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Category: music
September 14, 2011
June 10, 2011
Music banned from Strawberry Fields and other Central Park locations
Central Park has imposed “quiet zone” rules on the most famous places for street musicians and performers, such as Bethesda Fountain area and Strawberry Fields, the John Lennon memorial set up his wife Yoko Ono. Where is the outrage? Where is the mass civil disobedience? C’mon NYC, how much more of all this will you take?
Although park police have been enforcing the new rules, Boyd was singing in the Bethesda Alcove with a trio and an amplifier on Monday. He said he was arrested last Wednesday and that he had racked up thousands of dollars of fines for disobeying the Quiet Zone rules.
Read the story here.
June 10, 2011
Matmos at the Museum
Experimental electronic duo, Matmos, reveal some of the surprising ways they generate their sounds.
April 24, 2011
Electronic Awakening
Please support this project if you can. Five years in the making, now nearly complete, Electronic Awakening looks to be an outstanding documentary on the spirituality and mysticism of global electronic dance music culture.
Visit their Kickstarter page and watch the excellent teaser video, learn more about the project and hopefully donate! :)
April 24, 2011
March 24, 2011
March 24, 2011
Paralyzed patients make music with their thoughts
“A brain–computer interface allows paralysed patients to play music with brainpower alone.”
This could have immense therapeutic value for patients, and the further down implications for general artistic applications is indeed fun to fathom.
Nature News: Music is all in the mind
March 22, 2011
March 11, 2011
Rak Razam – in the Beginning was DOOF!
Excellent 6 1/2 minute interview with experiential journalist and writer Rak Razam about the philosophical, spiritual and socio-cultural dimensions of trance parties (“doofs”). This is from a documentary film project in development called The 7th Direction, about the Australian trance-dance culture.
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March 11, 2011
Goa Gil
Very nice, recent 5 minute interview with legendary DJ and saddhu Goa Gil. Video is from the Goa Hippy Tribe project which has been working on making a documentary about the past 40 years psychedelic Goa culture.
