I’ve just recently handed in an ICA for one of my university modules, Advanced Multimedia Development. The brief was to create a flash application to inspire and enthuse 16-18 year olds into studying music.

Here’s a screenshot of what I came up with;

Bearing in mind that it is a prototype and as such is a little buggy on the ‘Create’ page the link to the project is here: ama prototype

Further Development

My next assignment in the module is to develop the full flash application. Since I haven’t really had a chance to experiment with php & MySql I’m going to use those to store and retrieve the content for the flash app. All of my content (where appropriate) will be loaded in dynamicaly and I’m planning on adding save functionality to the create page. The ‘See’ page (I think it should be ‘Listen’ really) is going to show songs other people have made on the ‘Create’ page.

If I have time I’m also going to add more instruments to the creation page and let you choose how long the song is going to be. Hopefully users should be able to create some quite cool tunes on the finished app.

It’s about that time of the year, it looks like there aren’t really any other albums coming out this year worth noting so it’s time for my favourite albums of 2008

Metronomy – Nights Out

1

Cut Copy – In Ghost Colours

2

Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes

3

Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend

4

Crystal Castles – Crystal Castles

5

Hot Chip – Made In The Dark

6

Kings of Leon – Only By The Night

7

The Futureheads – This Is Not The World

8

Beck – Modern Guilt

9

Laura Marling – Alas I Cannot Swim

10

Honourable Mentions: The Presets – Apocalypso, MGMT -
Oracular Spectacular, Friendly Fires – Friendly Fires, The Foals – Antidotes.

What do you think? Anything I’ve missed?

The new Kings of leon album has been leaked onto the net and not that I downloaded it its brilliant! I’ve already pre-ordered it and its money well spent. Kings of Leon are consistently releasing amazing albums; I don’t think I can name many other bands with four consecutive albums that have been this good. Highlites on the album from first listen are; ‘Sex On Fire’, ‘Crawl’ and probably my favourite ‘Use Somebody’.

The album is being released officially on the 22rd of September and have announced a UK arena tour for the following dates;

• December 1st - Brighton Centre 
• December 2nd - Nottingham Trent FM Arena
• December 4th - Newcastle Metro Arena
• December 5th - Sheffield Arena
• December 7th - Glasgow SECC
• December 8th - Liverpool Echo Arena
• December 10th - Birmingham NIA
• December 11th - London O2 Arena
• December 14th - Bournemouth BIC
• December 16th - Manchester Evening News Arena
• December 17th - Cardiff International Arena