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  • Name that waveform

    • 26 Nov 2009
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    This CD labeling concept by designer Joshua Distler would make a great quiz for music geeks. If you've ever worked with music creation software like midi grandaddy Cubase, Apple's Logic and Garageband or younger cats like Reason and Ableton Live, you'll instantly recognize the pattern as being the waveform visualization based on a tune's volume output. A nice idea, but how many of you out there could recognise a choon by its waveform alone? No, I don't think it will be an instant TV show hit, but some dev could turn this into an iPhone app that visualizes your music library into a guessing game, I guess.

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  • On a personal note: to Claudio and Glenn

    • 22 Nov 2009
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    Can you dedicate a post to someone? If so, this one goes out to Claudio and Glenn.

    Yesterday evening most of my closest friends were over to drink some wine and have some cake, it being my 36th birthday and all, a very homely affair with kids laughing, running and dancing around. "Look at that," said my mate Zak, standing in the study with my acoustic bass guitar around his neck, pointing at an old picture of us with Jurgen from Jazzanova while I was picking some oodles on a Charrango. After a while he paused for a moment and said "This is what we should be doing all day, making music, creating things, not wasting time at some office." Around that one snapshot were others from times past, and I came to realise that two very good friends were missing from our get-together.

    Claudio was some thousand miles away living his happy life with his lady and baby boy, by now running his own one-man creative design company by day and playing gigs with his band HOTEL at night. I've known him since we teamed up at high school, jamming songs in the music room during breaks.

    Glenn was also living his and to a certain extent our dreams, a very gifted pianist and composer, on the road with various bands including his Jazz trio, a musical director for major artists and TV shows, writing tunes with his love Chantal, and goofing around with his two dudes whenever he had the chance. But life can be so cruelly short for even the brightest of us, and we have all been sadly missing him since a fatal crash in 2005.

    I write this in the middle of the night while my baby boy gently sleeps. If he had half the talent of both Claudio and Glenn he would know how much fun making music is. Somehow I like to believe it's already in him, that hearing them play went into my consciousness and became part of his DNA. And when he sits down behind his little red baby piano, plinks a short tune with both tiny hands, looks round at me and smiles, that right there is the proof.

    The following clip is an amazing rendition of Astor Piazolla's Oblivion by the Corneille Roelofs Trio at Gouvy Jazz in Belgium. It was the band's last performance, two weeks before Glenn's death. If you're reading this, pursue whatever you enjoy doing most, don't let your talents go to waste.

    "Do I know it? I wrote it!" - Glenn Corneille

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  • Imam Baildi

    • 11 Oct 2009
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    Shot & Echo has been collaborating with Greek groovers Imam Baildi on publicity imaging since their live band started gathering crowds in early 2008. The international media has steadily been picking up on their modern reworks of classic rembetika and Greek folk tunes, the band most recently playing at Denmark's Roskilde festival. Brothers Orestis and Lysandros Falireas are preparing their second album which will be 99% original material, dropping it by the end of 2009.

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  • For Joaquin Phoenix, it's a (w)rap...

    • 11 Oct 2009
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    To anybody who saw Tropic Thunder and wondered if Robert Downey Jr.'s super-involved actor character was far-fetched, I can convey that indeed there are film stars who take their roles that seriously.

    So when the great Joaquin Phoenix announced his retirement from acting last year to concentrate on music, it did send a bit of a shockwave through the entertainment world. I remember thinking at the time that having garnered high praise and adulation for his work, perhaps he didn't want to fall into the same viscious, downward-spiralling cycle as some of his contemporaries, most notably those that tragically ended the careers of Heath Ledger and Joaquin's own brother. Both Heath and River succumbed to drug-related overdoses.

    But this latest news http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/thedishrag/2009/01/joaquin-phoenix.html makes me think the Joaq Man is high on something. A rapper? I could have understood a foray into Country & Western after his spotless portrayal of Johnny Cash in Walk The Line, but this Phoenizzle? wtph? Maybe the big giveaway is bro-in-law Casey Affleck with a video camera. Perhaps this is Joaquin's next cinematic project, done all rough and documentary stylee, and he's really going deep into the soul of an actor-turned rapper, and the destructive path it leads him to. I only hope that's the case, because the man really would be headin' for Oscar bling this time...

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