Here’s a must-see Pitchfork.TV video of Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore talking with Steve Reich at last year’s SXSW conference. While Reich is best known for his acoustic works, his early electroacoustic works have been some of his most influential.
The Ultra Music Festival (UMF) has announced the dates for its 11th consecutive year: Friday March 27 and Saturday March 28, 2009. The UMF will take place during the 24th annual Winter Music Conference at the waterfront location of Bicentennial Park in downtown Miami (the same grounds it has occupied since 2006). The line-up for the festival… Read More Ultra Music Festival Line-Up Announced, & It’s Pretty Insane
This video captures one performance of Atom – which features a matrix of 64 gas balloons, lights, and sound by Christopher Bauder & Robert Henke (aka Monolake). A room is filled with deep, evolving noises from a four-channel sound system. An eight-by-eight array of white, self-illuminated spheres floats in space like the atoms of a… Read More Robert Henke’s Music For Balloons
The NoiseAxe is an easy to build Picaxe based mini-synth that plays a range of crazy sounds using only a stylus and photoresistor. A kit is available for $25.99.
Florian Schneider, co-founder of German electronica band Kraftwerk, has officially quit the band, leaving Ralf Hütter as the only remaining original member. The announcement was made on Kraftwerk’s fan site: Florian Schneider leaves Kraftwerk… Florian Schneider leaves Kraftwerk after a 40 years partnership with Ralf Hütter. This partnership has generated an incredible music and huge advances in… Read More Florian Schneider Leaves Kraftwerk
The life of a superstar electronic musician is not all debauchery and babes. Moby reveals, in this otherwise pretty boring interview for Suicide Girls radio, that the stories about him having hot tub orgies are false!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQpVfhS1k9c Brian Eno And David Bowie in a live interview about Art Sale for War Child. Not a great interview (or interviewer), but still interesting.
Brian Eno discusses autotune and using it as a creative tool.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ljv3V0LoMLw Here’s a vintage Depeche Mode performance on the Joan Rivers Show from 1986. We’ve been giving Dali grief for a couple of weeks over her faked performances – is this Depeche Mode performance just as bogus?
Brian Eno discusses his seminal ambient work, Music For Airports.
