The Coolest Music Apps You’ll See Today

4th December 2014 by No comments.

Música Móvel is a group of Brazilian developers and musicians that are creating cool and original mobile apps for music production. The applications take images captured live from the camera, graphical fractal tree structures, or gestures, to generate sounds, melodies and beats, turning your smartphone into a musical instrument.

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Armadillo: Beautiful Free Music For Your Project

4th November 2014 by No comments.

Armadillo is a new and talented musician who is making his work free for download. Although he has currently only 11 tracks on his site (hey! But that’s still like a whole CD’s worth!), they are all uniformly great. Armadillo is equally proficient with chamber music, disco, funk and 8-bit game-like tracks. Armadillo promises to…

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In Space Everybody can Hear you Blip

24th October 2014 by No comments.

NASA has just put online a huge number of sound clips for free download and use. Ideal for mixing into music, or for sound effects in films, the clips include sounds taken from different kinds of rockets taking off (turn the volume down before playing these); eerie blips, hisses and squawks from our solar system…

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Where to get free Stuff

28th May 2014 by No comments.

Admittedly, to write a novel all you need is a pen and paper, and to paint a picture all you need is a canvas, brushes and oil-paints. But works of art that belong to the realm of “new media” are much more complex, requiring all sorts off pre-built assets. For a film, for example, you…

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