazz Studies
• America Over The Water
• Second Hand Songs - Home
• BBC NEWS | Politics | Olympics audio surveillance row
• Listening to Nature-Desert
• YouTube - Tut: Cubase Basics
• DJ C-SAR
• Holophonic Sound
• Holophonic Splash Page
• ArtistLog.com - Creative Video Journals
• Free sheet music, chord charts & instruction.
• Rip It Up & Start Again: PostPunk 1978-1984 by Simon Reynolds
• Musicroom.com - Sheet Music for Musicians
• Dispatx | Improvised Maps | NYSoundmap
• Roland U.S. - R-09: WAVE/MP3 Recorder
• Patrick Robin >> Home
• Patrick Robin >> Home
• Creative Commons Licenses | Creative Commons
• Audio - Creative Commons
• Sound:Space 2007
• NYSoundmap
• BBC - Radio 4 - Music Feature - Archive
• www.new-renaissance.net
• The 50 greatest film soundtracks | OMM | The Observer
• Archival Sound Recordings Project - Soundscapes
• MagneticTime
• Bristol Rocks
• WNYC - New Sounds Archives: April, 2007
• Sound at criticalmanagement.org
• Guardian Unlimited | Comment is free | Glastonbury, more than mud and music
• Music biz agrees: stop shooting self in foot | The Register
• YouTube - John Cage "4'33"
• Acoustic amplifier turns headphones into speakers Cory Doctorow Today, 08:43 AM
• Drawing That Explains Copyright Law at Erik J. Heels
• Hearing Voices
• Hearing Voices - Who Is We?
• Tate Player
• UK gov rejects Cliff Richard's copyright extension | The Register
• Melody faker | The Guardian | Guardian Unlimited
• Tech Digest: Now Play It: video music lessons from Blur, Supergrass, KT Tunstall...
• Publications of the Sony Computer Science Laboratory
• Enjoyment of Music: Online Tutor
• Martin Kiszko | Composer
• Foundations of Information Science
• History audio
• Siphoning MySpace tunes using Safari | The Register
• Drumpants: Percussive piezo pantaloons

 

Collated by Marcus Lynch
Last updated: October 2, 2008