Sound engineers could ditch their mixing desks if the work of researchers at Leeds University becomes reality.
Scientists are developing ways of capturing human movement in three dimensions which would allow music to be created with the gesture of an arm.
Ever felt as though a piece of music is speaking to you? You could be right: musical notes are strung together in the same patterns as words in a piece of literature, according to an Argentinian physicist.
The Buckethead backstory begins with a kid named Brian Carroll growing up in a Southern California suburb not far from Disneyland. He’s a shy kid and spends a lot of time in his room, which is filled with comic books, video games, martial-arts movie memorabilia, slasher-flick stuff, all the usual youth-culture detritus. He also spends a whole lot of time at Disneyland.
A look at one man’s addiction to the way out sound from the underground. (Jiva sympathizes)
This is some terrible news. Looks as though this little shitty tour will be the last Phish tour ever. Makes me pretty sad. Might have to save up $150 and make my way out to Vermont this August and catch their last show. Anyways, here’s what was posted on Phish.Com:
Last Friday night, I got together with Mike, Page and Fish to talk openly about the strong feelings I’ve been having that Phish has run its course and that we should end it now while it’s still on a high note. Once we started talking, it quickly became apparent that the other guys’ feelings, while not all the same as mine, were similar in many ways—most importantly, that we all love and respect Phish and the Phish audience far too much to stand by and allow it to drag on beyond the point of vibrancy and health. We don’t want to become caricatures of ourselves, or worse yet, a nostalgia act. By the end of the meeting, we realized that after almost twenty-one years together we were faced with the opportunity to graciously step away in unison, as a group, united in our friendship and our feelings of gratitude.
LOS ANGELES – It’s been more than 40 years since a fateful New Year’s Eve encounter connected Bob Weir with Jerry Garcia and started a rock band, the Grateful Dead, that would become the eternal poster child for 1960s psychedelic music.
LONDON, England (AP)—David Bowie has invited fans to bootleg his music—and he’s offering prizes for the most creative theft.
The musician’s Web site urges fans to mix classic Bowie songs with material from his latest album, “Reality,” to create a “mash-up”—a track that uses vocals from one song superimposed over the backing tracks of another.
For the first time, police in the US have admitted they’ve been spying on rappers like 50 Cent and Jay-Z.
This was on the front page of CNN.com. The turntable is moving on up the chain of accepted musical instruments!!
BOSTON, Massachusetts (AP)—DJ Chi bobs his head to the hip-hop rhythm, one hand skipping over the vinyl record, the other on the mixer. Possum, Raydar, Moses and the other DJs in the room listen to his beat.
This is a “turntable technique” class at Berklee College of Music, perhaps the first of its kind in the country. DJ Chi is Yoon J. Suh, 21, one of eight students at the prestigious institution who spend two hours every Thursday manipulating old-fashioned records to scratch out “scribbles” and “stabs.”
The Record Industry Association of America (RIAA) has launched a new campaign against DJs in an attempt to control copyright infringement.
They have already confiscated $100,000?s worth of mix CDs from independent record stores across the US.
DJ mix CDs, sold in almost every independent record store are on the whole unlicensed and technically illegal to distribute. However, DJs and producers alike often rely upon these illegal mixes in order to gain credibility, and to promote themselves to the general public.
The practice is in fact approved of by most producers who see it as fundamental to the survival of the dance scene – even if it is their tracks that are being copied and played without permission.
This latest attack by the RIAA is therefore hypocritical ? they claim that their pursuit of copyright infringement is primarily in the interest of the artist, yet most dance producers actually approve of and rely upon this illegal distribution.
by James Kent
A look at one man’s addiction to the way out sound from the underground
When I was younger I used to listen to a lot of Rock & Roll. I grew up in the age of disco but I always preferred rock ? Zeppelin, Floyd, Sabbath, Hendrix ? even that bad pop metal that was huge in the ?80s. In the early ?90s my tastes inevitably turned to grunge and some of the better alt-rock, but before long I got turned on to techno, house, and other forms of electronic music and suddenly it was all over for Rock & Roll. Back in those crazy ?90s I went through hip-hop, dub, ambient, jungle, trip-hop, house, and hardcore in just a few years, but none of those styles grabbed me and held me like my latest and greatest musical fixation: downtempo.
WASHINGTON (AP)—The Supreme Court refused Monday to intervene in a lawsuit over the hit song “Rosa Parks” by the Grammy-winning musical group OutKast.
The action, taken without comment from the justices, means the 90-year-old civil rights figure can go ahead with her lawsuit against the band.
The 1998 song is about the entertainment industry and its lyrics do not refer to Parks by name. The chorus of the song goes, “Ah-ha, hush that fuss. Everybody move to the back of the bus.”
Parks claimed that OutKast violated her publicity and trademark rights and defamed her. She lost her first round in federal court, but a three-judge panel of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati, Ohio, reinstated part of the lawsuit earlier this year.
The case will now return to a lower federal court judge.