Still not able to get interested in Baseball this season, but this Onion article is hy-sterical:
“Boston fans are the greatest fans in the world,” Matsuzaka told reporters through an interpreter upon being asked if he had left Japan out of fears that his Ultimate Galactic Dragon Gyroball Pitch Power Explosion might split Mount Fuji, strike the rising sun from the sky, and awaken the wrathful atomic lizard Gojira. “I’m very happy and excited to be a member of the Red Sox.”
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Thingamagoops at Bleep Labs. Because I don’t have enough synthesizer friends.
Andrew left a comment a few days ago in responce to my post regarding the sounds he was making available… I’ve been meaning to mention this for a few days, but better late than never! Here’s what Andrew said with some developments regarding those sounds he was sharing…
The links for samples have been changed, plus there’s a production contest
now using the samples; update:A new round of the sound design/production class I’m teaching
(called Making Music With Computers by the college, thus
MMWC for short) starts tonight; focus programs are Ableton
Live and Native Instruments Reaktor; for the first two assignments
in the class, students have to mangle a limited pool of samples
using certain procedures; so that students use the same audio
starting point, I give them a bunch of samples I’ve made for
them to tweak. I’m also making these audio files (loops, hits,
some field recordings, etc) available to anyone else who wants to
use ‘em (links below). If you missed out on them the first
time I posted about this (they’re royalty-free), here’s the download info:
http://andrew-duke.com/MMWCassignment1audio.zip
http://andrew-duke.com/MMWCassignment2audio.zip
(Note: these are newly named zips; the old zip locations are no longer
valid).Course info: http://andrew-duke.com/course.html
All I ask is that if you use of my samples in anything that you post a
link so
we can check out the results.A production contest of sorts has been set up by one of the members
on the mnml.nl forum using the above samples I made; here’s the thread
if you’d like to read more and/or join in:
http://www.mnml.nl/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=6802
Working on messing with the sounds myself… can’t wait to hear what you everyone does with them!
Just about a week or two ago I was contemplating the possibilities of using the FPS/MMORPG gaming paradigm as a method/interface for music production/performance - a “virtual venue” if you will. Looks like I need to find a copy of UT to try this out on…
I used to own a number of these myself, passed down from my uncle (if I recall correctly).
.. but the Soviet Calculators Collection by Sergei Frolovwill do for starters.