Found some amazing youtube videos by Dub FX. At a first glance it's an interesting, experimental way of using your voice and electronics as a mobile studio to produce great music. But after this first impression wears off and you don't just concentrate on the technical aspect of how he is producing the sounds, you also realize that it's actually well composed music by a talented artist.
Related Links:
'Love someone'
'Step on my trip'
'Flow' (with sax)
'Soothe Your Pain'
'Society Gates'
OTTO is a simple and inspiring tangible sound sampling interface. Check it out.
Related Links:
vimeo video of OTTO in action
creator's homepage
Now that's an extremely cool competition. The task is to write a controller (agent) for Super Mario that controls the game by itself, winning as many levels of increasing difficulty as possible. The main purpose of this competition is to be able to compare different controller development methodologies against each other, both those based on learning techniques such as artificial evolution and those that are completely hand-coded...
Related Links:
http://julian.togelius.com/mariocompetition2009/ (official site)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlkMs4ZHHr8 (screen recording of one entry)
Grooveshark is awesome !!! As with all wonderful things these days, it's either going to cost a fortune soon, will be plastered with advertisement or will simply be sued by the music industry and have to go out of business. So... Enjoy the music while it lasts.
Related Links:
http://listen.grooveshark.com/
http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/song/Einstein_Rosen_Bridge/3100310 (hot shit.)