Electronic Music NewsPulsating parade for love in SF
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- Pulsating parade for love in SF
- Annie Lennox – Songs of Mass Destruction – Music – New York Times
- Music bytes
- Algorithms from Israel make beautiful music
- It’s musical chairs tables beds…
Pulsating parade for love in SF
San Francisco Chronicle – Sep 30, 2007
but it’s just a lot of fun. We like dancing along with the floats and everyone loves seeing the kids here. ” The parade of about two dozen floats packed with revelers dancers and DJs blaring amplified electronic music began at Second and Market streets around noon and headed toward Civic Center. Every time the procession stopped an impromptu dance party appeared in the street until the parade ended at Civic Center Plaza where partiers regrouped and again continued the rave in front of City Hall. Many tourists and other visitors stopped their shopping to watch the moving party stream by though most professed little shock at the event. Eileen Corrigan 55 and Geraldine Rice 57 were visiting San Francisco from Ireland and were taking photos of the parade from the sidewalk on Market Street. The sisters had read about the event in a tourist booklet Corrigan said.
Annie Lennox – Songs of Mass Destruction – Music – New York Times
New York Times – Sep 30, 2007
She worries about victims of war about African children with AIDS about the poor and the homeless. She worries about the state of popular music about every detail of her album packages and Web site about her stamina as she gears up for an American tour after her fourth solo album “Songs of Mass Destruction” (Arista) is released on Tuesday. ne thing she doesn’t have to worry about is whether her songs move people. She can see that for herself. It happened for instance while she was rehearsing with her band just over a week ago at a former biscuit factory in the dreary Bermondsey neighborhood of London… ” She listed some possibilities. “It could mean collaborations with other artists and I don’t have to check in with anybody else to see whether that fits my contract” she said. “I’d like to make a dance album that’s just purely electronic. I’d like to make a folk album. I’d like to make a Latin album. I think I would really like to make a lot more music to be honest. And I’m hoping that I will.
Music bytes
Deccan Herald – Sep 30, 2007
This provides the kind of backdrop for the nature of music of the album scored for most part by Sneha Khanwalkar. ‘Kaash’ is a slow melodious song sung by Farhad Bhiwandiwala and Priyadarshini. ‘oh’ is a staccato-paced song with electro-laced music sung by Vinod Rathod and Sunidhi Chauhan. Both these songs have a remix version by Amar Mohite. The title song ‘Go’ is a racy song heavy on percussion and is sung by Kunal Ganjawala Meenal Jain and Suzanne and ‘So cool’ is rather an unimpressive duet by Kunal Ganjawala and Suzanne. ‘Dhan tan tan’ a duet by Kunal and Sneha also has a remix version by DJ Aqueel. verall the music is average and there isn’t a single track which will set the town on fire.
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Algorithms from Israel make beautiful music
Israel 21C – Sep 30, 2007
“There are human performances that people like and don’t like. It’s an issue of being credible or not credible. “Electronic Musician magazine lauded the MR and its ability to create computerized music with human traits: “The Silpor Music Web site includes some examples of pieces performed with and without MR as well as the same pieces performed by human musicians and the results are remarkable. This technology is a real boon for composers who wish to hear their work played by a computer with a convincingly human touch. If only it could also make coffee.
DVD to iPod
It’s musical chairs tables beds…
San Diego Union Tribune – Sep 30, 2007
“And she was right. ”Six years ago the iPod was still weeks away from its debut. Today the little (and always getting littler) portable music player reigns over the media industry and increasingly our lives. People take their iPods to the office to the gym into the shower. The devices have infiltrated the fashion industry with jeans jackets shirts belts gloves – even underwear – being designed to accommodate them. Greg Joswiak vice president of iPod Product Marketing said the iPod has spawned “a vibrant ecosystem” of more than 4000 consumer products from protective cases and speaker systems to wireless remote controls and earphones. Now the furniture industry is getting in on the act… Greg Joswiak vice president of iPod Product Marketing said the iPod has spawned “a vibrant ecosystem” of more than 4000 consumer products from protective cases and speaker systems to wireless remote controls and earphones. Now the furniture industry is getting in on the act. No longer restricted to entertainment centers and home offices iPods and other portable electronic devices are finding places to plug in all over the house: in beds and chairs with built-in speakers lamps designed with docking stations and living room tables that double as universal charging stations. There's even a toilet tissue holder that will charge and play an iPod and – at the other extreme – a $14000 dining table with a built-in dock. “It's clearly indicative of how important music is in our lives and how synonymous iPod has become with the way people enjoy music” Joswiak said. “It's for customers to have music wherever they are. ”Getting plugged inLike almost every tech-savvy consumer innovation it all starts with teens.