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Diego Stocco, a great sound designer & solist, worked with Hans Zimmer on Guy Ritchie’s new movie “Sherlock Holmes”. In this video they are talking about his unique instrument – the experibass:

From Diegos Youtube Chanel:

I had the fantastic opportunity to play my Experibass on Hans Zimmer’s score for “Sherlock Holmes”, the new Guy Ritchie’s film. I’m one of the featured soloists.

Hans really loved the pounding tonal grooves and aggressive depth of the basses I was playing on the Experibass and asked me to go full scale with all those techniques I was showing in the original video. I didn’t stop there though, I also experimented with new techniques that were coming up to my mind while playing on his tracks.

A big thanks goes to my friends Daniel Holter and Russell Emanuel for passing my video and make the connection happens.

Working with Hans Zimmer and his team has been great and I’d like to thank them for this amazing experience. I’ve been a fan of his music for a long time and I felt honored when he called  me to play on the score of Sherlock Holmes.

BBC Four spoiled its audience recently with a collection of brilliant music documentaries that underline the impact technology, namely the synthesizer, had on popular and academic music in Britain.

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Engadget posted  a pretty interesting behind the scenes article on hifi manufacturer klipsch.

Vladislav Delay – Toive (taken from Tummaa, 2009)
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Video directed by Carolina Melis and Lorenzo Sportiello
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Julian Treasure asks us to pay attention to the sounds that surround us.

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What is Burial’s music ‘about’? What does it ‘do’? Come to think of it, what is his music? What does it mean? Of course, all of this is up to the listener’s imagination, but for a while now there’s been a certain degree of consensus on the answers to these questions: Burial ‘mourns the death of rave’, his music is (to paraphrase a handful of commentators) a ‘plaintive echo from a bygone era of collective energy’, ‘a melancholy, ghostly memory of the faded promise of rave, drenched in weathering and mired in urban decay’.

Interesting post about Burial and his music at Rouge’s Foam Blog.

The stage debut of Shimon, the robotic marimba player. Also, the world first human-robot rendition of Duke Jordan’s “Jordu”, for human piano and robot marimba.

Fascinating and scary at the same time…

Awesome Monome performance by edison.

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Today, Celemony Melodyne released their editor product with DNA (Direct Note Access) Technology. This is going to be a technology, that will turn the whole music production upside down.