The 88 records a 14 track song with an iPhone

Two days ago I posted on a singer-songwriter called Reyna Perez who shot her latest music video entirely off of an iPhone 3Gs, and today I stumble upon this other band called The 88 who recorded their latest track “Love Is The Thing” thanks to an iPhone application called FourTrack. Read about it here, and watch the “making-of” bellow:

Results sound good, even through Youtube’s compression and my laptop’s tiny speakers. Now I can add the iPhone to my recommended list of portable digital recorders.

Woof.

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Shoot your music videos with an iPhone 3Gs

For all the iPhone fans out there, you probably heard about the 3G’s video editing capabilities. They said it was gonna be good – well this music video confirms it:

This is the first ever “professional” music video to be entirely shot from a cellphone. The artist is called Rayna Perez. Here’s an extract of her Facebook’s bio: “Video producer Ari Kuschnir, Reyna’s fiancee, purchased the iPhone after a two hour wait, made shorter by listening to the tracks. Hearing the new music and playing with 3GS, he had an idea. Why not debut Reyna with the first iPhone music video? “It became clear that the phone’s camera quality was good enough to shoot a music video. It seemed fitting for the project.”

Over the next few days, the plan and the team came together. Within a week, through a series of collaborations much like the mastering of Reyna’s EP, the video was complete. Watch Love, Love here.”

Check out Reyna Perez on Reverbnation here.

Mruff

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ONDO’s music editing phone

Just found this video out of the blue:

My initial reaction was “is this some kind of joke”, and is goes to show that it isn’t, but that this product is a prototype created by a company called Pilotfish begging for some investor to back it up.

Now since I already started this post and embedded the video and everything, I guess the logical follow-up question here is: “would you use this”.

Well, hmmm, I really don’t know actually. Depends on how good those microphone sticks are. I think the whole party-mixing aspect of it is way to gadgety for that to work, but a portable social mixing device is an interesting concept.

Mruff?

Roar

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Gigdoggy Showcase Saturday, April 18th

WHERE: Club Lambi (4465 St. Laurent, Montreal, QC)

WHEN: Saturday April 18th, Doors open at 8:00pm

TICKET PRICE: $5 pre-sale, $7 at the door.

Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/events.php?ref=sb#/event.php?eid=55016978613

Twitvite event: http://twtvite.com/tjrt93

We are proud to present the Gigdoggy promotional showcase on Saturday, April 18th to launch our fanteraction™ platform and to host an exciting event full of sonic delights! Greg and I will pilot the fanteraction™ platform at a local Montreal club alongside five other great bands.

Here’s an exclusive quote from one of the doggies:

How cool would it be to have access to exclusive content of bands while attending their shows? The Gigdoggy platform enables fans equipped with 3G-enabled mobile phones (iphone,blackberry) to interact with the bands by following along with the lyrics to the songs, accessing the band’s bio and anecdotes, signing up for newsletters and free tracks etc. We hope to enrich the live gig experience by allowing fans to engage with the bands during the live performance

The line-up for the GigDoggy showcase includes Sudbury-based folk-rock band Meadow Lark Lemon, the Gigdoggies (with Greg and I), Mississauga-based rock-metal band Bitter Candi, and three bands from Montreal, indie/french-pop artist Franck Feutre , psychedelic-comedy-rock band The Angry Parrots and the ska-punk band The Wax Buckets.

Mruff!

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More Cowbell to the rescue of all your mixes

If you like the sound of cowbells and Christopher Walken’s voice you’re gonna love More Cowbell. Not much to say about a site who simply adds a cowbell track and samples of Chrisophers soothing voice to an uploaded song, besides that for at least 5 minutes the idea seems like pure genius. You get over it soon enough but I had my share of fun.

The cowbells do a fairly impressive job syncing to the tempo of songs and Chris’s voice does a remarquable job at making you feel like a sampler guru/hip-hop producer.

More cowbell comes from an american pop culture catchphrase originally derived from a Saturday Night Live sketch about the recording of the song (Don’t Fear) The Reaper by Blue Öyster Cult. The sketch featured guest host Christopher Walken as music producer Bruce Dickinson and Will Ferrell as fictional cowbell player Gene Frenkle (wikipedia).

For those of you with iPhones you can even get an application that will satisfy all you cowbell needs for free!.

Enjoy.

bark.

	Make your own at MoreCowbell.dj

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