Common Tunes

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

dead link: http://www.commontunes.org/

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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A history of album art design

Music packaging design over the years.

dead link: http://digitexturia.com/index.php?content=album

Musician Royalty Calculator

This page applies the big label formulas for royalties to values you provide. Helpful if you are going to negotiate a recording contract, and very informative for non-musicians to understand the big label payment schemes that the RIAA is so vigorously defending.

dead link: http://www.mosesavalon.com/cgi-bin/calculate.pl

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