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  • Janice Wong
  • Url: http://swedenothings.com/blog
  • Posts: 18
  • About the user: Janice Wong is an Australian cellist and digital media fanatic living the life in Amsterdam (The Netherlands). She graduated from the Masters of New Media programme at the University of Amsterdam in 2011 and now works in adidas HQ in social media and talent management. Contact: Janice Wong janice[at]swedenothings.com twitter.com/swedenothings facebook.com/swedenothings

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REVIEW: PressPausePlay

Janice Wong | 19 September 2011, 7:08 pm | tags: , , , ,

PressPausePlay discusses how digital technology has affected the creative industries including music, film art and even literature.

How to make beautiful music (audibly & visually) without being a musician

Janice Wong | 10 May 2011, 11:53 pm | tags: , , , , , , ,

Composing and representing music visually has traditionally been through music notation. Using a 5 lined “staff” or “stave” as a framework, black circles with lines are drawn to represent pitch and length of notes with other markings such as “slur” or “staccato” to represent phrasing and articulation.

Experienced musicians can get a good impression on how a piece should sound…

Visualising music: the problems with genre classification

Janice Wong | 26 April 2011, 11:57 pm | tags: , , ,

Want to listen to new music but sick of staring at your old MP3 collection?

Streaming applications like Spotify, Last.fm and Pandora (US only) recommend related artists.

Sites like The Hype Machine and Elbows aggregate music blogs for instant internet radio streaming.

More importantly, websites such as Musicovery (the original interface) and TuneGlue…

Video Vortex #6: In Coversation with Natalie Bookchin (part 2)

Janice Wong | 15 March 2011, 4:55 pm | tags: , , ,

[originally published on Video Vortex #6 website. The original text can be found here]

(Part 2 of 2 – In conversation with Natalie Bookchin)

Mass Ornament

http://www.vimeo.com/5403546

G: I see you’ve really chosen the audio track and it is leading you through the work. The image itself…

Video Vortex #6: In conversation with Natalie Bookchin (part 1)

Janice Wong | 15 March 2011, 4:44 pm | 1 comment | tags: , ,

[originally published on Video Vortex #6 website. The original text can be found here]

Video Vortex 6

Natalie Bookchin with Geert Lovink. Photo: Anne Helmond

Artist Natalie Bookchin took time to talk to Geert Lovink about online video and her artistic practice at the Video Vortex #6…

Imogen Heap is crowdsourcing your sounds for new album

Janice Wong | 14 March 2011, 3:04 pm | 9 comments | tags: , , , , , , , ,

Imogen Heap is crowdsourcing your sounds for new album Imogen Heap, two-time grammy award winner and known for her innovative online practices to connect with her fans, has just kicked off her fourth studio album with sounds from her fans, called ’seeds’.

Video Vortex #6: Sam Gregory on video activism and advocacy

Janice Wong | 13 March 2011, 11:55 pm | tags: , , , , , ,

Sam Gregory, program director at WITNESS presented his thoughts on using online video as a political tool at Video Vortex #6 in Amsterdam yesterday.

Twitter brings New Media student on stage with Imogen Heap

Janice Wong | 25 November 2010, 12:42 am | 7 comments | tags: , , , , , , ,

Imogen Heap & Janice Wong (cello)Thanks to Twitter, I (Janice Wong – cellist and New Media student at the UvA) was given a great opportunity to perform on stage at Melkweg, Amsterdam last night with my idol: UK Grammy award winner Imogen Heap.

Event review: Music & Bits – day 1 of ADE Conference

Janice Wong | 26 October 2010, 1:27 am | tags: , , , , ,

The funniest line in the opening speech for Music & Bits was “now for a practical matter – does anyone have an iPad charger?” I loved to hear that, in a room of music geeks, developers and techies, and I giggled to myself and waited for someone to raise their hand. Of course someone in…

Online to Offline: review of TS2AS party in Amsterdam

Janice Wong | 19 October 2010, 11:34 pm | tags: , , ,

Three weeks ago I blogged about Justus Bruns and the concept behind Times Square to Art Square (TS2AS). Last night was the first offline event, held in MuzyQ, Amsterdam, where Justus explained the story behind his idea, “to turn…