Musician’s Friend Buys Harmony Central: Whither Independence?

Harmony Central, the highest-traffic music tech site online, announced yesterday it had been acquired by music catalog outlet Musician’s Friend. For their part, Harmony Central’s founders remain onboard and claim the site will remain an “independent publisher and forum.” But wait a minute: while it’s great to hear the most-read site on the Web for […]

Finale 2006 Notation Software: Features, Analyzed

Remember notation? Stuff you hand to actual musicians? (Remember them?) Score production remains a very big deal, especially since some of us find hand-scoring about as much fun as digging trenches with our teeth. MakeMusic this week has announced preorders and feature set for their next release of Finale, Finale 2006, continuing their annual upgrade […]

Peter Kirn - June 23, 2005

Arts in Space: International Space Station

Let’s get the bad news out of the way first: “It should be noted that it is very unlikely that an artist would have the opportunity themselves to go to the International Space Station, certainly in the foreseeable future.” Damn. Okay, that said, though, Arts Electric reports the European Space Agency is looking at ways […]

Peter Kirn - June 23, 2005

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