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Between Air and Electricity: Microphones and Loudspeakers as Musical Instruments

Composers and sound artists have explored for decades how to transform microphones and loudspeakers from "inaudible" technology into genuinely new musical instruments. While the sound reproduction industry had claimed perfect high fidelity already at the beginning of the twentieth century, these artists found surprising ways of use - for instance tweaking microphones, swinging loudspeakers furiously around, ditching microphones in all kinds of vessels, or strapping loudspeakers to body parts of the audience. Between air and electricity traces their quest and sets forward a new theoretical framework, providing historic background on technological and artistic development, and diagrams of concert and performance set-ups. From popular noise musician Merzbow to minimalist classic Alvin Lucier, cult instrument inventor Hugh Davies, or contemporary visual artist Lynn Pook - they all aimed to make audible what was supposed to remain silent.

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Mix Magazine - February 2017

Mix is the world's leading magazine for the professional recording and sound production technology industry. Mix covers a wide range of topics including: recording, live sound and production, broadcast production, audio for film and video, and music technology.

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Digital Sound Factory Prophet-600 KONTAKT

The Prophet 600 was a low-cost synthesizer based on the legendary Prophet-5 and was the world’s first synthesizer with a MIDI interface. It had six voices and the same Curtis synthesizer chips used in the Prophet-5. The envelopes and LFO were generated by the computer, and an arpeggiator and a 400-note polyphonic sequencer were also added to sweeten the deal.

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StrumSounds Zupfgretel Cinematic Autoharp KONTAKT

ZUPFGRETEL - cinematic Autoharp

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StrumSounds THAIBOW Cinematic Fiddle KONTAKT

THAI BOW - cinematic fiddle

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Future Music - March 2017

Future Music brings you the most in-depth news and reviews from respected industry professionals. We'll also give you all the advice you need to get the most from your current set-up, and interviews with musicians at the cutting-edge of technology

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Udemy Drumming for Beginners - Simple Way To Learn How To Drum TUTORiAL

Ideal for beginners - this exciting course takes you through the essential techniques to become a successful drummer

Drummers are in high demand. One of the most popular instruments in the world, the basic drum techniques and skills can be learnt in an afternoon, but can take months or years of practice and dedication to master. With time and practice habits, you can learn rhythm and fundamentals, eventually working more complex rhythms and patterns into your drumming.

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Udemy The Circle of Fifths for Guitarists TUTORiAL

Understanding The Circle of Fifths & Its Many Uses

Jared Cattoor will walk you through the meaning behind the daunting circle of fifths (AKA the circle of fourths) and teach you its many practical uses. Broken down into 5 easy to digest videos and accompanied by colorful charts and workbooks to help you learn!

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Simple Sam Samples Vintage Upright KONTAKT

Vintage Upright is a beautiful "character" piano, subtly out-of-tune, bursting with realism, and filling a gap between the pristinely sampled pianos on the market and novelty "junk" pianos. Its haunting tone shines beautifully as a solo instrument or in the mix, and lends extraordinary character to any style of music including jazz, rock, blues, pop, ragtime, and film applications.

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HDpiano Melody 101 TUTORiAL

In this lesson, Phil tackles ‘Melody’ and all that surrounds it. Enjoy!

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The Recording Engineer's Handbook 4th Edition by Bobby Owsinski

Bobby Owsinski's The Recording Engineer's Handbook has become a music industry standard, and this fully updated fourth edition once again offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the art of audio recording. Written with special emphasis on today's technology and the evolving marketplace, The Recording Engineer's Handbook Fourth Edition includes a complete overview of recording as it's done by most musicians and producers today in their home studios.

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Cymatics Soundbanks for Xfer Serum: Sintra Plucks, Lush Leads Vol.2 and Cosmic Pads

We put together 3 ALL PURPOSE packs of high-quality Plucks, Leads, and Pads. You can listen to how clean and unique these 95 presets sound for yourself below. And once you preview them, you’ll quickly gain new inspiration for your next track.

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Smokey Loops Revolution Trap WAV MiDi

Smokey Loops presents “Revolution Trap”, the new powerful collection of Trap. You will find 5 Full Construction Kits, Melody Loops (Drop Sidechain/No-Sidechain) Drum Loops, Vocals, MIDIs, and much more.

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Smokey Loops Bomb Trap WAV MiDi SPiRE Presets

Smokey Loops presents “Bomb Trap”, a new collection of the most stunning Trap sounds and Vocals. You will be charmed by the construction kits, built especially for you! You will find 5 Full Construction Kits, Drum Loops, Melody Loops, Vocals, MIDIs, One-Shots, Presets (Spire) and more.

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VIP Soundlabs Illmatic Drum Machine KONTAKT

The Illmatic Drum Machine is a drum producers heaven. This instrument contains over 2,100 samples arranged into 41 different categories and is designed to enable easy browsing and audition of every sound. Each sound can be mapped to any drum pad on the fly. 16 Backlit MPC Style pads for Drum Production with over 200 Kits & Sound Banks.

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The Last Haven Hybrid Fluids Vol.1 KONTAKT

"Hybrid Fluids Vol.1" is a massive collection of sound design tools and playable instruments created for writing tracks in the styles of hybrid soundtrack and trailer. This library is an experiment done by The Last Haven Productions, an idea of what the modern sound design can be when it’s created only with synths.

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Smokey Loops Party Squad WAV MiDi SPiRE and SERUM Presets

Smokey Loops is proud to present “Party Squad”, a super collection of trap sound. This pack contains 5 Full Construction Kits, each containing a single song demo and all its audio components, you will find inside Drum Loops, Melody Loops, MIDIs, One-Shots, Vocals, Bonus Loops, Spire and Serum Presets and much more!

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Smokey Loops Essential Vocals WAV

Smokey Loops presents “Essential Vocals”, a big collection of the Most Stunning Original Vocals. These vocals are primed for use in almost music genre! In this pack you can find Vocals, Vocal Drops, Bonus Loops with just what you need to make your production a great success, to give you total creative freedom in your own tracks.

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Smokey Loops Drum Loops Trap WAV

Smokey Loops present “Drum Loops Trap”, the first mega pack! This pack includes all of the essential elements of the Trap sound. We have selected for you the best-selling drum loops (Kick, Snare, Clap, Hit-Hat, Ride, Percussion) at 85-100-103-104-150-160 BPM!

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Music as Biology: The Tones We Like and Why by Dale Purves

The universality of musical tones has long fascinated philosophers, scientists, musicians, and ordinary listeners. Why do human beings worldwide find some tone combinations consonant and others dissonant? Why do we make music using only a small number of scales out of the billions that are possible? Why do differently organised scales elicit different emotions? Why are there so few notes in scales? In Music as Biology, Dale Purves argues that biology offers answers to these and other questions on which conventional music theory is silent.

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