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Google Now On The Record With Anti-Indie Negotiating Tactics
As Beats, Spotify, and others earn praise from indies, Google is looking like music’s biggest new villain. According to independent labels, Google is ignoring their collective negotiating groups, offering poor terms in comparison to what they offer majors, and then threatening to block artists and labels from YouTube if they don’t accept those disadvantaged license […]
Read moreIn Videos, a Battle of Controllers and Live Electronic Performance
In a competitive show of virtuosity, artists at an event in San Francisco over the summer battled to show that live electronic and laptop performance can be physical. It’s dance music that makes the artist sweat, and not just the audience. Hosted by the new Controllerism.com blog with San Francisco’s LoveTech and Slayer’s Club communities, […]
- August 22, 2011
Music Music tech
What Makes a Truly New Instrument? Human Gestures Power Winners of Guthman Competition
Interlude Consortium’s competition-winning MO makes everyday objects interfaces and does some surprisingly-sophisticated analysis of gestures. Nearly as long as we’ve had electronics, musical inventors have tried to imagine new electronic instruments. In the crowded world of new instrument design, the Margaret Guthman Musical Instrument Competition has emerged as a key prize for the best work, […]
Resolume Competition: Make VJ Loops for Kraak & Smaak
Peter Kirn - March 18, 2010
Archive Motion Music tech
Indie Game as Visualist Event: As the Deadline Nears, One Button Inspires
Peter Kirn - January 26, 2010
Archive Motion Music tech
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