The Burst Collective

… so, yeah, that was pretty sweet.

No, really.

h/t: our very own theMattSmith, who says

I’ve been listening to this version of Justin Bieber’s “U Smile” slowed down 800% ALL MORNING and it may very well be the most powerful Brian Eno song I’ve ever heard.

an absolutely stellar dnb remix of Soggy Bottom Boys I Am a Man Of Constant Sorrow (via Eric Persing)

Get well soon, soulful titan.

Prophetic “Big Dreamer”

digitalkitchen411 says :

Prophetic is one of Milwaukee fastest rising stars. Without having to compromise himself or his raps, his straight forward straight to the point lyrics has garnered him awards from Milwaukee radio 88.9 and also a slot opening up for N.E.R.D. in the country’s largest music festival “Summerfest.”

This is from the “Mo Prophet Mo Progress” and you can purchase it HERE.

Valentina Lisitsa plays Rachmaninoff Etude Op. 39 No. 6 “Little Red Riding Hood” (via ValentinaLisitsa)

h/t metheliving

(via inothernews)

(via yimmyayo)

think4yourself:gnora:

Made using sounds from UP

This guy is really talented

Crazy beautiful sampling work… wow.

Promos for the new NBC drama Parenthood have featured our song “Quaint Hummer” extensively.  It’s part of our Mixtape Music Library, composed by our very own Smith and Holter, and distributed by Extreme Music (Sony/ATV Publishing).

SolarBeat is “an online ambient musicbox, which generates its sounds using the orbital/year frequencies of most of the major bodies of our solar system.” - via Design You Trust

Sweet Steinway K

via @danlanois

audiojungle:

New Daft Punk Music in ‘Tron’ Trailer!

“Daft Punk love robots. The French electro duo — Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter — don robo-masks during their tricked-out shows and music videos. And they’re taking their love of the futuristic a step further, writing the score for the upcoming film Tron Legacy.

“The trailer for the movie (in theaters December 17) just leaked online, giving a taste of what the Punk guys have been working on: heavy, suspenseful beats perfect for a high octane action film.”

Great trailer, kickass music.

Bruce Swedien No. 1 microphone (via Daniel | gf1diggity)

Check out the lovely mic that yesterday made a pit stop at Burst HQ on its way to Ocean Way.

Music From A Bonsai - Diego Stocco

another bout of beautiful insanity from one of our very favorite composers here at Burst.

ctplr:

IPhone TouchOSC: Revolutionary!

audiojungle:

makelife:

Incredible.

Diego Stocco - Experibass

I think everyone would think this is cool, not just audio/music nerds.

I agree with Makelife - and especially for us audio/music nerds. If you have a sub, make sure you turn it up before hitting play. It’s surprisingly amazing.

Diego is one of our writers here at The Burst Collective, and he parlayed this incredible instrument and video into being part of Hans Zimmer’s amazing Sherlock Holmes score.

He is, quite simply, one of the most creative people we’ve ever known.

Arp Solina String Ensemble [wiki]

“… nothing comes close to a Solina; it’s like sunlight coming through a window.” - Del Naja (Massive Attack)

audiojungle:

Top Ten Most Famous Recording Studios in The World

“Gone are the days when a vast and expensive recording studio was needed to even think about making a record. But in the days before Macs in bedrooms enabled a whole new world of music-making, the studio was where it was at. Here are ten legendary recording facilities that have helped shape the face of pop…”

Studios rule.

Our favorite is at #14 (Big Red gum), the video of which also features a killer retro station ID.  Righteous.

via @AdFreak

ericmortensen:

ProLoop for iPhone

The iPhone continues to inspire new interfaces for creating music.  This reminds me a bit of the OP-1’s display.

Sweetness.

themattsmith:

Tumblr : The Game

Props to Ryan Selvy for the graphic.

I was wondering how long it would take before Matt threw down his 8-bit gauntlet on this one.

hypem:

hardcorefornerds:

“Quarter Mile Groove” by Daniel Eatock. (via)

The recording translates the length of its vinyl groove into audio allowing listeners to experience the 1/4 mile length of the spiral as the record is played. Every inch of the needle’s path is audible in the form of a click, each foot as a beat and distances of 10 feet are heard as a blip. These sounds gradually slow as the stylus approaches the center, (the stylus travels less distance in the groove with each revolution of the record). Along the way, the voice of the narrator mentions the horizontal dimensions of particular objects.

Production by Malcolm Goldie.

danielholter:

We just licensed this track for a longtime custom music client of The Burst Collective, and after having not heard it for a while (a year or two) I’d forgotten how much I liked it.

Watching Waiting by Todd Carey, produced by my friend Marshall Altman, mixed by Brian Malouf.

Yes, Chester French has a tiger in our Studio A this evening.

[flickr]

Well, that explains the uptick in followers and notes.

Hello everyone, and thanks be to ye tumblr gods!

ericmortensen:

New Google Project, Argos, Will Let You Create Free Multi-Touch Musical Instruments….For The iPad » Synthtopia

newsweek:

zeblue:

geekleetist:

unknownskywalker:

Have you ever wondered what your web page sounds like?

The codeorgan analyses the *body* content of any web page and translates that content into music. The codeorgan uses a complex algorithm to define the key, synth style and drum pattern most appropriate to the page content.

Go give it a try: www.codeorgan.com

This is RAD!!

I agree, this rawks.

Nwk approves. And loves what our tumblr sounds like.

ctplr:

Chime: Music makers who wants to relax with music-makin’ games. Lol. More info

audiojungle:

“When you’re working with loops, particularly drum loops, to form the rhythmic basis of a composition, you often find yourself wishing you could do more to customize the track. Logic Pro 9 has a few tools that allow us to work with audio as if it were MIDI—such as the flex time features—but what about turning the audio into a MIDI-controlled sampler instrument track?”

(via How to Turn Audio into Sampler Instrument Loops | Audiotuts+)

Stuff that used to take a week of studio time can now be done in moments.  Ridiculous.  Holy crap I love Logic.

Emerald Nuts & Pop Secret

2010 Super Bowl commercial

the music track is I’m The Greatest by Smith/Yarberg for The Burst Collective

Sade - The Making of the Album

It appears some (most? all?) of her new record was done at Peter Gabriel’s Real World Studios… crazyamazingohmygodcan’twaitforthisrecord.

So, yeah, if any of our tumblrmates want to hear what we do here at Burst (including in-house composers TheMattSmith and kywillie), check out this week’s No Reservations with Anthony Bourdain, in Prague.

Virtually the entire show is our music.

w00t.

Wish our beloved Studio A luck… it’ll need all the help it can get.

ericmortensen:

dalasverdugo:

whiterainbow:

iLemur via ISO50 »

Exactly!

Triple WANT.

thewass:

my musical wet dream

3 month lockout in our studio Burst HQ writing for their new record.  Pretty stoked.  Great guys, should be lots of fun to have D.A. and Max hanging around for a while.

BBC News - MP3 pioneers launch ‘deluxe’ file

Cool stuff.  Interesting timing, too.

littletinyfish:

Questo of The Roots explains the Walk-on song and a little bit about the music business in general.

Great post.

ericmortensen:

MATRIXSYNTH: SUIKO ST-10

Part electronic instrument, part answering machine.

We’ll take one, please.

suddenly:

Key of life

via ny-image0.etsy.com

soupsoup:

Really cool new music discovery site. Check it out.

1.24 GB of shaker samples.  2,321 individual samples.

Yes, you read that correctly.

From their site :

Shake is meant to deeply explore an under-represented niche of percussion and finally allow composers and electronic musicians instant access to truly life-like sound and playability.

ericmortensen:

- 7″ LCD screen - 2 port switchable joystick - 4 analogue controllers for synth applications - Audio feedback loop - control panel printed on weatherproof labelling (design here) - Multi-cartridge changer controlled from panel with tri-colour LED indicator - SID2SID board with noise reduction mod and on/off switch - switchable kernel with JiffyDos and my own modified kernel - 1541 ultimate cartridge controls and LEDs on panel - reset button - selectable character set rom – 3 sets available. - retro moog monosynth style casing” (via MATRIXSYNTH: RX-64R - Ultimate Modded C64)

*drool*

Double drool.

themattsmith:

So, I had to do a Pants On The Ground remix.  I mean, I had to.  I can’t help it.  It’s a compulsion.

General Larry Platt : Pants On The Ground (themattsmith remix)

the music track is “Zig Zag Marching Orders” (D. Holter & M. Smith), published by The Extreme Music Library Ltd (PRS) and is used here for promotional purposes only, courtesy of Sony/ATV Music, Extreme Music, and our very own Mixtape Music Library.

barthel:

“basically, the ekdahl moisturizer is a spring reverb where the springs are exposed so they can be played/hit/fiddled with. as well as being capable of creating sound in itself, you can of course also play sound through the springs like a regular spring reverb - this makes for happy-fun-time finger-modulation of the reverb on whatever audio that’s going through it. on top of this there’s an analog multimode filter that can be used to attenuate or exaggerate certain frequencies in the sound, this is real handy while playing the springs as you can - for instance - cut all the highs and just make thunderous doomy sounds or do the opposite; cut all the lows and make that ear piercing high frequency special love. also, it incorporates an lfo that’s internally routable to the filter and that also has some external routing-stuff. the ekdahl moisturizer has tons of cv / expression pedal options on the back for even more hillarious moments. the moisturizer is a mono unit.”

Waaaaaaaant.  (It is a super mixed blessing to have a reason to buy more gear, let me tell you.)

Oh my.

ericmortensen:

RGB MusicLab Turns Photos into Music | Lifehacker