WCU provides evening of hip-hop electronic music

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- WCU provides evening of hip-hop electronic music
- Whistling violinist Bird: The fun is “you don’t know what’s gonna …
- BS’s music going digital
- Carnaval to burst to life in Hollywood
- What’s that sound?
- Christian band draws crowd drawn to music with positive message

WCU provides evening of hip-hop electronic music
Asheville Citizen-Times NC -
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Whistling violinist Bird: The fun is “you don’t know what’s gonna …
Seattle Times United States -
Trained in classical violin since age 4 Bird was long beholden to the great composers Dixieland jazz and Gypsy music. During the late ’90s he took a three-album spin with swing-era revivalists Squirrel Nut Zippers. (Check out the 10-minute Afro-electro jam on the “Useless Creatures” EP accompanying “Noble Beast. “)Still much of the beauty of “Noble Beast” comes from the intimacy and immediacy of Bird’s voice. “I think that’s cause we started [recording the album] with the vocals” he says. “When someone’s making sounds with their mouth you’re drawn to it because it’s a human it’s a person a personality so that should get the most attention.

BS’s music going digital
Boston Herald United States -
In releasing his first recordings as music director of the BS Levine noted in a press conference yesterday that “there are a lot of things we do together with insight and clarity. Now it’s time to release them. It’s an electronic souvenir of hearing the BS in Symphony Hall. ”Levine announced the details concerning four separate recordings. Brahms’ “A German Requiem” and Ravel’s “Daphnis and Chloe” recorded live in Symphony Hall have been released as CD and downloads. New music from William Bolcom his flute concerto for James Galway and his Eighth Symphony as well as Mahler’s Sixth Symphony are available exclusively online both in mp3 and in HD Surround formats.

Carnaval to burst to life in Hollywood
Los Angeles Times CA -
“In Brazil we have a big electronic music scene” said L. -based dance music promoter Renata Amaral from Praia Brava beach near the city of Itaji earlier this week where she is scouting local talent at.

What’s that sound?
UMN News MN -
And yet for many listeners the idea of electronic music seems impossibly abstract and obscure. The Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Arts scheduled from February 17-22 aims to change that. Now in its seventh year the festival as co-artistic director and Associate Professor of Music Composition Douglas Geers notes is meant to “open the door and invite people in. Spark is a world-class music festival a training ground for composers and a “community engagement tool putting creators and audiences together” according to Geers.

Christian band draws crowd drawn to music with positive message
The Jackson Citizen Patriot – MLive.com MI -
Mohammed said she exclusively listens to Christian musicbecause of its positive message but Christian artists aresending a new message to listeners: It’s not justpreaching anymore. Improvements in Christian music’s sound and productioncontinue to blur the line between Christian andnon-Christian music said Rachel Buchanan program directorfor SAU Radio. Buchanan hosts The Morning Message on 89. 3 FM The Messagean adult-contemporary Christian music and teaching stationowned by Spring Arbor University. “ne thing we’ve noticed lately is if you take aChristian-categorized song and put it next to a mainstreamsong the quality and production is so similar to the pointthat unless you listen to the message you might not realizeit’s Christian” Buchanan said.
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