Here’s a short video about some of the cooler new features in GarageBand ’09, the software that I use to record and edit all of my Contrabass Conversations audio podcasts. This is a fantastic piece of software that integrates well with all the other iLife...
You know, the more I poke around the YouTube Symphony channel, the more I like the idea. The world’s first internet symphony really is a cool idea, and it’s indicative of things to come for our art form. Is it gimmicky? Sure–but that’s not the...
New York Times tech journalist David Pogue is a recent Twitter fan, with several reservations: I’ll admit that, for the longest time, I was exasperated by the Twitter hype. Like the world needs ANOTHER ego-massaging, social-networking time drain? Between e-mail...
I was the presenter for the Chicago chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) last night. This organization gets some real “heavies” like presenters from Microsoft and Google to do these talks, so it was an honor to be asked….and a...
Apple continues, as always, to be progressive and forward-thinking with regards to tools for musicians. Nowhere is this more evident than their new eversion of GarageBand (included in the iLife 09 suite of applications). Here are some of my thoughts on one of the new...
