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The New York Times’ Freakonomics blog has an interesting post about Mike Skinner of The Streets, and how he’s giving away music on social networking site Twitter:

He’s giving away new songs using Twitter because, he writes, “all this trying to sell you music … wastes valuable time.”

A new study out of Norway suggests Mike’s business model may be a good one, for it shows that people who download music for free (legally or not) are 10 times more likely to pay for music than people who don’t. This seems to make digital bootleggers the music industry’s biggest customers. All the more reason for labels to stop suing them?

Freakonomics seems to be blurring causation and correllation.

Those people that download music from the Internet are 10 times more likely to buy music, not because they’ve downloaded music from the Internet, but because they’re already hardcore music freaks.

Freakonomics also seems to want to draw conclusions from musicians that are outliers.

Like Trent Reznor, Skinner is an established artist with a large fanbase, so what works for him may not work for new artists, indie or mainstream.

Nobody knows yet what the new model will be for music exposure and distribution. It’s going to be happening over the Internet, though.

Siculamagazine.com is a netzine based in Sicily (Italy). Pubblished by Nicola Ganci, it was surprise me for the competence and style...
I'm sorry, but it's in italian language... :)

Link

Something free today too. It's a big sample library for free download (8,5 GB!).

The Free Samples are a part of the OLPC Project. Just a small info about "One Laptop One Child": children from poor countries should reach every information as we can. Therefore they want to build laptops cheap in costs “100-Dollar” (the original price). The same project has found 50 producers who want to contribute there work for the same reason as the OLPC. The are sample creators like Brian Transeau, AKA BT, who wrote the hit single of "Pop" fir ‘Nsnyc. But there are others popular people too like Jacob Joaquin.

Other samples producer:

• Das Berklee College of Music
• Weitere Csound Entwickler
• M-Audio
• Digidesign
• Die Open Path Music Group

"Everybody is allowed to copy, publish, share and use the free samples as long the copyright information is included."

Start here and have a nice download! ;)

Everyone can play the theremin...

A nice Italian girl “plays” the Moog Theremin at the MidiWare booth at the Meet Show ‘07 in Milan. This video demonstrates the tantalizing nature of the theremin - everybody that sees a theremin in action wants to give it a try. It also highlights the difficulty of making the theremin do more than scream and squeal like a stuck pig.

Graphite Sequencer

Graphite conducts electricity. Two wires brush against the surface of a paper disk as it spins. The wires are connected to a simple electronic tone generator. When a line of graphite is drawn across the disk, connecting the two wires, a tone is heard. The quality of the line affects the sound. For example, if the line is thick, allowing more current to pass over it, the pitch changes to a lower tone.

Video here. Audio demo here.

http://soundcloud.com/max-waves