Pricey but Perfect: Cloning Peter Gabriel's 'Studio in a Shed'
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A cool quarter million bucks will land you a stand-alone recording studio modeled on the musician's backyard hideaway.
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Los Angeles-based Collectors' Choice Music is carving a very successful niche with the rerelease of some old albums that probably aren't in your record collection.
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With â77 Million Paintings,â legendary musician and producer Brian Eno explores the aesthetic possibilities of light and generative software.
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Calling GarageBand â08 âpretty impressive,â Asher Fulero (Remix) confesses that multitake recording is âone of my favorite new featuresâ and calls the new VIsual EQ a âpro-level nugget.â  âWith spectral analysis overlaid atop the EQ curve, you can drag the four curve points and see the results on the signal in real time. Support for 24-bit recording, playback and output (24-bit-capable audio interface required) lends even more of a professional edge, as do the new mastering options that offer a host of preset master-track effect chains.â
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SoundBridge M2000 eloquently frees your digital tunes from the PC, but it's pricey.
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Want a window into so-called telemetric manufacturing methods of the future? Performance artists at the Sundance Film Festival created a virtual sweatshop in Second Life that makes real jeans. Is it art for money or money for art?.
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New P2P software lets musicians collaborate in real-time on the web without the familiar digital hiccups of the past. By Mike Kobrin.
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Hoping to one-up Apple with its recent move away from digital rights management, high-quality music site MusicGiants began offering DRM-free music recently with the release of Paul McCartney's newest album, Memory Almost Full.
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Playlist reviewer finds good sound in relatively expensive iPod accessory.
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WHEN I WAS a teenager, I was a fixture at the local Tweeter store. In those days, I dreamed of jettisoning my generic tape recorder in favor of a rack-component system with speakers that towered over my room like the giant stone heads of Easter Island. I peppered the &#xFC;ber-knowledgeable Tweeter salesmen with technical questions until I was able to ...
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Forty years after it was made, The Velvet Underground's first recording has become a financial hit &#151; in cyberspace. Bought for 75 cents four years ago at a Manhattan flea market, the rare recording of music that ended up on the influential New York band's first album, "The Velvet Underground &amp; Nico," sold on eBay for a closing bid of $155,401.
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The portable stereos that ruled city streets in the 1980s aren't shipping in high volumes anymore. But some sound artists are finding new ways to incorporate the devices into performances and ad-hoc radio networks. By Elizabeth Biddlecombe.
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A composer and koto player reinvents an ancient Japanese stringed instrument by way of an Apple G4 PowerBook and tightly focused beams of light. By Alexander Gelfand.
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Take your Virtual Wallet music shopping
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Buying music used to be simple: You coughed up $14 or so for a CD, and as long as you didn&#39;t bootleg it or charge crowds of people to listen to it, the music was yours.
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Ali Shirazinia and Sharam Tayebi have been fusing electronic house with pop themes for more than 15 years. For their latest release, a remix of the Fleetwood Mac classic &#147;Dreams,&#148; they crossed into new technological terrain, using Logic Pro to create the perfect remix.
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GarageBand â08 earns 4.5 stars from Christopher Breen , a self-confessed ârabid GarageBand fan.â In his review, Breen calls attention to the âprogramâs major new featuresâMagic GarageBand, multi-take recording, arrangements, broader automation capabilities, and Visual EQ,â and he notes that they ânicely augment the music-making process.â âThose musicians whoâve previously enjoyed GarageBand as a musical sketchpad and rehearsal tool will find more to like in the current version.â