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iPhone Music Makers

iPhone Music Makers: iPhone Ocarina Takes Me To Hyrule

Developed by Smule, Ocarina is a new iPhone application that simulates the playing the ancient flute that features prominently in a few Legend of Zelda games. The Ocarina has been around 12,000 years or something and is made to be shaped like a bird, whose sound it mimics. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask are two of my all-time favorite video games, so I gladly sprang for the 99 cents to download this guy on my iPhone. I was very happy with what I discovered. More »

10:00 AM on Fri Nov 7 2008
By Lucas Jensen
1,613 views, Comment

free jazz

The Most Heartbreaking Story You'll Read All Day

The Chicago Reader's Post No Bills blog has a fascinating (and, be warned, painfully sad) story on the suicide of Malachi Ritscher, a free-jazz expert and historian who was a fixture of the city's improvised music scene. Ritscher apparently set himself on fire last Friday in the middle of rush-hour traffic, leaving behind a long suicide note expressing his frustration with the war, and a long musical legacy: More »

9:39 AM on Thu Nov 9 2006
By Brian Raftery
64 views, 3 comments

blogsmacked

Blogsmacked: Jay-Z Shows Ranger Rick What He's Got

- Jay-Z has decided that the new look for fall is those nature murals that were so popular in the '70s—on a coat. [Copyranter]
- Looking to learn more about free jazz? Here's an MP3-laden guide. [Destination: Out]
- A song for every NFL outcome this week. [My Old Kentucky Blog]
- Donald Trump loves him some fine, fine, Federline. Which makes perfect sense, really. [Gawker]
- The world of rock critics: The digital-age equivalent of the Mafia? [Crooked Timber]

1:36 PM on Tue Oct 10 2006
By mjohnston
32 views, 1 comment

Latest by shallowrewards: Re: Crooked Timber How is the digital age any different than the analog one, in this respect? If you want to posit a controlling "mafia," go back to payola in the '60s, Rolling Stone in the '70s, and MTV in the more »