This is Zarin Mehta, executive director of the New York Philharmonic, sharing his “pet peeve” with the New York Times Sunday Magazine, in its July 27 issue:
Going into restaurants or stores and having music on in the background. Music …
Brief Bits: (1) The folks behind PirateTV.net have launched s900.net, “a site devoted to musical experimentation,” and s900.tv, which features live and archival streams. The S900.tv site will reportedly stream video from 8pm to 10pm Greenwich Mean …
SAN FRANCISCO, CA — On the fourth night of this year’s San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, upon entering the concert venue, you were hand-stamped, given a pamphlet, and offered DayGlo-orange earplugs.
The earplugs proved unnecessary, thankfully, but the show otherwise lived …
Taking the stage on July 9 at the Mermaid Lounge in New Orleans’s Central Business District, Norihide sat down beside a small desk. Along with his rustic, loosely strung acoustic guitar and a black Apple laptop computer, he had with …
Though the vast majority of electronic music is instrumental (that is, vocal-less), some of the best compositions take as their base a snippet of something spoken — be it the loops of Steve Reich’s “It’s Gonna Rain,” the hobo’s hymn …
The latest various-artists collection from Schematic Records, the label’s fourth, is a kind of anti-compilation. Other than its self-effacingly — and self-consciously — bland title, Well-suited for General-purpose Audio Work, the volume provides little else in the way of explanation …
Each spring, the historic port city of New Orleans, Louisiana, plugs into its rich musical culture with a week-plus series of events. All manner of jazz and other indigenous regional acts, from Cajun and zydeco to the neighboring sounds of …