Category Archives: Short Post
Daxophone
The daxophone is a relatively new instrument. Like the electric guitar, it uses analog pickups to amplify sounds the player creates with a simple physical interface. This is the type of instrument I like most.
This video shows how the daxophone is played and some of the sounds it can make.
This album by the remarkable Kazuhisa Uchihashi is super fun music music played brilliantly, and probably the most accessible example of what the daxophone is capable of as a musical instrument.
The daxophone is a pretty interesting way to get sounds in general.
Well, THAT took long enough!
This secretive digital weapon propelled an outsider candidate to Colombia’s presidential runoff
Wappid—A gamified social media-style SaaS political marketing platform! The idea sells itself so hard, they didn’t even need to add “Blockchain!”
This is gonna work like crazy when it hits North America. Political campaigning already works like crazy here.
Literally
…experienced a palpable frisson from using the phrase “I am replying from @netdud…” in a sentence and realising it was completely correct.
“Replying from @…”
Mmmmmmm….
Same as it ever was
tl:dr: A very small number of people make a shitload of money from popular music. A slightly larger number make not enough money from popular music. Everyone else makes no money from popular music.
Worth a read, if only to find out that you are probably part of the problem.
On the upside, popular music has never been so cheap.