Flash Music

Seeking another connection to music, John ran a legendary movie house and concert hall in Salem, MA, hosting performances by BB King, Bonnie Raitt, Richard Thompson, REM, Eric Burton and The Animals, and Pat Metheny, among many others. John was a practicing trial attorney for 37 years and retired in 2023 to devote himself full-time to music composition and recording.

In May 2020, John released two new albums of original music: American Nocturnes- Final Days Of July" presenting intimate chamber jazz instrumental music uniquely arranged for piano, cello, guitar, accordion, and harmonica, and a new Latin Jazz album, QUATRO, featuring Magos Herrera, Chano Domnguez, John Patitucci, and Antonio Snchez.

Flash Music

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Joseph Robert Saddler (born January 1, 1958), popularly known by his stage name Grandmaster Flash, is a Barbadian DJ and producer. He created a DJ technique called the Quick Mix Theory.[2][3] This technique serviced the break-dancer and the rapper by elongating the drum breaks through the use of duplicate copies of vinyl. This technique gave birth to cutting and scratching. It also gave rappers better music with a seamless elongated bed of beats to speak on.[4] He also invented the slipmat.[5]

He is the founder and creator of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, the first rap group to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2007.[6][7] In 2019 he became the first hip hop artist to be honored with the Polar Music Prize.[8] On May 21, 2022, he acquired an honorary doctorate in Fine Arts from Buffalo State University. On June 1, 2023, he was awarded an honorary doctorate in music from Lehman College in the Bronx, NY. On August 4 Grandmaster was issued a proclamation from the city of New York stating that August 4th is Grandmaster Flash day.

Saddler's family immigrated to the United States from Barbados. He was raised in the Bronx, New York City, where he attended Samuel Gompers High School, a public vocational school. There, he learned how to repair electronic equipment.[7] Saddler's parents played an important role in his interest in music. His father was a fan of Caribbean and African American recordings.[9]

In 1980 they signed to Sugar Hill Records and began touring and releasing numerous singles. The seminal "The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel", released in 1981, is a 7-minute solo showcase of Grandmaster Flash's virtuosic turntable skills, combining elements of Blondie's "Rapture", Michael Viner's Incredible Bongo Band's "Apache", Queen's "Another One Bites the Dust", Chic's "Good Times", and the group's own "Freedom". It is also the first documented appearance of scratching on a record. That year, the group opened for The Clash and were poorly received by an audience unaccustomed to the new style.[20]The group's most significant hit was the electro rap song "The Message" (1982), which was produced by in-house Sugar Hill producer Clifton "Jiggs" Chase and featured session musician Duke Bootee. Unlike earlier rap tunes, "The Message" featured a grim narrative about inner city violence, drugs, and poverty. In 2002, it was one of 50 recordings chosen by the Library of Congress to be added to the National Recording Registry, the first hip hop recording to receive this honor. Critics praised the song's social awareness, calling the chorus "a slow chant seething with desperation and fury."[21]

Other than Melle Mel, no members of the group actually appear in the song. Rahiem lip-synced Duke Bootee's vocal in the music video. The same year, Grandmaster Flash appeared in the movie "Wild Style" and sued Sugar Hill over the non-payment of royalties. Tensions mounted as "The Message" gained in popularity, eventually leading to a rupture between Melle Mel and Grandmaster Flash. Soon the group disintegrated entirely. Grandmaster Flash, Kidd Creole, and Rahiem left Sugar Hill, signed with Elektra Records, and continued on as simply "Grandmaster Flash", while Melle Mel and the others continued on as "Grandmaster Melle Mel & the Furious Five".

Although frequently credited on the records, Grandmaster Flash does not actually appear on "The Message", "Freedom", or many of the other Furious Five songs.[14] Although Grandmaster Flash provided the central element of the group's sound when performing live (in addition to giving the group its name), there was little room for his turntablism in early singles driven by the grooves of live session musicians. Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five reformed in 1987 for a charity concert, and in 1988 they released a new album. The group reunited again in 1994, although Cowboy died in 1989.

In 2008 he released a memoir, The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash: My Life, My Beats,[24] in which he talks about the origins of his fascination with scratching records and creating new beats. From a young age, Flash talks about how he would sneak into his father's record room to watch the record player spin, and then get punished for touching the records. He found inspiration even from things not associated with music. The spokes of his bicycle caused an interest in how record players create music just by rotating a grooved disc. Flash continued to experiment by taking apart any machine he could get his hands on to figure out how it worked. His early work shows the innovative ways in which his artistic abilities led to what is considered the first evolution of hip hop culture.[25]

Aired in 2016, the Netflix original series The Get Down features a version of Grandmaster Flash that is played by Mamoudou Athie. The series takes place in 1977 New York City and follows the genesis of the DJing, B-boying, graffiti, and emceeing, the four element cultures of hip-hop. After the premiere of The Get Down, Netflix premiered Hip-Hop Evolution, a music documentary discussing the history of hip hop in which Grandmaster Flash talks about the evolution of his art.

Students who are blind and visually impaired can quickly and easily review the Music Braille code with these handy flash cards! Each card features a music term in large print and UEB braille on one side and the music braille symbol for the word on the opposite side.

This is a guide to make an LED flashing circuit that "beats" to an mp3 file on your computer, which can add an awesome effect to any sound-related device, or even your room (if you extend the concept with LED drivers or plenty of resistors/transistors).

The LED flashing circuit makes use of the Minim audio library and the Arduino program Processing to analyze sound, producing a response based on a snare drum hit, a bass drum hit, and a hi-hat hit from the percussion of the audio file.

Here is what you'll need to make the LED beat flashing circuit:

Hardware:

1. An Arduino microcontroller board. There are many versions of the Arduino, but I would recommend the Arduino Duemilanove. You can buy one online for around $20.

2. Three LEDs (different colors preferred, so you can see the difference in beats easier - I used a red, yellow, and green LED)

3. Three resistors (depending on your LEDs, the resistor value will be different - check the ratings on the LEDs to see what resistance corresponds to their maximum brightness, without burning them out)

4. A solderless breadboard

5. Some wire, to use as leads from the Arduino to the LEDs/resistors on the breadboard

6. A computer

7. A USB cable (A to B)

Software:

1. Arduino Software Environment

2. Processing Software Environment

3. The "arduino" library for Processing

4. The BeatWrite / BeatListener code from the minim JavaSound library examples

Download links for the software will follow in Step 3.

The reason this program works is due to the minim JavaSound library. This fancy library comes with Processing, and can do plenty of cool things with analyzing audio signals. In our case, it uses the fast fourier transform of the audio signal from the mp3 to analyze certain frequencies, and lights an LED if certain ranges of frequencies go above the allotted "sensitivity" value. In order to change this sensitivity value, all you need to do is change the "beat.setSensitivity(100);" line of code in the BeatWrite program. Also, as I said before, you can definitely extend this concept to many LEDs on a large scale. This is just a small-scale example of the potential for this great library. Also, if you know more about your mp3 than just generic hi-hat, snare, and bass drum hits, you can use the isRange(int low, int high, int threshold) method to beat the circuit to other patterns in your music. The sky is the limit in terms of audio processing with Minim and BeatDetect.

Many thanks to the Minim team for providing a BeatDetect manual with plenty of examples. This LED tutorial is a hardware extension of this software example.

Mine works too !!! :) I want to advance this now.any idea how I can make this computer independant device?(without the need to press play on processing sketch from computer to play song); just add an external battery and the leds blink according to music maybe upload the song on arduino somehow and play through speakers...???

Mine works too..thanks.. I want to advance this now.any idea how I can make this computer independant device?(without the need to press play on processing sketch from computer to play song); just add an external battery and the leds blink according to music maybe upload the song on arduino somehow and play through speakers...???

Mine works too.. I want to advance this now.any idea how I can make this computer independant device?(without the need to press play on processing sketch from computer to play song); just add an external battery and the leds blink according to music maybe upload the song on arduino somehow and play through speakers...???

I just got a Patriot flash drive to store and play music off of on my Kenwood car stereo. It came in exFat format. I heard Ntfs was the fastest so I'm currently formatting it to ntfs. Now I'm not sure if I should have done this. I want the drive to be optimized so I can find my music fast on the stereo. Its brand new with no files on it. I plan to transfer my music to the drive with windows 10 and play them on the kenwood head unit. Is there anything I can do to optimize the flash drive for this purpose. It's a 512gb drive and I have about 400g of music and videos. Largest files are about 6gigs. I just read that MFT could be an issue because I formatted it to Ntfs. I don't want to start out with a fragmented drive before I even put any files on it. What programs should I look into to get this flash drive prepared very well for my purpose? I need help from a computer expert. What would you do if you were me? 9af72c28ce