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Exploring branding and identity with music, sound, voice and silence

Links for week of December 18, 2006

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  • Potential Killer App of the Day: Ambient Addition takes the everyday sounds from your existing environment and creates rhythms from them, sending it back into your headphones. Translation: the sounds around you become music. Wow. Check out the video, and if you’re anywhere near Boston, get in touch with creator Noah Vawter at MIT to see/hear it in real life.
  • Earworm blog. Amazon has a music blog, and it’s not half bad. Given that it’s called “Amazon Earworm” (an audio meme that’s lodged deep inside your brain…as with “I’d like to teach the world to sing,” etc.) and their mascot instrument is a piano accordion — my first true love, yesI’mfineI’llgetoveritsomeday — I’m willing to give it at least a week.
  • Best of the web? Perhaps you’ve been living on Mars and haven’t heard of The Hype Machine. It aggregates the MP3s that some of the net’s more influential writers are reviewing and plays them all back for you, radio-style. The result is kinda like college radio in that it can vary wildly from one song to the next, but every now and then you might strike gold.
  • Comic relief. This I believe: Ricky Gervais on Fresh Air is the perfect ending to an otherwise intense day in the office. Listen up.
  • Of course, none of these links have any obvious connection to “audio branding,” per se, but when you mix business with music, sound and voice, the world is full of interesting outliers. — NF

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