This Week in Tumblr: Seba Remix Competition, PostSecret, The Dears, and SoundCloud in the Android Market
Last week on our Tumblr blog, we saw PostSecret, The Dears and SoundCloud in the Android Market. Lots more happened, so check out the top stuff below!
Monday
- We teamed up with Seba, Ableton and Knowledge Magazine to bring you an exclusive remix competition. Download the free parts to a Seba track, remix it and win heaps of amazing prizes! Woot!
Tuesday
- PostSecret launched the LivingVoices project on SoundCloud! They want you to share voices from answering machines or voicemail that are meaningful to you and tell a story. Click here to submit your LivingVoice and listen to others.
Wednesday
- SoundCloud’s Alex will be attending and speaking at the Changing Media Summit organized by the Guardian. Listen to this recording outlining the things he will be speaking about in the player below.
- Hear the new album from The Dears, Degeneration Street! It’s streaming exclusively on Hype Machine, powered by the SoundCloud widget! Click right here to listen to the album in its entirety.
Thursday
- Check out this great write-up by Hypebot about the first NYC Music Hack Day, including an extensive interview with MHD initiator and SoundCloud VP of Business Development, Dave Haynes (pictured above).
Friday
- Thomas Stenumgård wrote a post which perfectly translates what we are trying to achieve with SoundCloud.
Sound will be an important part of new emerging media forms. We will see a rich variety of new art forms and genres, and audio will no doubt play an important role. Not to forget that the number of people making music is growing and also that sound has the potential to make the web more accessible.
Read all of it here!
Saturday
- This happened! http://market.android.com/
And, you know the drill, check out the Tumblr blog for all the happening stuff this week!