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  • Win Skullcandy Headphones When You Tweet Your Favorite Snoop Remix

    Wednesday May 05, 2010 at 12:18 PM

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    Snoop Dogg  remix!


    Snoop Dogg’s “That Tree” remix contest has, due to your participation, become the largest remix competition in Indaba history, and one of the largest in the history of the internet. Now that voting has begun and the submissions are in, there are over 1500 remixes to listen to. To give anyone a chance to win, and to encourage your fans to expose your mix, we’ve put together an exciting contest that will help bring much deserved attention to your top picks…and cover your ears with Skullcandy headphones.


    Tweet using the tag #remixsnoop AND include a link to a Snoop remix you voted for to be eligible to win a pair of Skullcandy headphones. 10 winners will be selected at random. 


    Guidelines:
    1. Your Tweet must contain “#remixsnooop
    2. Your Tweet must also contain a link to a Snoop Dogg remix you voted for


    Prizing & Winner Selection:
    When the voting period for the Snoop “That Tree” contest ends on May 21st at 5pm EST, so will this Twitter promotion. We
    will select 10 very lucky winners at random from everyone who followed the guidelines. Winners each will receive a pair of Skullcandy headphones. 




    Here are some specific tips:


    If you haven’t, head on over to Twitter and create an account. Once you’ve signed up, you can start Tweeting!


    Follow indabamusic for updates, news, and more contests:</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="padding: 2px 4px; font-size: 1.3em; font-weight: bold; background-color: #4795e4; color: white; text-transform: uppercase;"><a style="color:white;" href="http://twitter.com/indabamusic"&gt;Follow @IndabaMusic</a></span></p> <p>&nbsp;<br />Shorten Your Link and Say More:</p> <p>Since you're limited to 140 characters per Tweet, you'll want to use a url shortener to make the most of your 140 characters. We recommend using <a href="http://bit.ly"&gt;bit.ly&lt;/a&gt;. Simply go to <a href="http://bit.ly"&gt;http://bit.ly&lt;/a&gt;, paste in the URL you want to link to, then copy and paste the shortened <a href="http://bit.ly"&gt;bit.ly&lt;/a&gt; URL into your Twitter post. This will give you more room to write about your remix!</p> <p>If you have any questions, just email us (infoindabamusic.com) and we’ll be glad to help you out!


    Happy remixing!


    - The Indaba Music Team

    Tags:
    Snoop Dogg, Twitter, contest
  • Remix N.A.S.A + Promote On Twitter = $$$

    Tuesday October 06, 2009 at 02:45 PM

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    <![endif]—> From Kanye West to David Byrne, M.I.A., and Tom Waits, N.A.S.A.‘s Spirit Of Apollo remix program is an amazing opportunity to work with some of music’c most talented artists. With such incredible and diverse material for Indaba members to work with, we thought now would be a great time to teach you some simple ways to use twitter to promote your favorite remixes. And to encourage you to participate, we’ve put together an exciting contest that will help bring much deserved attention to your top picks, and maybe fatten your pockets at the same time.


    Anyone who tweets using the tag #IndabaNasaRmx, AND includes a link to either the contest page (http://bit.ly/3IrpuU) or a contest entry, will be eligible to win $500 and a one year Platinum membership to IndabaMusic.com (a $250 value).


    But, that’s not all.


    For every day that #IndabaNasaRmx is a top trending topic on twitter, we’ll increase the prize by $500… All the way until the pot is worth $2500!


    Guidelines:
    1. To be eligible to win, your tweet must contain “#IndabaNasaRmx
    2. Your tweet must also contain a link to either the N.A.S.A. remix program page or an entry from the program


    Prizing & Winner Selection
    When the submission period for the N.A.S.A. Remix Program ends on October 27th at 5pm EST, so will this twitter promotion, and we
    will select one very lucky winner at random from everyone who included #IndabaNasaRmx in a tweet. The winner will receive up to $2500 and a one year Platinum membership to IndabaMusic.com (a $250 value).


     




    Here are some specific ways to get involved:


    First, head on over to twitter and setup an account. Once you’ve signed up, you can start tweeting:


    Let people know you enteredJust entered the N.A.S.A. remix contest on IndabaMusic. Can't wait to remix David Byrne! </em><em><a href="http://bit.ly/3IrpuU"&gt;http://bit.ly/3IrpuU&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt; #IndabaNasaRmx</em></p> <p><br /> <strong>Let people know you're working on a remix</strong> - <em>Mashing up Kanye West &amp; Tom Waits in the N.A.S.A. Remix contest: </em><em><a href="http://bit.ly/3IrpuU"&gt;http://bit.ly/3IrpuU&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt; #IndabaNasaRmx</em></p> <p><br /> <strong>Share your finished remix</strong> - <em>Just uploaded my remix of M.I.A., Santigold and RZA to @indabamusic: "http://bit.ly/XXXX" #IndabaNasaRmx</em></p> <p>And, of course, this promotion isn't limited to just contest entrants:</p> <p><strong>Fans can get in on the action and promote a favorite remix</strong> - <em>Loving Matt Palmer's N.A.S.A. remix! "http://bit.ly/XXXX" #IndabaNasaRmx</em></p> <p><strong>Re-tweet something that we post from our <a href="http://www.twitter.com/indabamusic"&gt;twitter account</a></strong> - <em>RT <a href="http://www.twitter.com/indabamusic"&gt;IndabaMusic: Epic remix contest w NASA, Kanye West, David Byrne, MIA! Win $1K & official release! http://bit.ly/3IrpuU #IndabaNasaRmx


    Simply add RT IndabaMusic</em> in front of something we tweet, and you will have successfully re-tweeted.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="padding: 2px 4px; font-size: 1.3em; font-weight: bold; background-color: #4795e4; color: white; text-transform: uppercase;"><a style="color:white;" href="http://twitter.com/indabamusic"&gt;Follow @IndabaMusic</a></span></p> <p><strong>Making The Most Of Your 140 Characters:</strong></p> <p>Since you're limited to 140 characters per tweet, you'll want to use a url shortener to make the most of your 140 characters. We recommend using <a href="http://bit.ly"&gt;bit.ly&lt;/a&gt;. Simply go to <a href="http://bit.ly"&gt;http://bit.ly&lt;/a&gt;, paste in the URL you want to link to, then copy and paste the shortened <a href="http://bit.ly"&gt;bit.ly&lt;/a&gt; URL into your twitter post. This will give you more room to write about your remix!</p> <p>Our favorite part about using bit.ly is that if you a &ldquo;+&rdquo; to the end or the url (i.e. <a href="http://bit.ly/3IrpuU+"&gt;http://bit.ly/3IrpuU+&lt;/a&gt;) you can actually see if your link has been clicked on and shared across the internet!</p> <p>If you have any questions, just email us (infoindabamusic.com) and well be glad to help you out!


    Happy remixing!


    - The Indaba Music Team

    Tags:
    Kanye West, M.I.A., david byrne, Tom Waits, Santigold, N.A.S.A., Rza, Method Man, remix, Twitter, Indaba Music
  • Tweet A Sound (/Chord, /Session, /Creation)

    Friday October 02, 2009 at 05:00 PM

    Say hello to the Indaba console’s long-lost cousin. Or, well, pet hamster, at least.

    Tweet A Sound is a standalone desktop program for Mac OS X built in Max/MSP which uses Twitter to send synthesized audio. Best I can tell, it’s a collection of states for each of the controls in the simple integrated sound design environment, which, when captured as discrete numbers, fall below Twitter’s 140 character limit and can thus be broadcast just like any other message. The app includes a login panel, so thanks to Twitter’s extensive API, you don’t even need to alt-tab your way into Firefox.

    These tweets, collected under the #tas hash tag (which, sadly, is quite contaminated because of its application to other topics — there aren’t as many sound designers in the world as there are, say, teaching assistants) can then be fed back into the program to set the controller states at the other end, effectively reproducing a sound in Austin moments after it was programmed in Osaka.





    A little nutty, sure, but in a way this makes perfect sense — “Tweet” is onomatopoeia, I think, right?

    While Tweet A Sound creator Andrew Spitz doesn’t seem to use the phrase “proof of concept” himself, I’ll go ahead and apply it here simply because this points vaguely toward internet music sharing in a way that’s quite different from what we’ve seen so far. Specifically, it’s capturing sound in an extremely raw state — synth settings, even before they’re rendered to audio at all — and then disseminating it using a platform predicated on immediacy. There’s podcasting, yes, but here we’re transmitting sound that isn’t in a sound file yet. That’s a quantum leap.

    Now consider that the app is written in Max/MSP, which has pretty badass integration with Ableton Live on the horizon. Imagine running this as a plugin in a DAW; another quantum leap there, possibly.

    Regular RSS can hold more content than tweets and there’s no inherent delay any more than there is with a Twitter post (every account renders to RSS, in fact), which means that the leap after that would take us into plugins with RSS I/O functionality, which wouldn’t be limited by Twitter’s character limit and could be used to transmit things like MIDI in much larger chunks. (Note that we’re not yet talking sample-accurate audio, though I’ve heard of academics with access to the Internet2 network getting usable latency for remote audio — ie, black box with 1/4" audio input, CAT5 ethernet output, and then the same in reverse on the other end.) Server configuration to allow them to publish outgoing feeds probably won’t be trivial for right-brained musicians, at least at first, but a fair number of the kids who are going to spend their graduation money on microphones this coming May won’t be intimidated at all, and if the plugin makers host the feeds the way Ableton recently started hosting collaborative session repositories, configuration can pretty much be automated.

    Once we’re there, Osaka programs the sounds, Austin arranges them into chords, and the world gets a little bit smaller once again. Better get started on that staff paper notation wiki.



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