Multipart singing, a capella homophonic singing, oral tradition and simple music making are its main features.
Both say the internet has made all aspects of the music making-process easier, from hearing and composing music to distributing it to music lovers.
Input is just as unconventional: a Control Core turns NES-compatible gamepads into signal generators that can be used just as easily for music making as for playing.
She said that I played just like those people, as if I were throwing music out the window, that I had no sense of music making, just crazy fantasies.
After the fall of the Khmer Rouge, the Royal Ballet was gradually restored and has worked under royal patronage to reshape itself without losing its connection to its historic ways of dancing and music making.
Superstars of the 70s may not really be the best present I ever got, but it was the one with the most lasting reach, as it started me on the path to discovering new music and making that music a part of my life.
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Griffin's music-making accessories will be showcased at Griffin's booth at CES 2013 in Las Vegas.
But from the point of view of music-making and me doing my job, I prefer to conduct from the pit.
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Even the sounds of rockets exploding and lasers blasting meld with the music, making the sounds of combat almost beautiful.
"The fact is that it's the human errors introduced in the music-making process that are always the most interesting, " he says.
But after four decades of music-making, he entered a period of semi-retirement.
With StudioConnect, digital music-making has never been easier, combining both audio and MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) recording into one convenient accessory.
And yet, whether one likes her music-making or not, she emerges from this film as sincere in her artistry, if tortured by her demons.
But more than any other album on this list, the JAMband's funky grooves and Garcia's homemade music-making encourage listener participation, either by dancing or singing.
The film's canny writer-director, Sacha Gervasi, focuses on Anvil's struggles and on the relationship between Mr. Kudlow and Mr. Reiner, and keeps the music-making to a minimum.
Combs continued on, from his early days running Bad Boy Records, to become a cottage industry with everything from clothing lines to restaurant chains, not to mention music-making.
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All of baseball pulled a Robert Johnson, as in the legend of the classic blues singer who supposedly got his gift for music by making a pact with the devil.
His sensual, velvety, high-contrast black-and-white images capture the exertions and exultations of music-making, and Costa eschews talking-head interviews and voice-overs in favor of trenchant depictions of technique, mood, and personal interactions.
In telling the story of musical performance, the Cambridge work offers a kind of social history as well, describing private and communal music-making and the men and women who gathered to hear it.
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After a near-death experience in 1977 helped trigger a spiritual awakening, the artist formerly known as Cat Stevens (and the man long ago known as Steven Demetre Georgiou) converted to Islam and retired from secular music-making in 1979.
With digital distribution rendering physical ownership of the music inexpensive, enterprising artists are making music readily available, giving much of it away, and then cultivating a loyal following online and then recouping revenue through sales of merchandise and touring.
In addition to six performances at NYSCI, Maker Space was the site of a three-week education program that introduced 60 Queens middle-schoolers to the fundamentals of music composition through the use of iPads, Lemurs and other digital music-making tools.
The band takes an idiosyncratic approach to music-making: It purchased an abandoned church as studio space, it's traveled to Budapest to record with large-scale choirs and orchestras, and it often incorporates a jumble of reflective tape, neon signs, megaphones and motorcycle helmets in its live concerts.
Other notable features include integration with Siri Eyes Free for iPhone 4S and iPhone 5 owners, Google Voice Search for those with compatible Android phones, Bluetooth audio streaming and an enhanced touchscreen interface that allows easier access to smartphone features like apps, music and making calls.
The XO is packed with hyper-designed creativity worthy of Apple, including a unique software environment that lets kids collaborate in real time on applications ranging from a simple programming simulation to music-making programs (three come pre-installed) and even an application for using sonar to pinpoint the computer's distance from other nearby XOs.
The XO is packed with hyper-designed creativity worthy of Apple (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ), including a unique software environment that lets kids collaborate in real time on applications ranging from a simple programming simulation to music-making programs (three come pre-installed) and even an application for using sonar to pinpoint the computer's distance from other nearby XOs.
While Apple legitimized buying music online by making the process simple for consumers, the music industry has railed against its insistence on sticking to a one-size fits all price of 99 cents per song for digital tracks in its iTunes store.
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