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  • London iTunes festival worldwide

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    The iTunes Festival 2011 festival kicked off in London yesterday (July 1st). This is an incredible live music festival running for 31 nights and includes spectacular live performances by 62 artists, all at one venue, the Roundhouse in London. The line up includes some great artists including Coldplay, Foo Fighters, Adele Linkin Park, Paul Simon…

  • Daft Punk mashup visualised in realtime

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    I’ve always thought that mashups are somewhat of an art-form, but I’ve never properly understood the intricacies of how they are created. Web Technologist, Cameron Adams, has bridged the gap between sound and vision in his project Anatomy of a Mashup: Definitive Daft Punk visualised. The site is dedicated to a mashup of 23 songs…

  • Otomata – a generative music application

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    A few weeks ago I came across a simple web application that explores a concept I’ve always been interested in – Generative Music. The basic idea behind generative music is that it is created by a system, constantly changes and is therefore, always different. The application is called Otomata, it’s built in Flash and it’s…

  • Coles gets a makeover

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    If you’re like me then you absolutely dread Sunday afternoons when it’s time to do the weekly grocery shop. I don’t know what it is but my partner and I just loathe going to our local grocery store – be it Woolies or Coles. We hate it so much that we even tried buying our…

  • More than one string to their bow

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    Tanya Heading

    I haven’t been to a music festival in a while. In fact, my ticket to Future Music is proudly stuck on my fridge, acknowledging my return to contemporary tunes (from my usual 80s playlist). What I love about music, is how often it goes hand in hand with visual art. Brandon Boyd, the lead singer…

  • U2 Concert 2010

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    Tanya Heading

    My favourite band of all time, U2, dropped into Brisbane last week, and I was lucky enough to see them – front row! It was an absolutely fantastic concert, with some songs from their new album, but also the classic hits “Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” and “Where The Streets Have No Name”.…

  • Sleepeater wins NZ Best Design

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    Everyone’s favourite New Zealand band, Shihad, might have been around since 1988, but they are keeping up to date with new media. They enlisted the help of NZ agency Oktobor to create a microsite for the music video of their new single ‘Sleepeater‘. The innovative site won Gold in the Small Scale Website category and the…