Artist Profile in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune’s “The Ticket”

Sarasota’s premier newspaper periodically features locale musicians in their arts publication / website “The Ticket”, and they’ve featured yours-truly this week. Journalist Dawn Scire does a bang-on job describing my sound in all its permutations and combinations, and I might just have to steal some of her phrases when describing my music in the future. Rock on for [...]

“Pity” Live in Montreal with Strings – Jon Day

GET EDUCATED: Friend and fellow McGill / Effusion Alum Jon Day continues to simultaneously inspire and infuriate me with his boundless talent. Check out this live video and buy all of his discs, they will be some of the best music you’ve ever owned.

Beatbox / Dance / Lightshow MAX/MSP Installation – Jason Levine

This is totally rad; my friend and fellow Effusion Alum Jason Levine just posted this on his wall. In a nutshell: he beatboxs / throatsings while a computer offstage (which I am quite sure he would have programmed using MAX/MSP/JITTER) analyzes his vocalizations and projects lights in corresponding colors and intensities. Meanwhile, the system also [...]

Great Tool for Cross-Browser Friendly Webdesigns: “NetRenderer”

In updating the website for JoJoe, a Montreal-based Reggae Artist, I was having some trouble with the site displaying improperly in Internet Explorer (on Windows which I don’t have access to). It looked fine on my mac, but the band said on their PC it was all messed up after I had experienced and thought [...]

The Physics of Dreamtime – Repost of my Didgeridoo Acoustic Paper

While studying Music Technology at McGill University I wrote a paper on the the acoustics of the Didgeridoo. There are a few errors and minor technical flubs, but overall a paper I am quite proud of. Since migrating my old website benjaminhammond.com some of my content has been lost, so I reposting this here on [...]

“Push” by Akua Carson

Check out this sweet video from my friend and fellow Effusion A Cappella Alum Akua Carson. Not only is it a catchy tune with a cool quirky video, it also features shots of the coolest city in North America: Montreal. I miss you guys up there! Great job on the song Akua! Rumo(u)rs have it [...]

Ben Hammond Fellow Beatboxer Biking from Calgary to Toronto to Raise Money …

[http://www.prairiepedal.com] Friend / Fellow A Cappella Beatbox / Computer Junky / McGill Alum Shane Saunderson is riding his bike across a good chunk of Canada to raise money and awareness for a rare form of cancer, check out the website and please consider joining me in donating! http://www.prairiepedal.com – Posted By Ben Hammond to Ben [...]