Morning, Campers!

These are the Sunday Reads for April 21, 2013.

• Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Diplo and Other Top Names in Music Honored at 30th Annual ASCAP Pop Music Awards (ASCAP)
• The Music of ‘Flow’ (NYT)
• Surgeon prescribes Brian Eno to patients (Guardian)
• Daft Punk Explain ‘Random Access Memories (Spin)
• A Bronx Genre Gone Global (NYT)
• First listen: Daft Punk’s ‘Get Lucky’ (LATimes)
• This Was 1993: 20 Years Ago I Heard The Perfect Rap Song (NPR)
• For Those About To Rock, We Salute Your Ears (NPR)
• Coachella Festival Coverage (RollingStone)
• Voxengo Intros Shinechilla Harmonic Generator For Mac & Windows (Synthopia)
• SSL Debuts Sigma – Remote Controlled Analog Mixing and Summing Engine (SonicScoop)
• Beyond the Basics: Harmonic Motion and the Root of All Music (SonicScoop)

Good morning, campers!

These are the Sunday Reads for March 3rd, 2013.

• Seduced by ‘perfect’ pitch: how Auto-Tune conquered pop music (Verge)
• ‘Mongolian Bling’ rappers swing to their own beat (LATimes)
• RadioLab Podcast: Speedy Beethoven (RadioLab)
• A Mac user’s view of the Chromebook Pixel (Technovia)
• The Musicians Guide To YouTube Marketing (MusicThinkTank)
• Downloaded, Feature Documentary About the Rise & Fall of Napster (LaughingSquid)
• Avid Under Investigation by US Law Firms On Behalf of Avid Shareholders (SonicScoop)
• Everything You Need To Know About The Piracy-Battling Copyright Alert System (PopSci)

Good morning, campers!

Espresso coffee with a dash of frothy steamed milk, and this bouquet of HTML links.

Just.Perfect.

These are the Sunday Reads for February 17th, 2013.

• Top 10 Instantly Recognizable Guitar Riffs (Fender)
• Loudness and Metering (Part 2) (Designing Sound)
• I Dream of Wires – a documentary about the modular synthesizer (SoundOnSound)
• Can You Learn To Like Music You Hate?(NPR)
• Diplo Says 2013 Is the ‘Year of Musical Fusion’ (Rolling Stone)
• BBC Attacks the Open Web, GNU/Linux in Danger (Computerworld UK)
• Saving The Sounds Of America (NPR)
• Cableguys Will Modulate Everything – Now Get a Free, Powerful Pan-Shaping Plug-in (CDM)
• How To Use SoundCloud + Dropify For More Facebook Fans, No Download Fees (Hypebot)
• Tick tock: why timing your Mac hardware upgrades makes good sense (GigaOm)
• Diplo, Skrillex, and A-Trak launching new YouTube music channel ‘Potato’ (Verge)

Good morning, fellow propeller heads.

Make sure your refills are timely.

These are the Sunday Reads for January 20th, 2013.

• Amazon’s Move Against Apple Signals Greater Focus On Music (WaPo)
• Apple Is Looking For Creative Writer To Help Siri Evolve (MyNameIsSiri)
• Popcast: New Owners for Vintage Hits? (NYT)
• The Life And Death Of The American Arcade (Verge)
• Google’s Media Barons (Harper’s)
• Here Is What Happens When You Cast Lindsay Lohan in Your Movie (NYT)
• Review: iZotope Insight (Essential Metering Suite) (SonicScoop)
• A trip down memory lane: The Apple Lisa and Apple IIe turn 30 (Ars)
• Mac Setups: Audio Production Hackintosh with Triple Displays (OSXDaily)
• Bringing YouTube to Sundance and Sundance to You (Youtube Blog)
• I’ve Heard That Somewhere: ‘Glee’ Covers ‘Baby Got Back,’ And It Sounds … Familiar (NPR)
• Testing Mixed In Key’s Analysis Of Song Danceability (Hypebot)
• Enormous Online Library Catalogues 150,000 Animal Sounds (PopSci)
• How Apple Killed an iTunes Competitor (Slashdot)

A fistful of links, what else?

These are the Sunday Reads For January 6th, 2013.

No coffee quote this time. It’s all about popping bottles these final days.

These are the Sunday Reads for December 30th, 2012.

Happy New Year everyone!

• The Week In Music: What To Stay In From The Cold And Read Now (NPR)
• Reflecting On EMI, An Industry Giant Felled In 2012 (NPR)
• Tim O’Reilly’s Key to Creating the Next Big Thing (Wired)
• Exercise and the Ever-Smarter Human Brain (NYT)
• BENT: The Google Moog Mini-Doc (Youtube)
• Better Than Human (Wired)
• Windows VSTs on the Mac? Yes, We Can (CDM)
• Vic Flick’s Riff Captures The Sound Of James Bond (NPR)
• From lame to Lion—the 12-year evolution of OS X (ArsTechnica)
• Google, Kurzweil, and the Information Transformation Age (HuffPost)
• 3D Printed Record – 600dpi into 11kHz with Processing and ModelBuilder (CreativeApplications)
• Mad Science and Pop Hits (NYT)
• 50 Must-Read Pro Audio Articles from 2012 (ProAudioFiles)
• Recording Impulse Responses (DesigningSound)
• YouTube strips Universal and Sony of 2 billion fake views (DailyDot)

Winter chill bonus:

The horrors of an avalanche (and the beauty of really amazing online journalism) (BoingBoing)

Something was missing this Sunday.

Here are my late Sunday reads for December 9th, 2012.

• Dave Brubeck: Beyond ‘Take Five’ (NPR)
• Does Your DAW Have The Jitters? (Synthopia)
• AirHarp, The Instrument You Play Without Touching Anything (Pop Science)
• Jay-Z Shows ‘Where I’m From’ in New Documentary (RollingStone)
• Control Music Synthesizers With Gestures Through This Arduino-Based Saucer Called ‘The UFO’ (TechCrunch)
• Every Audiophile Review Ever (BoingBoing)
• Calvin Harris On Dance-Pop As A ‘Futuristic Experiment’ (NPR)
• New book about The KLF (and their Doctor Who connections) (BoingBoing)
• Eddie Van Halen deconstructs his collaboration on ‘Beat It’ (CNN)
• TapeDeck 1.5 Launches – Retro Mac Audio Recorder (SonicScoop)

Good morning!

Click, sip, click, sip.

These are my Sunday Reads for December 2nd, 2012.

• Who Picks The Music You Hear At The Mall? (NPR)
• Music Review: Justin Bieber at Madison Square Garden (NYT)
• Beastie Boys Fight Baffling ‘Licensed to Ill’ Sampling Lawsuit (Spin)
• Crash Course in Analog Tape Machines (Mix)
• Popcast: Parsing the Music (and the Psychodrama) of Rihanna (NYT)
• The long-playing saga of Columbia Records (WaPo)
• Riffing on the highs and lows of the sonic landscape (LaTimes)
• TONE2 Unveils Rayblaster – Impulse Modeling Synth Explores New Territory (SonicScoop)
• Dr. Drum, Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Con… (Analog Industries)
• Spider Silk Inspires Beautiful Music (Wired)
• On a lighter note: Elephant Plays Piano (BoingBoing)

Morning, campers!

Time for some beans and online magazines.

These are my Sunday Reads for November 25th, 2012.

• iTunes Through The Ages (ArsTechnica)
• Making Cents: what the music business’ headlong quest for capital means for artists today (PitchFork)
• AmpKit for Mac released, guitar nerds rejoice (TUAW)
• Alicia Keys: How A ‘Girl On Fire’ Keeps From Burning Out (NPR)
• Chemists Concoct the ‘White Noise’ of Smell (Wired)
• How Much Does Crowd Funding Cost Musicians? (NPR)
• Kesha Tilts Closer to a Rock Sound With ‘Warrior’ (NYT)
• Arturia Introduces SPARK DubStep Production + Performance Software Suite (SonicScoop)

48 cups of coffee, in one go, is the lethal dose. I’m fine, but more hyper than the links below!

These are my Sunday Reads for November 18th, 2012.

• How Caffeine Works (Youtube)
• Mixing in Stereo: Adding Width and Depth to Your Recordings (Universal Audio Blog)
• A cornucopia of live music: Rihanna, Pitbull, Alicia Keys and more (Youtube)
• Snapshots explore Einstein’s unusual brain (Nature)
• Listen: The Music of a Human Brain (Wired)
• Beautiful Noise, a Bloody Sonic Valentine to Shoegaze, Hits Kickstarter (Wired)
• 99 problems but fMRI ain’t one: Rappers help scientists study creativity (ArsTechnica)
• Katy Perry, Rihanna sign ad attacking Pandora for copyright proposal (ArsTechnica)
• Mixing Jazz With Waves (Waves Webinar)
• I Think We’re Alone Now – documentary about two men obsessed with pop singer Tiffany (BoingBoing)
• Beyond the Basics: Demystifying dB (SonicScoop)

Nothing wrong with a little piece of Sunday on a Monday.

These are my Sunday Reads for November 11th, 2012.

• Apple’s Fusion Drive cuts Mac startup time in half, triples read/write speeds (AppleInsider)
• The Sound of Skyfall (SoundWorks Network)
• Genius: The Nickelback Story (BusinessWeek)
• Philips selling colorful Wi-Fi lightbulbs exclusively through Apple (ArsTechnica)
• Audiofile Engineering Launches Triumph – All-New Audio Editor (SonicScoop)
• Jam With Chrome Lets You Create Digital Tunes With Friends (FastCompany)
• Write and play your own sheet music with the Gocen (Diginfo)
• Survival of the Fittest in the New Music Industry (RollingStone)
• The Beatles’ Surprising Contribution To Brain Science (NPR)
• The Science and Art of Listening (NYT)

Morning, campers!

I’m not shaking yet, so I probably need another cup.

These are my Sunday Reads for November 4th, 2012.

• SoundMachine turns Lego bricks into a MIDI sequencer (ArsTechnica)
• Mac Pro owner crafts an example Fusion Drive, shows the fearless how it’s done (Engadget)
• 1990: Vanilla Ice on “Ice Ice Baby” vs. Queen/Bowie’s “Under Pressure” (BoingBoing)
• Apple delaying new iTunes until the ‘end of November’ (TheVerge)
• How Do You Raise a Prodigy? (NYT)
• A D.J. Seeks a New Spotlight in Pop (NYT)
• iZotope Announces Trash 2 Distortion & Audio Mangling Plugin (SonicScoop)
• lynda.com Offers Video Course On Audio Recording Techniques (MixOnline)
• JBL AirPlay-ready speaker plugs into your wall (TUAW)

Good morning, campers!

Follow the links below for instant gratification. Just add coffee.

These are the Sunday Reads for October 14th, 2012.

• How Your Headphones Are Making Better Hybrids (Wired)
• Music Appreciation: Global Bass (BoingBoing)
• Dance Stars Evolve for Pop Fame (NYT)
• Obscurity Hides Files in OS X in Plain Sight (Lifehacker)
• iPad App Listens To Conversations, Suggests Topics (TUAW)
• Gangnam Style: Three Reasons K-Pop Is Taking Over The World (NPR)
• His Style Is Gangnam, and Viral Too (NYT)
• Minority Report Meets GarageBand: Airborne Beats is Hand-Controlled Music Making (CDM)
• Review: Auria DAW for iPad (SonicScoop)

Good morning. I’m early, I know. I’m having a Australian flat-white: a double shot of espresso topped with milk steamed into foam, smaller than a latte, served in a cappuccino cup without the froth. These are the Sunday Reads for September 16th, 2012, Australia edition.

• The House That Hova Built (NYT)
• A Piece Of Technology That Makes Listening To Jazz Better (NPR, LATimes)
• Opus: a new, free, open audio codec that outperforms everything else (BoingBoing, Slashdot)
• News Notifications Adds RSS Feeds to Mountain Lion’s Notification Center (Lifehacker)
• Dutch Court Rules Hyperlinks Can Constitute Infringement (Slashdot)
• Ultra-HD Video of Curiosity Rover’s Landing Is the Best Yet (WiredScience)
• Avicii finds his level in Santa Monica this weekend (LATimes)
• ‘Electrospective’ traces 50 years of electronic music (LATimes)
• R.E.M. Protest Fox News’ Use of “Losing My Religion”: “Our Music Does Not Belong There” (Pitchfork)
• Aaliyah’s Influential Afterlife (TheAtlantic)
• How To Customize Mac’s Folder Icon With Any Image (Hongkiat)

It’s time for that 4.30 PM industrial strength espresso. Nescafe no es cafe. These are the Sunday Reads for September 2nd, 2012.

• A Digital Music Option Thrives, Though Quietly (NYT)
• Cassette to iPod Converter will digitize your tapes (TUAW)
• Hey, I Know That One: How SongPop Got Millions Of Players Naming That Tune (NPR)
• He Took Hip-Hop From Gritty to Global (NYT)
• LargeUp Interview: Exclusive Q+A with Salaam Remi (LargeUp)
• Teen Titan: The Man Who Made Justin Bieber (NewYorker)
• Tips & Tricks: Creative Compression (Softube)
• Play Sound on Hover – Web Audio API Edition (CssTricks)
• High-Res Interactive Panorama Lets You Stand on Mars With Curiosity (WiredScience)