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wordle is fun (and tagul too)

maux — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 06:49:10 +0000

ye…I discovered it only today…and it kept me busy in a dark day.

http://www.wordle.net

http://tagul.com/

tonematrix

maux — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 12:59:47 +0000

we probably going to see pretty soon more of this web music software
soon no need of Ableton anymore

the tonematrix

plastic fantastic

maux — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 02:21:04 +0000

this are some shocking pictures I found on the social activism blog Osocio
dead albatros with the belly full of plastic….and it seems that it is sadly very common

tha bill !

maux — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:48:17 +0000

well…I double post this also here….since I am kind of proud of it…as you can see I have a serious internet habit…

this is a long story…to cut it short…in Australia there are ridicolous download limits on your internet connection..and sometime they count your uploads too…

and I wasn’t aware of that at the beginning….so during the Cloudcycle production process I ended up with this bill (while I was house sitting for Ziv) : 22.333 $ (150$ for any extra giga over 60….can you believe it ???)

after some understandable panic…and many worries…finally yesterday the company cancel it

(thank for having mercy of us…telstra)…..pfffffff

last.fm sucks

maux — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 07:49:45 +0000

(not a good day)
I had enough of Last.fm…they are not reliable…and their attitude towards little artists like me SUCKS.
once you uploaded some of YOUR music…it can easily happens that they move it to another account and you can’t manage it anymore !!!
(it did happen with some of the tracks of Cloudcycle that got attributed to Greg…or even more absurd Moreno who can’t access Peak Records catalogue..and his own royalties…).
on the top of that they now collecting money from listeners in many parts of the planet..but they seem to not share this income with us
(but probably only with BIG publishing companies) and even when they aknowledge that some money is due to you (case of Master Margherita) they actually not paying it.
this all generally attitude as I said (and I like to repeat) SUCKS ! … it’s a RIP OFF…(shame that my english vocaboulary is short of insults)..

this is why today I took off all my music from last.fm
(at least the one I could access…because some of the music on my name is managed by somebody elses…interchill maybe ?)

and I think that all of us microscopic music makers should do the same…and leave them with only rotten mainstream.

cheers

plugs for blogs

maux — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 14:11:49 +0000

more plugs…this time for Word press…the blog engine that is powering this blog. (and cloudcycle).

WP-Cumulus – a cloud of tags with an amazing flash animation spinning the words around
(you see it on the right in this page)

WP pic-lens – cooliris for wordpress galleries…the wall of images..

WPtouch iPhone Theme – automatically select a slimmer theme for those browsing the blog on the iPhone

Viper’s Video Quicktags – easy way to embedd videos from youtube, vimeo and all of the others (pretty much).

Sociable – to be network friendly

SoundCloud Shortcode – off course…to easy embedd sets and tracks from soundcloud

Blubrry PowerPress – plug in to podcast…very good !

Audio player – yep…the audio player I use in this blog.

plug generation

maux — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:20:50 +0000

I decided to do some posts about my favourite plug ins…
starting from the free ones…starting from firefox:

hyperwords : a must have…to search the web behind and after google…translate, convert currency and any sort of measure just clicking on a word….a great tool to crawl around.

cooliris : the coolest…no words

lastpass : finally stop to remember all the log in passwords to different websites and shops and registration forms…so useful.

down them all : download manager…no need to explain I guess.

speed dial : the famous multi panel page with the favourites

snipi : great to prepare galleries (for Word Press) with pictures found on the web

xmarks : syncronize your bookmarks with all your computers from the web

all in one side bar : the famous sidebar

I don’t need to write the link for adblock, do I ?

where is the plug ?

maux — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 03:54:59 +0000

I just moved to a new place in the bush down here in australia.
all is groovy apart of the bloody internet connection…been already few weeks offline and they told me that they don’t know yet if I will get broadband…
so I am a bit slow and stuck with my net activities…sorry about that..
in the meantime working on few different projects…cloudcycle (off course)…
a rmx for Warp Technique…and setting up Bakshish Music..an anti-label that will start soon to release some good music.
wish me luck with that plug.

mauxuam on soundcloud

maux — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:20:13 +0000

http://soundcloud.com/mauxuam

versavice by mauxuam

APC40 / really ?

maux — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 09:37:46 +0000

there is an hilarious thread on the ableton forum about the akai APC40….the dream controller…

http://forum.ableton.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=116396

(you need to login to see the amazing pictures)

Tank-fx !

maux — Fri, 01 May 2009 13:21:25 +0000

this is clever !

Tank-fx

“Tank-FX is a non-virtual effect device. The reverb is generated by
a huge [11m] tank made of ferroconcrete. We put some mics and
speakers in it and connected them to a unix box, so everybody can
use it now from the internet. To try it out, just upload some
audio material. It will be processed in real-time”

jamming

maux — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:59:50 +0000

so…is it possible also for us mortals to have a jam on internet ?
10 years ago I tried resrocket network…it did work somehow…considered the speed of that time (of the net and the cpus)…but it was a “general midi” experience…not so cool…in the end the evil digidesign bought the all thing to sell it to the hollywood studios…and silence after that.

the other night me and greg tried all what we could find.
we had much frustration with plug ins like virtual glass and dmn (digital musicians net)…nice gui…video chat but….no sound and no sync.
(btw at that time me and greg were the only 2 users online on this planet..?.)
so…I managed to route ableton output into the skype input and viceversa using jack….but sound quality was crap…
finally kris come on skype…and decided to help us….we went on reaper…and ninjam…

kris setup the ninjam server on his machine in london…greg was in brighton….me at 11h fuse difference in the bush in australia….
and well…it did work !…amazingly also in sync (sometime)….ogg vorbis audio files….session save…oh yes…the outcome wasn’t any masterpiece….but…we were all very exited and happy…kris and greg ended up going to sleep at 7am…we will try again….

bottom line…ninjam is open source…reaper basic license is 50 USD…

“…unless you are 100 percent happy with your current MIDI + Audio sequencer, you’d be a fool not to give REAPER a try. ”

reaper
ninjam – novel intervallic network jamming architecture for music

internet is shit

maux — Sat, 03 May 2008 01:20:00 +0000

” We need to start again. We need to stop saying how wonderful things are. We need to openly, truthfully and respectfully admit that the internet itself, in almost all of what’s been done with it, is shit.”

internet is shit

some good tek blogs

maux — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 16:19:13 +0000

some good blogs:
create digital music
analog industries
kevin kelly