Electronic Music NewsVienna savors a taste of China art
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- Vienna savors a taste of China art
- Deerhunter’s Cox Steps ut With Atlas Sound
- Electronic devices by Sony Amazon have their charms
- “Rock Band” video game addictive
- Sound Bites: Music Reviews
Vienna savors a taste of China art
央è§åé – Nov 29, 2007
Chinese tenor Ding Yi soprano Yao Hong and leading art troupes headlined the potpourri of singing dancing acrobatics and instrumental music. Their performances won sustained applause from almost a thousand guests from China and Austria. Contemporary electronic music gave the audience a particular charge. Attending the concert was Dr. Claudia Schmiedthe Austrian Minister of Education Arts and Culture; Hu Zhenmin vice-chairman of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles and Wu Ken Chinese Ambassador to Austria. The cultural exchange was jointly organized by the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles and the Austrian Ministry of Education Arts and Culture.
Deerhunter’s Cox Steps ut With Atlas Sound
Billboard – Nov 29, 2007
There’s nothing worse than having an expectation about how something sounds then finding out how you sound doesn’t meet those expectations. Fans of Deerhunter’s distorted rock aesthetic will notice a difference in Atlas Sound’s softer more electronic approach. “I’m really into early electronic music as well as music as therapy” Cox explains. “I wanted this to be close to what I was doing — the Deerhunter sound is very much five personalities where this is very much me. ” CM8ShowAd(“Middle”); Although no dates have been set Cox plans to take his solo show on the road and is currently trying to figure out how to transition the material to a live setting. Kranky labelmates White Rainbow and Honey wens will help make up his live band.
Electronic devices by Sony Amazon have their charms
USA Today – Nov 29, 2007
com released last week; and the non-wireless Sony Reader Portable Reader System PRS-505 the second edition of a contraption I reviewed a year ago. The machines are pricey: $399 for the Kindle $300 for the Reader. And you’re probably thinking what’s wrong with the old fashioned paper-based books we’ve been reading for centuries?The devices use gray-scale electronic ink technology which does a fine job replicating reading on actual paper notwithstanding the moment it takes for pages to refresh. Neither 6-inch screen is back-lit. You can’t read in the dark. Displays are meant to reduce eyestrain and preserve the battery. Going digital provides at least one huge advantage over bound books… (Sony’s software doesn’t work with Macs. ) You can read books on the computer. f note Kindle also uses a USB transfer for audiobooks and music. E-readers aren’t ideal for all kinds of works; kid’s and coffee table books leap to mind. Still my read on e-books is that they have a surprisingly promising future. Page 5BE-mail | Save | Print |.
“Rock Band” video game addictive
Denver Post – Nov 29, 2007
Remember the simple Atari controller a true-to-its-name joystick with a single orange button? Even novice gamers can name the dozens of systems — and describe the accompanying controllers — that have littered their floors in the years since the 1977 release of the original Atari. But as we approach this Christmas season the annual bash for the gaming industry there’s only one controller many video-game aficionados are using on a regular basis. A hint: It’s crafted of hard plastic and shaped like a miniature guitar or a four-pad electronic drum kit or a microphone. ‘Tis the season for “Rock Band” the new full-band music game from Harmonix Music Systems that is the main competitor to popular incumbent “Guitar Hero 3. ” Both games are centered on rock shows with the gamers “playing” the music — via color-coded notes and coinciding buttons — and scoring points winning fans and gaining cash. The key to “Rock Band” however is interaction. Whereas “Guitar Hero 3″ offers a competitive one-on-one mode “Rock Band” allows four players — guitar bass drums and vocals — to compete alongside one another.
Sound Bites: Music Reviews
Summit Daily News – Nov 29, 2007
But the liner notes are informative and previously unpublished photos are a treat just like the music. This six-CD box set contains Davis’ studio sesssions from 1972-75 when the trumpeter completely reinvented himself and upset the jazz establishment with his revolutionary new style of electronic improvisational funk music. It was way ahead of its time and anticipated future trends in techno trance world music and even rap. n these sessions Davis abandoned the jazz mainstream with its emphasis on individual soloing in favor of a churning orchestral collective jam-band style. Davis brewed together a heady gumbo of ingredients: his own muted wah-wah trumpet funky Motown bassist Michael Henderson’s grooves rooted in James Brown and Sly Stone Dave Liebman and Sonny Fortune’s post-Coltrane saxophone blowing Pete Cosey and Reggie Lucas’ slashing Jimi Hendrix-style electric guitar runs; Indian tabla player Badal Roy and electric sitarist Khalil Balakrishna’s world music influences and tape manipulations inspired by avant-garde electronic composer Karlheinz Stockhausen. This set not only contains material released on the studio albums "n the Corner" (1982) "Get Up With It" (1974) and "Big Fun" (1974) but also 12 previously unreleased tracks notably the brooding "Mr.