Electronic Music NewsElectroacoutic Pioneer Tristram Cary Dead
The News Review:
- Electroacoutic Pioneer Tristram Cary Dead
- Electronica Producer Opens Up to Indie Films
- Coachella festival sets the standard for host of imitators
- Best bet ‘¢ Define Belanova? How about ‘cool’?
- Street fightin’ man
Electroacoutic Pioneer Tristram Cary Dead
Synthtopia – Apr 24, 2008
During his war service he independently developed the idea of what was to become tape music and began experimenting as soon as he was released from the Navy in late 1946. From 1954 he found himself able to live by score commissions and from that time produced a large variety of concert works and scores for theatre radio film TV public exhibitions etc. He was founder (in 1967) of the electronic music studio at the Royal College of Music and designed and built his own electronic music facility one of the longest established private studios in the world. The equipment from this studio was brought to Australia and most of it was incorporated into the expanding teaching studio at the University of Adelaide. He was also a founder Director of EMS (London) Ltd and co-designer of the VCS3 (Putney) Synthesiser and other EMS products. He called upon a wide range of resources for generating film TV theatre radio or concert music special dialogue treatments or anything in the area of specialised sound. His wide experience as a composer included all aspects of instrumental and vocal ensemble any facet of electronic music or combinations of several types.
Electronica Producer Opens Up to Indie Films
PR.com – PR.com (press release) – Apr 24, 2008
They are taking a big risk by allowing me to be in charge of this without their guidence. "el Humo has a loyal following in the electronic music world. Fans have said that his music floats between electronica and pop to funk and abstract. el Humo is hoping his diverse background will catch the ear of indie film makers all over the world. Film makers who are looking for music by el Humo can sample tracks at www.
Coachella festival sets the standard for host of imitators
Press-Enterprise – Apr 24, 2008
ended its run in 1998 and Lilith Fair a concert featuring primarily female acts was in its final year. In 1999 Coachella launched in Indio over two days in October with about 25000 people in attendance to see Rage Against the Machine Tool and Beck. What set Coachella apart from other multiday festivals was how it took cues from European festivals bringing together a wide swath of musical genres from electronic music to DJs to alternative to heavy metal. Financial troubles kept the festival from being staged again until 2001 when it came back for a one-day show and it has continued its rise since. "The festival has tried to please its fans by doing such things as holding the price of bottled water at $2 since 1999 and offering a program by which attendees can exchange 10 empty bottles for recycling in return for a fresh bottle of water. " Baltin cited the little things Goldenvoice does such as offering free parking and this year setting up a free train from Los Angeles to Indio for campers. Baltin said such touches helped build the trust of the fans.
Best bet ‘¢ Define Belanova? How about ‘cool’?
San Diego Union Tribune – Apr 24, 2008
cities including New York Chicago and San Francisco. Belanova is part of a new generation of Mexican artists who experiment with electronic music creating a very commercial genre so much so that the trio recently signed a deal to promote a beauty products company in Latin America. It has also done campaigns for Pizza Hut. Other Mexican artists who have a similar sound are Aleks Syntek and Moenia Both have done duets with Belanova. Founded in 2000 in Guadalajara Belanova has become an electronica phenomenon in Mexico and among young Spanish-speaking Latinos in the U.
Street fightin’ man
San Diego Union Tribune – Apr 24, 2008
LISLE ELLIS“Sucker Punch Requiem: An Homage to Jean-Michel Basquiat”Henceforth (henceforthrecords. com)Former San Diego bassist Lisle Ellis has collaborated with such genre-shredding musical visionaries as Cecil Taylor John Zorn and Dave Douglas. His own work fuses laptop-generated experimental electronic music with acoustic instrumentation and a variety of jazz styles from post-bop to cutting edge and various points in between. Subtitled “An Homage to Jean-Michel Basquiat” in honor of the late New York painter it is the latest release on Henceforth Records the enterprising indie label founded by former Spruce Street Forum honcho Bonnie Wright. Coincidentally the now-defunct Spruce Street Forum also served as an art gallery that once hosted a show of Ellis' own paintings.