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The News Review:
- Let the music rip – Digital Music – Gadgets – Technology – theage.com….
- Music Space Reflection Imperial War Museum North Manchester
- Baldwin: Avoid at all costs Bistro Zinc in Las Vegas
- The Anti-maestro.(Esa-Pekka Salonen)
- Schools Ban iPods to Prevent Cheating
- Clubbing together
Let the music rip – Digital Music – Gadgets – Technology – theage.com….
The Age – Apr 30, 2007
We’re going to show you how tocopy that stack of audio discs onto your desktop or laptop so youcan enjoy your favourite tracks while you work surf or just potteraround. If you decide to invest in a pocket-sized portable digitalmusic player such as the inimitable iPod – so you can take thosetunes with you – then all the better. But let’s start with thebasics. Getting Elton John’s Rocket Man onto your computer isn’t rocketscience.
Music Space Reflection Imperial War Museum North Manchester
guardian.co.uk – Apr 30, 2007
Music Space Reflection is a restrained bleak processional whose mood as Bainbridge revealed here in a platform interview was influenced by the sombre purposes of so many of the architect’s buildings. What begins as a halting series of chords shared between the four spatially separated sextets of instrumentalists (all identical with pairs of woodwind brass and strings) gradually thaws into some of Bainbridge’s typically busy filigree. Yet the music remains static and meditative though there is a brief climax coloured by electronic bell sounds and brass before the piece relapses into a final silence. Among the War Museum’s display cases and icons of war – a field gun a tank a fire tender – it made a curious rather plaintive statement. · Repeated tonight at Queen Elizabeth Hall London. Box office: 0870 800 400.
Baldwin: Avoid at all costs Bistro Zinc in Las Vegas
WorldGolf.com – Apr 30, 2007
A little flavor would have helped too. To add to the “enjoyment” on the Saturday night of this meal there was a guy on some kind of folksong-worthy electronic guitar fiddle that practically rattled the outside tables with the force of the melodies. It was basically electronic music for 85-year-olds. It’s not even the guitar fiddler’s fault. Bistro Zinc had him pipped in on these obxnoxiously-placed speakers. Add in a waiter who seemed like he wanted to be anywhere else too a hostess who somehow turned simple seating into 15-minute waits with a plenty of open tables and.
The Anti-maestro.(Esa-Pekka Salonen)
Free with registration – New Yorker – AccessMyLibrary.com – Apr 30, 2007
Salonen was speaking at the Apple Store in Santa Monica. He had been invited there to discuss one of his recent works–”Helix” a dense hard-driving buoyant tone poem for orchestra–and the computer programs that he employs to notate and elaborate his ideas. More than a hundred people ranging from longtime Philharmonic subscribers to college-age electronic-music enthusiasts squeezed in among the iMacs and the iPods to see Salonen in person. He’s an unusual kind of celebrity–a fixed point of cerebral cool in a city of spectacle and flux. Commonly referred to in the Philharmonic offices as E. Salonen is a short compact man preternaturally boyish in appearance.
Schools Ban iPods to Prevent Cheating
FXNews – Apr 30, 2007
However sometimes it takes a while 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 banned cell phones and digital medial players this year while the University of Tasmania 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.
Clubbing together
Bournemouth Daily Echo – Apr 30, 2007
New licencing laws which came into effect in November 2005 allowed pubs and bars to open 24 hours a day so revellers looking for a late night drink didn’t have to shell out to go into a club. A resurgent live music scene has loosened the grip of electronic dance music on the charts and radio playlists as young fans take up guitars instead of honing their mixing skills on a pair ofturntables. Although Bournemouth’s night-time economy remains as bouyant as ever – indeed Prince William was recently found living it up in Elements nightclub – it seems to be catering for a different crowdas witnessed by the rash of stag and hen party packages available online. So why would anyone invest £1. 5 million in Bournemouth’s first major town centre nightclub opening in a generation?”This town lacks a state of the art nightclub that’s as comfortable at the cutting edge of music as it is putting on party nights” says Josh Simons 25 marketing director of City Centre LeisureGroup which launches the Hush nightclub in Terrace Road on May 18. “When you have people paying to get into your club you are entering into an unwritten contract with the customer to provide them with entertainment worthy of that entry fee.