music

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Studiotrack

StudioTrack is a pretty slick multitrack recorder for iPhone/iPad and makes a great scratchpad audio recording tool.  Track bouncing, effects, and mixdown features are very intuitive and allow a user to focus on the recording and not get bogged down in the interface.

I sat down for an hour with my dobro last week and recorded this short piece for Gabriel and Lydia called Transcontinental Lullaby.  I uploaded the track to Soundcloud and embedded above.  Soundcloud is an audio streaming service allowing users to host, share, and stream audio.  It also allows for text commenting along an audio track.

 
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Nocturne @ Night

I went out with Gabriel and Lydia Saturday night to take in Nocture @ Night – an event sponsored by the Nova Scotia Art Gallery. For the third year running, the free, volunteer-powered, community event celebrates the visual arts scene in Halifax.

I took a ton of video during the event with my mobile and patched it together roughly with the iMovie app – the little movie production studio in a pocket handles transitions, audio mixing, titles, captions, and a range of other video production features.   I spent little time crunching video, but features like these allow me to gather and share video clips easily and extends some of the ideas in this book to mobile video production.