Anyone know where I can listen to Serebrier's Colores Magicos: Variations for Harp and Chamber Orchestra? [more inside]
posted by Katine at 1:17 PM - 1 comment

On losing your desire to write music.... for the last 3-4 months I've had time, loads of it. I've taken a sabbatical from work and have a bit of studio gear with me - I but... just can't really be bothered to write any music anymore. What happened? [more inside]
posted by mary8nne at 7:09 AM - 12 comments

So I wrote this sort of pub-style sing-along song about Arctic Exploration and I was thinking if I could get two-to-four MeFites to pitch in to record some vocals it might be fun! [more inside]
posted by Karlos the Jackal at 11:56 PM - 15 comments

Anyone doing the RPM Challenge this year? I did it 5 years ago and swore I wouldn't ever do it again as it just about killed me to get everything done on time. But the memories seem to have mellowed, because here I am making another go. [more inside]
posted by chococat at 3:18 PM - 8 comments

Feb's challenge is pretty darn simple. What was the first single you ever bought? Cover it! [more inside]
posted by unSane at 11:58 AM - 20 comments

I want to be able to record snippets of field recordings (branches, air conditioner drones, etc.), and then play them with a midi controller: one key per sample. How might I do that in Logic Pro 9? [more inside]
posted by Beardman at 10:37 AM - 4 comments

A request has been made for the more musical Mefites to consider Ode To A Buttered Cat
posted by The Whelk at 7:05 AM - 7 comments

Name our Band! [more inside]
posted by pepcorn at 9:43 AM - 17 comments

Just a question about monthly challenges.. [more inside]
posted by mediocre at 7:02 PM - 10 comments

Please help! I do sound for a k-12 school's concerts, and I'm looking for a solution to a problem with choir mics. I've been poking around a lot on line but I can't find anyone who sells pads to muffle footstep sounds coming up through the mic stand. Anyone have any ideas? What would make a good material for this? [more inside]
posted by es_de_bah at 4:47 AM - 6 comments

I have a tenor ukulele. I have a Mac Air. I want to record myself playing ukulele on my mac. [more inside]
posted by nile_red at 5:53 AM - 14 comments

Anybody interested in playing exquisite corpse? [more inside]
posted by empath at 5:54 AM - 16 comments

What is your ideal tool for sketching/planning a song? [more inside]
posted by Doleful Creature at 2:14 PM - 11 comments

American contemporary music collective Bang on a Can is turning 25 this year, and to celebrate it, they're giving out an advance copy of their new album, Big Beautiful Dark and Scary, for free through 25 January. [more inside]
posted by askmeaboutLOOM at 2:10 AM - 1 comment

Buying music: what do you have to have? [more inside]
posted by sleepy pete at 10:18 PM - 46 comments

According to Fuq, "Everyone needs a theme song to play when they enter a thread". What's yours? [more inside]
posted by unSane at 8:54 PM - 11 comments

So what did Santa bring? [more inside]
posted by unSane at 9:00 PM - 43 comments

Bass and recording on Macintosh [more inside]
posted by Hoopo at 9:09 PM - 10 comments

Just to confirm - your December Challenge is HOLIDAY MUSIC, with possible bonus points below the fold. [more inside]
posted by unSane at 7:04 AM - 8 comments

Do you and your friends/family have any fun/strange/bizarre/WTF-worthy musical traditions that come up this time of year? You should share them with the group! Maybe we can glean a few from each other, and make them nation/world-wide... [more inside]
posted by askmeaboutLOOM at 4:20 PM - 7 comments

Hey there MeFi Musicians! Just a head's up, MeFi Mag's theme for January is Music, so we'd love to any of you music creators contribute to the issue. Could be written article, photos, art or whatever you think would good to put in the issue. We're open to suggestions also, so if there's a particular angle or suggestion for a person to talk, etc, etc, we're all ears.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 6:13 PM - 7 comments

Is it holiday music? What's the haps?
posted by Karlos the Jackal at 11:23 PM - 7 comments

We're heading into gift-giving time so I thought maybe we could share some cheap thrills and stocking stuffers that could brighten up your holidays, musically speaking. I love cheap gear, but it's always a bit of a coin toss, so I'd love to know what works for other folk. [more inside]
posted by unSane at 12:37 PM - 9 comments

OWS will peter out eventually, but I'm thinking and hoping that the Era of American Protest is just starting and will continue until we see solid results. [more inside]
posted by snsranch at 7:22 PM - 17 comments

Have you ever wanted to play the Quadrangularus Reversum? Now you can. This site has Virtual Harry Partsch instruments you can play on your computer. [more inside]
posted by umbú at 8:39 PM - 6 comments

I've written a bitterly humorous Christmas lyric (see inside) and thought it might be interesting to see what others did with it. This is not an official challenge btw - it's just an off-the-cuff bit of fun. Feel free to add or delete verses etc. Musically I'm very much hearing a rockabilly two-step along the lines of Dylan's Dirt Road Blues. I guess I'd only stipulate two things (a) that the four key lines of the chorus are retained and (b) that you don't upload until we can see the landing strip lights for Christmas. [more inside]
posted by MajorDundee at 2:30 PM - 2 comments

November challenge: A song never written [more inside]
posted by unSane at 9:39 AM - 9 comments

Seems that, if it's a Telecaster, you indeed cannot "take it with you"...
posted by flapjax at midnite at 10:57 PM - 6 comments

I've been sorta kinda following Cortex and Chococat on Songfight and I think Davejay, The White Hat and Doleful Creature are also on there somewhere although I don't know their handles. Anyone else? And any tips? [more inside]
posted by unSane at 8:55 PM - 16 comments

I watched some clips of Staff Benda Bilili and heard the NPR segment. My questions: FIrst, the can guitar thing. How is it made? Second, any cool DYI musical instrument sites you can point me to?
posted by cjorgensen at 7:29 AM - 4 comments

This could be kind of interesting... check it out.
posted by flapjax at midnite at 8:39 AM - 13 comments

What are some good exercises to develop better rhythmic cohesion as a band? [more inside]
posted by baniak at 8:45 AM - 18 comments

To enshrine a fine music.mefi tradition, your challenge for October will be to record a track before you put your pants (or your gender-equivalent) on in the morning. [more inside]
posted by unSane at 10:01 PM - 26 comments

Talk me down from buying this iMac for my recording studio, please ... [more inside]
posted by jbickers at 12:02 PM - 36 comments

I recently bought the remastered Eno/Byrne "My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts". They've generously made the multitracks for two of the songs "My Secret Life" and "Help Me Somebody" freely available for general malarkey and how's-your-father. Now....... I got to thinking that it might be an interesting challenge to download these multitracks and see what you come up with? You can do a straighforward remix or write something new using a few of the individual tracks or whatever you like really. Multitracks available here, but you'll have to register to access them (nothing onerous about this).
posted by MajorDundee at 1:57 PM - 7 comments

Install a Bigsby B7 on my Les Paul or is this a bad idea? Quite a bit more inside. [more inside]
posted by snsranch at 5:46 PM - 29 comments

A modest proposal for music.mefi - THE DEMO PROJECT [more inside]
posted by unSane at 4:51 AM - 7 comments

Name That Guitar Technique: Matt Good edition. [more inside]
posted by Alterscape at 12:42 PM - 5 comments

Your challenge for September will be UNCOOL. [more inside]
posted by unSane at 4:18 PM - 63 comments

I'm finishing up an album, and looking for volunteers to listen and critique... [more inside]
posted by chimaera at 10:20 PM - 3 comments