Posts Tagged ‘color’
SWINGSET SOUNDS
I’ve had the pleasure over the last month or so, to be working with a great talent like Jason Danielson. Aside from being a pretty amazing human being, he is also multi-talented in many different disciplines. An accomplished musician, and nigh-expert coder, he never ceases to amaze me. When I got the call from him that he wanted to work together on a new project he is starting, I of course jumped at the chance.
Jason is building a music website that will function both as a record label for DJs & Producers, but also as a place to purchase new music, templates, stems, and DJ tools to be used in programs like Ableton Live. I think he’s on to something here, since most online resources for DJs tend to not cater to producers who also perform live.
So, the company is called “Swingset Sounds”. It gets it’s name from a bunch of different places, and has various meanings behind it. First off, is the musical inflection. In a swing-set, the drummer hits the ride cymbal with a double-1/4 beat before the 2 & 4 of a 4/4 time bar (If I’ve lost you, don’t worry). You hear it all the time in Jazz, Blues, and Swing tracks.
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Technicolor Yawn
I have always been interested in color. There is a lot to be said about colors and how the affect us every day. The colors that a person chooses to wear speak a lot about them whether or not they realize it. Conversely, some people know exactly what effects colors have on people and use them accordingly. Even in nature, animals use color for mating, defence, warning, and camoflauge. The same is true for humans. I would not wear a pastel purple button-up to a Tool concert. Same can be said for a Queens of the Stone Age T-shirt at a job interview. It’s about dressing the part. While this was a good exercise in citing clothes, I want to move away from that and talk about color in design.
Too often I see designers haphazardly throwing color in places where it has no business. Perhaps this is my own projection on them, but I feel that they either aren’t aware, or don’t care about the result of their color choices outside their own personal tastes.