Two UC Davis professors win top music prizes
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- Two UC Davis professors win top music prizes
- Go see Kraftwerk and get in touch with your inner robot
- Electronic for the environment: Communikey Festival of Electronic…
- The FIU Laptop Ensemble and Sam Pluta
- In Concert in Brooklyn Autechre Gets the Crowd Moving With Beats…
Two UC Davis professors win top music prizes
Sacramento Bee – Apr 17, 2008
Those will include a violin concertino and a puppet opera based on an arcane centuries-old Venetian opera style that employs large-scale puppets. 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. The academy is a society of 250 architects composers artists and writers dedicated to 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.
Go see Kraftwerk and get in touch with your inner robot
Denver Post – Apr 17, 2008
It’s fair to say that some of the biggest names in European dance music — from Daft Punk to their heir apparent Justice — got their whole live shtick from Kraftwerk. The music is all about the exactness of electronic beats and timed synthesized elements so it’s natural that much of the show will be tracked pre-recorded. But some of it is live and figuring out which parts are live and which aren’t is part of the fun especially since Kraftwerk presented as a stoic four-piece lineup since the mid ’70s hardly moves or strays from its symmetrical lineup during the course of a show. Ricardo Baca: 303-954-1394 or.
Electronic for the environment: Communikey Festival of Electronic…
Broomfield Enterprise – Broomfield Enterprise (subscription) – Apr 17, 2008
An Earth Day weekend festival promoting sustainable living typically conjures up the sound of acoustic guitars projecting folky stripped-down roots music. But this weekend’s Communikey Festival of Electronic Arts which runs tonight through Sunday at various Boulder venues shatters previously held notions of the sound of a sustainable future. Since 2004 Boulder-based Communikey has worked with the local and international community to promote digital arts and electronic music in Colorado. This is the organization’s inaugural festival. “This is the culmination of their vision wrapped into one weekend” says Boulder-based DJ Ivy who performs at the Boulder Theater on Saturday as part of the festival. “It’s a festival with all kinds of electronic art forms whether that’s visual or musical. The three-day Communikey Festival of Electronic Arts features more than 40 musical performances a number of art installations a green expo and a panel discussion “Sustainable Approaches to Digital Culture.
The FIU Laptop Ensemble and Sam Pluta
Miami New Times – Apr 17, 2008
0011 –>write to the editor | email a friend | print article | write your commentThe FIU Laptop Ensemble and Sam PlutaBy Jos??laPublished on April 16 2008 at 12:00pmIn recent years conceptual electronic music has come a long way with young artists using their tweaked computers to rearrange traditional sounds. But it’s often a lonely business with laptop jocks building this nascent genre mostly alone in home studios. Details:Saturday April 19. Harold Golen Gallery (temporary space) 314 NW 24th St.
In Concert in Brooklyn Autechre Gets the Crowd Moving With Beats…
New York Times – Apr 17, 2008
If typical techno wears blinders Autechre’s music was awash in peripheral vision. Alongside the foreground of beat and riff there was a constantly changing counterpoint of hisses; sputters; indecipherable sampled voices; long low throbs; unpatterned synthesizer lines and looming implacable dissonances. Autechre is familiar with club music; it alluded to the blips of electro the reggae undercurrent of drum and bass the boom-bap of hip-hop the African-tinged rhythms of tribal house and the headbanging acceleration of rave techno. None of it escaped Autechre’s own rigorous approach. There were bits of melody and a few hummable bass lines yet Autechre has little use for tunes. Riffs were just as likely to be scattered notes atonal clusters or stray swoops. Meanwhile the beats often used drum sounds that had been reversed — with their attack arriving at the end of the impact rather than the beginning — to disorienting effect.
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