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Make sounds from photos and fractals with PhotoSounder

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Watch the video.

Be delighted.

Then rush over and download the demo of PhotoSounder because really, are you going to see anything cooler this week ? And at that price ?

PhotoSounder uses an idea that I first came across on the Audio Cookbook blog – processing audio files using Photoshop - but this video just makes it leap off the screen at you. In essence it’s simply a Spectrogram in reverse (here’s a great example of that), but that description hardly does justice to some of the amazing sounds and the images that “seeded” them here.

I particularly love the fact that a beautiful fractal image like the one at  0′40″  also sounds beautiful and fascinating – but my favourite is the second example in this video.

I know what I’ll be doing this evening !

 

Pink Floyd – ‘Dark Side Of The Moon’ in the recording studio

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Taken from the fantastic DVD “Classic Albums: The Making of The Dark Side of the Moon“, this clip has loads of great things for audio geeks like me to enjoy, including (probably) the first time a band ever played to a tape loop (and how the loop was made), another great example of double-tracking (this time on a guitar solo) and a superb illustration of how quite extreme-sounding delay and reverb (on Gilmour’s vocal) sound great in the context of the whole mix.

The DVD has been in the Production Advice Bookstore since I first set up the site, and is strongly recommended viewing for anyone interested in writing, recording and mixing.

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Five fantastic ways to make music on your iPhone or iPod Touch

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Last week I posted about a complete music track produced on an iPhone.

Already that’s out of date.

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How to make music from sand (And, why you would want to)

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I think this video speaks for itself – I love it.

It’s by Diego Stocco, who was also responsible for the “Music From A Tree” video I posted on the Production Advice Tumblr blog yesterday.

Why do I love it ? Because it’s:

  • Beautiful
  • Musical
  • Witty
  • Unique
  • Original
  • Punky

- wait, punky ?  [Insert FX of record scratch/car screeching to a halt/etc]

What the hell am I talking about ?

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Why Peter Gabriel writes and records in the shed

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Real World

 

The picture above is the “Big Room” at Peter Gabriel’s Real World studios in Wiltshire.

Nice, isn’t it ?

(I’ve never been there, but personally am very curious to know how it sounds, with all those windows and hard surfaces – but, I digress…)

What may surprise you to learn is that this isn’t where Peter writes, records and mixes his records.

He does it in his shed.

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