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Two-dimensional audio mixer in Flash.

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audio, flash, loop, mix, sound, user interface

On music and memory…

From an acoustical perspective, music is an overstructured language, which the brain invented and which the brain loves to hear.

›› Michael Thaut, a professor of music and neuroscience

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brain, human, joke, memory, research, sound

US$499 ethernet cables from Denon.

That’s right, folks… Denon’s AK-DL1 is an ultra premium Denon Link cable that costs almost half a grand. The killer feature probably is the ’signal directional markings’ for ‘optimum signal transfer’, seeing as how the audio/data signals need little arrows to know which way to go. Wow, That’s Fabulous!

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audiophile, scam, sound

Wednesday, 17th December 2008

Telesymphony.

Almost eight years old, but Dialtones (A Telesymphony) is an awesome software, idea and performance all rolled into one big ball of awesomeness.

[Via It’s Nice That]

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computer, concert, mobile, sound, soundscapes

Thursday, 20th November 2008

Come into the IKEA closet.

Interesting promo site for IKEA — upload your own MP3, play with a keyboard-driven drum kit or shout into your computer’s microphone and see the action. Pretty fun, even funny, and beautifully executed but somehow seems a pointless: I really don’t see how sound will make all the difference if I am buying a cupboard.
But, hey… you know… it’s really nice.

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concept, drum, funny, furniture, input, sound, sweden

Thursday, 9th October 2008

Maybe someone at YouTube reads xkcd.

So a couple days (or was it weeks) ago, I saw this comic from the ever excellent xkcd and thought it was pretty funny. Today, I find out that YouTube really implemented it!

The audio playback is pretty good (though it unsurprisingly muddles through lorem ipsum text). One can only hope users guilty of idiot comments will suffer unspeakable blows to their self-esteem from this new feature.