The San Francisco Symphony’s 2008-2009 season seems lighter on contemporary fare than was the previous year. Five events stand out, chief among them the world premiere of the SFS-commissioned The B-Sides by Mason …
There’s no didgeridoo on the five-track album Altered Signals by Mystified (aka Thomas Park), but there may as well be. Much of the music heard here has the slow, otherworldly onomatopoeia of that …
The AirPiano, created by Omer Yosha:
“Specifications: Polyphonic, MIDI protocol, Up to 24 keys / 8 faders, USB connectivity.” More info at airpiano.de (via createdigitalmusic.com, hackaday.com, engadget.com).
The remix project Our Lives in the Bush of Disquiet has been downloaded over 20,000 times, as of today. I uploaded the set in early September 2006. It is an homage to the then 25-year-old (and now 27-) album My …
From wall text at an exhibit currently on view at the Architectural Heritage Center in Portland, Oregon:
there is not much good that is not in some way based on something old that is good
The sentiment serves sample-based composers …
The website tenori-off.com is described by its proprietor, Dino Ignacio, as a document of “his attempt at learning to play music. Though the title suggests that the blog will be exclusively about …
The influence of jazz on hip-hop is never as evident as on cuts of the latter that sample the former, and that legacy in transition is rarely as fully fleshed out as on …