Computers and Music

Saturday, July 31, 2004

Found a free online voice lesson that is interesting to try.

Also I found a recently released free program that can play many variants of chess.

Enjoy!

¶ 11:23 PM

Thursday, July 29, 2004

Another SEO competition! A SEO competition is a race to the top of the search result rankings for a particular, nonsensical search term. This time it's a Canadian competition called Xoduszero. It ends just in a few days, so I will see if my little bit of help makes any difference.

¶ 11:54 PM

Friday, July 23, 2004

Found a website which does a very good job of making me feel nervous about Microsoft, through a detailed analysis of Microsoft's business strategies. After reading that, boy do I want to switch to Linux! Once I find replacements for all my Windows apps, I will make the switch right away!

¶ 9:45 PM

Thursday, July 22, 2004

I don't know much about Haitian Music, but I just found a web site called "Serge Bellegarde Reviews Haitian Music" which definitely looks like a good place to start discovering more about a wide variety of Haitian Music. Now, the challenge would be to find these CD's somewhere!

¶ 11:56 PM

Saturday, July 17, 2004

Found an article in the Daily Star of Beirut, Lebanon, which describes a performance of a Japanese jazz trio, the Satoru Shionoya Unit, celebrating 50 years of diplomatic relationships between Lebanon and Japan. From the article:

Satoru Shionoya looks much younger than the 38 years he claims to have lived, and the red tint in his hair ensures that he carries off the Japanese-exchange-student look very well. He may not be a gray beard, but as soon as he places his hands on the keys of his instrument you know there's more to this musician than his hair dye. Shionoya is a classically trained musician and composer who claims Jaco Pastorious and Charles Mingus as influences. As his trio rolls through his Motown-inflected composition "Mingle Jingle," however, it's quite obvious that he's working with a palette that includes plenty of pop music hues as well.

¶ 1:32 AM

Sunday, July 11, 2004

After receiving some "fan mail" from a girl in Japan, I decided to make an update to my Piano Practice page, where I post recordings of my piano practices.

Listening to some of them, I came across a "killer" practice (well, as practices go anyways), where I developed many cool ideas and worked on lots of originals. Listen to it by clicking here (file in Midi format). I suggest you use Winamp to listen to it rather than Windows Media Player because the Synth in Winamp sounds much better.

I should emphasize that it is a practice after all, and how "killer" can a practice really be? While there are some good ideas in the practice recording, by no means is it representative of how I play when I am performing!

¶ 11:32 PM