Trey Uses FourTrack
Posted: December 27, 2009 Filed under: Technology | Tags: Andy Warhol, FourTrack, phish Leave a comment »Trey, via MiamiHerald.com:
“The greatest thing that’s happened to me over the past two years is the invention of the iPhone. There’s an app you can get called FourTrack. It’s a multitrack studio on your phone. Writing on this thing is unbelievable. Everywhere I go, 24 hours a day, I have this functioning multitrack studio with drum machines, and you sing right into it. That’s all you need.”
When I read that, I was reminded of this Warhol quote. Not an exact fit, but it’s still worth pondering.
What’s great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you know that the President drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too. A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the Cokes are the same and all the Cokes are good. Liz Taylor knows it, the President knows it, the bum knows it, and you know it.
Acoustic FourTrack with Effects
Posted: November 28, 2009 Filed under: Recording | Tags: FourTrack, GarageBand, musical microblogging 4 Comments »I added effects to my recent FourTrack creation. Fun!
Musical Microblogging: Acoustic FourTrack
Posted: November 26, 2009 Filed under: Recording | Tags: FourTrack, musical microblogging Leave a comment »Using the FourTrack app, I recorded this one right after putting on a fresh batch of strings on the Yamaha. The percussive noise in the background is the clothes dryer.
Yes, I Believe It’s Music
Posted: November 23, 2009 Filed under: Recording | Tags: FourTrack, GarageBand, musical microblogging 2 Comments »I tricked out my first experiment with FourTrack, an iPhone app that is hooking me right now. On top of the four vocal tracks of yours truly (loaded into GB as WAVE files via FourTrack), I put on one bass track, two GarageBand drum tracks, some GB Lunar Strings, and some guest vox from FBdN son #1.
It’s a close call, but I think this qualifies as music, as in “the science or art of ordering tones or sounds in succession, in combination, and in temporal relationships to produce a composition having unity and continuity.”
FBdN Goes A Capella!
Posted: November 14, 2009 Filed under: Recording, Technology | Tags: FourTrack, iPhone, musical microblogging Leave a comment »I’ve downloaded a new app: FourTrack. App seems pretty good, although transferring tracks from the iPhone to the computer is a bit of a pain. You’ve got to have a WiFi hookup, which I don’t (a neighbor does, fortunately), and then each track has to be downloaded separately.
In any event, the app seems like it might facilitate some musical microblogging. Maybe they’ll do update to make syncing/sharing easier. Here’s the first creation. I will trick this out in GarageBand, even if it is only six seconds.
