Guardian.co.uk has a great article up about the process of writing the score for “Red Dead Redemption”.  Among other things, it goes into detail on how musicians, Bill Elm and Wody Jackson restricted themselves to keep the entire score in A minor at 130 BPM.  Playing through the game myself, it sounds completely random at [...]

“Police officer Amadeus Warnebring was born into a musical family with a long history of famous musicians. He hates music.  Now, Warnebring is about to face his worst case ever. A group of six excentric drummers, led by revolutionary genius Sanna, has decided to launch a full-scale musical attack using the city, its buildings, its [...]

Kathrin Stumreich has created a device that plays back fabric patterns like a vinyl on a record player.  Sounds like Aphex Twin’s next release.  Click through for the video and more info on the project.

Created for 2007′s Jersey City Studio Artists Tour, this bad boy looks like something Jimmy Page would enjoy.  The feature set includes a double neck six-string guitar and a four string mandolin along with on-board digital effects (distortion, chorus, flanger) .  But the biggest addition is the obvious, an analog theremin attached to the bottom [...]

As you can tell, there’s a new look here.  With this transition there are still some bugs.  One you might have noticed is the formatting and links not working for the preview posts.  I’m currently sorting little things like this out to make it easier to navigate the site.

“Installed across the globe from 1943 to 1946, these fifty-five ton phone scramblers would be used for D-Day, the invasion of Germany, the bombing of Hiroshima, and the “dismemberment of the surrender instrument”— allowing Roosevelt, Truman, Churchill and Eisenhower to discuss the world’s fate with voices they barely recognized, voices not human but polite artificial [...]

Trent Reznor has been releasing a lot of teaser videos for his upcoming summer release in which he collaborates with his wife, Mariqueen. I don’t usually post music videos because everyone has their own tastes but I figured most can respect what he’s accomplished in developing such a unique sound. It’s definitely an album to [...]

Join Academy Award winning Re-recording Mixer Chris Jenkins and Re-Recording Mixer Frank Montaño along with Supervising Sound Editor Scott Hecker, Composer Tyler Bates, Music Editor Darrell Hall as they delve into the intense creative collaboration behind this phenomenal film’s sound.

An online music creation kit has been released through Audiotool.  If you’re new to audio it’s a great site to learn signal flow and get familiar with certain pieces of hardware.  It’s definitely worthy of a few minutes of your time.  Plus, you can save anything you make! Source:  http://www.audiotool.com/

Gamasutra has posted an article with an interview for the Capcom composer, Yuko Komiyama of the Monster Hunter video game series.  Below I have posted a song sample from the series.  Enjoy. Source:  http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/28140/Interview_Behind_The_Music_Of_Monster_Hunter.php