Music the artform and artists
Janka Nabay: musical evangelist who took bubu to the world
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- Tuesday, 03 April 2018
Janka Nabay, who has died aged 54, first gave solace to war-torn Sierra Leone by updating the country’s traditional bubu music – then unleashed it on to global dancefloors.
Giving Classical the Boot(leg): A Brief History of Illicit Recording
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- Tuesday, 03 April 2018
For certain music enthusiasts, of all concert souvenirs, the bootleg recording is the most covetable.
When the Student Became the Master
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- Tuesday, 03 April 2018
Coltrane was the same age as Miles—both were born in 1926—but he was clearly the subordinate in this relationship. Miles, an extraordinary scout of talent, plucked him out of obscurity, from a club in Philadelphia in 1955, to join what came to be called the “classic quintet.”
Musiques en kit
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- Tuesday, 03 April 2018
Lassés des sons standardisés, des scientifiques comme des bricoleurs adaptes du «do it yourself» continuent d’inventer des modules de synthèse analogique qui connaissent parfois le succès auprès du public ou d’artistes reconnus.
Master musician was ‘the father of modern Korean music’
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- Sunday, 04 March 2018
Maestro Hwang Byung-ki took traditional music into modern era, creating ‘music like fresh spring water from a mountain’.
Joan Baez On 'Whistle Down The Wind' And Working Through Pessimism
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- Sunday, 04 March 2018
Last year, Baez was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame at age 76. Soon after, she announced she would retire from touring after releasing a new album — her first in a decade.
The Evolution of Hocketing
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- Sunday, 04 March 2018
The musical technique known as hocketing has been shaping creative processes for centuries, appearing in forms ranging from medieval classical music to contemporary indie rock and EDM.
Why Does the Oboe Tune the Orchestra?
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- Sunday, 04 March 2018
A while back we explored why the orchestra generally tunes to an A at 440 Hz, sometimes 442 Hz, and, for the conspiracy theorists among us, 432 Hz. More often than not the oboe sounds that A.
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