Electronic Music NewsNico Muhly is the boy with the heart of Glass
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- Nico Muhly is the boy with the heart of Glass
- Detroit music festival seeks to surpass itself
- Dance music propels Recorder to win in national contest
Nico Muhly is the boy with the heart of Glass
Times Online – May 23, 2008
“Nico’s so full of energy” enthuses John Berry the artistic director ofthe English National Opera who is in discussions with Muhly about himcomposing a stage piece for ENO. “He’s one of this younger generation ofcomposers who’ve spent a number of years crossing between genres. Composerswho come up through the traditional route of music colleges and theconservatoires don’t have the flexibility of someone like Nico who’sequally able to work with orchestral music and electronic music. ”It was Muhly’s keyboard skills – computer and piano – that secured him anapprenticeship at Philip Glass’s film soundtrack company when he was still asecond-year student at Columbia University in New York. But Muhly’s truepassion is for English church music of the 16th and 17th centuries:composers such as John Taverner Thomas Weelkes and William Byrd. The ardourwas ignited in his early teens when he sang in a boys’ choir in ProvidenceRhode Island. Although it started as a youthful crush – “I just felt this very seriousemotional connection to the music” – as Muhly developed as a fledgelingcomposer he began to articulate intellectual reasons for the path he hadchosen.
Detroit music festival seeks to surpass itself
mlive.com – May 23, 2008
DETROIT Michigan — Paxahau Promotions Group President Jason Huvaere is about to have a reality check. It’s the Sunday before his Movement 08 electronic music festival and it’s crunch time. “It’s Sunday today. It’s a definite workday” Huvaere told The Flint Journal recently. “The last month happens in such a slingshot. The anticipation is so high that it just generates a very natural kind of excitement.
Dance music propels Recorder to win in national contest
Tulsa World – May 23, 2008
?But it?s really a trio of area artists ? Roband Lynn Robertson and Jeff Whitlatch ? wholove creating super-sweet super-danceableelectronic music. ?It started as a joke really? said Rob Robertsonin a recent telephone interview. ?It waslike ?Nobody else is doing this but you knowrobots have feelings too!? ?But the project?s taken on a life of its ownsince those days back in 2004 garnering thegroup international recognition a record dealwith Switzerland?s Minuta Records and most recentlya $10000 fan-favorite award and a critic?s choice award from the Fame Cast Web site. Awards are given in everything from danceto country to comedy and more according tothe official Web site at.