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According to NRKbeta, the Norwegian Broadcasting Channel NRK has a company-internal award for innovation each year. Personally after studying tv and multimediaproduction I can relate to the need of several of these inventions. I will point out one of the nominated inventions that I found especially interesting based on a recent lecture. When it comes [...]

After a rather interesting lecture on sound, especially regarding modern pop-music our lecturer demonstrated the so-called Loudness War. My fellow student Thomas also wrote a post on the topic. As a nice visual demonstration the below YouTube video was used by our lecturer. Secondly whily I was looking up some more information on the topic [...]

Via del.icio.us I came across a guide on installing: JACK, Ardour & Hydrogen on a mac. I was not quite sure what each of the applications were but quickly found out at their respective websites; Jack Audio Connection kit, Hydrogen a Drum Machine and Ardour Digital Audio Workstation. Jack basically lets you connect the programs [...]

And JamGlue actually works surprisingly well. I briefly tried it out, after they publicly launched yesterday (Dec. 15th). This past year I have actually learned some of ProTools. In that sense I’m kind of spoiled, with my first introduction to sound mixing with this professional application. However it still costs a lot of money, and [...]

Semester exams are in progress, and you might be studying, retreating to place of peace and calmness. Noise in general is disturbing and for optimal studying you might even put ear muffles on, to block out disturbing noises. In a Wired interview with Professor Bart Kosko from the University of Southern California, Kosko explains that [...]