AD Music has announced the relaunch of electronic music festivals in Derby, with the AD 2009 Electronic Music Festival: It’s 20 years since AD Music was founded and so an electronic music festival seemed a suitable event to celebrate its 20th anniversary. The midlands, and Derby in particular, is considered by many people to be… Read More AD 2009 Electronic Music Festival Gets Official
The 2nd Annual City Skies 09 Electronic Music Festival will be held in the Atlanta area on May 7-9, 2009. Kavarna in the Oakhurst section of Decatur, GA (minutes away from Atlanta) is once again the venue for the Festival Event. Kavarna offers a perfect vibe for the performances, with great sound and a nice… Read More City Skies 09 Electronic Music Festival
The San Francisco Tape Music Festival, being held Jan 30-Feb 1, will feature music from classical electronic composers, including Luciano Berio, Edgard Varèse, Pierre Schaeffer & Paul McCartney: A three night festival of new and classic audio art by 30 local and international composers diffused live over a pristine surround system consisting of 20+ speakers. Seated in the… Read More San Francisco Tape Music Festival Pits Paul McCartney Against Luciano Berio, Edgard Varèse & Pierre Schaeffer
Big City Music has announced that it will be selling the quirky designs of Folktek Instruments: From somewhere underground in Portland Oregon Arius Blaze and Ben Houston are creating some wildly interesting instruments. The Folktek pieces are truly unique in every way. Each one is hand crafted by the artists and is a one of… Read More Folktek Handcrafted Electronic Instruments
HobNox is running a contest to promote its browser-based virtual studio, AudioTool. You can check out the contest details here. But this bizarre promo ad is enough to give you nightmares! Are you getting inspired to make music? Let me know what you think! via Mark Mosher on Twitter
Electro-Acoustic Research and Plan B have announced that they will be returning to the Los Angeles metropolitan area and reopening the PLAN B DIRECT sales portal at www.ear-group.net: Before and after this launch our products will continue to be available at a number of dealerships both domestically and abroad and a list of those dealers… Read More Plan B Synthesizer Update
Amon Tobin has released a free 1:17 set, Foley Room Recorded Live In Brussels. Back in early 2007 Amon Tobin released his latest full length album titled Foley Room and put together a tour focusing on the sound and the music, rather then thinking too much about lights, projections and stage antics. The full-length, official… Read More Free Music From Amon Tobin
At the Bob Moog Foundation site, Michelle Moog-Koussa (right, with keytar bad-ass Herbie Hancock) offers her take on the recent Winter NAMM Show: Executive Director’s Report from NAMM ‘09 Winter NAMM, held in Anaheim, California each January, is always a blast for the Bob Moog Foundation. At NAMM, we meet up with old friends, make… Read More Michelle Moog-Koussa On NAMM & The Moogseum
Sound On Sound has published on its site Steve Marshall’s excellent article The Story Of The BBC Radiophonic Workshop, a feature that ran last year in the SOS magazine. It offers a great introduction to the people and history of the Radiophonic Workshop: The story of the Radiophonic Workshop began half a century ago, in… Read More The Story Of The BBC Radiophonic Workshop
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ATWBZj3tP4 Last week, I called Fart Piano the most unnecessary iPhone app ever. Now, a new app, Recital Organ, the “female orgasm iPhone instrument”, may give Fart Piano some competition! According to its creator: This might even make it to the appstore one day. Although everyone knows murder is considered more appropriate than healthy sex, so… Read More NSFW: Recital Organ, The Female Orgasm iPhone Instrument
