Michael Bierylo, teaching Music Synthesis at Berklee, takes a look at raster-noton. Check out the full article here.
Scenes and styles in general are often associated with specific labels. While there are a number of artists and labels that one might categorize as IDM(Intelligent Dance Music), Warp Records is recognized as the mothership of that particular genre, being the home of artists such as Aphex Twin andSquarepusher. To me, one of the most interesting things happening in electronic music right now is minimal noise techno, and if there’s an aesthetic motherlode for this music, it’s Raster Noton. The label was founded by three like-minded German artists, and came about through a merger of Olaf Bender and Frank Bretschneider’s Rastermusik and Carsten Nicolai’s Noton labels in 1999. The three are active performers, Bender as Byetone and Nicolai as Alva Noto. All three come from a background in visual arts, and visual presentation is a strong component of Raster Noton releases, as well as their artists’ performances.
Music (Original Score) Oscar Nominees
I know – a little bit too late, but still interesting.
Musican/composer Mark Mothersbaugh (Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, New York I Love You, Nick & Nora’s Infinite Playlist) discusses the musical scores of each of this years nominated films.
Jim Pavloff recreates two lassic tracks by prodigy in ableton live – inspiring. Keep in mind that Liam Howlett wasn’t able to use Ableton live back in the days…
Hans Zimmer and Diego Stocco talk about the Experibass on Sherlock Holmes’ score
Diego Stocco, a great sound designer & solist, worked with Hans Zimmer on Guy Ritchie’s new movie “Sherlock Holmes”. In this video they are talking about his unique instrument – the experibass:
From Diegos Youtube Chanel:
I had the fantastic opportunity to play my Experibass on Hans Zimmer’s score for “Sherlock Holmes”, the new Guy Ritchie’s film. I’m one of the featured soloists.
Hans really loved the pounding tonal grooves and aggressive depth of the basses I was playing on the Experibass and asked me to go full scale with all those techniques I was showing in the original video. I didn’t stop there though, I also experimented with new techniques that were coming up to my mind while playing on his tracks.
A big thanks goes to my friends Daniel Holter and Russell Emanuel for passing my video and make the connection happens.
Working with Hans Zimmer and his team has been great and I’d like to thank them for this amazing experience. I’ve been a fan of his music for a long time and I felt honored when he called me to play on the score of Sherlock Holmes.
What is Burial’s music ‘about’? What does it ‘do’? Come to think of it, what is his music? What does it mean? Of course, all of this is up to the listener’s imagination, but for a while now there’s been a certain degree of consensus on the answers to these questions: Burial ‘mourns the death of rave’, his music is (to paraphrase a handful of commentators) a ‘plaintive echo from a bygone era of collective energy’, ‘a melancholy, ghostly memory of the faded promise of rave, drenched in weathering and mired in urban decay’.
Interesting post about Burial and his music at Rouge’s Foam Blog.
Robot Marimba Improvisation
The stage debut of Shimon, the robotic marimba player. Also, the world first human-robot rendition of Duke Jordan’s “Jordu”, for human piano and robot marimba.
