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            <title>Here's a Fun App to Quickly Develop your Music Ear </title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Always Envious of those who can "hum a few bars and fake it?" Now you can train your ear for music with Chordskilz, the music ear training game that develops your chord recognition skills and ultimately helps you refine your musical talents.http://games.sonicviz.com/chordskilz/ Tokyo, Japan -- October 24, 2011 -- Learning how to make your own music will reach a new dimension with the release of Chordskilz, a new game designed to teach you music in a fun and exciting way. Chordskilz is a fully interactive music training game that helps people hone better listening skills through recognition of chords and chord patterns. &nbsp; The art of listening: &nbsp; Developing active listening skills sets the foundation for a sound music education. Playing music and creating your own music all hinge on your ability to listen to music and understand it. Chordskilz helps make learning music fun and easy by giving you a total active listening workout in a core area of music ear training: harmony or chord recognition. &nbsp; Since we all learn differently, Chordskilz offers three different formats to train your ear. &nbsp; Game mode: There are three difficulty modes and eight levels within each mode to challenge your musical skills to the fullest. Players earn special achievements, and some of these recognize skill development by unlocking new instruments and keys. Replay and experience a wide variety of musical tones and timbres! &nbsp; Practice mode: If you opt to stay in practice mode, you can work on mastering one level until you feel ready to move forward and test yourself in game mode against the clock. &nbsp; Toy mode: Toy mode allows for fun and creative play. The more levels you unlock, the more sound toys are available for you to play with. &nbsp; Music theory: &nbsp; Chordskilz acts as the ultimate tutor in music theory. It uses a real time chord progression engine that produces chord sequences similar to what can be found in many popular songs. Using a 3D positional sound engine it taps into your brain's psychoacoustic abilities to provide a more engaging audio experience (through headphones) and also stimulates learning through natural audio cues. &nbsp; Personalized interaction: &nbsp; Any session with Chordskilz can be tailored to individual taste. You can click directly on the chord icons or hit them by dragging the 3D music note cursor with your mouse or finger. Chordskilz also features a generative audio engine for sound effects that never plays the same way twice. You can create a new soundtrack or backing rhythm, change the volume levels or turn them off completely via the settings. With these features, you can tailor the program to your individual needs. &nbsp; Media platforms: &nbsp; Chordskilz is available on multiple platforms. You can play it on a PC/Mac (US$4.99) or iPad (US$3.99). Chordskilz is a game that is designed to be played in your own time and place and at your own speed. &nbsp; For additional information on the news that is the subject of this release (or for screenshots, gameplay video, press kit, review copies, and PC/Mac demo downloads), contact Paul Cohen or visit http://games.sonicviz.com/chordskilz . &nbsp; About Sonicviz &nbsp; Headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, SonicViz is a Design Studio creating products and services to enhance human performance. Copyright (C) 2011 SonicViz. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone, iPod and iPad are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries. &nbsp; &nbsp; Contact: &nbsp; Paul Cohen, Founder SonicViz ó3-3469-3341 press@games.sonicviz.com  http://www.sonicviz.com  &nbsp; ###]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 05:05:11 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>New Free Downloads from Komuso Blues!</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Just released 4 new songs for free download http://www.sonicviz.com/music/ktblues/ All Live cuts from #SL. Enjoy! ]]></description>
            <author>sonicviz</author>
            <pubDate>Sat, 29 Jan 2011 11:48:28 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Komuso Live - YouTube Playlist</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Machinima! Video! Live Music!Komuso's YouTube Live Playlist ]]></description>
            <author>sonicviz</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2010 03:55:38 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Poor Boy (Extended Bluestronica Cut) now available</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Free! Poor Boy (Extended Bluestronica Cut) now available @ http://tinyurl.com/yjjq5tv Live SL cut, 10 min 18.6mb 256kbpsFrom the cotton fields to the asteroid belts, a raw improvisational elektrik koolaid space bluestronica enhanced version of poor boy, recorded live in sl on the12th Dec 2009 at "Up The Creek" club.Pay what you like in L$ or paypal to paul@sonicviz.comCu in the bitstream,kthttp://music.sonicviz.com ]]></description>
            <author>sonicviz</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:39:32 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Komuso is tweeting</title>
            <link>http://www.sonicviz.com/music</link>
            <description><![CDATA[
Hola Pixelpeeps!
Komuso is now on twitter , so you can follow me @ KomusoTokugawa anytime.
Feel free to also follow my consulting site @ sonicviz as well.
See you in the Bitstream. kt ]]></description>
            <author>sonicviz</author>
            <pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 09:15:18 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>The Rise [and fall] of Virtual Music Worlds?</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The start of a new series reviewing live music specific virtual worlds/venues. Check it out on the  metaverse music blog ]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2007 17:00:15 +0100</pubDate>
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