Technological advances are making life a lot more interesting for guitarists. The days of dusty Marshall stacks and vast networks of stomp-boxes may be numbered. The recent surge in amps in the form of apps has provided many of the advantages of the old, lumbering kit in a hand-held, software format. All you need to perform at Sunday service is your iPad or iPhone, a lead and your guitar!
A Real-Time Vinyl Sound Wave [Video]
I love this.
I’ve spent years behind a DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) looking at audio sound wave forms. In fact, after a few years of editing the same voice, you can anticipate edits and see the edit before you hear it.
When you factor this in with my adoration of vinyl records, you can imagine my delight when I watched this:
All Natural Music [Video]
Composer Diego Stocco composed and recorded an organic musical score.
All the sounds in this music video were created in real-time, using all natural instruments.
They also happen to be the same ingredients used in Burt’s Bees products, the sponsor of this Earth Day extravaganza.
Unresponsive Elderly Man Comes Alive to His Favorite Music [Video]
This is an amazing and very moving video showing the power music can have. A long term nursing home resident, who is normally silent and hunched over in a chair, becomes alive and speaks when his favourite music is played on an iPod.
Check it out (and you might need a Kleenex handy!):
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One Day Dreamer [Interview]
Joshua and William Sims are two brothers from the Atlanta area. They run the multimedia and video production company GlowCreativeStudio. Both are musicians at heart and as such, they launched a creative music project called, One Day Dreamer.
Part of that project included the production of a music video for the song, ‘In The End.’ Take a look at the video below and then check out the short interview I did with Joshua about the concept and production of the video as well as his advice for aspiring videographers/filmmakers: