Universal Embarks On DRM-Free Experiment – Gives iTunes The Finger
Universal Music Group has announced that they will embark on a “DRM-Free experiments” through the holiday season with Amazon, Wal-Mark, Rhapsody, Google and other players, but not iTunes. The world’s biggest record label will allow select albums in its vast catalog to be made available in its experiment, but is not ready to crack the chest wide open. Universal has been battling with iTunes on a number of fronts and...
Limited Run Of ReacTables Available Soon?
The ReacTable may soon be available for purchase. Developed by four PHD students two years ago at Barcelona’s Pompeu Fabra University, the ReacTable consists of blocks, each marked by a hieroglyph-like indentifier, on a touch-sensitive surface with a projector underneath. Each block represents a sound modifier based on an analog synth, such as an LFO, filter or ADSR which then controls the sound playback. Users move, rotate and...






