Electronic Music NewsRapper: A Common path to ‘Universal Mind Control’
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- Rapper: A Common path to ‘Universal Mind Control’
- Persian Poets Environmental Devastation and Electronic Music …
- John Legend discusses music Obama
- MSU presents multimedia concert on Dec. 14
- Voluntary campus-wide music licenses could stop the lawsuits
- Music week
- Music Review: Boards of Canada – Music Has The Right To Children
Rapper: A Common path to ‘Universal Mind Control’
CNN
and Lupe Fiasco and groups that are known as the next movement — like Cool Kids — that are using different sounds and different things to progress the music and I’ve always been open to advancing and growing. I did an album called "Electric Circus" where I used a lot of electronic music back in 2002 and that album was ridiculed at the time but I feel now in hip-hop there’s more opportunity to do progressive music and it be accepted. McLaughlin: Speaking of West you teamed up with him on "Be" and "Finding Forever" and those albums were well received. Why did you decide to change directions by teaming up with Pharrell Williams [of the Neptunes] on this album and do you think "Universal Mind Control" might suffer — among your fans and among music critics — because you didn’t link up with Kanye? Common: No I believe that music is about making quality things making quality art and no matter who you decide to work with you and that person have to come up with something special come up with something that is excellent material so whoever hears it and reviews it will like it. I believe I chose to go in this direction because I wanted to do something different and I didn’t want to be predictable in what I do and it came from an organic place. It wasn’t reactionary or anything.
Persian Poets Environmental Devastation and Electronic Music …
Payvand Iran
And one of them was the voice of Forough Farrokhzad a woman estranged fromher society after writing profoundly new poetry in the 1940s and 1950s duringa second generation of new poetry. Now a trio of Iranian-American musicians hascreated an album based on her poem “I Pity the Garden (Green Memories). Electronic musician and composer Shahrokh Yadegari says the poemsignificantly pre-dates Al Gore and other world leaders’ messages of impendingenvironmental devastation and has sweeping implications for the way humansrelate to each other and their world. Farrokhzad’s words became a path for Yadegari toward a new way of makingmusic and expressing the planet’s current crisis. Green Memoriesa suite of structured improvisations uses collaborative creative techniquesand an instrument called Lila an electronic program Yadegari invented thattransforms the input of acoustic instruments to create a complex weave ofmelodies and textures. Through Lila he forges a musical environment withWestern and Persian classical violinist Keyavash Nourai and vocalist Azam Ali. Both Nourai and Azam Ali share Yadegari’s ability to moveeffortlessly between Western and Persian musical worlds.
John Legend discusses music Obama
AZ Central.com AZ
People think of you as a retro-soul kind of guy but Snoop Dogg was on “Get Lifted. A: In some ways “Evolver” is a return to the production style of “Get Lifted” updated. You could use the Rhodes (electric piano) or a more electronic synthesized sound. And the sound of hip-hop right now is more electronic so when I collaborated with hip-hop producers like Pharrell or will… And the sound of hip-hop right now is more electronic so when I collaborated with hip-hop producers like Pharrell or will. am it just made sense to go with those sounds because that was the milieu we were working in. Q: You’re in a hurry to get into bed on this record.
MSU presents multimedia concert on Dec. 14
Montana State University United States
14 in Reynolds Recital Hall. Reynolds Recital Hall is located inside Howard Hall across the street from the MSU Duck Pond.
Voluntary campus-wide music licenses could stop the lawsuits
Ars Technica MA
Of course Internet groin kicks are easier. And think of the traffic! But they're not always helpful not when you'd like the industry to get up and walk arm-in-arm into the sunset with users rather than lie in the street and issue subpoenas from the gutter. All this is to say that when the music industry toils behind the scenes on a new voluntary blanket license model for music a model endorsed in broad outlines by groups like the Electronic Frontier Foundation we ought to applaud the effort. and keep a sharp eye on the details when they eventually emerge.
Music week
Creative Loafing Sarasota FL
The disc released in August somehow slipped by me perhaps because Byrne is so prodigious and such a musical Bedouin. At any rate Everything is the most Talking Heads-like Byrne solo album — maybe ever. He doesn't rely on myriad ethnic influences that have so informed his music over the years; instead he yields to Eno's thick dark swirl of production and sings the surprisingly engaging hooks with verve and commitment. On his current tour Byrne is performing material he created with Eno using a five-piece band three backup singers and three dancers. He'll pull stuff from the current CD and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts as well as Talking Heads albums More Songs About Buildings and Food Fear of Music and Remain in Light. For those of you who have more or less dismissed Byrne as an artist who'd gone off the reservation this show could come as a serious treat.
Music Review: Boards of Canada – Music Has The Right To Children
Blogcritics.org OH
A new crop of erudite but homogenous thinking artists such as Autechre The Black Dog and Richard D. James each released their own seminal idiosyncratic chapters of a genre then clumsily defined as "intelligent dance music". Dismissed by hedonistic clubbing purists as an inauthentic abstraction of their experience much to the totalitarians' chagrin it arguably became electronic music's in toto approach for much of the decade. Most of the criticisms which dogged it's parent movement however remained valid in the offspring; a lack of soul the creator seeking expression purely in a pacifist instrument-free process which owed more to an artisan's skill with software than any degree of proficiency. At it's most conformist it was music with a prescient devotion to clarity order and utilitarianism. Then in 1998 the release of one record deactivated a thousand of these clones at a stroke. Marcus and Mike Sandison – they finally revealed themselves to be brothers in a 2005 interview – had begun recording as Boards of Canada in 1987 naming themselves in part after the documentary works of The National Film Board of Canada which they had avidly consumed during a two year long adolescent stay in Calgary with their parents.
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