Audiobus: Use your music apps together.
What is Audiobus? — Audiobus is an award-winning music app for iPhone and iPad which lets you use your other music apps together. Chain effects on your favourite synth, run the output of apps or Audio Units into an app like GarageBand or Loopy, or select a different audio interface output for each app. Route MIDI between apps — drive a synth from a MIDI sequencer, or add an arpeggiator to your MIDI keyboard — or sync with your external MIDI gear. And control your entire setup from a MIDI controller.
Download on the App StoreAudiobus is the app that makes the rest of your setup better.
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The Beatles Official History:
When Elvis left the Army:
https://www.life.com/arts-entertainment/return-of-the-king-when-elvis-left-the-army/
Wow. Life hired some amazingly talented photographers just to cover the news. So many gems there.
Yeah - there were no portable video cameras back then and film was too expensive for most occasions so still photos were a sensible way to cover a lot of things. And people still bought newspapers and magazines.
Elvis on the Precipice of Fame:
In 1954, Elvis Aaron Presley was working as a truck driver for $35 a week. Two years later, he was raking in $12,500 for a week’s work in Las Vegas.
https://www.life.com/people/elvis-presley-1956/
Music for sweatshops
This kind of fake crap is why I hate Nike:
He was pretty cluey on the cosmos but he didn't predict the awful auto-tune:
What does an orchestra conductor actually do?:
http://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/04/06/arts/music/the-connection-between-gesture-and-music.html
Classic albums reimagined as Pelican books:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/littlepixel/sets/72157594269138651/detail/
Big chopsticks:
Coolest street in the city:
Beyond the edges of album covers:
https://b3ta.com/challenge/album_art/popular
How to sync 5 metronomes:
Radiohead reimagined:
This one starts off slowly but gets going after about a minute. Worth waiting for.
I Am Sitting in a Room...
...consists of an audio recording of composer Alvin Lucier sitting in a room reciting a few lines. That recording is played in the same room and recorded. Then that recording is recorded. Then that recording is recorded. Then that recording is recorded. And so on.
The World's First Record Cover:
https://illustrationchronicles.com/alex-steinweiss-and-the-world-s-first-record-cover
Banned record covers:
http://www.noiseaddicts.com/2009/04/30-most-controversial-album-covers/
Fats Waller story:
" Four men wearing dark suits with wide lapels, black and white shoes and faces that meant business surrounded him and made him “an offer he couldn’t refuse.” With the cold steel of a gun shoved into his belly, he was told to go outside and get into a black limo. "
https://www.federalwaymirror.com/life/fats-waller-al-capones-birthday-present-aint-misbehavin/
Total Guitar magazine voted Celine Dion’s rendition of the AC/DC track ‘You Shook Me All Night Long’ as the world’s worst cover version of any song, ever.
Japanese roads that play music when you drive on them:
Roads to other desert cities that play bad music:
Gifaanisqatsi:
https://www.monkeon.co.uk/gifaanisqatsi/
Cassette-only album art
The ingredients of a classic house track
Thriller (very) multi track cover version:
Fab reactions:
https://www.life.com/arts-entertainment/the-beatles-photos-from-the-fab-fours-first-american-concert-1964/
You only need one guitar string:
The History of the Drum Machine
Korg (pre-Gadget):
Making the "Thriller" video"
" Next, according to Landis, he got a call from Jackson’s security chief, Bill Bray, who reported that the singer had been in his room with the door locked for three days, refusing to come out. Landis drove to the Encino estate. “Bill and I kicked in the door, knocked it down, and Michael was lying there. "
https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2010/07/michael-jackson-thriller-201007?currentPage=all