Assisted Listen: Erykah Badu’s ‘New Amerykah’
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- Assisted Listen: Erykah Badu’s ‘New Amerykah’
- Two UCD professors win top music honors
- Orchestra performs in concert with Marathon week
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Assisted Listen: Erykah Badu’s ‘New Amerykah’
NPR – Apr 14, 2008
Her influences point to early George Clinton and Funkadelic D’Angelo’s Voodoo and Marvin Gaye yet songs such as “Twinkle” go further out into more experimental and energetic territory. Frere-Jones says that Badu has become less conservative with “long extended tracks with noises where you don’t know where they’re coming from. And there are people who might have less patience for that although a generation that’s come up with up with electronic music and Radiohead and bands like that might not be fazed at all. “Badu describes New Amerykah as being cerebral. But according to Frere-Jones “it’s cerebral but it’s more like an improvised cerebral thing. But it feels like these were all things on her mind. Not everyone can get away with an album this loose and formless in places.
Two UCD professors win top music honors
Sacramento Bee – Apr 14, 2008
“The puppet opera that’s an idea whose time has come” said Rohde. Rohde is a graduate of the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. Ortiz a composer of chamber vocal orchestral and electronic music has been awarded a 2008 Academy Award in music by the American Academy of Arts and Letters which is based in New York City. The academy is a society of 250 architects composers artists and writers dedicated to fostering and sustaining an interest in music literature and the fine arts by identifying and encouraging individual artists. Members including artist and UC Davis professor Wayne Thiebaud and writer John Updike make awards annually to four composers. “It is very gratifying to receive this recognition” Ortiz said in a written statement. The honor comes with a $7500 cash award and another $7500 toward the recording of a musical work.
Orchestra performs in concert with Marathon week
MetroWest Daily News – Apr 14, 2008
During the performance of "Nenikekamen" a multimedia presentation highlighted three themes of the composition: the race itself the history of the Marathon and the unveiling of a bronze sculpture of George Brown a Hopkinton native and famous starter of the Marathon from 1905 to 1937. "It was challenging" Floria said. The orchestra was synchronized to prerecorded video and audio loops and samples of electronic music. "The visuals connect the casting of the bronze statue of Mr. Brown modern-day Athens and a historical re-enactment of the legendary run in Greece" Florio said before the concert. "The walls and ceilings are engulfed by these images on five projectors" said Rob Ocasio president of the 60-member MSO and principal 2nd violin. The statue of Brown three years in the works by Hopkinton sculptor Michael Alfano was expected to be unveiled during yesterday’s concert.
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MTV.com – Apr 14, 2008
That’s how I like it. Free from the restrictions and demands of a major label Robyn was able to self-release the set through her own label Konichiwa Records. The critically hailed effort marked a subtle change in Robyn’s style as it featured both synth-pop and electronic dance tunes some inspired by electronic duo the Knife and Swedish rockers Teddybears. Although he’s not credited in the album’s liner notes Timbaland helped produce some of the album’s tracks. Robyn never imagined she’d be able to release the album in the U. until last year when she inked a North American distribution deal with Interscope Records… And I know that I could start at my record label without those 10 years of experience. I think now I’m at a place where I don’t have to conform to the concept of pop music anymore. I can make the kind of music that I think is pop music but that doesn’t mean that my first album doesn’t have a place in my heart. I think that there’s a lot of songs on my earlier albums that I could still do. I still play them live and I still feel connected to them. ‘Show Me Love’ for example is a song I do live and it’s a good song so you could do anything with it. We changed it up and it’s one of the highlights of the evening especially here in the States.
Dispatches | Media | The Guardian
Guardian Unlimited – Apr 14, 2008
“Mixmag is now quietly thriving as a 40000-circulation niche title. Advertising levels are “healthy and robust” and DeCosemo argues that the drift of readers to the internet that killed so many print rivals actually works in the magazine’s favour. “Electronic music fans are incredibly technologically savvy so we are as interactive as possible” he says. “We just relaunched our website so now our readers can download 90% of the tunes we review. We also have a great live forum for discussions. ” Not only that but artists of the calibre of Fatboy Slim Moby Dizzee Rascal Armand van Helden and Daft Punk are now happy to sit for the “Insanity Fair” anniversary cover. It’s a reinvention that delights Harrison: “I’m very proud that we rescued Mixmag.
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