R.MSaturday, February 27, 2010
The Sandpit (NYC)
My good friend Matt O’Malley, RRR producer and staff composer at Human Worldwide, made the music for this tiltshift video.
Some great shots of DUMBO in the beginning.
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
The Way I Work: Paul English of Kayak
It’s true. If people ever wonder why I’m always tinkering with RRR’s website, it’s often because I’m trying to save myself time on the customer support side.
reblogged from adamgotterer
Monday, January 11, 2010
The world is wondering. We hope that, in our small way, we’re answering.
reblogged from educationalrap
Friday, January 8, 2010
Elasticity by Rhythm, Rhyme, Results
The Justin Timberlake-ish track off our (soon to be expanded) Flat World Economics album. Matt O’Malley (producer) and Mac Soto (singer) went all out.
Pop quiz: Off what major-label song is this track loosely based? (Hint: female singer)
Another MC who recorded on the same album actually knew the answer. Do you?
reblogged from educationalrap
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Excited about that one, read the interview. RRR is a badass educational rap company based in Boston/Cambridge.
One of the really exciting things about SoundCloud is to see the many different ways people use the service for. What makes us particularly happy is to see Cambridge, Mass.-based educational music company Rhythm, Rhyme, Results using SoundCloud to help children learn by using music as the medium of choice.
The track embedded below is my favorite and gives a good idea how they do this:
In the interview with Robbie you’ll get the chance to read more about the company. Let Robbie and us know what you think in the comments. Here’s the post, it’s worth the read.
Thanks, David!
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Tuesday, December 15, 2009
It’s important to find humor wherever possible.
One of the hidden joys of making websites is naming the URLs.
reblogged from educationalrap
Monday, December 14, 2009
Jango Artist Airplay
I read about Jango this morning via our Tunecore account and immediately drafted a strongly negative post, but after taking a deep breath and thinking about it more, I’m reconsidering.
At first the idea of paying someone to play your songs on internet radio is borderline offensive (as if giving it away for free weren’t enough!), but as a marketing expense, it’s not a terrible idea.
In fact, it dawns on me that this is analogous to Google Adwords for music.
As a prospective artst (RRR), my immediate questions are:
- How big is the listening audience?
- How can I reach fans with my existing newsletter or other forms of marketing? (Contacting them only through Jango is not terribly helpful.)
- How scalable is the method of self-selecting similar artists? (We can’t all sound like a handful of top artists.) AdWords uses some sophisticated algorithms for ranking ads from numerous advertisers that want to be associated with certain keywords; this will eventually need something similar, à la Pandora’s music genome.
- Speaking of which, how does this compare to submitting your music to Pandora and getting paid in their rotation (for free)?
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Wow.
MySpace didn’t bother to open up a transition period, or nudge imeem accounts into MySpace accounts, or even force an account conversion: they straight-up turned imeem off. (imeem.com now redirects to this landing page.)
I saw the writing on the wall, but I didn’t expect anything like this. I can’t explain how glad I am to have migrated RRR’s song players from imeem to SoundCloud in September.
Shy Ronnie vs. Boston Public Schools
via educationalrap:
In case you you missed it, the most recent Digital Short on SNL, “Shy Ronnie” (feat. Rihanna), is pretty funny.
It struck a chord because it reminded me of the workshops RRR did with Boston Public Schools this past summer. We worked with three groups of middle school students to help them write and record a song about summer, including their own verses and a joint chorus.
Thing is, we lucked out: there were hardly any Shy Ronnies!
Here’s the results of the student’s work. (Thanks to The Arcitype and Tommy Boots, who provided and helped us with music, recording, lyrics, and workshop leadership.)
Here’s one of the videos of the kids recording (skip to around 4:05):
reblogged from educationalrap
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
For everyone surfing the Web at home this holiday break, enjoy this: RRR MC and beatboxer extraordinaire, Tony Chin-Quee, holding it down on Millionaire two years ago.
Here’s a list of his RRR songs.
Sick as a dolphin.
reblogged from educationalrap
