AUUG Motion Synth turns iPhone into motion-controlled instrument

AUUG Motion Synth turns iPhone into motion-controlled instrument

21st Nov 2013

Convert motion to music with emerging new app

Developers AAUG are seeking funding for a novel new idea: a hardware/software combination that allows users to make music simply by manoeuvring their iPhone through the air.

The AUUG Motion Synth requires users to wear an aluminum wristband, which holds the screen of your device handily near the fingers while controlling its orientation (and stopping you from dropping it).

Then, the software: the AUUG Motion Synthapp tracks your movements (via your iOS device's inbuilt sensors) and turns the motion data into signals for shaping sound.

In addition, there is the AAUG cloud: an online service that allows users of this setup to share presets.

AUUG are seeking a modest $70,000 to develop the Motion Synth, with prices for early backers from $68. For more information, visit Kickstarter.

Here is the You Tube video:

AUUG Motion Synth

iPhone app turns hummed audio into MIDI

27th May 2009

iComposer features 130+ instruments

iComposer is a new app for the iPhone/iPod touch that's designed to turn your hummed melodies into MIDI data that can then be played back by one of 130+ built-in instruments.

The premise is that you can capture your moments of inspiration whenever or wherever they strike (though humming into your iPhone when you're on the bus might mark you out as something of an oddball).

Once your score has been generated, it can be edited in the staff editor, and it's possible to play back up to eight different parts simultaneously. The bank of supplied sounds includes piano, organ, drum, string, guitar, reed and brass instruments.

Songs can be exported as MIDI and compressed audio files, and you can set key and time signatures.

You can learn more about iComposer on the developer's website. This contains examples of the audio-to-MIDI conversion in action.

The software costs $8.99/£5.49 and is available now from the Apple App Store.

(Via Synthtopia)

Random word match

Open up a book and select a random word from it, then try to relate that word back to what it is you're trying to do. There are certainly ways the words can relate, you just have to find them.

I have searched in the apple app store awhile ago. And I have an app that does exactly what this posts can do. This is also good for songwriters as well. It might be a mindboggling at first, but just keep working at it. And it will finally strike you.

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Look to your beacons

If you step back and look at the two or three things at the very heart of what it is you're trying to do, how can they help guide your decisions and provide direction on what to do next?

This is a good idea to analyze because this is asking you to actually take a step back, see what you have in front of you, and see what the next step is, admire what you have done, also push you to what you want to do next.

Either the next step in the project, or the next project after your current one has ended. Look back and see what other people have done as well, compared to what you have done. The way I look at it is, look at the people that you admire. For example, I like doing music production, and  being a Dj as a hobby that I would like to make as a living. My point is look at your inspiration in your field. And compare your work, or progress to what you have done, to other people that have the same achievements, or accomplishments and see what you've done stacks up to it.

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Why Musicians Are Being Warned About Upgrading To Apple’s iOS 7

Why Musicians Are Being Warned About Upgrading To Apple's iOS 7

By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm.

Apple’s iOS platform is widely considered by musicians (at least the ones who care about such things) to be the superior mobile platform for music creation, because Android isn’t up to the task.

However, as millions of iOS users the world over keep checking iTunes and their devices for Wednesday’s iOS 7 upgrade to appear, audio app developer Audiobus warns those who make music on iOS to avoid iOS 7 like the plague, due to “a wide variety of bugs that are causing performance problems, crashes and other problems in a large number of music apps.”

Audiobus, which makes a really neat app for routing audio between music apps (so you can play keyboards in one app, add effects in another, and record the result in yet another, as one example), issued an email to all of its users warning them not to install iOS 7.

Audiobus’ Michael Tyson then took to the forums to hint at what these problems might be, although he was barred by Apple’s NDA, agreeing with which was a requirement for testing iOS 7 early, from going into detail about these problems. But apparently, it’s not just an issue with Audiobus’ ability to route audio, but rather systemic issues that will affect some audio apps even when used on their own.

“This is not a warning specific to Audiobus,” wrote developer Sebastian Dittmann. “Most importantly: We’re just urging musicians to wait for the point release (iOS 7.0.1+). iOS 7 is shiny and new and it might be great for anything not related to music production right from the start.”

If you enjoy making, DJing, producing, writing, or adding effects to music with an iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch — or even rely on one for on-stage performance — Audiobus’ warning appears to be the real deal. As Dittmann mentions, this does not mean iOS 7 will have issues for people who don’t make music with iOS.

Update: Audiobus developer Sebastian Dittmann responded with a bit more detail on what’s going on here. The short story: The most serious bug appears to happen when someone calls you, or another audio event happens, as you’re recording. Also, if you use an older iOS device for music creation, the upgrade will slow down your machine to the point that some audio apps won’t work as well.

First of all: We’re trying to not to make a big story out of this, because we don’t want to hurt Apple or annoy them. But we felt like telling users about this because we feel responsible for iOS musicians who want the shiny new OS but don’t know how to downgrade and restore from a backup should they run into problems.

There are a few issues with iOS 7 right now, first of all the lower general performance on older devices (which of course impacts the performance and usablity of audio apps as well). Then there are changes in the OS that require some apps to update the SDKs they’re using (Audiobus and some other third party SDKs). Many developers are really on top of things, but some apps might not have been updated yet. Having said that, we consider Audiobus to be ready for iOS 7 even or especially since now 300 apps are compatible with it.

As with any new OS release there might be problems that we haven’t encountered yet. There have been changes in UI, CoreAudio, network and App Store related components. We’re still investigating some bugs regarding USB audio interfaces but we’re still in the process of nailing them down before we can be more specific.

There’s another bug that we’re considering severe enough to actually make that statement earlier which appears whenever a phone call or another audio event interrupts an existing audio recording session.

While Apple has given users an easy way to download older versions of apps just recently, there’s still no easy way to downgrade to older versions of the operating system. Until that happens, we’re felt obligated to issue a warning.

I’m sure Apple is doing everything they can to fix bugs as fast as possible and I trust they’ll fix all the things I’ve mentioned above in the next point releases.

Another update: Our friends at Create Digital Music agree: People who make music with iOS should not install iOS 7. Yet.

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Group & Evaluate

In just 5 minutes, write down as many words you can that come to mind related to your project or task. Then group the words together by common attributes. Then evaluate what the items in each group have in common.

This is an interesting creative idea that this is. Cause I had just found an app in the iTunes app store. Where you do just the very thing that is mentioned here in this post. Once you see everything on paper or on a computer then you can process everything a little more better once you see it. So all I have to say about it is taken of advantage of all the ideas that you have gathered for yourself and see what you will come up with. Once its on paper and you get the chance to put everything in its proper place.

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Thom Yorke Does Like SoundHalo, But iOS Version Lags – Here’s Why

July 29, 2013 at 12:02 pmby Eliot Van Buskirk
Thom Yorke Does Like SoundHalo, But iOS Version Lags – Here’s Why

Any artist can decide whether or not to include their music in the big big music subscription services, just like any app developer can decide whether to sell their app for iOS devices. Thom Yorke is the latest artist to make waves in the former area, pulling his new band Atoms for Peace from Spotify, Rdio, and Rhapsody, because he says subscriptions don’t pay out enough to artists (all-access technology will ultimately benefit culture, but that’s a different story).

One app Thom Yorke does like, SoundHalo, sells live music shows online, so you can watch them in close-to-real time (i.e. during the actual show) or after they take place. If you buy a show, you can stream it online or sync it to any device, including loading it into iTunes. This costs $1.50 per song or $15 for the whole band’s set, in the case of Atoms for Peace, although prices vary.

(You also get a free 30-second preview of each song, might be enough to make a decision whether to see a band “in person or not.)

Not only is Atoms for Peace the second band (after Alt-J) to sell a show through the service, but Thom Yorke, Nigel Godrich, Flea, and the rest of the group even played the app’s official, out-of-beta launch party, of sorts, which you can now watch online or in the SoundHalo Android or mobile web app.

Yes, you can can install SoundHalo on your Android, but there’s no iOS version. The company says it is working on that, but as of today, if you’re on an iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch, you’ll need to use your device’s web browser to watch stuff on SoundHalo.com, instead of using a native app.

The reason for this, dollars to donuts, is that SoundHalo doesn’t want to give 30 percent of its revenue from iOS users to Apple.
The reason for this, dollars to donuts, is that SoundHalo doesn’t want to give 30 percent of its revenue from iOS users to Apple. We say this in part because we’ve thought about what happens when people sell content through iOS apps before, and in part because when SoundHalo does manage to release its iOS app, you won’t be able to buy shows within the app.

Instead, iOS people will have to buy the shows in a web browser before watching them in the iOS app, while their friends with Androids can buy the show right there in the app and watch it.This is a matter of not just convenience, but speed (after all, in some cases, fans might be frantically trying to get into the show before they miss another song).

“We are currently developing an iOS ‘Player’ which we intend to launch on the App Store in the near future,” says the company. “This will let users download their purchased offline content direct to their iOS device for offline playback.”

The workaround will enable SoundHalo to sell shows without giving 30 percent of the revenue to Apple as part of the in-app purchase program.

It’s also a bit of a pain.

We’re not sure what SoundHalo’s revenue split is with artists, although we have asked about that and hope to have an update soon. Whatever it is, neither side would likely countenance a 30-percent or even 60-percent (if only one party covers Apple’s piece of the action) pay cut — especially considering that SoundHalo has to produce the videos, develop apps, pay for bandwidth, and so on.

Today, SoundHalo is new, and consists of little more than the belief of Thom Yorke and friends, and one other band, in a company that says it can make online music pay. I thought that would start happening five years ago, and I was wrong, for the most part. Why? In part, this is because it’s expensive and hard to scale; everyone involved in the band has to agree to sell a show online (these permissions involve just about every copyright a song can have).

The intersection of two unstoppable trends, online distribution and live music, would seem to hold a lot of promise, but it has yet to take off. If more music fans are going to buy shows to watch on their devices, which would make live online music online the artist-friendly panacea that Thom Yorke wants it to be — then they’re going to run up against Apple’s 30-percent policy, too.

Could the web really be a better platform for selling live online music than iOS? So far, it’s looking that way.

SoundHalo is reportedly courting Metallica, Linkin Park, the Black Keys, Green Day, and other artists, as well as Verizon, Samsung, Google, Skype, and advertising firms.

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So How Did The Samsung, Jay-Z Partnership Turn Out?

So How Did The Samsung, Jay-Z Partnership Turn Out?

By Liv Buli (@lbuli)), Resident Data Journalist for music analytics company Next Big Sound.

Critics have been quick to deem the branding deal that went down between Hov and Samsung a major flop.

To recap - the current king of the music industry (so powerful that they’ll stop the time-to-shut-up-now soundtrack during the Grammy awards for him) negotiated a multi-million-dollar deal with Samsung to pre-release a million copies of his latest opus Magna Carta Holy Grail through a Samsung-developed android app. But glitches in the technology, Snowden-esque privacy concerns, file leaks and more, have led to an onslaught of articles dismissing the marketing stunt as a failure. But was it really?

If the aim of this deal was to combine forces in order to raise awareness around not only the album drop, but also Samsung’s product, the aim has been achieved. Just google "samsung galaxy Jay-Z" and you’ll find more relevant search results than you can count. Every major news outlet has covered this story from more angles than one, and Samsung could report that despite the difficulties in downloading the app, almost all the allotted downloads had taken place by Monday.

What is more, Samsung is seeing a lot of activity on the social side, with their number of new Twitter followers up 21% in the last week and also a slight bump in Facebook page likes at 9%. In the past month, the official YouTube channel of Samsung Mobile USA has attracted north of 51 million video views, a 324% increase from the month before, and more than a third of their total number of views - all thanks to a series of Samsung + Jay-Z promo videos around the process behind creating MCHG.

In other notable album release marketing moves, Hov also created quite the rumble on Monday, one day before the album’s official release to the rest of us non-Galaxy-owning plebs, with a rare spurt of Twitter activity around a Q&A. Retweeting and commenting on the questions of followers, Mr. Carter saw his following increase by more than 70,000, 300,000+ mentions, and his retweets are up more than 9000% percent from last week.

Whether or not it all went precisely according to plan, in the struggle for the Galaxy to compete with the cultural cachet of the iPhone, Samsung has certainly managed to bring their product to the headlines, successfully crafted their association with one of the biggest and most influential names in the music industry, and are seeing a rise in their stock market value.

And despite copies of MCHG leaking across the internet over the weekend, according to Billboard, first week album sales are predicted to be as high as half a million. So both Jay-Z and Samsung can pat themselves on the back for making waves with innovative attempts at marketing music, and doing good branding business.

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Getting Hooked On WhoSampled

Getting Hooked On WhoSampled

By Tom Dillon of Evolver.fm.

WhoSampled stands alone among music apps, because it is entirely focused on tracing samples as they wend their way from wherever they originally appeared into sample-oriented music including Hip-Hop, EDM, and other genres. It helps fans of those genres delve deeper into music they thought they already knew.

Paying homage to music that came before by creating something new out of it isn’t a novel idea, and in fact, musicians were borrowing riffs and lyrics from each other before the advent of recorded music, but this ability to trace samples through a simple app is. Back in the day, you had to read through a CD’s pamphlet to find out where the group had cleared its samples, and then seek out the original recording — and even then, you’d miss all the unofficial samples.

With WhoSampled, which was released for iOS last summer, you no longer have to own the source material to hear it. The app tells you about all of the samples in each song you aim it at, and even lets you listen to the originals directly. It’s fun, educational, and did you mention fun? Our ears never get tired of hearing a bit of music recontextualized… even back to the original context.

Here’s what this looks like with Kanye West’s new song “On Sight” from the recently released album Yeezus. Where did Kanye and his crew find those sonds? WhoSampled has the answer. Let’s load up the track:

Taken from iPhone App

Clicking on “contains samples of” tells us which samples were used — in this case, “Holy Name of Mary Choral Family”:

Taken from iPhone App

Scrolling down, we can do a bunch of stuff with this sample: add it to favorites, discuss it with other fans, rate the sample, or even browse through similar samples:

Taken from iPhone App

WhoSampled can be used from multiple angles — including seeing who has sampled a particular band. A search for Radiohead instead of an individual track returns these results, including that Radiohead’s music has spawned 76 samples, 170 covers, and 25 remixes tracked by WhoSampled. Who knew?

Taken from iPhone App

Not only can you figure out what samples were used to create a song, but you can see it was sampled in other people’s work. Take, for instance, Radiohead’s “15 Step”.

Taken from iPhone App

Clicking on “Was sampled in” brings you to a page with songs known to contain a sample from “15 Step” which includes big names like Girl Talk.

Taken from iPhone App

It doesn’t stop there. you can also select individual band members and see ifthey have been sampled, independently of their band. In this case you can see that Thom Yorke does much more work outside Radiohead than other members of the band like Jonny Greenwood — or at least work that is covered and sampled.

Taken from iPhone App

WhoSampled also tracks the charts — samples, covers, and remixes — so you can see what’s heating up where. These include “Hot” (popular), “Top Rated” (by the WhoSampled community), and “Latest Additions.”

Taken from iPhone App

WhoSampled also has the ability to scan your library of music and analyze it for samples:

Taken from iPhone App

It’s addictive. I found myself typing in the names of songs I’ve heard hundreds of times, just to find out if there were samples in there I had never noticed, and then to see where they came from. Overall, WhoSampled provides a great way to learn more about your own music and who influenced your favorite artists. You’ll never hear these songs the same way again.

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Bargain Alert: Arpeggionome for iPhone Is Free Today

The great thing about app developers trying to become popular in the iTunes App Store by dropping their prices is that those price drops are real. If your timing is right, you can save a bundle on music apps –and the developer doesn’t mind, because in the process, you’re just making their app more popular, so that they can then switch the price back to where it was and capitalize on the sudden surge in popularity that came from the price drop.

Today, Arpeggionome for iPhone is free in iTunes (we’ve seen it cost $3-$5 in the past). This app lets you make music on a grid, sort of like Monome. For more information on why you might want it, check out our exclusive interview with its creator, who rode this thing all the way from a Music Hack Day to #8 in the music app section of the iTunes App Store. (The “pro” iPad version still costs $15 today.)

Here’s Arpeggionome for iPhone controlling the Animoog app:

Bargain Alert: Arpeggionome for iPhone is free.

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How I Listen: ReverbNation’s Jed Carlson

How I Listen: ReverbNation's Jed Carlson

Hypebot has always been about the business of music. But in our new series, How I Listen, we're asking industry leaders and artists to share how they discover and consume music. This week features Jed Carlson, the President and co-founder of ReverbNation.
1) What device(s) do you use to listen to music?
iPhone when I run. iPhone w/bluetooth connection in my car. iTunes streamed through AppleTV and home audio system (Sony amp with PSB speakers) at home.
2) What streaming music service(s) do you use most often?

I mostly listen to my own collection and watch videos on YouTube. I occasionally use Pandora.
3) Besides recommendations from friends, how do you discover new music?

Youtube, Pandora, and, of course, ReverbNation (I use the "rabbit hole" button on the site)
4) What new music are you listening to most this week?

Daft Punk's new release (but maybe that's not 'new' anymore?)

5) Shameless Plug: What are you promoting/launching/planning that you want to share?

We're testing out a new way to bubble up the best new stuff from ReverbNation Artists to our homepage. More on that to come.
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Amazing 33 1/3 album series is now avaliable in Apple iBooks

This is a great article that I had found on Evolver.fm. Read and enjoy.

June 18, 2013 at 11:48 amby Eliot Van Buskirk
Amazing 33 1/3 Album Series Is Now Available as Apple iBooks

If you’ve ever read a book in Continuum’s excellent 33 1/3 series about an album that changed your life, you know why we would argue that they are exactly what music needs. It’s all about context, and if your love for (or interest in) a particular album knows no bounds, these “deep dives,” to use the parlance of our times, are well worth reading.

In our interview with the series’ founder David Barker, we learned that there was no plan to make app versions of these much-beloved books. Now, at least, they’re for sale in the iBook store, so in a sense, they have arrived on iOS.

Bonus: From today, June 18, until July 2, every book in the series will cost $5. Prices will increase after that.

If reading’s not your style, twenty-five of the eighty-six 33 1/3 books are also available in audiobook form (thanks, Michael), so you can listen on your PodTrain or ExerWheel instead of seeing with your EyePods.

Here’s the complete list (the below links go to the publisher, but you can find them on iTunes). Surely, there’s something here you like (also, see the interview):

1 Dusty in Memphis- Dusty Springfield 1969 Warren Zanes
2 Forever Changes -Love 1967 Andrew Hultkrans
3 Harvest -Neil Young 1972 Sam Inglis
4 The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society -The Kinks 1968 Andy Miller
5 Meat Is Murder- The Smiths 1985 Joe Pernice
6 The Piper at the Gates of Dawn- Pink Floyd 1967 John Cavanagh
7 ABBA Gold: Greatest Hits -ABBA 1992 Elisabeth Vincentelli
8 Electric Ladyland -The Jimi Hendrix Experience 1968 John Perry
9 Unknown Pleasures- Joy Division 1979 Chris Ott
10 Sign “☮” the Times - Prince 1987 Michaelangelo Matos
11 The Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground 1967 Joe Harvard
12 Let It Be -The Beatles 1970 Steve Matteo
13 Live at the Apollo -James Brown 1963 Douglas Wolk
14 Aqualung-Jethro Tull 1971 Allan Moore
15 OK Computer-Radiohead 1997 Dai Griffiths
16 Let It Be -The Replacements 1984 Colin Meloy
17 Led Zeppelin IV -Led Zeppelin 1971 Erik Davis
18 Exile on Main St. -The Rolling Stones 1972 Bill Janovitz
19 Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys 1966 Jim Fusilli
20 Ramones- Ramones 1976 Nicholas Rombes
21 Armed Forces -Elvis Costello 1979 Franklin Bruno
22 Murmur- R.E.M. 1983 J. Niimi
23 Grace - Jeff Buckley 1994 Daphne Brooks
24 Endtroducing….. -DJ Shadow 1996 Eliot Wilder
25 Kick Out the Jams - MC5 1969 Don McLeese
26 Low - David Bowie 1977 Hugo Wilcken
27 Born in the U.S.A. -Bruce Springsteen 1984 Geoffrey Himes
28 Music from Big Pink -The Band 1968 John Niven
29 In the Aeroplane over the Sea- Neutral Milk Hotel 1998 Kim Cooper
30 Paul’s Boutique -Beastie Boys 1989 Dan Le Roy
31 Doolittle - Pixies 1989 Ben Sisario
32 There’s a Riot Goin’ On -Sly and the Family Stone 1971 Miles Marshall Lewis
33 The Stone Roses -The Stone Roses 1989 Alex Green
34 In Utero-Nirvana 1993 Gillian G. Gaar
35 Highway 61 Revisited -Bob Dylan 1965 Mark Polizzotti
36 Loveless -My Bloody Valentine 1991 Mike McGonigal
37 The Who Sell Out -The Who 1967 John Dougan
38 Bee Thousand - Guided by Voices 1994 Marc Woodworth
39 Daydream Nation -Sonic Youth 1988 Matthew Stearns
40 Court and Spark -Joni Mitchell 1974 Sean Nelson
41 Use Your Illusion I and II -Guns N’ Roses 1991 Eric Weisbard
42 Songs in the Key of Life-Stevie Wonder 1976 Zeth Lundy
43 The Notorious Byrd Brothers -The Byrds 1968 Ric Menck
44 Trout Mask Replica -Captain Beefheart 1969 Kevin Courrier
45 Double Nickels on the Dime -Minutemen 1984 Michael T. Fournier
46 Aja -Steely Dan 1977 Don Breithaupt
47 People’s Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm - A Tribe Called Quest 1990 Shawn Taylor
48 Rid of Me -PJ Harvey 1993 Kate Schatz
49 Achtung Baby -U2 1991 Stephen Catanzarite
50 If You’re Feeling Sinister - Belle & Sebastian 1996 Scott Plagenhoef
51 Pink Moon -Nick Drake 1972 Amanda Petrusich
52 Let’s Talk About Love -Celine Dion 1997 Carl Wilson
53 Swordfishtrombones -Tom Waits 1983 David Smay
54 20 Jazz Funk Greats - Throbbing Gristle 1979 Drew Daniel
55 Horses -Patti Smith 1975 Philip Shaw
56 Master of Reality -Black Sabbath 1971 John Darnielle
57 Reign in Blood - Slayer 1986 D.X. Ferris
58 Shoot Out the Lights -Richard and Linda Thompson 1982 Hayden Childs
59 Gentlemen -The Afghan Whigs 1993 Bob Gendron
60 Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash -The Pogues 1985 Jeffery T. Roesgen
61 The Gilded Palace of Sin - The Flying Burrito Brothers 1969 Bob Proehl
62 Pink Flag -Wire 1977 Wilson Neate
63 XO - Elliott Smith 1998 Mathew Lemay
64 Illmatic -Nas 1994 Matthew Gasteier
65 Radio City - Big Star 1974 Bruce Eaton
66 One Step Beyond… - Madness 1979 Terry Edwards
67 Another Green World - Brian Eno 1975 Geeta Dayal
68 Zaireeka The Flaming Lips- 1997 Mark Richardson
69 69 Love Songs -The Magnetic Fields 1999 LD Beghtol
70 Facing Future - Israel Kamakawiwo’ole 1993 Dan Kois
71 It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back -Public Enemy 1988 Christopher R. Weingarten
72 Wowee Zowee -Pavement 1995 Bryan Charles
73 Highway to Hell- AC/DC 1979 Joe Bonomo
74 Song Cycle -Van Dyke Parks 1968 Richard Henderson
75 Spiderland - Slint 1991 Scott Tennent
76 Kid A - Radiohead 2000 Marvin Lin
77 Tusk - Fleetwood Mac 1979 Rob Trucks
78 Pretty Hate Machine Nine Inch Nails 1989 Daphne Carr
79 Chocolate and Cheese Ween 1994 Hank Shteamer
80 American Recordings Johnny Cash 1994 Tony Tost
81 Some Girls The Rolling Stones 1978 Cyrus Patell
82 You’re Living All Over Me Dinosaur Jr. 1987 Nick Attfield
83 Marquee Moon Television 1977 Bryan Waterman
84 Amazing Grace Aretha Franklin 1972 Aaron Cohen
85 Dummy Portishead 1994 RJ Wheaton
86 Fear of Music Talking Heads 1979 Jonathan Lethem

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Creative ideas Using oflow

Well I recently came up with a great idea for my blog here on Wordpress/Blogger/Tumblr/and Digg. Start a creative ideas blog. Well everyday I get updates from a great phone app on my iPhone called Oflow, and what it does it sends me creative ideas so you won't have writer's block which I like. So now I want to share those ideas with my readers. Enjoy and tell me what you think.

Look at your project or problem as a story you're trying to tell. Who or what is the protagonist? Who, or what are they battlingand how does the story develop from here?

I personally use this technique all of the time myself while writing a song. Everything must have a beginning, a middle, and a end. And that everything must be one and the same when your done. If none of these pieces don't fit then your not done yet. And must keep working at it till it's done.

Slash has a music app

Slash Has A Music App

Album Scout Outdoes iTunes Genius on the iPhone (Evolver.FM)

Album Scouts Outdoes iTunes Genius On The iPhone