Electronic Music NewsHearing a bigger picture
The News Review:
- Hearing a bigger picture
- See Pretty Lights Across America
- The piano’s status in US living rooms is declining
- My monkey electronic music and Wisconsin fashion in the May 15 …
- A composer in the best of two worlds
- Portland’s Rose Festival among events scraping for sponsors
- Soul Train
Hearing a bigger picture
Irish Times
They would answer questions. I would ask the most stupid insane questions and they would take the time and answer them. ” CLLABRATING WITH Myers and on his own scores Zimmer developed his signature approach to film music combining electronic music with traditional orchestration evolving a sound and style that was at once dramatic and contemporary in its fusion of music idioms and technologies. With the success of his score to Barry Levinson’s Rain Man (for which he received his first scar nomination) he moved to Los Angeles and quickly followed up with two very different scores for Bruce Beresford’s Driving Miss Daisy and Ridley Scott’s Black Rain which established him in Hollywood as a go-to composer who was both singular and multi-talented. With The Lion King and several high-octane action movies (notably Tony Scott’s Days of Thunder and Crimson Tide and Michael Bay’s The Rock and Pearl Harbour ) cementing his reputation Zimmer set up Remote Control Productions part recording studio and part atelier modelled on his experience of being mentored by Myers. “It’s the exchange of ideas” he says. “It’s other people helping to make your ideas better.
See Pretty Lights Across America
antiMUSIC.com
With dates spanning New York City San Francisco and Norfolk VA — Pretty Lights will be pumping out of speakers from coast to coast re-shaping the standard of electronic music. Pretty Lights is the musical vision of the ultra-versatile Colorado based producer Derek Vincent Smith accompanied in the live setting by drummer Cory Eberhard. Together these two achieve a raw energy rarely reached in the realm of electronic music. At a time when music lovers from almost all subcultures and genres are finding common ground in the basic form of bangin’ beats Pretty Lights is giving the people what they want; electro organic cutting-edge party rocking beats that fill venues with energy and emotion and send dance floors into frenzies. What makes Pretty Lights truly different though is that the beats carry serious soul. Fans across all genres are coming together to fuel the Pretty Lights movement. ne only need to download Filling up the City Skies the free double disc that was released for download only a few short months ago at www.
The piano’s status in US living rooms is declining
Los Angeles Times
It’s that there are so many ways to make and listen to music and most of them are less demanding and expensive than actually playing the piano. Many forces have contributed to the acoustic piano’s troubles. Start with electronic keyboards and digital instruments with their improving quality and alluring gadgets such as metronomes USB ports headphones and recording devices. Not to mention their generally lower price. “We live in a digital age” said Brian Majeski editor of Music Trades magazine. “You have to redefine the instrument. And in a time of foreclosures and downsizing the expense of a traditional piano — which can run from a few thousand dollars to $100000 or more — may seem untenable especially for a child who may be eager to play but has no track record in the rigors of daily practice.
My monkey electronic music and Wisconsin fashion in the May 15 …
Isthmus Daily Page
\nBill Lueders looks at the booming business at Grampa\’s Gun Shop on Willy Street. \nRuth Conniff considers the hurtful duplicity of John Edwards. \nEmily Mills surveys the thriving electronic and industrial music in Madison. \nRich Albertoni suggests a way to improve the selection process for the Madison Area Music Awards. \nJessica Steinhoff checks in with Black Moth Super\nRainbow. \nKimberly Jones wishes Angels & Demons had better hair and Kenneth Burns is fascinated by the Chilean film Tony Manero. \nDean Robbins sings the praises of Adam Lambert from American Idol.
A composer in the best of two worlds
Sacramento Bee
“The third movement “Gemini in the Solar Wind” is meant to evoke the grandeur and significance of an astronaut’s space walk. That movement was deeply influenced by the work of jazz pianist and classical music composer Mel Powell. Powell a disciple of Paul Hindemith wrote austere atonal – which Powell described as “nontonal” music that often veered into the electronic music category. This proved a worthy feeding ground for musical ideas said Bates. “Powell’s music sounds like distant transmissions from a faraway galaxy” he said. Bates was drawn to the spacewalk motif. And to make that pay out he found audio samples from NASA’s Gemini IV 1965 spacewalk for sampling.
Portland’s Rose Festival among events scraping for sponsors
regonLive.com
With this year’s tight budget any gap is worrisome. When it comes to local music and lifestyle events Karen DaVanzo at Beyond Marketing Group has seen her sponsorship budget from Scion cut by about 25 percent. The car company sponsors a number of events usually tied to the electronic music scene. “Everyone’s getting hit hard by the economy” DaVanzo says adding that she tells people upfront about the cuts. “I feel really fortunate that our clients still have the budget” to support events. Before the downturn some event organizers would turn down Scion sponsorships if DaVanzo couldn’t offer them the dollars they wanted. “Right now no one’s really walking away.
Soul Train
New York Times
SMETIMES at 68th Street there’s a dignified middle-aged man red sweater brush cut. He has a deep full classical voice and beautiful posture. He sings “Ave Maria” to an electronic orchestra. We listen respectfully. Some of us put money in his violin case. When the train pulls in it drowns him out but he keeps singing. We can see that this is a matter of principle respect for the music.
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