Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

….at least, that’s what this internal Microsoft video would like one to believe.  Microsoft has a decades-long reputation of releasing utterly inane internal videos.  I hope that they were kidding with this one, but they probably weren’t.
By the way, check out the short-haired woman in the audience.  She really likes Vista Service Pack 1!
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San Diego Symphony Principal Bass Jeremy Kurtz (we’ll be interviewing him on Contrabass Conversations in the near future) passed along a link for a free tool for Macs created by a violinist in the San Diego Symphony.  Looking for an accurate tempo?  This simple application will give you an accurate tempo reading, which is [...]

I’m definitely addicted to Twitter (you can find me at twitter.com/jasonheath).  I use it all the time and have been doing so daily for the past year.  There’s something about the simplicity of it (140 characters, that’s all you get) that appeals to me, forcing be to be pithy and focused, which is a [...]

I’ve frequently been asked what kind of setup I use for recording my podcast interviews, especially those conducted over the phone.  This is a seemingly simple task that actually can get quite convoluted, and I thought it might be instructive to let folks know exactly how I accomplish this.  To hear the results in action, [...]

People often ask me how much time I spend working on doublebassblog.org,  Contrabass Conversations, Arts Addict, and my other online endeavors.  While I certainly put in a significant amount of time on all these projects, they have grown organically over time and have interwoven so tightly into my other daily activities (playing and teaching the [...]

Here is a quite cool (and very short) video of a 3-D rendering of a double bass, complete with a little pizzicato riffing in the background. I like how the virtual camera swoops down to string level, then beyond it to body level, like Luke Skywalker going into the trench of the Death Star:

I’m in the process of writing an extended article about WordPress the blog management system that I started using predominantly.  It makes blogging much easier and is helping to keep me from being chained to the computer, allowing me to do what I really like: write!
There are three cool things that WordPress does to make [...]

This song is pretty tech-centric, but I think it’s awesome. Set to Billy Joel’s ‘We Didn’t Start the Fire’, it is a great parody of the current technology bubble we’re experiencing (or not experiencing, depending on your point of view). The section about a minute in about blogging definitely hits home!
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As the profile of www.doublebassblog.org continues to rise, I have noticed a great deal of extremely amusing spam sites linking to here and scraping content. Now, for folks unfamiliar with content scraping, the term refers to someone (or some nefarious scraping robot script, more likely) copying posts off of popular blogs, then posting the [...]

I blogged previously about the sudden and unfortunate demise of the International Music Score Library Project and how this may be a harbinger of things to come as the Internet age progresses.  One of my favorite podcasts, Buzz Out Loud, also weighed in on this story, and MusTech.net just wrote a post about it as [...]