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- Your say: Big Day ut 2007 – Entertainment news gossip & music…
- Miles Smirks page 1 – Music – Village Voice – Village Voice
- PERFRMING ARTS
- Electronic Learning Products Garner a Wall Street Journal 2007…
- Play@work: Fun turns out to be serious biz for IT cos
- Patrick Watson win Polaris Prize
- Talk of the day
Your say: Big Day ut 2007 – Entertainment news gossip & music…
stuff.co.nz – Sep 25, 2007
-JanelleIt’s a joke. The Kiwi act given top billing is Scribe. I don’t like his music personally but Big Day ut is a rock and electronic gig NT pop hip-hop rap etc. Leave the BD to rock and electronic acts and don’t dilute the vibe. I’m yet to find one person out of more than 50-plus I known who are attending who wasn’t amazed and pissed that Scribe is on the main stage in the best slot allocated to a Kiwi band. Come on BD organisers sort it out. Respect the fans and keep it true.
Miles Smirks page 1 – Music – Village Voice – Village Voice
Village Voice – Sep 25, 2007
It’s a throbbing hive of clatter and blare a sonic portrait of a place I’d never want to live. It kicked off his final sprint through the studio and across the world’s stages prior to his 1975-80 retirement but it was a singular gesture a combination “fuck you” and “welcome to my world. ” It was also Miles’s final album-as-manifesto until 1986′s ice-cold almost all-electronic Tutu another album I love dearly. Perhaps this previously unreleased studio material was buried because Miles didn’t feel it represented the band at its best. Certainly none of it has the balls-out ferocity of Dark Magus or the disorienting Afro-psychedelic power of Agharta and Pangaea (two concerts recorded in a single day). Some of it’s almost.
PERFRMING ARTS
Washington Post – Sep 25, 2007
– Sarah GodfreyVergeHazy blurs subside into quiet whispers. Pounding passages morph into tuneful lines. Such sounds are the stuff of contemporary classical music and the high-octane fuel for Verge the cool newly named playing ensemble of the Contemporary Music Forum. Verge’s Sunday afternoon performance at the Corcoran Gallery was an engrossing bazaar of sonic novelties. Glistening textures are the result in Broening’s 10-minute piece rendered smartly by pianist Audrey Andrist with the electronic assistance of Steve Antosca. A colorful if clangorous sound fabric emerges in Lippe’s more expansive essay in which percussionist Bill Richards showed restraint and rhythmic exactitude… Verge’s Sunday afternoon performance at the Corcoran Gallery was an engrossing bazaar of sonic novelties. Glistening textures are the result in Broening’s 10-minute piece rendered smartly by pianist Audrey Andrist with the electronic assistance of Steve Antosca. A colorful if clangorous sound fabric emerges in Lippe’s more expansive essay in which percussionist Bill Richards showed restraint and rhythmic exactitude. Flutist David Whiteside gave a rapt account of French composer Carole Chargueron’s "Fluide. " Gorgeous flute tones — gentle timbres percussive taps and breathy mouthpiece puffs — fused with a rich recording of water sounds unfolding with a kind of primordial languor. "Polis" is a strongly drawn reverberant video work of Joseph Harchanko while the big message of "Fractured Jams" of Dan Visconti was that new music can have some wit.
Electronic Learning Products Garner a Wall Street Journal 2007…
Free with registration – Wireless News – AccessMyLibrary.com – Sep 25, 2007
Electronic Learning Products Garner a Wall Street Journal 2007 Technology Innovation Award. (25-SEP-07) Wireless News. com Electronic Learning Products an educational software company has won the Wall Street Journal’s 2007 Technology Innovation Award for S.
Play@work: Fun turns out to be serious biz for IT cos
Economic Times – Sep 25, 2007
Earlier thisyear Cognizant?s festival Josh saw Sonu Nigam perform at the PalaceGrounds with employees putting up their shows as well. Cognizant Chennai evenhas a 20-member band Euphony complete with three keyboard artists two rhythmguitarists two percussionists two classical instrument players and the restvocalists chosen from 400 employees who participated in a talent hunt a yearback. ?We provide music support for all events and perform atleast once a month. From light music to film music we do them all?reveals Euphony frontman T Narayanan a Cognizant testing practice manager. Cognizant?s Bangalore band regales its cafeteria regulars every Fridayevening. Big Blue?s IBM Club checks the mood regularly andcomes up with ideas for fun@work. ?Music Jam is held on the last Friday ofevery month at the India Software Labs where we get closet crooners to concertperformers before an audience… ?Josh is modelled on a campus fest. We have JoshIdol a singing competition Josh Baliye a dancing competition Josh Ramp Walka fashion show and many others. We have sponsors for these and prizes includeelectronic gadgets and even international holidays? says V Anandkumarvice-president Wipro BP. Similarly Virtusa celebrates VirtusaNite in February-March every year and Accenture Now and Forever Family Daysand Communities. ?In our annual event Now and Forever weinvite employees and their families for an evening of entertainment includingcelebrity performances. In the past we have invited Sonu Nigam SunidhiChauhan Shaan Mandira Bedi and Priya Ganapathy. Communities is a year-longinitiative where people interested in sports culture and knowledge cometogether for karaoke dancing dumb charades spelling bee tug of war and soon? says Sandeep Arora the lead executive of Accenture Delivery Centrefor Technology.
Patrick Watson win Polaris Prize
Toronto Star – Sep 25, 2007
GREG QUILL ENTERTAINMENT CLUMNIST Montreal art-song specialists Patrick Watson ? a four-piece band that performs and records under the name of its singer and chief songwriter ? took the honours and the winner’s cheque for $20000 at the second-annual Polaris Music Prize gala last night in Toronto. "I really didn’t want to win. I was hoping Chad would" a visibly moved Watson told the crowd of about 500 Canadian independent music industry representatives musicians and reporters at the conclusion of the three-hour concert at the Phoenix Concert Theatre… The Polaris like Britain’s prestigious Mercury Prize is awarded on the basis of artistic merit regardless of musical genre profile or record sales. Also among last night’s performers ? all of them finalists in the awards race ? were New Brunswick’s Julie Doiron Montrealers Miracle Fortress and The Besnard Lakes and Halifax’s Joel Plaskett Emergency. Pop band The Dears also from Montreal and Hamilton electro-rock duo Junior Boys were also among this year’s finalists but did not perform. Polaris contenders must have released an album between June 1 2006 and May 31 2007 to be eligible. The list of finalists was drawn from submissions from more than 170 Canadian music journalists broadcasters and bloggers who were asked for their top five picks by the organizers of the not-for-profit event. Montreal bands none of them Francophone dominated this year’s short list. Parrick Watson’s Close to Paradise a substantial critical and commercial success in Canada was released in September 2006 and will be released worldwide this fall.
Talk of the day
St. Petersburg Times – Sep 25, 2007
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