He’s played concerts inside frozen waterfalls, on top of 3,000 meter high glaciers and inside massive ice-domes — at temperatures as low as -33 degrees Celsius.
Although it may sound strange, for Terje Isungset, the world’s first and only ice musician, these conditions are all part of the job…
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Thanks to auto-tune and video editing, the late George Carlin can add singing and dancing to his repertoire of stand up comedy. Remix by by DJ Steve Porter & DJ Eli Wilkie (Agent 001).
Analytics company Bain created a chart that illustrates the Global music industry turnover (1973- 2009) …
Continue reading… “Charting The Death of The Music Industry”
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Forget about defeating those evil machines; the Flaming Lips have just released a new song that can only be heard if 12 YouTube videos are played simultaneously…
Continue reading… “The Flaming Lips Release Song Via 12 YouTube Videos”
Musicians at Riverside College have been demonstrating their belief that the piano rocks – literally.
The world’s first rocking piano was recently donated to the college and can be found at the Cronton campus…
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Angie Dickinson and Lee Marvin “perform” Steve Reich’s Clapping Music. This is mesmerizing and really shows off the talents of clapping music in a whole new format.
A top-selling digital song of 2010 was “California Gurls” by Katy Perry (4.4 million).
U.S. music sales fell 2.4% in 2010 to 1.5 billion units, as CD sales plummeted nearly 20% while digital track sales were up just 1%, according to a report from Nielsen and Billboard. Digital track sales were 1.17 billion in 2010, up from 1.16 in 2009. While CD sales fell precipitously last year, digital album sales rose 13% to 863 million. The report notes that digital music accounted for 46% of all U.S. music purchases in 2010, up from 40% in 2009 and 32% in 2008, and digital track sales broke the 1 billion sales mark for the third straight year.
The Kitara Synth-Guitar
“I’m a big fan of electronica,” Zarimis said, “but the band format is missing. It’s usually people sitting at desks or tweaking knobs behind the scenes.”
Unlike keytars, which remain keyboards, or MIDI guitars, which are “too temperamental,” his Kitara keeps the frets but replaces the strings with an 8-inch multi-touch display. Inside is a polyphonic synthesizer, with 100 default sounds and 6 effect, each of which can be assigned to different ‘strings.’
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