Bandcamp Podcast
Featuring interviews with the joyful and riotous Makeunder, plus UK producer Throwing Snow, and an exclusive Houndstooth mix from Rob Booth. Big tunes from Goat, Adrian Younge & Ghostface Killah, Youth Lagoon, and My Brightest Diamond air next to new discoveries from Caural, Mimi Zulu, and TIYG. Link
A Pixeled Point of View
A Pixeled Point of View
A weekly collection from the inter-webs concerning culture + technology.
LINKS
An interesting mini-casestudy about Starbucks and a recent SMS and MMS campaigns as part of a larger multichannel effort that is launching from Twitter, Facebook and within the company’s mobile application.
Layered type is the shizzle. If you look around you it has snuck into the current typographic vernacular with the speed of an invading Russian force. Each layer of the typeface has a style compliments the other layers. Think outlines, inlines, dots, stripes and other bits that create an eye-popping effect. Head over here.
Its time to put on your strategy hat and get all wonky about mobile via Adage.
A wonderful campaign site from Prudential but Droga 5. It encompasses the strategy of an experiential event that encourages the audience to participate in proving a point about your product, in this case a retirement product. Document that event. Share that content and call attention to it via advertising.
MUSIC
Johnny Marr
From the guitar player behind The Smiths, Modest Mouse and most modern British rock bands, this Soundcloud page has some of his best work. There is also a brilliant interview from the guys at Sodajerker that is over here. P.S. They have loads and loads of interview with other amazing songwriters in their archives.
Country Funk :: Volume II 1967-1974
Rare grooves from a genre that I had no idea existed. Selections from the likes of Willie Nelson, Townes Van Zandt, Jackie DeShannon, JJ Cale, Kenny Rogers, Dolly Parton, and Bobby Darin. This quote sums it up, “groovy pleasure in defying record company sanctioned categorization, relishing in a sticky, smoky, purely American cross-pollination and freedom.” Hear Willis Alan Ramsey and company play a super funky song called, “Northeast Texas Women” over on Aquarium Drunkard.
Kontor Records: Back To Vinyl DM Pack App | Digital Buzz Blog
Very cool promotional piece that deftly links the analog world and the digital world.
Kontor Records: Back To Vinyl DM Pack App | Digital Buzz Blog.
David Byrne on How Music and Creativity Work | Brain Pickings
Going to have to pick this book up. As a big fan(I used to see Byrne lurking at the Knitting Factory all the time back when I worked there as the house designer) I loved his ability to creatively shift gears with different units. His work from the Talking Heads to Brian Eno to St. Vincent and even his label, Luka Bop, reveal his thirst for illuminating the darkness. Buy this book now and throw it into your creative process.
The Flaming Lips – The Soft Bulletin: Part 8: Outro | Pitchfork Classic | TV | Pitchfork
via pitchfork.com
Ana amazing documenatry about the Flaming Lips’ epic album, The Soft Bulletin
What Christmas is all about
A mix I made a few years ago.
Bjork’s Biophilia as a new systems metaphor
“Since Thomas Edison invented the phonograph, there has been only one way to listen to recorded music: Listen to it. That is, to consume passively a precise sequence of sounds exactly as they have been arranged. But what if, in addition to songs, a musician provided intuitive, creative tools that let you control the basic components of the music itself? What if the musician joined with programmers and visual artists to turn the songs into encompassing interactive experiences? What if listeners were to become participants?”
Its not a startup nor is it from the bowels of MIT or CalTech but from the feverishly creative mind of Bjork. Her new album has a version that is available to interact with via the iPad platform. While this appraoch has been done before, Bjork has, god help me, taken it to a new level. An audience engages the songs through new mental models and systems of interaction that reward the user not just with music but a deeper knowedge of how it was composed and, even, where the theory comes from. You learn about modes such as: mixolydian augmented and Balinese pentatonic.
While I love what bands have done with HTML 5 technology smashing together with your social graph and creating a unique mix to the song, this new approach from our petite muse invites her audience to go beyond a passive role and step into an active, learning role.
peter hill ~ pixelicious 