Inside the Mind of Dieter Rams

Good article on Product Design Guru Dieter Rams at Gizmodo.
Sonar by Renaud Hallée
Simple and beautiful animation and music by Renaud Hallée.
What is the Audi Sound?
Sonic Branding done right.
Beyond MIDI
Very nice read at CDM about Notation, MIDI and the Future of writing music.
The history of music and the history of music notation are closely intertwined. Now, digital languages for communicating musical ideas between devices, users, and software, and storing and reproducing those ideas, take on the role notation alone once did. Notation has always been more than just a way of telling musicians what to do. (Any composer will quickly tell you as much.) Notation is a model by which we think about music, one so ingrained that even people who can’t read music are impacted by the way scores shape musical practice.
Read the full article here.
Pianoteq Makers Interview

The Makers of the wonderful, physical modeled, acoustic Piano Simulation Pianoteq talk with Peter Kirn on developing Pianoteq and programming Music Software for Linux.
Check it out here.
Most Popular Photo Spots in Cities
Flickr user Eric Fisher created these maps using the GPS information of images in Flickr, combined with the home city of the user taking the photo. The red spots show the most popular photo subjects, where every tourist goes “oooh” and “aaah”, snapping images which will serve to torture family and friends back at home. The blue spots show normal photos, taken by locals, while the yellow ones are undetermined.
Visit Eric Fischers Flickr Site for more Info and 79 other Cities.
via [Gizmodo]
The Creators Project
The Creators Project is a new network dedicated to the celebration of creativity and culture across media, and around the world. At a time in the history of the arts where digital technologies have revolutionized distribution, democratized access, and completely re-imagined the scope and scale with which an artist can create a vision and reach an audience, The Creators Project is a completely new kind of arts and culture channel for a completely new kind of world.
Check out this inspirational videos, from all type of different areas, here.
update_3 | body sound

update_3 | body sound is a art biennale ,organized by the Liedts-Meesen Foundation, which takes place in Ghent.
The sound exhibition ambitions to go beyond the auditory system and uses echoes, vibrations, timbres, resonances, waves to put the body of the visitor to the test. Through a scenography designed by Bureau des Mésarchitectures, 14 installations invite the public to explore different perceptions of sound through their interactions with the materials, their position when listening and the movement of their body within space.
via [wemakemoneynotart]
Why calls of the wild are the secret of a good horror film

Nice read on “The Independent” website about non-linear sounds used in soundtracks:
Scientists have found that many of the emotionally-evocative moments in some of the most popular films are enhanced with a sound score that exploits the human brain’s natural aversion to the “non-linear” sounds widely used in the animal kingdom to express fear and distress.
Read the full article here.








