Common Tunes

"A community directory of freely available music." From ice-cream truck music to Beethoven.

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[2005 Jun 22] [/music] [#]

A history of album art design

Music packaging design over the years.

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[2003 Oct 08] [/music/history] [#]

120 Years of Electronic Music

Starting with the Electronic Telegraph (1870) and ending with synthesisers from the late 1980s/early 1990s. Pictures and history, but no sound samples.

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[2003 Aug 29] [/music/history] [#]

dot matrix synth

"I've got an ongoing project, reprogramming the firmware in these 1985 Epson LQ-500 printers to turn them into musical instruments. I originally just wanted to make a sort of homemade mellotron, but it's evolved into a much deeper project."

Cool hacking.

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[2003 Dec 02] [/music/odd] [#]