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For the spy challenge.
posted to MeFi Music by micayetoca
at 3:00 PM on July 22, 2008
(8 comments)
The Mehterhane
or
Mehter, as they are often known, are thought to be the oldest military marching band in the world. Starting around the 13th century, the
band accompanied the Ottoman empire troops (
Janissaries, or
yeniçeri, roughly meaning "new troops" and were comprised mostly of young men from the Balkans) into battle, spreading their music along the way and influencing western classical composers like
Mozart and
Beethoven.
posted to MetaFilter by sleepy pete
at 10:44 AM on July 19, 2008
(14 comments)
WFMU's Free Music Archive,
"an online digital library of music that will allow music fans, webcasters and podcasters to listen, download, and stream for free, with no restrictions, registration or fees. And it will all be legal." Still pre-launch, but there's already
quite a bit of music available on the site, including a
sampler CD.
posted to MetaFilter by cog_nate
at 6:56 AM on July 15, 2008
(18 comments)
Do you know of any phrases that can be used to confuse someone in a conversation? I saw a list long ago but don't recall any if the phrases. It could be a question or an answer. The purpose is to say something that
sounds natural and like a plausable statement but is difficult to decipher (or even non-sensical) and makes the other person feel stunned and speechless as they try to figure out what you said.
posted to Ask Metafilter by mckennage
at 9:52 PM on July 9, 2008
(41 comments)
What do you folks read, as far as recording-oriented sites, magazines, and books?
posted to MeFi Music by cortex
at 11:38 AM on July 9, 2008
(18 comments)
September 14, 1998 "the Tan Canary" passes away. He started out as a gospel singer but went on to perform blues, soul, county, and jazz. In 1968 he covered the country standard
"Release Me" and it became a hit. His audience grew, but stardom outside of his home in New Orleans was not to be his.
posted to MetaFilter by nola
at 6:36 PM on July 6, 2008
(8 comments)
What gear do you use to record?
posted to MeFi Music by danb
at 7:18 AM on July 3, 2008
(45 comments)
The
25 Greatest
Electronic Albums of the 20th Century. From the
instrument that was created by
Leon Theremin, to the
Moog Guitar that's been named after the legendary
Bob Moog (the inventor of the
Moog Synthesizer),
Electronic music has come a
long way since
its early days. YouTube [
a,
b,
(extreme caution advised: graphic images of death, destruction and 9/11 c),
d,
e,
f,
g,
h,
i,
j,
k,
l,
m,
n,
o,
p,
q,
r,
s,
t,
u,
v,
w,
x,
y]
(Previously mentioned here, here, here, here, here and here)
posted to MetaFilter by hadjiboy
at 10:36 AM on June 29, 2008
(84 comments)
I'd like to find some examples of bands rerecording their own songs with foreign language versions of the lyrics, please.
posted to Ask Metafilter by terrynutkins
at 6:57 AM on February 15, 2008
(72 comments)
Why do so many funk songs reference popcorn?
posted to Ask Metafilter by furtive
at 2:35 PM on October 8, 2005
(18 comments)
Mashup artist Gregg Gillis, aka
Girl Talk, is another artist to try the 'pay whatever you want' Internet release model. However, his
55-minute album consists of over 300 samples from other artists, with many current and past hits. No stranger to current controversies in copyright, Gillis also appeared in the documentary
Good Copy Bad Copy.
Previously.
posted to MetaFilter by uaudio
at 2:32 PM on June 20, 2008
(44 comments)
What is the legality of using a celebrity as a character in a satiric work of fiction?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Astro Zombie
at 11:36 AM on June 17, 2008
(14 comments)
I've been developing a taste for Mexican/border music.
posted to Ask Metafilter by jonmc
at 5:00 PM on June 11, 2008
(20 comments)
Oskari Tammelin picks up where he left off.
Jeskola Buzz, a flexible and formidable (and free) piece of music composition software created in the late 90's by Oskari, had its growth unexpectedly stunted by a hard drive crash. Oskari indicated no immediate desire to continue the project at the time, but users of the software were so enamored with it they
continued to create plug-ins, enhancements and hacks to pick up where the program left off. Oskari made the replay code available to those who wanted to develop software around the Buzz engine (for a price) and soon a number of
Buzz clones followed, including variations for Mac and Linux. And so the Buzz community ran...
until last week...
posted to MetaFilter by deusdiabolus
at 10:39 PM on June 8, 2008
(22 comments)
Old-timey / bluesy ditty from our new album. That's me on fiddle. :D
posted to MeFi Music by Baby_Balrog
at 10:10 AM on January 3, 2008
(11 comments)
From the Bookstalls of a Nigerian Market.
Onitsha Market Literature consists of stories, plays, advice and moral discourses published primarily in the 1960s by local presses in the lively market town of Onitsha [
in then-newly-independent Nigeria]...
In the fresh and vigorous genre of Onitsha Market Literature, the commoner wrote pulp fiction and didactic handbooks for those who perused the bookstalls of Onitsha Market, one of Africa’s largest trading centers. Examples:
How To Write And Reply Letters For Marriage, Engagement Letters, Love Letters And How To Know A Girl To Marry,
Learn To Speak 360 Interesting Proverbs And Know Your True Brother,
Struggle For Money [All full-text links are in pdf format, and some are quite large]. With links to
additional resources.
posted to MetaFilter by amyms
at 7:59 PM on June 4, 2008
(25 comments)
"In this rare documentary, Satyajit Ray talks about his films. Part
1,
2,
3.
Satyajit Ray... is regarded as one of the greatest auteurs of 20th century cinema. Born in the city of Calcutta into a Bengali family prominent in the world of arts and letters, Ray studied at Presidency College and at the Visva-Bharati University. Starting his career as a commercial artist, Ray was drawn into filmmaking after meeting French filmmaker Jean Renoir and viewing the Italian neorealist film Bicycle Thieves during a visit to London. He directed thirty-seven films, including feature films, documentaries and shorts. Ray's first film, Pather Panchali, won eleven international prizes, including Best Human Document at Cannes film festival"
posted to MetaFilter by vronsky
at 7:04 PM on June 4, 2008
(7 comments)
A poem that builds upon itself and grows as the world wide web grows.
The Apostrophe Engine is a website operated by Bill Kenney and Darren Wershler-Henry. It is the source of the poems in
apostrophe, a book published by ECW Press in 2006.
The home page of the Apostrophe Engine site presents the full text of a poem called "apostrophe", written by Bill in 1993. In this digital version of the poem, each line is now a hyperlink.
How it works.
posted to MetaFilter by Fizz
at 9:29 PM on May 28, 2008
(29 comments)
Looping noisy piano.
posted to MeFi Music by xmutex
at 6:40 AM on May 21, 2008
(4 comments)
I was inspired by Cortex's argument
here that "songs that explicitly talk about how great rock and roll are rarely rock."
posted to MeFi Music by umbú
at 4:47 PM on May 15, 2008
(8 comments)
ANNOUNCING: The reinstatement of the
MetaFilter Music Challenge!
(*cue applause*) REQUESTING: Your ideas on Challenge categories and structure.
posted to MetaTalk by flapjax at midnite
at 5:16 PM on May 12, 2008
(97 comments)
A woman walks into a bar and asks the bartender for a double entendre, so he gave it to her.
Ba-dum dum.
What's green and has wheels? Grass. I lied about the wheels.
Ba-dum dum. A baby seal walks into a club.
(pause) Ba-dum dum. How many kids with ADD does it take to change a lightbulb? LET'S GO RIDE BIKES!
Ba-dum dum. A priest, a rabbi, and a minister walk into a bar. The bartender says, "What is this, some kind of joke?"
Ba-dum dum. Instant Rimshot. For all those times you need a big red Flash button that'll give you a well-timed rimshot.
(Jokes courtesy of Ask Mefi.)
posted to MetaFilter by WCityMike
at 7:10 PM on May 12, 2008
(250 comments)
