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- nefest Series Part Five
- Vid-Game Music Notes: `Guitar Hero’ Flat
- PlayNetwork to Sponsor Largest Showcase at the Fourth Annual Decibel…
- Enthusiasm on Fringe at Edinburgh
… Report ffers Campus Security Tips – News Story | Music…
MTV.com – Aug 22, 2007
At least one death that of Professor Liviu Librescu was attributed to the fact that a door in Norris Hall could not be locked from the inside and Librescu was shot while trying to hold it shut as Cho attempted to enter the room. The group also suggested modifying door hardware after police revealed that Cho had chained several doors in Norris from the inside to slow police response. ther suggestions included installing centrally controlled electronic key-card access to academic and administrative offices like the system already used in the dorms and installing centrally monitored video-surveillance cameras. To prevent the kind of confusion that happened on campus the day of the shootings the group also recommended instituting a mass-notification plan in classrooms and other on-campus locations which would include electronic message boards in high-traffic areas a “people locator system” that would allow students and faculty to alert family and friends of their location in the event of an emergency and the beefing up of an existing system that sends out notices via e-mail text and IM. The Information and Communications Infrastructure Group reported that the campus’ telecommunications system held up for the most part despite a 3000 percent increase in traffic to the school’s Web site on the day of the shooting. But the group noted that the installation of a high-speed digital network could expedite the flow of information in a crisis. The biggest changes were suggested by the Interface Group which said that there was significant confusion among faculty police and mental-health professionals about privacy laws regarding students’ personal information.
nefest Series Part Five
scoop.co.nz – Aug 22, 2007
With astring of bNet hits already hanging from their belts (PonyPrance & Black-Jean Surly) these two know how to work acrowd into a foot stomping indie frenzy. They impressed usso much on the A Low Hum tour through Dunedin last year wethought it was high time Radio ne got them back downsouth. Filled with knowledge that comes only from a life timeof tech geekery Smith pulls out loving raspy distortedsynths and glitchy suprises rolled into eclecticsoundscapes. Local wonder-kids KTAC (Kitten of theAcid Cutter for those in the know) sprung from the ashes ofthe hugely popular Zan Batman Circus. Winners of the 2007USA Battle f The Bands – the dancefloor certainly agrees– these kids know how to make things go wiggly. Tune yourheels to the cowbell bust out some plastic bling & twist itto one of Dunedin’s most promising new bands.
Vid-Game Music Notes: `Guitar Hero’ Flat
San Francisco Chronicle – Aug 22, 2007
The creators of “Guitar Hero” are now developing “Rock Band” — which adds drums and vocals to the formula — for Electronic Arts and MTV Games. Activision is preparing “Guitar Hero III” for the holidays. And plenty of other studios have music games in the works. Fans of the genre are no longer a cult; today it seems every gamer wants to be a pop star. _”Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the ’80s” (Activision for the PlayStation 2 $49. 99): During the 1980s dozens of excellent guitar bands from the Minutemen and the Meat Puppets to Van Halen and R… But Activision really needs to step up its game if “Guitar Hero III” is going to compete with “Rock Band. ” Two-and-a-half stars. _”Boogie” (Electronic Arts for the Wii $59. 99): The premise of “Boogie” is appealing enough combining a karaoke game like “SingStar” with a rhythm game like “Dance Dance Revolution. ” You make your character dance by swinging the Wii remote; midway through a tune you may need to pick up a microphone and sing a few bars. The soundtrack is a predictable mix of karaoke favorites like “We Are Family”"Y.
PlayNetwork to Sponsor Largest Showcase at the Fourth Annual Decibel…
Free with registration – Business Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Aug 22, 2007
–>CPYRIGHT 2007 Business Wire “Dirty Dancing” showcase features an international line-up of cutting-edge electronic music artists SEATTLE — PlayNetwork the leading provider of integrated media experiences for business today announced the sponsorship and participation in the 4th Annual Decibel International Festival. The festival founded and curated by Sean Horton features over 80 cutting-edge. CPYRIGHT 2007 Business Wire.
Enthusiasm on Fringe at Edinburgh
New York Sun – Aug 22, 2007
* * *In an elegant octagonal church over in the new Town (in Edinburgh “new” means 18th-century) a very different kind of visual theater is enacted. “Anatomy of insects” is ultra-modern coolly technophile and devoid of any recognizable human emotion but so eerily beautiful as to work on the audience like a hallucinogen. The russian blackSKYwhite company performs in a thicket not of tree trunks but of glass pillars within which colored fluorescent light pulses along with the syncopated electronic music. The performers wear costumes that create extraordinary illusions of scale and distance. Can that tiny round crinolined creature and the armadillo-shaped being beside it and the elongated form with white flipper feet that is apparently three times either one’s height all be costumed actors? in the dim staccato light nothing seems certain. The performers’ movements are jerky like scenes from the first era of the cinema. “Anatomy of insects” recalls a time when filmmakers played rapturously with the magical illusions the new form could generate ignoring narrative but producing images of exquisite weirdness.