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The Tragic Decline of Music Literacy (and Quality)
From intellectualtakeout.org, this article was very very good. Throughout grade school and high school, I was fortunate to participate in quality music programs. Our high school had a top Illinois state jazz band; I also participated in symphonic band, which gave me a greater appreciation for classical music. It wasn’t enough to just read music….
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Travel Sax
Now this looks VERY interesting…..seems to be a kickstarter for a midi sax (bluetooth).
The Truth About Vinyl
Good video as there seems to be a resurgence of getting jazz on vinyl.
ECORDER
Yet another wind controller out there.
WARBL
Yet more great Wind Controller instruments coming out. This one is called WARBL. Very cool.
EWI Tool Shutting Down
One of the best, maybe even better than the one that ships with it, patch editor for the AKAI EWI4000S is EWITool. Sadly, there was a post by it’s author, Stephen Merrony, saying he’s closing it down. Hi Everyone, After ten years(!) it’s time for me to consign EWItool to history. The patch exchanged has…
Open Source MIDI Foot Controller
On the heels of the last post, An Open Controller For Woodwind Instruments comes this from hackaday.com: MIDI has been around for longer than most of the readers of Hackaday, and you can get off my lawn. In spite of this, MIDI is still commonly used in nearly every single aspect of musical performance, and…
An Open Controller For Woodwind Instruments
From Hackaday.com: Engineers, hackers, and makers can most certainly build a musical gadget of some kind. They’ll build synths, they’ll build aerophones, and they’ll take the idea of mercury delay line memory, two hydrophones, and a really long tube filled with water to build the most absurd delay in existence. One thing they can’t seem…
Michael Brecker Archive
Steve Neff has a great article about Michael Brecker’s addition to the Living Jazz Archive. Steve Neff’s Blog Post: Dr. David Demsey at William Paterson University contacted me a few years ago to tell me about the “Living Jazz Archives” that the University was building and how they were adding a Michael Brecker Archive to…