Music Plagiarism Project
Published on January 13th, 2005 in News | Comments Off
Started by law student Charles Cronin, The Music Plagiarism Project documents some of the more famous music copyright disputes with reference files of music clips, reduced scores and excerpts that superimpose the debating melodies to illustrate the cases. Commentaries, historical notes and excerpts from the rulings are also included. Some of the noteworthy: Michael Bolton’s [...]
Fender Player’s Club
Published on January 7th, 2005 in News | Comments Off
This site was recommended to me. I haven’t fully explored it, but it looks pretty cool. Lessons from beginner to advanced: FenderPlayersClub.com
FFF Friday
Published on December 17th, 2004 in News | Comments Off
Frogger & Other 80′s games (the only ones I’m good at). Fluttr A quick scan from their Feature article in the globe today. Far Side oh, how I miss the far side
Shredder Wednesday
Published on December 15th, 2004 in News | Comments Off
I have great admiration and respect of Satch, but I found this particularly funny. Joe Satriani performing the National Anthem: Quicktime Video Real Stream All kidding aside, Steve Vai has some great lessons on his website: Vai.com Here’s his main Lesson page.
Beethoven Online & The Wayback Machine
Published on December 15th, 2004 in News | Comments Off
From the New York Times: The world’s largest collection of Beethoven manuscripts and letters has gone digital. The Beethoven House in Bonn, his birthplace, has scanned more than 5,000 handwritten letters and manuscripts and posted many of them for access on its Website. (note: It can be a little hard to navigate through because it [...]
The Nature of Pat Martino
Published on December 14th, 2004 in News | Comments Off
Some words and pictures of wisdom from Pat Martino The Nature of the Guitar more at his website: PatMartino.com
Pi 10k
Published on December 11th, 2004 in News | Comments Off
“This experiment attempts to convert the first 10,00 digits of pi into a musical sequence. Select ten notes, and your corresponding selection translates into an integer. The first note you select will equal ’1′, the second will equal ’2′ and so on. As your computer cycles through the digits of pi, the corresponding note will [...]
Kubrick & Krantz
Published on December 10th, 2004 in News | Comments Off
An interpretation of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001 – A Space Oddessy (click here) A quick article from Wayne Krantz on finding your own sound. (click here)
Psychic Action Figure Scientist Wayne Horivitz
Published on December 5th, 2004 in News | Comments Off
Wayne Horvitz, a great composer, improviser, band leader & producer is sharing some of his scores on his website: waynehorvitz.com Mind Reader Software: click here Action Figure Comics: click here The Science of Music: Exploratorium
GuitarBot
Published on November 30th, 2004 in News | Comments Off
Percy Grainger: “Too long has music been subject to the limitations of the human hand and subject to the interfering interpretation of a middle-man: the performer.” GuitarBot to the rescue!
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