The urgency of being way behind a single dominant player can make electronics makers do some odd stuff to promote their products. iPod, once an icon of digital cool, has achieved such ubiquity that it doesn’t even try to be hip any more. The thing is being promoted with American Idol, for cryi...

Now, why would anyone imagine this wouldn’t have widespread commercial appeal? If you enjoy real analog insanity - crazy noises that challenge the ears - you’ll like these videos sent to us by Hans Tammen, the composer, “endangered guitar” artist, and director of NYC’s ...

Various Artists - the language of QUIET DESIGN RECORDS the language of is a compilation CD of ten pieces by eight emerging composers in NYC, many of whom are associated with the Wet Ink Ensemble.  Released by Quiet Design Records in Austin, TX, this compilation is a forward-thinking treatise on a c...

The other day I learnt from my brother that the graphic design company The Designers Republic went out of business earlier this month. My interest in graphic design is not particularly heavy. But the interest I do have in it has all stemmed from my exposure to the work of The Designers Republic. The...

Interpretations continues its twentieth season of provocative programming in New York City. Founded and curated by baritone Thomas Buckner in 1989, Interpretations focuses on the relationship between contemporary composers from both jazz and classical backgrounds and their interpreters, whether the ...

Series: BBC Radiophonic Workshop after 50 yearsTOC Fifty years of Radiophonic influence Radiophonic re-releases One of the Radiophonic Workshop’s most famous composers, Delia Derbyshire, left in the early 1970s partly in dismay at the increasing popularity of synthesisers. Disillusioned with t...

Check this out. (Be patient, it doesn’t really get good until 1:10) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmfHHLfbjNQ This is a remix of Radiohead’s song “Nude” from their recent album “In Rainbows.” Radiohead held a remix contest, selling the individual tracks of the so...

Classic quote: […] I have tried to get quite a bit of control, but I wasn’t totally happy with the results of that. It’s a mixture of control and good luck […] Sue just explained both the evolution of my world view and my approach to building a business. I love it when a plan...

Forwarded message from Erikoismies a.k.a. Tom Backström a.k.a. Musta Kirahvi: ERIKOISDANCE 9 ERIKOISMIES "CDR TRACKS" (CDr) More drum machines. More arpeggiators. More random fuzzy logic melodies. More preset Roland sounds. More compression. More dynamics. More of that friendly home-made hiss and m...

So the London Musician's Collective has had its Arts Council grant stopped. This depressing news, whilst not entirely unexpected, is still a low blow for the future of genuinely innovative music in the capital. This is the statement on the website- "Sadly the LMC has not been reprieved by the Arts C...