The Black Hole was created as part of Hyper Island’s “Work Hard, Play Hard” annual exploring technology and animation expo on October 27, 2011.
The exhibition was held in central Stockholm and showcased 14 prototypes built by Digital Media & Motion Graphics students from both Stockholm and Karlskrona.
Witness the full experience (via Thinglink) by clicking on the picture above!
WOAH. We’ve just stumbled across the Diamond Media 360 distribution page.
These guys are showcasing their releases by integrating an album artwork cover flow to interact with a SoundCloud widget…
Select an album and watch as the music for that corresponding release populates through the SoundCloud widget! Neat!
Want to learn more about the SoundCloud widgets and players? CLICK
Right now you can stream both tracks from The M Machine’s upcoming release, “Promise Me A Rose Garden/Glow” at themmachine.heroku.com, click each track to play/pause, sit back and enjoy!
Interested in setting up your own SoundCloud Premiere? Click here for more info.
Check out this SoundCloud playlist featuring music from artists playing All Tomorrows Parties ”Nightmare Before Christmas” curated by Battles, Caribou and Les Savy Fav, don’t forget to download the freebies!
Death Cab for Cutie have announced a collection of remixes of songs from “Codes and Keys” and they’re kicking it all off with a remix of “Doors Unlocked and Open” by Cut Copy, which you can check out above.
Keep track of all 7 remixes within their rad SoundCloud Premiere app at keysandcodes.deathcabforcutie.com
Want to use a SoundCloud group for something really different? Take a leaf out of Benji Boko’s book and use a group as a call to action for people to drop in organic sounds for your projects. Benji has asked the SoundCloud community to send him tracks which he will then use to create, live, one piece of music for our SoundCloud Global Meet Up Day in London!
Listen to what people have contributed so far in the player above before clicking here to drop a sound in yourself!
Wales’ annual new music festival Swn is just around the corner, and to promote the event they’ve reached out to each of the bands, artists and performers attending the festival and asked them to each drop one track into this Swn Festival group!
The advantage of using a group to promote your event is that with the click of a Share button it magically transforms into an embeddable playlist which can be sent out to press, bloggers, sponsors and more!
Head to www.swnfest.com/swn-playlist for the full experience or simply hit play below for your very own taster of Swn Festival 2011…
For more tips on how to use a group to promote your event, head to soundcloud.com/101/events
(Did you know, Swn is pronounced “soon” and translates into “Sound!”)
This week in SoundCloud Spotted we’re going to be focusing on the use of our groups feature for submissions, interactivity and collaboration!
Our first example comes from Fat Cat Records who use a SoundCloud group to listen to new music sent to them via their Dropbox.
They have a nifty little Group Dropbox widget sitting on their website which bands can click on to link through to their group and submit a track…
…and it doesn’t end there.
Fat Cat even have a dedicated Demo Archive where, even though they can’t sign every band who submits a demo, they can still highlight the best demos they receive and help promote new artists in that way.
If you’re a label, a manager, a blogger or you’re simply receiving more incoming tracks than you can handle, you can use a SoundCloud group to collect these submissions, moderate the content and stream them all from the same place!
Remember, anyone on SoundCloud can start a group, just head to soundcloud.com/groups/new to start your first group, and for a bit more info head here: CLICK
Our final conversational piece this week comes from a rad mashup with SimpleGeo which means you can listen to the new Blink 182 “Neighborhood” album in your own “Neighborhood”.
Using SimpleGeo‘s GPS technology, it will locate your neighborhood through your browser and drop you in a chat experience combined with our listening technology. ENJOY!
Want to get a conversation going while you showcase a new track or album? Take a lesson from Orlando Higginbottom aka Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs who is showing off his array of fans, highlighting their dedication and conversing with them through the comments on his new track ‘Garden’ …
Head to garden.totallyenormousextinctdinosaurs.com to check it out!
