It was a shock to discover that Rowland S. Howard died today. This is the man who shook the world with the song Shivers and it is what echoed in my head when I read about his lost battle with ...Read More
I lost an hour of my life because of this! Read More
The sound of the oldest musical instrument resembles greatly of a pan flute. It is a flute indeed, made out of bone, dated back 35,000 years ago during the colonising of Europe. Three of these artefacts were unearthed in ...Read More
As time passes and careers fade into history, musos will capitalise by having a reunion tour and/or release a definitive collection to commemorate their glory years. My dear and ol' time favourite The Pixies have hopped onto that bandwagon to ...Read More
Sometime words cannot describe the experience, so you just have to listen—Let the percussion and the organ/synth speak. Yo La Tengo – Autumn Sweater Low – Breaker This video is still close to my heart. It poetically captures the greedy in American politics ...Read More
Today I'm excited about SXSW 2010. Largely it is to do with the simple fact that I have remembered this annual event and have marked it in my diary to prevent missing it for the gazillion time. Hooray! SXSWeek 2010 12-21 ...Read More
The new Merce Cunningham production commenced about the time I left New York. It received a below average review from the New York Times. This trip is constantly circulating in my head, like an airplane trying to land in foggy ...Read More
An infamous Russian MP3 site selling music for pennies claims that its revenue is given back to the artists. With the European Union and the U.S. government on its back, it's a simply matter of leg pulling. Though, it ...Read More
Auto-Tune is a multi-platform plug-in that corrects intonation problems in vocals or solo instruments, in real time, without distortion or artifacts... Over a typical pitch correction range, it is simply not possible to tell that a sound has been processed, ...Read More
Time for a break, time for something totally mindless. Read More
Life without music would be a mistake. —Friedrich Nietzsche Maestro Daniel Barenboim philosophised the music relationship with life, the universe and everything at this year's Reith Lectures. Neuroscientist confirmed when performing music emotional responses which are excited when listening to music ...Read More
Frank Miller's graphic novel 300 is a ferocious retelling of the ancient Battle of Thermopylae. The comic has been transferred into a feature film directed by Zack Snyder of Dawn of the Dead and it's bursting at the seams with ...Read More