Nikolozi

Musician & Technologist

5MB Hard Disk Drive in 1956

TexomaTube:

In September 1956 IBM launched the 305 RAMAC, the first ‘SUPER’ computer with a hard disk drive (HDD). The HDD weighed over a ton and stored a ‘whopping’ 5 MB of data.

Nicki Minaj Is Most Followed Hip Hop Artist

MusicWeek:

The popular female rapper rose to fame in 2010 with her album Pink Friday, on which Eminem features on Roman’s Revenge. The Detroit rapper, real name Marshall Mathers, reached mainstream attention a decade previously, with track The Real Slim Shady.

Minaj now boasts 8,291,730 million followers in comparison to the Detroit rapper’s 8,269,910.

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo: Music & Sound Design

I looking forward to watching The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. The original music is produced by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. I loved The Social Network soundtrack, I reckon this is going to be even better.

Check out SoundWorks Collection: The Sound and Music of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo:

In this SoundWorks Collection exclusive we talk with Composers Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, Sound Re-recording Mixer Michael Semanick, and Re-recording Mixer, Sound Designer, and Supervising Sound Editor Ren Klyce.

Love the sound design analysis.

MPC Renaissance

Akai’s new MPC controller looks impressive. Check out the promo video. Software part of it looks a little ugly.

New Logo

I’ve been meaning to update my old logo for a while.It used to be a sine wave which incorporated letter N for Nikolozi.

After I submitted my app to KVRAudio, I was asked to provide a logo for my company. That gave me an extra push to redesign my logo.

You will notice a new design at the top of this website. It has the same idea behind it as my old logo. Saw tooth pulse which incorporates letter N. It looks edgier and more modern.

Building the Musical Muscle

If you were to lose your hearing cochlear implantation can restore it, but music will never sound the same. Check out TED talk by Dr. Charles Limb.