London’s Music Tech Fest Comes to Boston
By Kira Grunenberg With a plethora of digital devices and music players perforating modern life, you’d think that the relationship between music and technology would be a more widely discussed topic. Despite the many startups that merge tech and music, a dedicated platform that brings together the growing, lucrative music technology sector is still quite
Inside The Moog Room at Rough Trade NYC
A disorienting blend of whirrs, beeps, hisses, sirens, and the occasional chord stab inundates the open, concrete warehouse of New York’s recently opened Rough Trade record store. In an elevated boxcar just past the building entrance, the legendary synthesizer company Moog has installed several rigs of modular synthesizers, open to the public for play, experimentation, and
[Interview] Nick Klimchuk, CEO of Encore
By Carolyn Heneghan “Notice the sea of screens at concerts? Live music events are the number one usage occasion of smartphones, and yet there is no go-to concert app,” said Encore CEO Nicholas Klimchuk in a recent press release. “We’re trying to change that with Encore.” You probably noticed it at the last live show
Stream The Heart of Austin SXSW Showcase This Week on Your PS3
By Carolyn Heneghan Total bummer you couldn’t make it to SXSW this year, right? All of the amazing concerts with tons of big-name and up-and-coming artists to discover, just out of your reach this time around. Wouldn’t you love to be a fly on the wall and catch all the action from afar? Now, with
Billy Corgan’s 8-Hour Synth Interpretation of “Siddhartha”
Tomorrow night at his own tea house, Madame Zuzu’s, Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan will be presenting an interpretation of Siddhartha, the novel by Hermann Hesse. Played on modular synthesizers and improvised on the fly, the performance will last up to 8 hours, due to the nature of the reading. A few weeks ago, Corgan
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The Living Brings a Zero-Carbon Mushroom Tower to MoMA PS1 This Summer
by Michael Valinsky Every year, MoMA PS1 presents Warm Up – an outdoor music series that takes place on Saturdays throughout the summer. It’s an ideal summer location for outdoor music, where DJs, musicians, sound artists, and visual artists from all over the globe come together for a casual, weekend celebration. The Museum of Modern