Number 5, from the 80′s movie Short Circuit.

Musipedia – as in a Wikipedia for music – has got a new music search program that looks for music by melody rather than text. The site has a keyboard (above) that you search with by clicking the melody. It also has a function where you can whistle the tune. It then searches for the melody in a Wiki database filled with melodies submitted by the public. Great idea, too bad I wasn’t actually able to use it! Maybe it’ll be more useful to someone who can play the piano.

It seems like most of the music technology institutions are after similar technology. I guess it’s the next "killer app" for the music world.

The Musipedia site also has some great links to comparable services.

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I’m sure you’ve seen them everywhere: The AM New York leaflets left out for the "Make Music New York" on the weekend.

Lots of stuff, but not much I’d go out on a limb and see. This here is a little list of some of the more interesting jump offs.

Update: Hopefully none of you took any of this info too seriously or anything, because apparently, neither did the organizers of "Make Music NY". I only know about the shows I worte about here, but two of those four had the wrong listings. The Morningside event was nowhere to be found, and the Cave show didn’t start until sundown (that was a mission of a bike ride for nothing!)

In other corrections today – this one my own fault – the Cave Art Space is named after a natural cave, you know, like a hole in a wall? Nothing to do with virtual environments.

Another in a long line of utterly useless things: the Tqualizer. The shirt with a built in equalizer.

I got this through a web TV site called Thread Bangers as part of a video segment on making screen prints at home, a bit more useful than the Tqualizer.

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Daniel Hillis did this in 2005, albiet with video projectors. (Click here for video)

Magnetosphere
Volcano Kit

iTunes visualizers will one day change the world. Cyke. But they’re fun.

And this new one that everyone’s blogging about – Barbarian’s Magnetosphere – is pretty cool. Click here for a good quality video of the least interesting version they have, and click here for a terrible quality video of one of the better ones.

Now imagine that the visualizer plays on your walls, which are covered with wall paper that is actually a video screen

But, on the usefulness tip… this Volcano Kit visualizer makes for some discussion beyond simple aesthetics (not just because it’s lacking in them, either.)

While bare bones in it’s presentation, it tries to represent what your music is doing in a visual manner.

Things like this can definitely be useful in helping people follow musical composition. Instead of aiding low quality music in get ting over by adding another distraction to the experience, this assists the listener in appreciating it. Adding visuals can help to distinguish notes, differentiate instruments, or even follow melodies.

The web has been encroaching on the role played by the local record shop for a while now. That’s not exactly news. But the shops are responding and adapting. And even NYC, a market where a small music stores can still survive, is no exception.

A quick review of some shops in the city that are evolving with the net.
Turntable Lab does it all… except sell digital music. Their web site has staff reviews of most of their music. They have an internet radio show on BrooklynRadio.net. And they have a blog where they post events, mixes, and other irrelevant stuff. Their website even offers super sperm from musical geniuses for demanding mothers!	One of those mixtapes fiends? Halcyon‘s website has LOTS of podcasts from their in-house DJ’s, as well as from guests like Diplo. Jason Charles also rocks anything underground or electronic for Halcyon on his internet radio show at East Village Radio, the one time pirate radio station that got shut down by the FCC.
The long time Mecca for backpacking B Boys that is Fat Beats has also been steadily embracing the web. They have a blog, and an internet radio show on East Village Radio where Monster and Bill Sharp flip shit on that underground tip.	Other Music will soon offer a “curated selection” (which is what they consider their storefront) of MP3′s for sale that can be played on any MP3 player and copied as many times as you like. Click here for updates on that. Hopefully, they’ll dead their weird categories, like the In, Out, and Then sections.

Eyebeam, a technology and arts center, has explored the future of graffiti through its Graffiti Research Lab.They have lots of cool projects, but the one that seems as if it could actually have serious implications for the future of graffiti – and public art in general – is the Pixel Roller (first video). You upload an image into the roller, and then simply roll that image onto the wall. Also included below is a selection of some of their more interesting projects.Correction: Apparently, the Pixel Roller isn’t an Eyebeam project, I just came accross it on their blog. It’s in fact a rAndom International project, out of London.

……A great tool for sharing music is YouSendIt.com. All you doo is go to the web site, enter the email address of your recipient, upload the file you want to, and click…

Maybe Industry 56 will mail me that Modal (industrial/experimental/basement)
cut now.