International Music Summit 2009
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- International Music Summit 2009
- ELECTRONIC CAROL KING
- Jack Black on riding pterodactyls heavy metal and his new video game
- Future Electronic Devices Could Power Themselves
International Music Summit 2009
Dance Nova
Last year?s hugely successful inaugural summit brought together 300 of the most influential players at the cutting edge of the electronic music industry marking the successful arrival of the key business and networking event in the dance music calendar. Pete Tong summit co-founder states “what happened in Ibiza [last year] will impact our future and the way the music industry moves forward. The response was overwhelming; people walked away with ideas for the future with new relationships forged from different aspects of electronica and the film and brand industry. In 2009 we aim to build on this with some exciting new initiatives to be announced in Ibiza. ?The IMS has set a new standard for conference content bringing together provocative thought leaders from in and beyond the music industry.
ELECTRONIC CAROL KING
New York Post NY
" Instead the composer will be giving out cassettes CDs and MP3s of his 44-minute wordless ambient music piece to a small army of boombox-equipped fans who meet yearly at Washington Square Park for the event. In unison they push play and make their way through Greenwich Village to Tompkins Square Park led by the sounds of the electronic Christmas carol. So if it doesn't have fa-la-las or jingle bells what does this carol sound like? "It sparkles and sings and sometimes contemplates the stars in the night sky" explains Kline who says that "Unsilent Night" was born from his love of electronic music and his memories of caroling as a kid in Ohio. Whatever it sounds like people seem to love the annual event which started here 16 years ago. While New York's "Unsilent Night" draws some of the biggest crowds (more than 1000) the annual Christmas event has become a tradition in more than 25 cities worldwide. This year's "Unsilent Night" kicks off at 7 tonight at the arch in Washington Square Park. Visit unsilentnight.
Jack Black on riding pterodactyls heavy metal and his new video game
Los Angeles Times CA
Black plans to debut his project Sunday night at the Spike TV Video Game Awards which he’s also hosting. Brutal Legend will be one of about 10 games unveiled at the sixth annual VGA which has become the premier venue for major game publishers to show off potential blockbusters. Brutal Legend scheduled for release by Electronic Arts Inc. next fall was initially the brainchild of Shafer a quirky developer known for his humor. Though two of Shafer’s earlier titles Grim Fandango and Psychonauts were not commercial hits their aesthetic brought him critical acclaim and near-cult status among fans. One of those fans is Black who wouldn’t talk with The Times without Shafer. “Tim is the moist and delicious chocolate pudding cake” Black said.
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Future Electronic Devices Could Power Themselves
FOXNews
Imagine a self-powering cell phone for instance that never needs to be charged because it converts sound waves produced by the user into the energy it needs to keep running. Some night clubs in Europe now feature dance floors built with piezoelectrics that absorb and convert energy from footsteps in order to help power lights in the club. And a Hong Kong gym reportedly is using the technology to convery energy from exercisers to help power its lights and music. Tahir Cagin a chemical engineer at Texas A&M University and his partners from the University of Houston study the piezoelectric concept. For this project they fine-tuned piezoelectric materials with nanoscale dimensions (atoms and molecules are measured in nanometers and a human hair is about 100000 nanometers wide). Studying piezoelectrics in microscopic units is a relatively new endeavor but a key step along the road toward inventing a self-powering cell phone and other portable high-tech devices which contain these minute components already. Specifically Cagin and his team have found that a certain type of piezoelectric material can double its energy output when manufactured at a very small size — in this case around 21 nanometers in thickness.
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