Video: The Making of Listen to the Light by BLUEBRAIN

With everyone heading to or already at SXSW this week and next, I thought this would be a good time to post about the location aware music apps that Bluebrain has been doing. They've already done one for The National Mall and Central Park ( Listen To The Light ), the new one The Violet Crown is based around Austin and SXSW. Basically it's, as Bluebrain describes it, "a musical composition, available exclusively as a free iPhone app, that uses the phone's built-in GPS to alter the music as [...]

(Please watch the video above before reading) It was really quite something. To be able to walk around Central Park, and allow your experience to be soundtracked based on your location. Beautiful strings washed over you near the tall trees and luxurious apartment views by The Lake. You could hear boat [...]

Listening: 1. Rustie : Glasgow's youthful producer is releasing his debut full-length on October 10th. 2. Corridor : This is the solo project of Los Angeles-based musician Michael Quinn. His debut album is coming out on Nov. 8th. Listen to: Objective Lens ( mp3 ) 3. Goldmund : Great ambient music from Keith Kenniff. Listen to: Shenandoah ( mp3 ) Reading: 1. Un-nesting by Natalie Edwards 2. Choose Your Own Adventure. by Spencer Madsen 3. [...]

• Goldmund - Shenandoah