So true. And so sad!

A funny look at what artist Winston Rowntree calls Every Album Ever.

Via Cracked.com

Tags: comics, comix, ever album ever, subnormality, winston rowntree

This entry was posted on Monday, February 23rd, 2009 at 10:56 am and is filed under Design. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Emoti-Chair translates music into tactile experiences

For the first time ever on March 5th, 2009, a rock concert will be staged just for the deaf at Clifton’s Tavern in Toronto. The technology enabling such a feat is the Emoti-Chair, a device created by Ryerson University’s Centre of Learning Technology and the Science of Music, Auditory Research and Technology Lab. This chair basically translates sound frequencies into tactile experiences, such as vibration, motion, and even blasts of air. Whooo.

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Tags: concert, deaf, emoti-chair, Ryerson University, toronto

This entry was posted on Thursday, February 19th, 2009 at 8:28 pm and is filed under Events, Music, News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

This one is probably my favorite. Via Jubru's Flickr photostream.

This insert really does make me happy, even without listening to a single sound! Via Jubru's Flickr photostream

Love the little exclamation marks. Via Jubru's Flickr photostream

Let’s face it, here at Nueva Forma, we’re suckers for vintage design. Polar Alert Studios has compiled a wonderful collection of the top 100 vintage cassette tape inserts, and after going through the slideshow, I’m feeling a bit nostagic and am compelled to make a mixtape the next time I get my hands on a cassette. Unfortunately, most cassette tapes don’t look as cool as they used to. There’s also a wonderful Flickr set of cassette inserts via Jubru’s photostream, which is where the images are from.

Tags: cassette tape inserts, cassettes, polar alert, vintage

This entry was posted on Wednesday, February 18th, 2009 at 8:11 pm and is filed under Design. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

We’ve recently added two new albums to the Nueva Forma Shop, Being by Critical, and No School by Sleepyhead.

Critical - Being (digital & tangible release)

Critical’s music can be described as dreamy, indietronic pop backed by vocals, and his album Being can be purchased in digital and tangible (CD) form.

Sleepyhead - No School (digital release)

We also have the pleasure of distributing Sleepyhead’s digital hip-hop album No School, and while Sleepyhead may be part of the Dismal City crew, he’s still considered part of the Nueva Forma family.

Please give these albums a listen on the shop, and we hope you enjoy the music.

Thanks,
Nueva Forma

Tags: being, critical, MP3, no school, Nueva Forma, Shop Nueva Forma, sleepyhead

This entry was posted on Tuesday, February 10th, 2009 at 11:15 am and is filed under Artists, Music, News, Releases. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

I’ve seen a lot of wooden gadgets and gizmos over the years, and wanted to post some of my favorite items that pertain to the audiophile: wooden headphones and earphones. For the sake of brevity, I’ve decided not to make this a review or include lengthy tech specs. If you’re interested in learning more about each item, I’ve included relevant links and purchase information. I’ll also be following up later this week with more wooden audio gadgets in this wood series. Enjoy!

The Perfect Unison Headphones

» The Perfect Unison product page
» Buy from The Lazy Dog (most likely sold out)

Each headphone has been silkscreen printed by hand and is limited to only 50 units

The series is available in exclusivity at the The Lazy Dog shop, Paris, for 349€.

Created by The Perfect Unison in collaboration with Parra

Combining the natural qualities of wood and 30mm Ultrasone® mylar drivers, their high fidelity audio capsules guaranty a rich and natural sound image for an outstanding musical experience.

Captions & photos courtesy of LimitedHype.com

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Tags: audio, audio technica, denon, earphones, Gadgets, grado, headphones, jvc, Music, the perfect unison, victor, wooden gadgets

This entry was posted on Friday, February 6th, 2009 at 10:31 pm and is filed under Gadgets. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Relaunched as new platform for bands

Muxtape.com, a mixtape website that was taken down due to a little problem with the RIAA last August, is now back up and running. This time, it’s a little different and is striving to compete with bigwigs such as MySpace, Facebook and Virb to offer a new platform for artists to promote their music. Since Muxtape.com is currently in private beta, and the creator Justin Ouellette has only invited 12 of his favorite bands to join, there’s limited sights and sounds to explore. However, it’ll be a few more weeks until sign up is open to the public and we’ll have a better idea of what Muxtape has up its sleeve. Mr. Ouellette has announced several features that will be rolled out.

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Tags: band profiles, facebook, justin ouellette, mixtape, muxtape, myspace, Social Media, virb

This entry was posted on Wednesday, February 4th, 2009 at 1:20 pm and is filed under Artists, Music, News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Conscious Automata from Nueva Forma on Vimeo.

A cataloged, abstract visual journey, featuring Masmöd’s title track, from his future release, Conscious Automata, the follow up to his debut album, Axiom. Masmöd shares insight about his inspiration and process:

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Tags: Abstract, audio, Flying, Japan, Masmod, Nueva Forma, NuevaForma, Tokyo, Train, Traveling, video, Visual

This entry was posted on Monday, February 2nd, 2009 at 4:34 am and is filed under Music, Videos. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.