Sonification

This is the 'sonification' of the initial data gathered at CERN's large hadron collider. For those of you, like me, who aren't particularly scientific here is a quote to try and explain the process-

"The discovery of the Higgs boson was a singular event, but it was also the product of a long effort: the Atlas project, which used CERN's Large Hadron Collider to analyze particle acceleration. The existence of the Higgs was confirmed -- or, well, the existence of a particle that "looks for all the world" to be the Higgs was confirmed -- when groups of researchers detected a "bump" corresponding to a particle weighing 126 GeV, making it consistent with Dr. Higgs' mysterious particule.

The Higgs, in other words, was discovered due to a data anomaly. And now, that data set -- and that anomaly -- have been set to music. Or, more precisely, music has emerged from that data set and that anomaly." - The Atlantic Tech

The composer, Domenico Vicinanza, composed the piece by attaching a note to each data point derived from the collider. The high F, C and E you hear in the second bar is the anomaly of data that is considered to be the Higgs Boson

What we are left with is something that is simailar to a Steve Riech composition 

To see more on sonification watch the video

Still Bill

Still showing on iPlayer.

'Still Bill' is a documentary on soul legend Bill Withers. It tells the story of his late arrival on the music scene and his disappearance from the limelight.

Watch it here.

March 16th - No More (Loudness) War

The loudness war refers to the trend, adopted by artists and labels, of making music as loud as possible in a vein effort to compete with other releases. This loudness is achieved in the mastering process (by using a series of compressors, limiters and EQ tricks). This fad has become so extreme that we find that a Justin Bieber CD is actually louder than a CD by AC/DC or The Sex Pistols. In an attempt to combat those crushing the life out of music, Ian Shepherd, a mastering engineer by trade, has set up 'Dynamic Range Day'. Read more about it here.

Free Samples

downloadmydrums.com gives musicians, producers, and part-time music dabblers royalty-free wav files for download and use in their commercial and non-commercial projects. To put it simply, download the drum samples, presets, or anything else offered at downloadmydrums.com for free and start making your beats. Pretty simple, right? About the only thing you CAN’T do is turn around and sell the samples as your own