This could be just about the best scientific discovery ever: dance music could save your life. Scientists have found that listening to just 50 minutes of uplifting dance music not only increases the levels of antibodies in your body, but it decreases your levels of stress hormones, which can weaken the immune system. Volunteers who… Read More It’s Science: Last Night A DJ Saved Your Life
Slate has the scoop on one of the strange DJ gigs ever – Djing beach volleyball at the Olympics: Attending beach volleyball matches in Beijing raises a few inevitable questions: How is it possible for the wave to circle an arena five full times? Where do all those perky, underdressed Chinese cheerleaders come from? Did… Read More DJing Beach Volleyball
Electroacoustic pioneer Donald Erb, a composer that helped promote the acceptance of electronic music, died Aug 12th at his home in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. He was 81. Erb’s Reconnaissance, one of the first chamber works for live synthesizer and acoustic instruments, premiered in New York in 1967 with Robert Moog on synthesizer. A more recent… Read More Electroacoustic Pioneer Donald Erb Dies
The Second International Conference on Music and Minimalism will occur September 2-6, 2009, at the University of Missouri at Kansas City, directed by Kyle Gann and David McIntire. All scholars in this area are invited to submit papers. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to, the following: both American and European (and other) minimalist… Read More The Second International Conference on Music and Minimalism Looking For Presentation Proposals
Machine Collective has announced a public beta of its new modular music controllers: The picture above shows our final prototypes. We made the sides from thin laser-cut acrylic so it’s easy to see if everything fits. The side panels of the final prototyping modules will be made from a high tech aluminum sandwich material which… Read More Machine Collective Offers Public Beta Of New Music Controllers
The Korg DS-10 Synthesizer – a software synthesizer for the Nintendo DS – is available now for order and will be shipping at the end of September. Features: Professional-grade music tool software for the Nintendo DS Two patchable dual-oscillator analog synth simulator, -part drum machine that uses sounds created with the analog synth simulator Six-track… Read More Nintendo Korg DS-10 Synthesizer Available For Order
Zero-G has introduced Rhythm Organism – a sample library of electronic didgeridoo sounds, played by Charlie McMahon. Description: Charlie McMahon has been a master of the didgeridoo from an early age and is one of Australia’s most acclaimed players of this instrument. From traditional style didjs through to Seismic Face Bass and the newly launched… Read More Zero-G Intros Rhythm Organism Didgeridoo Sample LIbrary
Minitek, New York’s electronic music + innovation festival, is scheduled for September 12-13, 2008: for the first minitek, we’ve been lucky to get support from some of the most exciting electronic music talents from around the world. alongside the most sought-after artists who have a solid following in the US, you will hear top acts… Read More Minitek Electronic Music + Innovation Festival Coming To New York
If you ever wanted to roll like Snoop Dogg and make Johnny Cash roll over in his grave, here’s your chance! ACIDplanet.com has announced a new remix contest, featuring Johnny Cash’s debut single Cry, Cry, Cry, later included on Cash’s debut album, His Hot and Blue Guitar. The winner of the contest will have his… Read More Remix Johnny Cash & Just See If He Comes After You!
Hal Leonard has published a new book, The Best of The ’80s, that compiles 80’s articles from Keyboard magazine. Description: The editors of Keyboard magazine have culled that era’s most insightful and landmark articles and combined them with a wealth of insight looking back now some 20 years later to paint a vivid and accurate… Read More New Hal Leonard Book Revisits Keyboards Of The 80’s
