Archive for July, 2008
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Thursday, July 24th, 2008I Just read a great article about the film War Games over at Wired Magazine. War Games came out at an exciting time where home computing was just starting to take hold and long before the word ‘hacker’ entered into the publics consciousness. Against a backdrop of 80’s USA/Russia nuclear nervousness it told the story [...]
Take a walk around Pierre Henry’s House of Sound
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008If you are in Paris between August 4th and 15th you should definitely try and get tickets to visit Pierre Henry’s House of Sound. The pioneering composer is throwing open the doors to his home and allowing 13 lucky visitors (per day) the opportunity to explore his music and sound work. Find out more at [...]
New Delia Derbyshire recordings discovered
Friday, July 18th, 2008Great news for fans of early electronic music. The BBC reports today on a discovery of music composed by the late Delia Derbyshire. Delia was the pioneering composer behind the mind blowing Dr Who theme and a catalogue of strange otherworldly music for BBC radio and TV dramas and documentaries.
The new recordings include a piece [...]
Ken Hollings blog/Welcome to Mars news
Thursday, July 17th, 2008Ken Hollings now has his own blog. His second post has news on the Welcome to Mars book launch and accompanying CD of music that I wrote and produced for the radio series of the same name. Paper shortages in China and India have put the release date back till October but having read early [...]
Car lovers need sound
Thursday, July 10th, 2008I’m not really interested in cars but this story in The Guardian newspaper caught my eye. It is about a new electric powered car called the Electric Lightning GT that can go from 0-60MPH in four seconds making very little noise. And there lies the problem. The makers of the Electric Lightning GT realised that [...]
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