Electronic Music NewsChina´s musicians gather in Sanya Jazz Festival
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- China´s musicians gather in Sanya Jazz Festival
- Here comes something new
- Steve Aoki
- Schools Banning IPods to Beat Cheaters
- This one should thrust Feist forth.
China´s musicians gather in Sanya Jazz Festival
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"But the Beijing-born wild child Jungle Cat has a different take. Jessica the America-born song writer and vocalist leads a band with the style of a young and energetic generation. Electronic music like drum-and-bass and break-beat plays a major role in their music. Mac laptop Ableton Live software MIDI keyboard sampler and drum machine you name it. Jessica said "It’s a fusion. You can’t really say our music isn’t jazz as long as there’s an improvisation and a feeling of jazz. I think we can categorized ourself as jazz.
Here comes something new
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” The process involves certain cosmetic adjustments and refinements¨Clike the club’s vortex-like stairwell a visually dazzling deluge¨Cwhile some definitive features remain unchanged. A resilient veteran of the Shanghai club scene dkd first opened in 1999 as a small bar on once-hopping Maoming Lu. Its focus on quality electronic music allowed the venue to develop a consistent following among Shanghai’s fickle nightlife crowds which persisted through its 2004 move to Huaihai Lu and its forthcoming re-opening on April 30. The most striking aspect of dkd’s latest transformation is its exclusive focus on local DJs. “International acts have been done” says Mai. “This city is at the point where we really feel it’s time to start investing in local DJs. ” Creating a vibrant local scene capable of receiving and understanding international acts requires development on a local level continues Mai.
Steve Aoki
Los Angeles Times – Apr 29, 2007
” Up on the platform Aoki is swaying and nodding as he manipulatestwo turntables and a laptop the sleeves of his hoodie pulled waydown like a small child’s. Under the strobe lights his face isintent and his hands are long and graceful but from a distance helooks almost Japanimated all long slender legs and big whitesneakers. The set is a far cry from the pounding indie and electromusic that Aoki plays on his Hollywood home turf at his Dim MakTuesdays at Cinespace and his Sunday LAX party Banana Split Sundaeswith DJ AM. Still he says “I don’t play anything I don’t like. Some of thatmusic is great. And the physical act of DJ-ing is always fun. ” Aoki will DJ for free sometimes if the club is small and the musicmoves him.
Schools Banning IPods to Beat Cheaters
Washington Post – Apr 29, 2007
However sometimes it takes awhile for teachers and administrators who come from an older generation to catch on to the various ways the technology can be used. Some students use iPod-compatible voice recorders to record test answers in advance and them play them back said 16-year-old Mountain View junior Damir Bazdar. thers download crib notes onto the music players and hide them in the "lyrics" text files. Even an audio clip of the old "Schoolhouse Rock" take on how a bill makes it through Congress can come in handy during some American government exams. Kelsey Nelson a 17-year-old senior at the school said she used to listen to music after completing her tests _ something she can no longer do since the ban. Still she said the ban has not stopped some students from using the devices. "You can just thread the earbud up your sleeve and then hold it to your ear like you’re resting your head on your hand" Nelson said… The practice is not limited to the United States: St. Mary’s College a high school in Sault Ste. Marie ntario Canada banned cell phones and digital medial players this year while the University of Tasmania in Australia prohibits iPods electronic dictionaries CD players and spell-checking devices. Conversely Duke University in North Carolina began providing iPods to its students three years ago as part of an experiment to see how the devices could be used to enhance learning. The music players proved to be invaluable for some courses including music engineering and sociology classes said Tim Dodd executive director of The Center for Academic Integrity at Duke. At Duke incidents of cheating have declined over the past 10 years largely because the community expects its students to have academic integrity he said. "Trying to fight the technology without a dialogue on values and expectations is a losing battle" Dodd said.
This one should thrust Feist forth.
Free with registration – Philadelphia Inquirer – AccessMyLibrary.com – Apr 29, 2007
I bring this up not merely to establish my credentials as an effete poser but because Feist was playing in all three places. That’s Leslie Feist the Canadian indie-pop singer who goes by her last name when making her own music. (She’s also a sometime member of the Toronto collective Broken Social Scene and used to perform along with electro-rapper Peaches under the name Bitch Lap Lap and sing with the frosty Norwegian duo Kings of Convenience. ) Let It Die Feist’s excellent 2005 album scored an adult alternative hit with the shimmying. CPYRIGHT 2007 The Philadelphia Inquirer.