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UNC Asheville to Offer Summer Jazz and Contemporary Music Intensive Camp for High School, College and Continuing Musicians (The University of North Carolina at Asheville)

Edit Public Technologies 17 May 2016
UNC Asheville will offer a new summer jazz and contemporary music intensive camp June 26-July 1 for musicians ranging from high school level through adult. Summer music intensive students will enjoy a week of study designed by UNC Asheville's music faculty to accelerate all aspects of musical development ... Camp instructors will include these members of UNC Asheville's music faculty....

Los 40 Principales debuts new brand reflecting a renewed strategic vision and its transformation towards digital entertainment globally (Grupo PRISA - Promotora de Informaciones SA)

Edit Public Technologies 17 May 2016
On the 50th anniversary of its launch, Los 40 Principales, the iconic Top 40 music brand and Spain's radio audience leader, is reinventing itself to reflect its internationalization and transformation towards digital and audiovisual entertainment ... The ribbon also suggests connecting and bonding between different generations, who together enjoy music, content and events ... MUSIC INSPIRES LIFE....

Great to see India putting itself on EDM map: DJ Nucleya

Edit The Times of India 17 May 2016
New Delhi, May 17 (IANS) Independent music artiste Nucleya aka Udyan Sagar, who will enthrall Bollywood buffs in Madrid when he plays at the IIFA Stomp next month, says the world of Electronic Dance Music (EDM) has become huge globally, inluding in India ... I am glad to represent how far India has gotten with EDM music at IIFA Stomp with Mulafest," he said in a statement ... I constantly love to experiment with new music....

Ring in the right notes

Edit The Hindu 17 May 2016
I realised that I don’t have to wait till I turn 30 to become a music director,” says 15-year-old Rishi Babu. Rishi, who is in class X at Maharishi Vidya Mandir in Chennai, now has to his credit 100 ringtones, composed in a variety of genres using the FL Studio music software ... It inspired me to compose ring tones using Indian musical instruments and electronic sounds,” explains the young musician....

Amherst Senior Awarded BPO Young Musician Scholarship (Amherst School District)

Edit Public Technologies 17 May 2016
The Buffalo Chamber Music Society and BPO volunteers partner each year to recognize talented young individuals who plan to pursue music studies at a college or university ... Since 2012, he's consistently won Gold Medals in the Jacobs School of Music Piano Academy, Toronto and Stamford Kiwanis, and Burlington Rotary Music Festivals as well as earning the championship in the Heddy Killian Competition....

Songwriters Call for Music Licensing Reform on Capitol Hill During ASCAP "Stand With Songwriters" Advocacy Day (ASCAP - American Society of Composers Authors and Publishers)

Edit Public Technologies 17 May 2016
WASHINGTON, DC-MAY 17, 2016- Advocating for important reforms to outdated federal music licensing laws and regulations, award-winning songwriters and composers from various music genres will be in Washington, DC tomorrow, May 18 to meet with elected officials as part of the annual American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers (ASCAP) 'Stand with Songwriters' Advocacy Day on Capitol Hill....

Why Apple Music Is So Bad When the iPhone Is So Good

Edit New Yorker 17 May 2016
On April 28, 2003, Apple launched the iTunes Music Store, saving the music industry from the scourge of piracy while creating a large and steady source of revenue for Apple ... Many Apple Music customers took to the Internet to warn their fellow-users to back their stuff up ... its music services....

Retiring Faculty Q & A: Dr. Susan Taylor (Anderson University)

Edit Public Technologies 17 May 2016
After I completed my doctoral degree, I relocated to Maryland to serve as the curriculum specialist for music for the Frederick County Public Schools. After 10 years of supervision in Frederick, I became a full-time music education faculty member at the University of Maryland for four years ... Next year, I will be teaching some of my music education courses on a part-time basis ... I will miss making music with my students....

Exciting exhibition comes to Liverpool this Autumn (Liverpool City Council)

Edit Public Technologies 17 May 2016
An exciting new exhibition celebrating the Mexican man who clothed some of the most iconic music stars of all time - from The Beatles to Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan to Jack White and The Killers - is coming to Liverpool this autumn. Musical Threads - From Mariachi to Mersey Beat and Back, brings together for the first time outside the US a stunning collection of works by multi-award winning, Mexican fashion designer, Manuel Cuevas....

Musical "Harmony of the Spheres" in concert

Edit Philadelphia Daily News 17 May 2016
'The music of the spheres.". Musical "Harmony of the Spheres" in concert ... Classical writers such as Plato and Pliny developed the idea that the distances between the planets corresponded with musical intervals as identified by Pythagoras, and that the heavenly bodies literally produced harmony - the music of the spheres - as they moved in their orbits around (as they understood at the time) the Earth....

It’s not all jazz, says Sello Galane

Edit Mail Guardian South Africa 17 May 2016
Kiba music proponent and one-time Malombo member Sello Galane still has it in for jazz. At a recent International Jazz Day event at Freedom Park in Pretoria, Galane delivered a lecture that argued for further effort in canonising indigenous music idioms for educational purposes rather than accepting the allure that the idea of jazz, for instance, holds in the South African imagination....

SOCAN Unveils Royalties Analysis Dashboard (SOCAN - Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers of Canada)

Edit Public Technologies 17 May 2016
An integral part of SOCAN's strategy to leverage and deploy digital tools to lead the global transformation of music rights and designed specifically for songwriters, composers and music publishers, Royalty Guru's analytics capabilities allow SOCAN's more than 135,000 members to visualize their data in a variety of easy-to-use ways to help them manage their business and career in music....

Moby's memoir 'Porcelain' exceptional and incisive

Edit The Miami Herald 17 May 2016
It ranks with Kim Gordon's "Girl in a Band" and a handful of others in recent years as a particularly incisive look at not just a life in music, but at the cultural and social circumstances that helped shape it ... Simpson to his performances, and then fell from favor as the club scene shifted from joyous rave music to something darker ... A deep love for making music ... At the same time, I rediscovered a lot of guitar music....
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