Who says tradition has to live on? The basic shape of the grand piano has remained virtually unchanged for centuries…but not any more. There is no limit to what a piano can look like these days (as some of these designs will testify). I love my piano, but bring on the super slick glass racing car style piano. I reckon I could play twice as fast on that thing. Check out some more incredible piano designs.
Talented multi-instrumental group Three Shades Black, performed Amy’s composition ‘The Driving Force’, in a series of concerts in Beijing. The concerts, entitled Moving Scores combined experimental film and live orchestral performance, creating visual scores for ordinary things. A full house packed into Mao Live House, the hottest live music venue and punk club in town.
Contemporary musicians teamed up with local and international artists for the show, resulting in compelling soundscapes paired with often breathtaking imagery.
Languid strings, tinkering music boxes, and even kissy sounds were used to great effect, and though the visual aspect was sometimes self indulgent, and some might find the accompanying music to have been quite jarring, there were some beautiful moments.
Article by Stephen Foxworthy, Strategy Director (www.reactive.com)
Fans and musicians have been pushing a massive shift in the way the music industry markets its product.
For years record labels have held tightly to their music product, closely controlling how consumers could access it, clamping down of bootlegs, recordings and performance and issuing take-down and cease and desist notices for those who tried to create their own assets or use the labels intellectual property in their own way.
Increasingly, however, musicians are striking out on their own and creating new and innovative ways to distribute their work.
This week, Beck Hansen (AKA just “Beck”) announced he will release his next album as simple sheet music, not as the more typical recording. The point being that you should play the music yourself, and interpret it as you will. Alternately you can pay to see Beck live in concert, where you’ll hear the artists interpretation.
Also this week, Gotye published a remix of his number 1 hit single “Somebody I used to know” as a mash up of fans playing his song on YouTube. Watch the Somebodies: A YouTube Orchestra
Read the rest of this great article on the future of the music industry, with some great creative ideas that are taking music in a whole new and exciting direction!
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