Theater of the New Ear
Check it, there’s a Coen Brothers radio play for download! Theater of the New Ear About Charles WyrickMail | More Posts(367)
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Nanotube Speakers
Check it, loudspeakers thin as a sheet of plastic wrap: Link Got to wonder how those speakers would handle the lazer bass. About Charles WyrickMail | More Posts(367)
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Lucky Witch
Happy Halloween, y’all! About Charles WyrickMail | More Posts(367)
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Bloom: Brian Eno iPhone App
For only $3.99 you too can make music like Brian Eno! Link Via Sellout. FYI, Eno’s Oblique Strategies iPhone app is FREE. About Charles WyrickMail | More Posts(367)
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Take On Me: Literal Video Version
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The Mother of the Mp3
At the NYT, two-hit wonder (by her own admission) Suzanne Vega blogs about how her song “Tom’s Diner” came to be used in the refinement of a certain audio compression algorithm now called the mp3. About Charles WyrickMail | More Posts(367)
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50 People, 1 Question
Reblogging this video via Projectionist. Not our work but boy oh boy oh boy is this good. Looks great. Sounds great (all hail Four Tet). Doesn’t hurt that it was shot in one of our favorite towns. Dig it: Fifty People, One Question: Restored from Benjamin Reece on Vimeo. About Charles WyrickMail | More Posts(367)
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Virtually In the Studio: Pat Summerall
Today, we had the honor of recording former NFL player and television broadcasting legend Pat Summerall via ISDN patch. PS, I would have linked to a picture of Pat’s “Legends of Broadcasting” trading card but those don’t exist. Though they should!!! About Charles WyrickMail | More Posts(367)
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Buck The Norm
Here’s some recent work for Third Degree featuring a voice over by yours truly. Yarg! About Charles WyrickMail | More Posts(367)
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Voice Deepener
Everyone knows that inhaling helium can make you sound like Alvin on “Funky Town” by Alvin and the Chipmunks, but did you know that inhaling Sulfur hexafluoride can give you the voice of Satan? Thanks Mythbusters! Via kottke.org About Charles WyrickMail | More Posts(367)
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Needs. . .
MoreCowbell.dj invites users to add more cowbell plus more Christopher Walken to uploaded tracks. About Charles WyrickMail | More Posts(367)
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The Red Ceiling
“The Red Ceiling” was a photograph taken by William Eggleston that appeared on the cover of Big Star’s 2nd album, “Radio City.” This photograph was also titled “Greenwood, Mississippi, 1973” after the place and date it was taken. Check out Album Atlas for more album-art/google-map-pinning goodness. Contributing to Album Atlas also seems like a fine[…]
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Oklahoma Rocks
So. . . the state of Oklahoma is going to have an official rock song? Here’s Resolution 1047 if you don’t believe me. We’ve got plenty of friends in Oklahoma. How come none of you guys told us about this? About Charles WyrickMail | More Posts(367)
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Bunny Mandala
Since we’ve got bunnies on the mind (see this post), here’s the Bunny Mandala for consideration meditation: No other living creature features as heavily in contemporary character design and art as the humble hare. But what exactly makes bunnies so irresistible to artists, designers and illustrators worldwide? Depending on the viewers’ cultural context rabbits can[…]
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Don LaFontaine, R.I.P.
The stories and tributes are piling up around the web today about the passing of a true voice-over legend, Don LaFontaine. Undoubtedly LaFontaine is best know for his movie trailer work, especially for his deep and dramatic delivery of that oh-so-ubiquitous blockbuster phrase: “IN A WORLD. . .” That being the case, most of the[…]
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Bunnies, The New Threat
In what has to be the most hilarious “technical difficulty” story of recent times, let me relate a little problem we had with an ISDN talent (who shall remain anonymous) the other day. Basically we had a couple of pickups to record and our gracious talent agreed to squeeze us in before another session. When[…]