LR2 Blogs

Music thing: The Tritare: A guitar with Y-shaped strings

Yesterday morning, at the Acoustical Society of America’s 151st meeting in Providence, RI, Sophie Léger of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Université de Moncton, Canada, will be presenting a paper on “A New Family of Stringed Musical Instruments”. She’s one of the inventors of the Tritare, which has triple-ended strings - one string goes up the fretted neck, and the other two resonantes on the second, and third, fretless necks

The samples appear to me to be similar to a regular guitar with a bit of flange and reverb effect. Not sure the complexity of the Y stringed instrument is justified by the sound. Can you imagine trying to tune it and keep the junction of all the strings on the same line?

Guitar Hero For the PC, With Any Music

Want a way to play Red Octane’s awesome PS2 game Guitar Hero, but lack Sony’s console? Have your own music saved that you’re just dying to convert and play? Want to create your own tracks and have a go at those? A former computer science student from Ottawa may have the solution to all three.

I’m The Decider

Interesting take on the president’s latest stubborn disregard for popular opinion. Last I checked the people were the deciders and Bush was an elected official.

I am me and Rummy’s he, Iraq is free and we are all together
See the world run when Dick shoots his gun, see how I lie
I’m Lying…

one red paperclip

I’ve posted about this before, but thought this was worth an update. So far he’s traded all the way up to a pretty sweet sounding recordind deal with Metal Works Studios in Toronto.

My name is Kyle MacDonald. I started with one red paperclip on July 12th, 2005 and I am making a series of up-trades for bigger or better things until I get a house. Feel free to give me a call at 514-833-3980.

How many folksingers does it take to change a light bulb?
How many folksingers does it take to change a light bulb?

Blingo

I just won $10 iTunes on Blingo!

Yesterday
iTunes Gift Certificate
Anton O, Texas

deviantART: myPod by ~1saint

Click through for the flash animation of this artist’s guess at the new video ipod. Looks like it’d make a great replacement for my 20GB ipod.

Touch screen ipods aren’t a new idea, but i think this way you get a better idea of what it might feel like.

Download | Songbirdnest.com

Some please lemme know when they release the Linux version.

Songbird is a Web player built from Firefox’s browser engine. Songbird is open source, will run on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux and supports user contributed, cross-platform extensions. Learn more.

Find Music You’ll Love - Pandora

Pandora is a very cool site. It’s a custom radio station that helps you discover new artists that are similar to the ones you like. So far I’m very impressed with the selection of music they are playing for me.

Ever since we started the Music Genome Project, our friends would ask:
Can you help me discover more music that I’ll like?
Those questions often evolved into great conversations. Each friend told us their favorite artists and songs, explored the music we suggested, gave us feedback, and we in turn made new suggestions. Everybody started joking that we were now their personal DJs.

Tunecore:

Posting this for Brandon to see.

TuneCore is a music delivery and distribution service that gets music you created (even cover versions) up for sale on iTunes and Rhapsody without asking for your rights or taking any money from the sale or use of your music.