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...campus music festival to bring Crimson rockers together. Ashley V. Furst ’03, the lead singer of the Ashley 1st Band and creator of the event, set out to create exposure for the artists while proving that Harvard is, in fact, a rich source of rock musicians. Having been recently turned away from other music festivals, Furst hoped not only to provide a venue where Harvard musicians could be seen but also to disprove the assumption that Harvard students can’t be rock stars.“People expect us to calculate the rate at which...
...Times, Murray told police that he had been administering 50 milligrams of propofol to Jackson intravenously every night for six weeks to treat insomnia. But according to the report, Murray said he was afraid Jackson was forming an addiction to the drug and switched medications two days before the musician died. (See a guide to the post-Michael Jackson clan...
What do you crave when your life turns upside down? When you switch jobs or have a kid or move to a new city, you want to immerse yourself in a warm bath of familiarity, right? You want Mom's chocolate-chip cookies, your favorite musician burbling from the speakers, maybe a glass of your most reliable booze chilling your hand...
...fact, the jazz and video-game-music communities have remained largely separate until now. And yes, there is a video-game-music community - an extensive, primarily Internet-based collective of musicians who focus on a genre they call chiptune. Most enthusiasts are people in their 20s and 30s who find themselves drawn to the sounds of early video games, to blend those electronic bleeps and bloops with rock, pop and hip-hop. Chiptune is still relatively obscure: in 2007, hip-hop artist Timbaland got in trouble for sampling a tune composed by a Finnish chiptune musician...
Chiptune music is created through computer-programming code, and because of that, most musicians come to the medium through their interest in computers. They do not necessarily know how to play an instrument. "You write a program and feed it to the computer, which reads it as if it were sheet music," explains 24-year-old Sam Ascher-Weiss, whose cover of Davis' "All Blues" appears on Kind of Bloop. "You see what it sounds like, mess around with it, and try it again." Ascher-Weiss is a chiptune anomaly: he is a jazz pianist and working musician...