Marble Madness was inducted into the National Game Registry

Marble Madness was inducted into the National Game Registry  on May 25th, 2009

Song of Life, Song of Love

Hear South African singer Vusi Mahlasela speak and sing about apartheid, womenand especially about his grandmother. More about Mr. Mahlasela:

• At TED
• Vusi's website

Musicovery - a visual radio

Building on Frederic Vavrille's Liveplasm site (a visual search engine he created 3 years ago), Mr. Vavrille has created a visually-entertaining web radio where listeners select music from a mood-energy matrix or from a genre selection box. Manuel Lima states that Mr. Vavrille combined sound from Pandora and Last.FM with Liveplasm to create a dynamic mind-map of related music. He calls it Musicovery

Some have reported that it doesn't work quite right - songs won't stop and the classification needs work. But I think it's a whole lot of fun! And, you have to admit it's a great looking piece of human-computer engineering.

Check it out!

Brad on Panel at Game Developers Conference

Brad, along with Rod Abernethy, Alexander Brandon, Brian Schmidt and Tommy Tallarico will present a panel discussion on "Where It All Began: Lessons That Can Be Learned From 'First Generation' Music" at the 2010 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.

TV Ad Sound Designs

Recent postings in a sound design group point out examples of great sound design in television commercials. Here are some of my favorites: Honda Accord Toyota Yaris Red Bull Honda Choir Spoof on the Honda Choir United Airlines Do you have any favorites to share?

Inside Pandora: Web Radio That Listens to You

Select a song or artist you like and Pandora plays similar songs through your web browser. I reveal how Pandora’s combination of open source wizardry, Flash artistry, and human ears serves millions of listeners fresh music — for free.

Review: Fervent Software Studio To Go!

Pop this CD-ROM into any recent PC and it will boot up as a powerful Linux music workstation with tons of cool software. Eject the CD, and you’re back to normal. I take the world’s roundest and flattest portable studio for a spin.