Music the artform and artists
La musique ou poétique de la vulgarité ?
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- Tuesday, 20 February 2018
Une composition musicale, si elle est dite triviale ou peu distinguée, peut être pourvue d’une qualité expressive à part entière, vivifiante et intéressante.
Ambient music at 40
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- Tuesday, 06 February 2018
Ambient Music has arrived at middle age. 2018 marks 40 years since the release of Brian Eno’s Music For Airports, which effectively introduced the term.
Popular music is more collaborative than ever
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- Tuesday, 06 February 2018
Hip-hop’s growing influence is bringing more guest artists into the recording studio.
Frank Zappa's jazz legacy
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- Tuesday, 06 February 2018
Frank Zappa left a huge legacy of pioneering music and outspoken opinions that has proved obliquely influential in shaping the style and attitudes of generations of rock and jazz musicians, while often upsetting their elders and certain establishment figures.
L’exode musical du XXe siècle : vers un monde meilleur ?
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- Tuesday, 06 February 2018
Prokofiev, Stravinsky ou encore Schönberg, nombreux sont les musiciens à avoir quitté leur patrie, tantôt pour leur carrière, tantôt pour des raisons politiques. Imposés ou choisis, ces exils ont une incidence certaine sur leurs carrières et leurs œuvres musicales.
Electronic music in East Asia
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- Tuesday, 06 February 2018
From Japan's aging scene, to the recent growth in South Korea and Taiwan, electronic music in East Asia is in flux.
Bernstein, Made for TV
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- Tuesday, 23 January 2018
On January 18, 1958, the first Leonard Bernstein "Young People's Concert" was broadcast live on television. Through the 1960s, the programs took off and were seen in 40 countries, alongside American exports "The Flintstones" and "Bonanza."
The Story of New Beat
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- Tuesday, 23 January 2018
From the DJ History archives: The rise and fall of Belgium’s infamous 1980s dancefloor movement, as told by those who helped to shape the sound.
Getting in the groove
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- Tuesday, 23 January 2018
Music reminds us that the mind is more than a calculator. We are resonant bodies as much as representing machines.
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