Electronic Music NewsRTÃ.ie Lyric fm: Nova
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- RTÃ.ie Lyric fm: Nova
- A composer’s lifelong quest: Moving the music forward
- Hip-Hop – Music – Santogold – New York Times
- New music good and bad at Icebreaker fest
- Cleveland.com: Nightlife Forum
- MP3 player matches music to your heartbeat
- Turnarounds Are Tough When You Can nly Go 331/3
RTÃ.ie Lyric fm: Nova
rte.ie – Jan 27, 2008
smil”)’>Listen to this programmeBoxcutter Live session – Nova January 27th 2008 An exclusive live session from Studio 8 in RT?by Boxcutter one of Ireland’s leading electronic music producers. The set will feature some brand new material that’s never been heard before as well as elements of older tracks reworked and recombined on the fly. This session is RT?lyric fm’s contribution to the 2008 EBU Arts Birthday celebrations.
A composer’s lifelong quest: Moving the music forward
San Diego Union Tribune – Jan 27, 2008
Now in his seventh year as Professor of Music and Director of Electro-Acoustic and Media Composition at San Diego State Waters hasn't exactly knocked the doors down. But he is broadening the school's focus beyond the European classical music tradition that has dominated music education for centuries. Waters whose quartet SWARMIUS makes its local debut Saturday at the Neurosciences Institute has the audacious notion that serious music – and music schools – should be inclusive of contemporary culture. “It's an idea whose time has come” Waters said. “So much of our culture now is a mixture of huge parts of Africa as well as Europe.
Hip-Hop – Music – Santogold – New York Times
New York Times – Jan 27, 2008
Yo Majesty’s party-rap proudly celebrates everything below the waist but the duo also grapples with growing up Christian and gay. “At the end of every show” Ms. Flowers said “whatever we do we ask people ‘Do you know who the Lord is?’ ”The only religion in Amanda Blank’s music is the kind she is losing. Blank whose real name is Amanda Mallory mimics the pornographic lyrics of Southern rappers like Trina and Khia but she ramps up the gross-out factor to the point of nigh-absurdity. Her persona is a mix of seediness and street-toughness which is on display in “Loose” a recent video by Spank Rock. As several naked tattooed women writhe all over him Ms… Boom Box” released by High Score Records is available through major digital retailers. Tigra’s aesthetic hasn’t changed much since the ‘80s. She raps in the same honeyed high-pitched tone and there are beefy low-end clicks handclaps and electro synthesizers all hallmarks of classic Miami bass music. But contrary to much music of that genre there is little overt sex; she prefers coy comebacks. The Lady Tigra whose real name is Rachel de Rougemont said she hopes that girls will realize that artists like Fergie and Gwen Stefani were inspired by semi-forgotten female forebears like “L’Trimm and J.
New music good and bad at Icebreaker fest
Seattle Times – Jan 27, 2008
02 (the Two-Cents pera)” with live musicians drowned out by an electronic mix of distorted speech and what sounded like engine noise; and John Luther Adams’ “The Light Within” a solid wall of massed pitches with endless keyboard arpeggios and a bass rumble resembling a Boeing jet. Eve Beglarian’s “Robin Redbreast” (with vocalist Jessika Kenney) had a certain punchy energy. DJ Tamara tinkered with electronic backgrounds producing a noxious drum track with an overeager bass while Seattle maverick trombonist Stuart Dempster rattled noisemakers and toys and flutist Paul Taub played hard-to-hear long tones; later the music mixed live cowbells with the sound of crashing surf. Sabatini strolled around the stage while intoning portentous lines about “time and the universe” and “As if there had never been any other way to know.
Cleveland.com: Nightlife Forum
Cleveland Plain Dealer – Jan 27, 2008
nly about %70 of the events listed are primarily electronic music. As for the “super serious djs” there are more than just them unfortunately they post the most (10 posts per day for some of them) and the other content gets lost. Anyways all are welcome and all are encouraged. The “Cleveland is Cool” section has a lot of art openings and such.
MP3 player matches music to your heartbeat
Denver Post – Jan 27, 2008
The player works in four modes: workout fitness training and a standard music-playing mode. The workout mode automatically matches your music with your heartbeat — slow down and you might get some smooth jazz; speed up and you get grunge — while the other two modes play music at a brisk tempo encouraging you to work harder. It comes with a set of electronic beats or can pull music from your own collection assuming there are ample upbeat beats available. The BodiBeat software lets you record runs and plan workouts based on intensity and speed. It includes a pulse and pace sensor for measuring heart rate and distance completed. With its new camera Pentax sees the lightPentax last week introduced the K20D a digital single-lens reflex camera for serious photographers that it will soon show off at the Photo Marketing Association trade show in Las Vegas. The sensor in the K20D uses complementary metal-oxide semiconductor technology better known as CMS instead of the more common charge-coupled device or CCD.
Turnarounds Are Tough When You Can nly Go 331/3
Washington Post – Jan 27, 2008
Now with CD sales plummeting nationwide some of the area’s few remaining record stores see new opportunities even as they acknowledge that the end is nigh. “It would be easier to sell the stock and store if this was still a vibrant business” says Carlisle the bearded barefoot denim-clad music lover who has presided over rpheus since it opened in Georgetown in 1977 when there were a dozen music stores in that one neighborhood. “If music was still a vibrant part of everybody’s disposable income it might be worth finding a new location. But for a record store to have a real future you have to sell on the Web which I don’t do… “Most times if you have anything — a lyric a tune — we can figure it out and find you that record. “Neither Carlisle nor Lee cares to sell online; they’re in the business in large part because it allowed them to build a social world around music — personal relationships that they found lacking when they tried Internet sales. Lee is trying to capture younger customers with two electronic kiosks that let listeners create and burn their own CDs from a collection of more than 200000 songs. People holding scraps of paper with hand-scrawled lists of favorite tunes line up at the machines; sure they could do this on their home computers but here they have the bonus of being able to ask Lee and his staff for advice. Carlisle made fewer concessions to the ways young people obtain music. By sticking mainly to vinyl — the record shelves are stacked five-high through much of the shop — he has made rpheus the mecca for those who believe the LP offers the richest reproduction of sound. But while people still come in every day wanting to sell Carlisle their record collections he foresees a time when records will nearly vanish from the market.