Home Grown Music Tech.
The News Review:
- Home Grown Music Tech.
- Happy 30th birthday Walkman
- Illinois man’s home is a museum housing 600.
- Interview: Geek songsmith Jonathan Coulton
Home Grown Music Tech.
Examiner.com
Telling me that he "couldn’t do a lick of this a month ago" and "playing sound engineer producer and artist in the same sitting all by your lonesome is definitely a challenge. " Like many artists learning quickly how to master their music he has found it pleasing and enjoys what he is doing. With home recording becoming more popular and the technology to build such becoming cheaper home grown music and.
Happy 30th birthday Walkman
AFP
Sony is hoping its new touch-screen X-series Walkman will revive sales of the gadget. For many observers the success of the iPod illustrates the way Sony has lost its golden touch in recent years failing fully to exploit the opportunities of the Internet and the digital age. As well as losing its lead in portable music players Sony’s PlayStation 3 has been trumped by Nintendo’s Wii as the top-selling home video game console. Sony announced in May its first annual loss in 14 years and warned it would stay in the red this year. Chief executive Howard Stringer has vowed to meld the company’s strength in electronics with its games and movies. He is also slashing 16000 jobs and axing about 10 percent of Sony’s manufacturing plants. Copyright © 2009 AFP.
Illinois man’s home is a museum housing 600.
Philadelphia Inquirer
He and his wife scraped together what little money they had to buy radios from flea markets yard sales and estate sales. Each purchase filled a gap in the history of the medium beginning with early 1900 radios from Atwater-Kent and diamond-tipped Edison phonographs and on to tabletop and pocket transistor radios from the 1950s. His collection has grown so big – about 600 radios LaVelle figures – that he has opened it to the public for free viewings. The Antique Radio Museum as he calls it has no Web page (the LaVelles can barely work their home computer) and is not advertised any place that could be easily found. But it attracts a few dozen children and seniors each year most who stop and marvel at a piece of history come back to life. "Some people walk in and they don’t say a word" LaVelle said. "They just stop and stare and you can tell it’s taking them back in time.
Interview: Geek songsmith Jonathan Coulton
Joystiq
Well by the time I was all grown up over the years I sort of continued the recording as a hobby and as hobbies do this one attracted a lot of equipment and gear. ver the years I developed a pretty decent home studio. So by the time I recorded “Thing a Week” I was recording on a Mac with Pro Tools and a Digi 002 audio interface. And a whole bunch of effect boxes and compressors and all sorts of other stuff.
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