By Theo Farrant • Updated: 16/09/2022 – 17:09 A lifetime achievement award for some can signal the twilight or the end of a glittering career. But Laurie Anderson has big plans for a whole new beginning. The 75-year-old legendary performance artist and musician plans to transfer her life into an Artificial Intelligence. “I am writing an opera based on everything I’ve…
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Producer Sace Proudly Joins The Outlaw Ocean Music Project, A Creative Collaboration with Journalist Ian Urbina
WASHINGTON DC, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, UNITED STATES, September 16, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ — In a touching video, Stockholm producer Sace explains why he joined forces with investigative reporter Ian Urbina to draw attention to human rights and environmental abuses at sea within The Outlaw Ocean Music Project. The Outlaw Ocean Music Project, run by the label Synesthesia Media, is a…
Sziget Festival returns: here are the artists you shouldn’t miss
After two years away, one of Hungary’s biggest cultural events, Sziget festival, is back in Budapest. Hundreds of concerts and performances on more than a dozen stages are waiting for festival goers on the Island of Freedom, a small isle on the Danube River where Sziget has been taking place since 1993. In order to…
VivaTech 2022: This French start-up is creating deep tech to revolutionise music production
Among the green tech, metaverse and crypto companies that dominated this year’s VivaTech in Paris, one start-up made its mark by putting on a mini electronic music concert at their stand on the conference floor. Two musicians sat with a compact touch sensitive music controller, riffing to a beat with their finger tips. The device…
Last Saturday, 18 floats and around 150 DJs pumped out various strains of electronic music across a seven-kilometre route.
Around 200,000 people hit the streets of Berlin on Saturday, July 9th, for Rave The Planet, the first event of its kind in the city in more than 15 years. Speaking to Resident Advisor, the organisers said an estimated 300,000 people danced and marched. But according to rbb24 and Der Tagesspiegel, the figure was more…
DJs of the Future Don’t Spin Records—They Write Code
“Live-coding” parties are the latest phenomenon in underground electronic music culture. RENICK BELL IS standing in front of his computer at a small table in the middle of the dance floor. The stoic, bespectacled musician types quickly and efficiently, his eyes locked to his computer screen. Around him in a wide circle, the crowd bobs to…
‘Glue of the band’: Fans pay tribute to Depeche Mode keyboardist Andy Fletcher
Tributes to Andy ‘Fletch’ Fletcher have poured in, after the Depeche Mode’s keyboardist passed away on Friday. The legendary electronic band announced the news of Fletcher’s death on social media, saying they were “shocked and filled with overwhelming sadness with the untimely passing of our dear friend, family member, and bandmate.” Fletcher, aged 60, leaves…
Beatport Launches Its New Film Series, “Off The Record,” With Powerful Documentary On Ukrainian DJ And Label Owner, Nastia.
The Beatport Group, the global leader in music for DJs, producers, and their fans, announced today the launch of their documentary film series, “Off The Record,” which provides unparalleled access into the lives and careers of some of the biggest names in electronic music. “Off The Record” provides a deeper understanding of industry luminaries at…
A Spin Through Experimental Turntablism
The fundamental elements of turntablism are as old as the phonograph itself. Unlike a CD player or a cassette deck, the phonograph puts the sound-producing mechanism at the listener’s fingertips. Early hand-cranked phonographs left the turntable’s speed up to the listener’s skill and preference. Before 78 rpm became standard, records were printed with suggestions like…
Florian Schneider and Kraftwerk helped shape the sound of modern music.
There are few bands whose influence was such that it can unequivocally be said that modern music would sound different without them. Kraftwerk, co-founded by Florian Schneider, whose recent death at the age of 73 was announced on May 6, was one such act. The band left an indelible imprint on the sound of popular music…
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