Shazam has carved out a name for itself by allowing smart phone users to identify almost any song they hear in the world just by having the app “listen” to it. Now this handy service is dipping its toes into the social media landscape. A new update allows users to log into their Facebook accounts through Shazam and begin sharing the music they’ve tagged with their friends. This will let people see what people have heard, show off their own playlists, and even buy tracks through iTunes. These features are similar to iTunes’ Ping but with a nice twist: the songs being shared aren’t from someone’s computer, they’re from their day-to-day life. iPhone owners can check out the update now, while Android users should receive one in a few weeks. (via business insider)

Shazam has carved out a name for itself by allowing smart phone users to identify almost any song they hear in the world just by having the app “listen” to it. Now this handy service is dipping its toes into the social media landscape.

A new update allows users to log into their Facebook accounts through Shazam and begin sharing the music they’ve tagged with their friends. This will let people see what people have heard, show off their own playlists, and even buy tracks through iTunes. These features are similar to iTunes’ Ping but with a nice twist: the songs being shared aren’t from someone’s computer, they’re from their day-to-day life. iPhone owners can check out the update now, while Android users should receive one in a few weeks.

(via business insider)

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Diego Stocco on his “Bassaforte:”

Few days ago I started thinking about how I could re-purpose the keyboard of the dismantled piano I keep in the garden,  so I thought to build a new instrument by combining it with some other parts I had laying around. I ended up with this mechanical hybrid thing I thought to call “Bassoforte” (bass + pianoforte). 

The neck is from a broken electric bass, as a bridge I used a cabinet handle, the pickups are from a guitar, and the part at the top where the strings are attached is a chimney cap, which works as resonator as well as percussive sound.

(via @vimeo)

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SolarBeat is described as an “ambient musicbox” whose sound is programmed by the layout and rotation of our solar system. This sounds a bit confusing but it’s quite interesting. There’s only one basic control which is used to manage the speed of the rotation of the planets. When the planets cross the line they make a sound. Now obviously planets closer to the sun rotate faster, so you hear them more often. What ends up happening is that Mercury becomes an ambient drone while the other planets start to create a sort of random but pleasant melody over time. Definitely innovative with a nice clean layout. Plus it’s both design-y, science-y and musical! This was created by Whitevinyl (real name Luke Twyman) who has a bunch of other great work as well. (via @kitsunenoir)

SolarBeat is described as an “ambient musicbox” whose sound is programmed by the layout and rotation of our solar system. This sounds a bit confusing but it’s quite interesting. There’s only one basic control which is used to manage the speed of the rotation of the planets. When the planets cross the line they make a sound. Now obviously planets closer to the sun rotate faster, so you hear them more often.

What ends up happening is that Mercury becomes an ambient drone while the other planets start to create a sort of random but pleasant melody over time. Definitely innovative with a nice clean layout. Plus it’s both design-y, science-y and musical! This was created by Whitevinyl (real name Luke Twyman) who has a bunch of other great work as well.

(via @kitsunenoir)

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