Unsound Festival Opens Tomorrow in New York
Unsound Festival began in 2009 in Krakow, largely known as the vibrant cultural hub of Poland. The festival, organized by the non-profit Tone Foundation For Music & New Art Forms, focuses on electronic, experimental, independent, and club music, and the intersection between and beyond all of those forms. Now in its fourth year running, Unsound has created
BandPage Is on Its Way to Being the Largest Musician’s Platform
BandPage, the online presence management platform for musicians, has announced another successful investment series. Now up to $28 million in funding, BandPage will use the capital to continue fostering relationships with the foremost music services, while creating and solidifying new revenue streams for musicians. BandPage is used by more than 500,000 musicians to reach billions
Billboard and Twitter Join Forces
By Jason Epstein Billboard and Twitter have joined forces to create “Billboard Twitter Real-Time Charts.” The ranking system will join Billboard’s 200+ Official Billboard Charts to track the top Tweeted songs and artists. Though there’s no solid release date, the charts are due to launch within the coming weeks on Billboard.com. Twitter’s blog announcement provides
Thicket Transforms Your Apple Device into an Abstract Instrument and Visualizer
By Kira Grunenberg Not long into the Music Tech Fest’s final day in Cambridge, all serious work came to a temporary standstill with a single presentation, and not just due to sound cutting through a silent room. “Thicket,” an interactive app for iPod, iPhone, and iPad, is the brainchild of “creative technologist and artist,” Joshue
Patatap Brings Joyous Visual Music to Your Browser
Press any key, A to Z or spacebar, and turn up speakers. We like instructions like this, but little did we know the next 15 minutes would be a captivating sensory overload of sound, color, and graphics. Patatap is a visual music browser application controlled by pressing alphabetical characters on a computer keyboard, which trigger
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Roundware: Connecting Spaces, People, and Sensory Experiences
By Kira Grunenberg This past weekend, on a single floor of the Microsoft New England Research and Development Labs, the Music Tech Fest, Boston edition, crammed in three full and continuous days of presentations, demos, questions and answers. One of many laudable presentations from the festival was Roundware, presented by sound artist and musician Halsey Burgund.