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Tony and Jay performed at the in/out festival in NYC last week. Here’s some video.

Ocular Noise Machine 12/12/2009 Part 1 from Livid Instruments on Vimeo.

Ocular Noise Machine performing at the in/out festival in NYC. Part1

Check out Part 2 over on Sinch TV

Our hugely successful Sound Share project has a new home on Bluskreen.com

From there you can download samples from both Sinch and Bluskreen tracks and make your own remixes, mash ups, monster mashes or whatever you want. All the samples are released under a Creative Commons license.

You’ll find more information there as well as links to a bunch of audio apps to get you started.

Bluskreen Sound Share Project

A New Music Store

Yes, we have a new music store.

This time around we’re using a relatively new service called Bandcamp. There’s a few things about our new store that are different:

1. We’re now selling all our releases (except for the self-titled album and Imitating the Screen EP, both still on Roadrunner).
2. Everything you buy in the new store you’re buying from us. And it all helps support the band.
3. You can buy full albums and/or individual songs. In our old store you could only buy full albums.
4. All the downloadable stuff is available in a variety of formats: MP3, FLAC, AAC, Apple Lossless and Ogg Vorbis.
5. We’ve included some extra bonus materials in all the downloads, including liner notes, bonus tracks, desktops and more.

Live Cuts 2005: The Album

Second, to celebrate the launch of the new store, we re-released Live Cuts 2005 as a full length album. The album now includes all 9 songs from that show, including some live versions of songs from the self titled album.

Here’s the full track listing:

1. To Die In Fall (Live) 04:34
2. The Power of Suggestion (Live) 03:47
3. Identity Theft (Live) 03:52
4. The Last Scene (Live) 04:04
5. The Projector Breaks 00:34
6. Bitmap (Live) 04:54
7. Something More (Live) 04:15
8. 433 (Live) 03:38
9. All That’s Left Behind (Live) 03:36
10. The Silent Acquiescence of Millions (Live) 05:36

Live Cuts 2005: The Album is available now.

Pretty amazing mini-documentary on Amon Tobin’s collaboration with Sony on the music for the game “Infamous”.

Direct link: http://www.wired.com/video/amon-tobin–beans–infamous-music/24993155001

This video just turned up on YouTube of a French band (called Berny Bird, I think) covering our song “Something More” at one of their shows. The audio isn’t that great but it’s good enough to hear that they have a pretty interesting take on the song.

French band Berny Bird covering Something More by Sinch

I just posted a new Flickr set of last week’s show. It’s not as good as being there, but I know for a lot of you it’s the only option right now.

We’re playing tonight at The Horse. This will be our last show for the next month or so. Don’t miss it (if you’re in the area, of course).

Check out the video for Bitmap, now on SinchTV!

This video was edited in real-time with the Ocular Noise Machine. If you’ve ever seen us live you should recognize this as being similar to how the song is performed live. And if you haven’t seen us live, well, this is what you’re missing.

Also just added to SinchTV: Plasma

On our Myspace site, we get a lot of requests from people to add different songs to our profile so they can add them to their site. The problem is, we can only have 4 songs up there and everyone wants a different song. We’ve tried rotating them but that’s a lot of work and we can’t really keep up with it.

But we have a better solution.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE

Today I came across a new site called iJigg. It’s like Digg for music. Visitors to the site can listen to songs and vote for ones they like, post comments on individual songs and even embed a song in their own website (or sites like Myspace).

What’s cool about this is that there doesn’t seem to be any limit on the amount of songs you can post. So far we have all of Clearing the Channel and a couple songs from Subdivisions, and we’ll be posting more soon. We get a lot of requests from people who want us to change the songs on our Myspace profile so they can add the song to their page. Everyone wants a different song and we have a limit of four, so inevitably we can’t please everyone.

But now you can go to iJigg and grab the HTML code for any song you want and add it wherever you want. And while you’re there you can vote for all of our songs and help push us up to the Most Popular list so other people can find us.

For anyone who hasn’t bought Subdivisions yet, have a listen to the lead-off track “Circles”: