SolarBeat is a beautiful piece by Luke Tywman that uses the pattern of our Solar System to create an online music box.
Watch a video clip here, or view the site.
I urge you to also take a look at Luke’s website, Whitevinyl design, which displays info on all of his other visual/music projects. Be warned though, you’ll waste away hours of your life.
What do you get when you mix a police radio stream, provided by radioreference.com, with some ambient background music via Soundcloud?
A website called ‘You are listening to‘.
Created by Eric Eberhardt, from Oakland, you can tune in to the dulcet tones of officers in New York, Los Angeles, Montreal, San Francisco or Chicago.
Perfect background music courtesy of America’s (and Canada’s) finest.
LOVE THIS.
“The Strokes‘ debut album Is This It was first released on 7/30/01. To help us celebrate this 10th Anniversary, we asked some of our favorite indie bands to cover each track. The resulting collection, STROKED: A Tribute To Is This It, is in the spirit of our previous free tribute albums for Radiohead’s OK Computer, R.E.M.’sAutomatic For The People, and Bjork’s Post…”
Read the full story over at Stereogum.
Last month Cate and I went to a do at Swarovski Crystallized organised by The Industry. Though their events are usually fashion-focused, this one featured an interview with British singer and songwriter Kate Nash, which was more than enough to pull me in.
Listening to her talk about the link between fashion and music with hurried excitement was interesting, but what really blew me away was her new project, the Rock N Roll For Girls After-School Music Club.
She cited Bikini Kill frontwoman Kathleen Hanna’s involvement in the Girls Rock Camps, and a panel she sat on at last year’s Birds Eye View event (chaired by journalist Miranda Sawyer), as direct inspiration for setting up the programme.
Its aim is simply to provide a safe environment in which girls can write songs, learn about music and be creative. You can’t argue with that.
She’s trialling it with six schools across the country, and obviously wants to remain closely involved with each of the clubs to begin with.
I hope to see her develop this into something bigger, powered by the web. A site perhaps, that holds all of the materials a teacher might need to set up a club at their own school or college, and the ability for each girl to create a profile, swap tips, share lessons and set up gigs. There’s a world of potential.