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For all you guys that have purchased an Apple computer with Leopard or Snow Leopard you will have gotten this lovely introduction below. “Uh, duh David! So what?”

Now I’m admitting ignorance here by saying that I naively thought that the music for the OS X Leopard/Snow Leopard intro video was created in-house by Apple. But apparently not because the band Honeycut created this song with their hip-hop infused experimental musical style. And of course I love it.

What do you think of their music? Comment! Click click click!!!

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So I know I just blogged about Diego a few days ago, but I happened across Diego Stocco’s tweet about his collaboration with Hans Zimmer! Wowza!! So cool!

In this video Hans and Diego are discussing different techniques and tools for Experibass. You should also check out the the photos and more details on this on Behance.com on this collaboration.

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You gotta see this! This is totally captivating. Diego performs a complex rhythmic musical composition using only various parts of the tree for different tones or pitches (think timpani or tom toms). And what’s awesome is he captures it all in Pro Tools on his MacBook Pro. I die!! He’s a musician after my own heart! LOL! Check him out: diegostocco.com.

Here are his notes:

In the garden of my house there’s a tree with lots of randomly grown twigs. It looks odd and nice at the same time. One day I asked myself if I could create a piece of music with it.

To tune the tree I picked a fundamental note and tuned the twigs by trimming them with a pencil sharpener. I used two Røde NT6 and a NTG-2 as microphones, combined with a customized stethoscope.

I recorded the tracks live on a Pro Tools LE system. I didn’t use any synthesizer or sampler to create or modify the sounds. All the sounds come from playing the tree, by bowing the twigs, shaking the leaves, playing rhythms on the cortex and so on.

At this link you can see some pictures with more detailed descriptions: behance.net/Gallery/Music-from-a-Tree/263872
I hope you’ll like it.

UPDATE 10/24/09. If you’d like to connect on Twitter:
twitter.com/DiegoStocco

The track is also available as an high-quality download on my Bandcamp page: diegostocco.bandcamp.com/track/music-from-a-tree

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I’ve never heard of this band before, but after seeing this video I will be checking them out.

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I am quite excited to get @imogenheap’s new album in August. Should be great!

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In spite of his personal life and all the terrible things that came about in the mainstream media, I never changed my opinion of Michael Jackson. I was inspired by him and continue to be inspired by him.

I recall one humorous point where my mom would take me to the video rental store and I’d rent one new release in addition to Michael Jackson’s “Moonwalker”. It didn’t matter who disliked my choice, I just had to have Moonwalker. That movie was practically on loop in my mom’s VCR. I simply loved it more upon each viewing, while my friends gradually grew sick of it.

In hindsight I believe I felt a kindred spirit and sympathized with some aspects of his life. Believe it or not, I was an incredibly quiet child and so, so, so very shy. In the eighties to early nineties Michael was my childhood musical idol along with other “cool” things in my life (Transformers, The Incredible Hulk, Hulk Hogan, Johnny 5 of Short Circuit, Care Bears and Teddy Ruxpin). Prior to my only brother’s birth in 1991, I was an only child, fatherless and all around, strange. So Michael Jackson caught my attention an incredibly vulnerable and impressionable point in my life.

Like all things, however, I grew out of it while still holding true to my admiration and inspiration from him: his style, his dance, his image, and above all his music and what he had to say. At the time, I felt he cared about how children felt and really understood what we go through, me being a child during the height of his musical career, further strengthening his appeal in my eyes.

To this day there hasn’t been anyone in the music industry that has eclipsed my view of Michael Jackson. There are runner-ups so to speak, but not matches–thankfully! Furthermore, we have the show American Idol where the that same title is attributed to the winner. We also hear the word superstar applied to so many mainstream musicians, but it’s all spoken so haphazardly. Michael, on the other hand, has truly earned the title of superstar and the American Idol. But my favorite title above all for him is and will always be, The King of Pop.

Rest in peace MJ. You and your music touched my life forever! You are missed.

-David

If you care to share your thoughts on Michael Jackson, one way or the other. You are warmly welcomed to do so in the comments thread.

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