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Brian Gossett is a designer, illustrator, art director, and teacher in Santa Monica, working across all kinds of media. Have a look at his portfolio stuff here, his heist-inspired music mixes (free to download) here, and a wicked mood board he put together (relating to the heist-iness of his compilations) here.

Japanese design company Nendo have created a speaker shaped like a bird cage. (more…)

Inject some old-school grit (vinyl records) and glamour (letterpress packaging) into your iTunes greatest hits library with the Journal of Popular Noise, an “audio magazine inspired by the traditions of pop music, printed periodicals, and the delight of a finely crafted artifact.” Founded by graphic designer Byron Kalet, the twice-yearly publication takes the form of a limited-edition trio of 7″ vinyl records tucked inside a letterpress-printed holder that folds out to reveal a poster of information about the journal, the musicians, and the compositional process. “By standardizing the presentation, and even going so far as to homogenize the song structures, the Journal of Popular Noise provides an alternative context through which one can enjoy a record,” notes the just-released spring/summer 2009 edition (issues 13-15), which features works by Andrew W.K., Ian Svenonius, and Walker & Cantrell. “Here the content presented to the listener is not defined as much by an artist’s self-wrought context as it is their approval of an association with previous contributors, the aesthetic presentation, and of the physical and compositional restraints.”

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My husband and I love music. We devote more space in our home to storing instruments and their supplies than to any other type of object (including books, clothes, and food). Add to that recording and listening equipment, and music-related stuff easily occupies half the space in our house. (Even on my computer, music files take up the majority of space.)

When music is such an integral part of your life, you constantly look for ways to store and minimize what you own. The following are some of our solutions:

Frozen Ape Tempo. We got rid of our metronomes recently after discovering this iPhone application. It’s actually better than all the metronomes we had in the house. My favorite feature of the program is that I can plug my earphones into the audio jack and have the beats pulse straight into my ear. The program is 99 cents. Yet again, my iPhone replaces a unitasker.

Storage boxes for strings. A few years ago, we noticed that a CD storage box is the perfect size for holding spare strings. We buy strings online at a discount, so it’s nice to have a permanent place for them to reside until we need them. And, since 10 of our instruments have strings, we regularly need them.

Self-binding sheet music. After years of having sheet music strewn around the house causing a mess, we reached our breaking point. We sorted the sheets of music into piles and then used a CombBind C55 at the office to bind it all into nicely bound books. We created an index for the front of each book and store the bound music on our bookshelves. No more loose papers, simple storage, and it took us less than half an hour to create. If you don’t have a binder in your office, they do the same service at Kinkos for a minimal fee.

Repurposed decorative items. On a table in our music area we have some candles and a decorative jar. We purposefully bought a decorative jar that has storage space inside of it so that it can have multipurposes. Now, this pretty little piece of art holds my harmonicas, castanets, and a case for guitar picks.

What tricks do you use in your music room to contain the numerous supplies that come with instruments? We’re always on the lookout for solutions, so please share your ideas in the comments.

Enfin de retour pour le rendez-vous musical et déjà le 45ème numéro du Fubiz Broadcast. Une sélection variée et électro de plus de 35 minutes. Toujours disponible en streaming et téléchargement dans la suite.

Playlist FB45 – A emporter ici

• Birdy Nam Nam – The Parachute Ending
• Alex Gopher – Aurora (Riot In Belgium & Knightlife Remix)
• Soul Grabber – Motorcross Madness
• Das Glow – I wanna wake up with you
• The Outrunners – Runaways (Diese remix)
• Kris Menace – Metropolis (Day version)
• The Orange Lights – Life Is Still Beautiful (Alan Braxe Remix)
• Lifelike – Sequencer
• Frankfurt Express – Wake up

Sélectionné par Diese. Durée Totale : 38:19
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