Woodstock of electronic music is here again
The electro-music festival, known as the “Woodstock of electronic music,” is the world’s premiere event for experimental electronic music. This year’s event features three mind-bending days of innovative electronic music concerts, seminars, workshops, demonstrations, jam sessions, video art, a laptop battle, and a swap-meet. Action starts at 12 noon on Friday, September 10 and runs until after midnight on September 12. Musical activities will be running continuously throughout the three days of the festival.
electro-music 2010 takes place at the Greenkill Retreat Center in Huguenot, New York. On-site lodging and meals are available. Tickets range from $25 for a single day to $325 for a 3-day pass including meals and lodging.
More information, including a complete schedule of events can be found on the web site at:
http://event.electro-music.com/
You may also contact us at
event@electro-music.com
A wide variety of instruments and musical styles will be represented, ranging from theremin to analog modular synthesizers to home made devices, from classic space music to abstract electronica to world beats.
The following artists will be performing:
Abuse Tactics
Acoustic Interloper
Aether Generator
Azimuth Visuals
The Bent Doctors
Brainstatik
Delicate Monster
Jeremy dePrisco
Robert Dorschel
dRachEmUsiK
Robert Edgar
Ben Fleury-Steiner
Paul Harriman
Glenn Henriksen
Hylantown
Kevin Kissinger
Andrew Koenig
Roland Kuit
Richard Lainhart
the Last to Sleep
Lunetta Maelstrom
Mayakara
Kurt Michaels
D. Minoza
Logan Mitchell
Modulator ESP
Shane Morris
Mosquito Gita
Howard Moscovitz
Mark Mosher
MusicMan11712
MyOwnYoko
NEOREV
Northern Valentine
Michael O’Bannon
Joo Won Park
Kip Rosser
Project Ruori
redgreenblue
Siebert and Lepre
Spinning Plates
SPITZNAGEL
State Machine
Symmetry
Jack Tamul
Technicolor Travel Agency
Transistor Club
Trigal
The Tronic
Twyndyllyngs
Harvey Valdes
VJ Cargo
Waked Lunch
Laura Woodswalker
xeroid entity
Seminars and Workshops:
Darren Bergstein – Studio Storming, Remaking Universes
Jeremy dePrisco – Making Music in Second Life
Rosemary Haskins – Internet Marketing and Promotion
Rosemary Haskins – Reverbnation
Les Hall and Mathe Sluijter – Lunetta Breadboard Workshop
Kevin Kissinger – DIY Modules for Analog Synthesis
Andrew Koenig – Introduction to Ableton Live
Roland Kuit – Soundlab Synthesis Tutorial
Richard Lainhart – Intermediate Analog Synthesis
Rebecca Mercuri and Kevin Meredith – Dr. Harry Olson and Audio Research at RCA
Kevin Meredith – Circuit Bending Workshop
Howard Moscovitz and Robin Miller – Ambiophonic Sound
Mark Mosher – Spatial, Visual, and Matrix Controllerism with Ableton Live
Michael O’Bannon – Generating Sound and Music with Brainwaves
Dale Parson – Mapping Language Structures to Musical Phrases
Steve Weinstock – Introduction to MIDI
Tanya Thielke – Creative Process
Prodigy named the best dance act of all times – here’s the complete listing
The Prodigy, above, have been named the most influential dance act of all time, according to a GlobalGathering survey of UK club goers released today.
Do we really agree on this 
The Top 10 most influential dance acts are:
- The Prodigy (29%)
- Daft Punk (13%)
- Faithless (11%)
- New Order (9%)
- Orbital (7%)
- Kraftwerk (5%)
- Paul Oakenfold (4%)
- Carl Cox (4%)
- Fatboy Slim (3%)
- Chemical Brothers (2%)
Over 2000 festival and club goers took part in the survey, which was commissioned by the UK dance festival GlobalGathering to mark ten years of the festival. Music fans were asked to vote for the dance act they considered the most influential from a shortlist compiled by the Global team.
About GlobalGathering’s Top 10 Dance Music Acts Of All Time
Here’s what the festival has to say about their top 10 acts:
- The Prodigy continue to both push musical boundaries and garner critical acclaim. From the band’s debut single; Charly whose chart success hooked thousands of new converts to dance music to their recent critically acclaimed album ‘Invaders Must Die’ the band continue to be acclaimed as pioneers of dance music. Blending hardcore rock with drum & bass and techno, the Prodigy have created a truly unique sound which has often been emulated but rarely bettered. Commonly cited as one of the first dance acts to successfully crossover into the live arena, the band remain a festival favourite throughout the UK and Europe.
- French duo Daft Punk, 2006 headliners at the dance festival, came second in the survey with 13% of the vote. Bursting on to the scene in 1995 with their debut album ‘Homework’ the duo have been widely credited with helping to break dance music in the USA and the band’s blend of chart bound yet credible techno-disco continues to both grow in influence and transcend musical genres having been sampled extensively by hip hop stars including Kanye West, Busta Rhymes and Missy Elliot.
- Faithless, famous for timeless club hits such as “Insomnia”, “God Is a DJ” and “We Come 1” took third place in the poll. With over 10 Million global record sales, Faithless continue to be one of dance music’s biggest live draws and the band performed to over 7 million people on their most recent tour proving they are one of the most successful and influential dance groups of all time.
- New Order who came fourth in the poll, currently hold the title for ‘best selling 12-inch single of all time’ for the 80’s hit ‘Blue Monday’. The single release proved to be a defining moment in dance music history appealing to both dance music and indie fans alike. New Order embraced electronica throughout the 80’s and 90’s and also spawned the infamous Hacienda nightclub which was a focal point for the Manchester scene of the late 1980’s.
- The hugely influential electronica duo Orbital came 5th in the poll. The Hartnoll brothers, who have recently re-formed after their split in 2004, will be celebrating 20 years of festival-rousing anthems and cinematic sounds this year. One of the most influential acts in dance music history, Orbital accompany their music with expansive audio-visuals, and their trademark torch-glasses. Orbital were fixed firm at the top of the bill for the festival in 2009.
- Kraftwerk who are widely considered the inventors of Electronic music came in at 6th in the survey. The German band who still tour sporadically have been making music since the 70?s and went on to become a huge influence on the first wave of Detroit house and hip hop producers.
- Ranking in at seventh in the survey is trance DJ, producer and artist Paul Oakenfold, famous for his legendary Ibiza sets and remix work for the likes of The Happy Mondays, U2 and Madonna, Paul was the biggest DJ in the world throughout the 90’s and continues to play to packed dancefloors throughout the world. Fellow UK DJ and producer, Carl Cox ranks at number 8 in the poll, One of the most influential DJs in dance music history, Carl Cox has had a successful career that’s spanned almost 30 years, taking him from acid house veteran to the champion of techno.
- Also featuring in the top ten is Norman cook aka Fatboy Slim. Credited with originating the ‘Big beat’ sound, Cook received a prestigious Ivor Novello Award for ‘Outstanding Contribution to British music’ placing him amongst some of the greatest British music acts of all time.
- Pioneers of the big beat electronic dance genre, The Chemical Brothers, complete the top 10. The world’s favourite psychedelic acid-beat duo have always combined moments of egotistic indulgence and mind-numbing formula with visionary brilliance. This duo were one of the first electronic acts to move from clubs to arena.
Introducing the Fresh-a-Sketch
Found this video featuring the Fresh-a-Sketch
Introducing the Fresh-a-Sketch! a monome 40h kit built into an old Etch-a-Sketch complete with working pots knobs and two infrared controllers… Think DIY D-beams!
I’m using monome_midi_64 from monome base to route monome presses to Ableton Live. The adc function of this patch makes it handy for mapping the pots and beams…
Ableton is basically acting as a sampler in clip view with some midi mappings and macros for the fx chains…
all clips are mapped to buttons, the bottom two rows are dedicated to the Finger, knobs and beams are assigned to parameters of that plugin…
Track is Sweet & Savory part of a new project. On this track the guitar licks are brought to you by Abramius Bromide. Bells, drums and other random noise, yours truly.
The Electro Wars Final Trailer
Can a documentary finally tell the story of the electronic music scene? Primus Luta has become a scholar of electronic sounds himself, and joins us in a guest post to examine a film that, like the music itself, is a work in progress. Electro Wars premieres in its current form in New York Friday, but you can get a first glimpse at the movie and the state of music in the Internet – whether wishful thinking might imagine the Web’s age is over or not.
Interview with ambient/minimal master Robert Rich
Robert Rich has been creating music in the atmospheric / ambient / electronic genre for three decades and is often heard on the public radio program Music from the Hearts of Space. His atmospheric spaces with unique rhythms often accompany his custom PVC flutes or the sound of the lap steel guitar played in a glissando style
During a concert stop in Des Moines he describes how his long form slow music relies on being in the moment and how he expresses sound in its flow from moment to moment during live performances.
Robert’s music has been a major influence in my own sound as an ambient musician and for years I featured his recordings when I hosted the now defunct Iowa Public Radio program Wild Rose Café.
Superb electronic remix
Must say that this is a wonderful remix
iamamiwhoami’s N, remixed by Eineinmeier
Listening in on micro-electronics
Weren’t Long – 5:36
from Under New Manna
Called Out of Time – 4:10
from Route Canal Diary
Plate Radio – 4:42
previously unreleased
Mother of X – 3:14
from “The Princess of Nebraska” Score
Kent Sparling is a visual and recording artist living on the Northern California coast. He was born in San Francisco in 1966, and began composing at the piano after having been asked to leave his elementary school orchestra for inventing harmony counter-melodies on his saxophone. He formed the pop band Eyeland in 1983, acting as singer-songwriter, keyboardist, and co-producer, and the group became popular over the next decade with their cassettes, live performances and radio airplay in the Bay Area.
In 1985 Sparling began composing experimental music, creating longform works of up to 45 minutes, employing the classic musique concrète methods of manipulation and montage. With the use of electronic devices and electro-mechanical constructions such as oil drum reverbs and modified speakers, he alters the sonic character of a broad range of recorded sounds, from environmental noises, raw electronic sound and radio reception, to more traditional ‘musical’ sounds created by familiar instruments. He has created several ‘system music’ compositions, where, as the composer, he sets up mechanical and electronic possibilities for sound creation, and then sets the ‘system’ in motion, allowing it to create the ‘musical result’. The pieces created in this manner are recorded ‘live’, and represent a kind of improvisation, where sound character becomes the principal means of expressing the emotional content of the work. Recently he has been exploring the world of micro-sounds which he calls ‘picophonics’, vibrations too small to move enough air to be perceived by the ‘naked ear’, wherein he has found a whole new palette of emotive sounds. He has six CD releases of experimental electro-acoustic music to his name: 1997’s ‘Route Canal Diary’, 2000’s ‘Under New Manna’ and ‘Camphor and Caraway’, ‘Leaf Spring’ from 2003, and ‘Evening Air, Freeway Birds, No Wind Birds’ and ‘Indian King’, both released in 2006. His music was included in the soundtrack to the Canadian Nation Film Board documentary ‘In the Flesh’, and he has composed original scores for Wayne Wang’s ‘Princess of Nebraska’, ‘Seven Fallen Objects’ by AD Liano, and Eduardo Sanchez’s ‘Seventh Moon’ with Antonio Cora. He has just completed the score for Frazer Bradshaw’s ‘Everything Strange and New’, in collaboration with Daniel Plonsey.
the full feature is available for download as a pdf.
OMDs take on electronic bands
This is a clip from Synth Britannia, a 2009 BBC special about the rise of electronic music in Britain. Andy McCluskey of OMD pointedly says what he thinks about some of the people who have criticised electronic bands.
Via ST
New album from highly acclaimed Zoo System
Finally the new album from Zoo System is released on Stereoklang.
Zoo System is an experimental electro act founded in 2006. Exploring the boarders between ambient and electro the band has successfully released songs that triggers your dreams of space, remote and dark places. Subtle and playful rhythms of voices, machines, noise and metallic beats has become the trademark of this underground band.
All songs are equipped with “Song imaginations” like these ones:
Endless Dimensions
Lone man sitting by fire
Staring at the logs burning
Eyes gets filled of tears
Seeing beyond the hot flames
Where endless dimensions start
Black Pentagram
The fire burns down
Coldness reaching for his heart
A spark burns the hand
Looking for fuel in the woods
Pagans dancing on a hill
Go here to order and download >>
Who needs Rockband 3 => I want Synthband 1
Are we not a little fed up with Rockband by now. Although a small step in the right direction they have now introduced a MIDI keytar, but why not take the full step and have a stylish MIDI keyboard that looks like some analog gear.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5VpclLWsfM&feature=player_embedded
And what are you supposed to do with the “keyyytaaaarrr”, well you of course have to play those never ending rock songs again, check out the included songs:
- Dio – Rainbow in the Dark
- Huey Lewis and the News – The Power of Love
- Ida Maria – Oh My God
- Jane’s Addiction – Been Caught Stealing
- Jimi Hendrix – Crosstown Traffic
- Joan Jett – I Love Rock and Roll
- Juanes – Me Enamora
- Metric – Combat Baby
- Night Ranger – Sister Christian
- Ozzy Osbourne – Crazy Train
- Phoenix – Lasso
- Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody
- Rilo Kiley – Portions of Foxes
- Smash Mouth – Walkin’ on the Sun
- Spacehog – In the Meantime
- Stone Temple Pilots – Plush
- The Cure – Just Like Heaven
- The Doors – Break On Through
- The Vines – Get Free
- The White Stripes – The Hardest Button to Button
- Them Crooked Vultures – Dead End Friends
- Whitesnake – Here I Go Again
Apart from The Cure there is nothing new hear
All you electro, synth fans out there which songs would you like to have on Synthband 1, list your favorites…..
How about:
The model
Never let me down again
You spin me
Don´t go
Etc etc
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