Music and Sound

United Nations Turns to Nice Shoes for World Humanitarian Day

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Nice Shoes handles color grading and VFX for a United Nations campaign for World Humanitarian Day featuring Beyoncé.

Disney Announces Wreck-It Ralph Soundtrack

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Walt Disney Animation Studios’ “Wreck-It Ralph” scores big with composer Henry Jackman, plus original music from Skrillex, AKB48, Owl City and Buckner & Garcia.

Tiny Markers Animates Furious Frank’s Lament

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Justin Witte of Tiny Markers creates the animation for “Lament,” a stand-out track from Furious Frank’s most recent album, The Map & the Territory from Southern Love Records.

ANIMUSIC 3 Starts Production

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Animusic, a computer animation company with the singular focus of animating music, announced that production has started on ANIMUSIC 3.

BiG MACHiNE Goes Videophonic

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BiG MACHiNE participates in "Videophonic," a collaborative effort of nine leading design studios working on a common assignment: create a music video for a classic song from the pre-MTV era.

Red Car Produces RIDDLE’s We Didn’t Know

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Red Car Designer Chris Bialkowski collaborates with Fallon ECD Todd Riddle and his band to tell a forlorn New York love story in this animated/mixed media music video.

Karen O Writes Song for Frankenweenie

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Karen O has written an original song which will be featured in the end credits to Disney's highly anticipated movie, "Frankenweenie", directed by Tim Burton.

Sony Releases New Home Studio Software Lineup

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Sony Creative Software announced the availability of the latest upgrades to their award-winning line of consumer products which include Movie Studio Platinum 12 and ACID Music Studio 9.

Xavier Fauthoux Wins James Brown Music Video Challenge

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French director Xavier Fauthoux has been chosen as the Grand Prize winner for the James Brown Music Video Challenge.

Tune It Up: Developing Music Apps

Posted In | Site Categories: Mobile and Wireless, Music and Sound, People, Technology
Mobile apps for tuning a variety of musical instruments are readily available, but a recently demonstrated iPad app expands the musician-helper category beyond those basic tools. The software, dubbed Celeste, helps configure pipe organs and was among the featured apps at the University of Utah’s Mobile Application Demo Day.