other people's music
After five years there’s finally a new Broken Social Scene album coming out in early May. Download a track off the new album for free.
They’ve stripped down their once-sprawling lineup to a lean and mean six-member core, but many friends show up to contribute to the album, Wu-Tang style. Those hordes include Leslie Feist and members of Pavement, Metric, Stars, Do Make Say Think, the Sea and Cake, and Tortoise. Tortoise/Sea and Cake member John McEntire co-produced the whole shebang, which the band recorded in Chicago and Toronto last year.
(via pitchfork)
French artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot creates works by drawing on the rhythms of daily life to produce sound in unexpected ways.
For his installation in The Curve, Boursier-Mougenot creates a walk-though aviary for a flock of zebra finches, furnished with electric guitars and other musical instruments. As the birds go about their routine activities, perching on or feeding from the various pieces of equipment, they create a captivating, live soundscape.
HacKey is an interesting little visualization tool. Enter a last.fm username and it visualizes the musical keys of your favorite tracks, providing an overall percentage breakdown of keys. It’s a cool idea but I would love to learn the methodology—the app is pretty fast so it’s clearly not scanning keys in realtime. Does this mean last.fm has already scanned all or some of its users’ tracks? And how exactly is the musical key of the track determined?