A bit bent hide-fidelity wins harps and minds
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- A bit bent hide-fidelity wins harps and minds
- Indodance a wicked party by the sea
- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
- … : Local electro artist Stacy Clark finds success indie style…
- UI engineer’s invention featured on ‘Indiana Jones’…
A bit bent hide-fidelity wins harps and minds
The Age – May 25, 2008
As the Bent Leather Band Favilla and Cannon specialise inexperimental electronic music and have added Hicks a jazzimproviser for their Heretics Brew performance in Italy. As music graduates of the Victorian College of the Arts Favillaand Cannon were influenced by International Society forContemporary Music’s declaration in the 1980s that jazz was dead. They turned to electronic music. They also describe themselves as “children of Grainger” afterthe early Australian composer Percy Grainger who experimented withmaking instruments. Favilla plays a light harp made of cowhide and buffalo skincut-offs from tanneries in Queensland and shaped after the Yalicdragon of Indian mythology. Cannon plays the contra monster aleather bassoon played with a crook and double reed. It has anin-built control panel to allow her to guide the electroniceffects.
Indodance a wicked party by the sea
Jakarta Post – May 25, 2008
Meanwhile Felix Buxton of Basement Jaxx said before performing that he would play new tracks from the group’s upcoming album. "I’ve been here only for a couple of hours but it seems it will be a great night" he said. Basement Jaxx which started in Brixton England has emerged as the best-known electronic music artists. They have produced hits such as Remedy Bingo Bango and Red Alert. However some of the festival visitors who were familiar with their works in the last decade reckoned they were much better then. Others lamented the duo’s decision to play out slower-tempo tracks and remixes of pop artists such as Justin Timberlake. Basement Jaxx’s sound lies somewhere between the genre of commercial house sound and techno.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Pittsburgh Post Gazette – May 25, 2008
Global kids projectThe Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh represents one of four countries participating in the global art fusion known as Fi’Art an international family arts festival Saturday and Sunday that also takes place in museums in Paris Rome and Poland. The museums will offer interactive programs based on the theme “Different Scales: From the smallest to the biggest. ” The Children’s Museum’s program is “Wax Poetic” “an art-making performance incorporating electronic music live sculpture illuminated wax fractals and water” led by artists Garth Zeglin and Ian Brill. Regular hours and admission; 412-322-5058 or.
… : Local electro artist Stacy Clark finds success indie style…
OCRegister – May 25, 2008
electro artist Stacy Clark finds success indie style The Newport Beach singer-songwriter’s tireless pursuit of her music career has landed her songs on shows such as MTV’s ‘The Hills. When she’s not chillin’ at the Irvine Spectrum grabbing coffee and walking off a Corner Bakery lunch she’s out working on her music career. Clark moved to Newport Beach from Buffalo N… Performing all over Southern California Clark has opened for Jack’s Mannequin Copeland and The New Amsterdams. She’s received local acclaim in 2007 when she took home the best female performer award from The Orange County Music Awards. Clark also earned honors from other music award shows including the Inland Empire Music Awards Southern California Music Awards and the Toronto Independent Music Awards. In late 2007 she released the full-length album “Apples & Oranges” a mix of indie rock and electronica coupled with Clark’s honest and sweet lyrics. She unapologetically wears her heart on her sleeve. Her lyrics come from a deep personal place: “You Make it Worse” was written after her grandmother passed away and she realized who her true friends were. “Peppermint Patties” Clark says is a song about “wanting the things that you know are bad for you whether it be boys or chocolate.
UI engineer’s invention featured on ‘Indiana Jones’…
Urbana/Champaign News-Gazette – May 25, 2008
That’s not the way the Continuum works. Everybody has to learn themselves and in fact people play it in radically different styles. “To play the Continuum Fingerboard the musician has to connect it to a synthesizer or electronic music system such as the Kyma invented by Symbolic Sound Corp. “It’s a controller” Haken said of his invention. “You have to hook it up to a sound- making device. I’m building a newer version where there will be some sound built in to get people started.
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