Posts Tagged ‘music’

Ebay: The Worlds Largest Music Collection Is Sold!

Thursday, February 21, 2008 20:24 4 Comments

Few hours ago one of the most expensive Ebay auctions just came to an end. It was called the worlds largest music collection and it has 3,000,000 Vinyl records and 300,000 CD’s. The selling price at the auction end was $3,002,150.00 and the estimated real value of the collection is speculated to be over $50,000,000. [...]

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Absolut Machines: Online Quarter and Choir

Thursday, February 21, 2008 18:15 No Comments

The Absolut Machines Project is probably the most original things that I have came across lately in the Internet. It is a collaboration between ABSOLUT VODKA, and graduates from the MIT (Dan Paluska, Jeff Lieberman) and the Swedish Studio Teenage Engineering. This project consists of two parts, the Absolut Quarter and the Absolut Choir, [...]

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Music from Microsoft Windows Sounds

Monday, February 18, 2008 18:07 No Comments

Many of the Windows sounds, especially those that are heard during a fault/error are now one of the most annoying things around. Who would ever imagine that one fine day someone would make a lovely song out of them? A programmer/musician from England thought of it and did it.
Enjoy it…

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Theremin: Don’t Touch, Just Play

Saturday, February 16, 2008 10:43 No Comments

[photo jonhurd]
Leon Theremin created in 1919 one of the first electrical instruments and the first that does no need to be touched in order to produce sound. Its function is based on two sensors that can locate the players hand position. One sensor controls the frequency and the other the volume.
All the player has to [...]

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Is Qtrax free or what?

Tuesday, January 29, 2008 13:06 No Comments

A couple of days ago I was writing about Qtrax, a P2P service that announced a deal with the 4 major record companies for freely distributing songs, legally, over the Internet.
This revolution apparently scared many people. The record companies now deny ever making such a deal. Qtrax people are rushing to say that they are [...]

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Sony Rolly

Friday, December 28, 2007 10:55 No Comments

Sony decided to release a new gadget, called Rolly. This is a wireless speaker/digital audio player (DAP) with internal speakers, 1GB of internal memory and Bluetooth connectivity. The difference that the Rolly has with other DAP’s is that it uses a quite funky light show to dance with the music.

After seen the video below it [...]

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