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For this module in the Play With Your Music course, I’ve been remixing ‘Air traffic’ by Clara Berry and Wooldog. Here’s the original track: And here’s my remix: I started by listening through the original mix and picking out some samples I liked. Because we have access to the master mix, it’s possible to isolate …
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Helping your users/customers carry out their most important tasks requires you to prioritise. Helping them achieve their top tasks almost always means sacrificing the ease with which other, less important tasks, can be carried out. Most people going to a train station are interested in leaving, and aren’t there to meet someone who’s arriving. So …
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This week in Play with your music we’ve been looking at a few basic effects that you can apply to individual tracks of audio while mixing: delay, reverb, EQ and compression. This week’s assignment was to create a version of “Air Traffic” with some effects applied. An optional task was to use this to create …
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Today I’ve spent some time reviewing which RSS feeds I subscribe to. I’ve decided that I’m missing out on user experience material. So I’ve been hunting out some streams of UX inspiration and ideas. I’ve added the following feeds to my RSS subscriptions, and will be reviewing their usefulness over the next couple of months: …
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The third module of “Play with your Music” is about the mixing process: taking individual tracks of recorded instruments and vocals, and arranging them together into a cohesive whole. The first part of this week’s assignment was to reproduce Clara Berry & Wooldog’s “Air traffic”, by setting the volume and pan (left-right) for each track. …
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In the second module of the “Play with your Music” open online course, we’ve been thinking about musical structure. We were encouraged to analyse the same song we’d examined in the previous module, so here’s my representation of the structure of Alcest’s Sur l’océan couleur de fer.
I’m currently taking a 6-week open online course in mixing and remixing music, called Play With Your Music. The first’s week assignment is to describe the sonic landscape of a track I like. Why I’ve chosen this track: Alcest is one of my favourite bands, if not my favourite. Alcest’s music sounds graceful, elegiac and …
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Storify by Martin Lugton Sat, Oct 05 2013 07:32:07 Social Action – a 10-tweet summary of NFP tweetup 20 Social Action – NFP tweetup 20, 1 October 2013 – in 10 tweets. Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Linkedin Share by email Bridging the gap between the most disengaged young …
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If you have a set of photos uploaded to flickr, all with a certain tag, here’s how to display them in a slideshow on your website: The steps outlined in the video are: Head over to flickr. Go to your photostream, and click on one of your photos that you’ve tagged with the tag you …
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Summary: Get twitter to generate some HTML that you copy-paste to a widget on your WordPress site. Here are the steps in more detail: 1) Head over to twitter and generate a personalised HTML code Navigate to twitter, and log in. Then click on the cog at the top right of the screen, then settings, …
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