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Lisa Miskovsky Performs Still Alive For Your Listening/Viewing Pleasure [Music]

Friday, December 12th, 2008
Posted by Stuart Houghton from Kotaku.

Lisa Miskovsky - the lady behind the Mirror’s Edge theme song Still Alive - is apparently a household name in her native Sweden, although has yet to crack the US charts with her musical stylings.

Her ‘people’ think that Still Alive might be about to change all that and are offering you lot the chance to see the music video for the track and to hear a remix of the song by Teddybears (who are presumably also household names in.. wherever they are from).

A full album of Still Alive remixes is on the way featuring mixes by Junkie XL, Paul Van Dyk, Benny Benassi, and Armand Van Helden.

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Connie Talbot Goes Over The Rainbow On The Wii [Music]

Thursday, December 11th, 2008
Posted by Stuart Houghton from Kotaku.

Currently sitting atop the Billboard singles charts like a tiny six year old queen, Britains Got Talent nearly-winner and angel-voiced British Invasion ‘08 munchkin Connie Talbot is to get her very own Wii game.

No, not for Xmas - for reals. Connie Talbot: Over the Rainbow is some kind of musical karaoke game for the Nintendo Wii. Players will be able to sing along with Connie as well as.. do other stuff. It’s unclear at this stage.

As Kotaku’s token Brit I feel I ought to take some responsibility for this but I am happy to pass this particular buck to the American public.

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Bopaboo Claims to Let You “Legally” Sell MP3s [MP3s]

Posted by Kevin Purdy from Lifehacker.

New MP3 market site Bopaboo says it has a legal means of letting owners of non-restricted MP3s sell them, for prices starting at 25 cents a track, to other users. The site’s founder says users are protected under the “first-sale doctrine,” as in re-selling a CD, and that the site prevents selling a track more than once. Only time (and lawsuits) will tell what comes of this unique tack on music sales. [via]

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Wearable toy piano makes music, looks good doing it

Posted by Darren Murph from Engadget.

Now here’s a concept. A musical shirt with enough transistors to make even the hardest of hardcore nerd blush, and a long-sleeve garment fashionable enough to make even the world-class design student stop and admire. Mashed into one. The Musical toy piano shirt is that very piece, which was constructed to wow onlookers at the Electronic Textile workshop held this month in Switzerland. Packing removable batteries, speakers and circuitry, the shirt enables the wearer to emit eight different notes from Do to Do, and we hear there’s nothing quite as cute as playing a song on yourself. See what we mean in the vid hosted just after the break.

[Via Coolest-Gadgets]

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Wearable toy piano makes music, looks good doing it originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 11 Dec 2008 09:34:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Introducing LittleBigMusic [Littlebigplanet]

Posted by Luke Plunkett from Kotaku.

The best thing about LittleBigPlanet is, without a doubt, Stephen Fry. But Stephen Fry, sadly, has nothing to do with this post, so we move onto the second best thing about LittleBigPlanet: it’s music.

It’s…well, it’s just not the sort of thing you expect to hear from a video game. And that’s a good thing. As is this! It’s a CD by Daniel Pemberton, who contributes to the game’s soundtrack, and the album’s called Little Big Music: Musical Oddities From And Inspired By LittleBigPlanet.

As you can probably deduce from the title, it’s not a soundtrack per se. While many of the tracks included are to be found in the title, some aren’t, but as B-sides either cut from the game or inspired by it, you’re likely not to notice the difference.

A sample of the album can be heard over on Offworld, with the album due for release on iTunes on December 15.

Only on Offworld: A sneak peek at Daniel Pemberton’s LittleBigMusic [Offworld]

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Amarok 2 Released, Windows and Mac Versions in Beta [Featured Linux Download]

Posted by Kevin Purdy from Lifehacker.

Linux only: Amarok 2, the open source media center we’d previously toured while it was in beta, is now available in a release version for Linux systems, and in pre-released beta for Windows and OS X.

There aren’t a ton of new features between the later beta release and this “final” (that will still get a lot of development focus), but a lot of interface and navigation quirks have been cleaned out. Amarok 2 has been pre-built for most major Linux distributions (with KDE dependencies), while the Windows installation (which ran pretty darned laggy on my XP desktop) can be had through the KDE on Windows installer.

Click here to read more.

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Handheld synth-strument trio

Posted by Collin Cunningham from MAKE Magazine.

3Drones
From the MAKE: Flickr pool

Farnea’s “last drones” are quite nicely built mini-synths, representing 3 very popular DIY electronic instruments -

the last drones built for my friends, playing with me in Elisha Gray band.

on the left FESTER, the optical theremin.

on the top Ag0 LOLLOSO, the weird sound generator.

on the right WHAT A MESS(INA), the atari punk console. - last drones

Reel-to-reel ensemble

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
Posted by Collin Cunningham from MAKE Magazine.

Open Reel Ensemble
Open Reel Ensemblscheme

The Open Reel Ensemble plasticizes voice and instrument recordings by way of USB controlled reel-to-reel tape machines.

Sound Performance with Bending Reel-to-Reel Tape Decks. I Remade Old Reel-to-Reel Analog Tape Recorders to Musical Instruments and Enjoyed Music Session with Companion in University. And We Performed Music by Using this Instruments. (”Open Reel Ensemble” Will Perform 12th Japan Media Arts Festival in February, 2009)

plus the gear looks rather neat-o! - Open Reel Ensemble [via Califaudio]

AutoLyrix Automatically Searches, Displays Lyrics and Album Art [Featured Download]

Posted by Adam Pash from Lifehacker.

Windows/Mac/Linux: Free application AutoLyrix automatically fetches and displays album artwork and lyrics for the currently playing track in your music player of choice. AutoLyrix is an open-source alternative to previously mentioned EvilLyrics, and like EvilLyrics, it not only downloads lyrics but also advances lyrics karaoke-style with the music when possible. AutoLyrix could use some polish to the interface (though it does transparency and has a few other options), but functionally it’s been working really well. The app works with virtually every popular media player, including iTunes, Winamp, Windows Media Player, foobar2000, Last.fm, MediaMonkey, and more. AutoLyrix is a free download for all platforms, requires .NET 2.0 on Windows and Mono on OS X and Linux.

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Scandyna Speakers intros $300 retro-inspired iPod Pink Dock Pack

Posted by Darren Murph from Engadget.

Scandyna Speakers isn’t pushing out just another iPod dock with its Pink Dock Pack, as evidenced by the retro-inspired design, $300 price tag and a sales deal with Saks. The set includes a stylish pink motif, 2 x 15-watt Class T amplifier, stereo line output, dock inserts to fit a variety of dock-connecting iPod models, a remote and a pair of Micropod SE speakers. Call us crazy, but we’re guessing these would sell quite a bit better if that PMP there was included and we could purchase one in a color not called pink. Full release after the break.

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Scandyna Speakers intros $300 retro-inspired iPod Pink Dock Pack originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 09 Dec 2008 09:30:00 EST.

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Lisa Miskovsky Performs Still Alive For Your Listening/Viewing Pleasure [Music]

Connie Talbot Goes Over The Rainbow On The Wii [Music]

Bopaboo Claims to Let You “Legally” Sell MP3s [MP3s]

Wearable toy piano makes music, looks good doing it

Introducing LittleBigMusic [Littlebigplanet]

Amarok 2 Released, Windows and Mac Versions in Beta [Featured Linux Download]

Handheld synth-strument trio

Reel-to-reel ensemble

AutoLyrix Automatically Searches, Displays Lyrics and Album Art [Featured Download]

Scandyna Speakers intros $300 retro-inspired iPod Pink Dock Pack