Electronic Music Pioneer Bebe Barron Dead At 82 » Synthtopia
Bebe Barron, who, along with her husband Louis Barron, created the pioneering electronic score for Forbidden Planet, died April 20, 2008 at the age of 82 of natural causes.
Archive for April, 2008
Okay, so my first true gearlust in a very, very long time. I’ve known about these things for a good long while, but I’ve been keeping myself blissfully ignorant of these devices, but have decided once and for all - MUST HAVE. The bad news? According to CDM this morning, they launch May 1 for $1200, and only 100 will be available, with 100 more available per month after that. I don’t want to think about what the demand will be, but somehow, someway….
In the meantime, allow Toshio Iwai demonstrate via live performance:
It’s that time again, little robots! Come out to Park Grounds in Atlanta for Nophest 4 & 20 - two stage, tons of bands, April 18-20. Be there Saturday night for a rare appearance from the entire Harmaline combo as we perform our upcoming EP live and 3kStatic brings the future funkiness. $20 for all weekend pass, and did I mention the free beer? See you all there!
Everyone should RUN, not walk, to 45tribute.com and donate $5 in memory of Elektron co-founder Daniel Hansson. Your $5 goes to the World Wildlife Fund, and in return you get 30 tracks (with an additional 31 tracks available for free) from a seriously incredibly group of artists. It’s good music for a good cause, so what are you waiting for?
My brother is on the font page at YouTube. Way to gho!
My definitive statement re: Tibet, China and the Olympics is forthcoming.
Speaker Pelosi: “I was reading the paper the other day as the torch was going through Paris that one of the carriers of the torch said that what was happening with the protesters was ‘very unpleasant.’ And I thought ‘You think that’s unpleasant? Maybe you should be in the subhuman conditions that the refugees are in Darfur. If you think that’s unpleasant maybe you should be in a prison in Tibet for your faith in His Holiness the Dalai Lama. If you think that’s unpleasant maybe you could still be in prison from the Tiananmen Square Massacre, some people are still in prison from that time.’”