Red Bull Music Academy Festival 2014 Preview
By Briana Cheng It all began 15 years ago in a backyard of a Berlin warehouse, and now in 2014, Red Bull Music Academy is returning to New York with a month-long festival in May. RBMA was in New York City just last year, with its prestigious production academy, hosting workshops for a select group
Coachella Upgrades with Apple’s iBeacon Technology
By Carolyn Heneghan Coachella has announced that it will bring some of the latest in Apple technology to its festival attendees: iBeacon. The iBeacon is a small device that communicates with iPhones via Bluetooth to deliver proximity-based information, navigation, and notifications. On the official Coachella app, an update on April 9th says, “Enable On-site iBeacon notifications
Grab A Gralbum: A Combinative Format Of Music, Media, and Stories
By Kira Grunenberg It’s almost ironic that the touchscreen device, a modern day tool so devoid of physical direction or instruction, has become such a well of potential for changing human perception. This flat, innocent-looking machine has prompted a wave of hybrid artistic formats that combine mediums nearly as old as life itself. We have
Watch SK Telecom’s Telephone Orchestra
Korean telecommunications company SK Telecom is celebrating its 30 years of cellular mobile computing. To highlight the history of their company, they’ve created an orchestra comprising mobile and cordless phones they’ve supported for the last three decades. Shown in the video below, the programming and execution is pretty fascinating, and certainly nostalgic.
Automatic Apps Could Save Lives, But Are Still Kind of Creepy
By Jason Epstein If the financial and logistical cost of outfitting every audible alarm with a visual detector for the deaf (and vice versa for the blind) wasn’t somewhere beyond astronomical and impossible, the world would be doing right by our disabled brothers and sisters. But until that happens, we turn to apps that automatically
Now You See Me, Now You Don’t: Holograms in the Music Industry, Feat. M.I.A. and Janelle Monae
By Carolyn Heneghan A coast-to-coast duet using the latest in holographic technology? Surely it must be the 21st century. In celebration of the launch of the Audi A3, M.I.A. and Janelle Monae teamed up to bring audiences in both Los Angeles and New York City just that. While M.I.A. performed for a private event in