alka to play philadelphia electronic music festival: NPX
August 30th from 12pm to 6pm at the Fountain Green, outside in Fairmount Park, Philly, the Northeast Power eXchange (NPX) will be hosting an electronic music collective outing featuring: at work, city rain, alka, knife jams, and many more (see flyer below for complete listing)
more info and directions: Fountain Green, Fairmount Park
Fountain Green is the location of one of the most recognizable sculptures in all of Fairmount Park. This spot, located right alongside the Schuylkill River, is situated within a thicket of trees in a nicely shaded area.
ADDR = Fountain Green Drive & Kelly Drive in Fairmount Park WWW = http://www.fairmountpark.org/StaffFaveSculpture.asp MAP = Mapquest - Fountain Green Drive & Kelly Drive
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being an avid fan of librarianism, electronic music and San Francisco, this is a must:
The San Francisco Tape Music Center: 1960s Counterculture and the Avant-Garde
Locations: Park Branch Meeting Room Address: 1833 Page St. (near Cole) Library Sponsored Public Program Event Time: 7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Description: Book and DVD launch including a panel discussion, demonstration of the Tape Music Center's original Buchla "Box," and a brief nostalgic performance of the "Riley Delay.
Participants include Ramon Sender, Bill Maginnis, David W. Bernstein, Terry Riley and Maggi Payne. Booksales by Booksmith. Signing follows event.
Cary was a pioneer and his influence on electronic music will continue to persevere well into the future. His music shaped my childhood through the likes of Dr. Who and the invention of the amazing VCS3 (the world's FIRST synthesizer) of which he played a significant role.
hello all.. huge news to report: alka is slated to appear alongside Roger O'Donnell (ex-the cure, thompson twins, psych furs) on his new release. (it's going to be huge and .. lovely.)
i'll let him tell the story, as it is his creation, i just helped out.. a little....
"Songs From The Silver Box" An intimate and private collection of sounds, melodies and rhythms. Intricately woven one thread at a time from a palette of shimmering sounds and beats. Electronic music in its most human and emotional form.
So here it is finished my new album. I just sent it to my label Great Society and they love it and have scheduled it for a September release. So we have 6 months to work out how to get this into peoples ears but the main thing is that its in my ears and I love it. My best friend Ian Wright is designing the cover as " it wouldn't be right " if he didn't and I can't wait to see what he comes up with. I am going in to master it next month with Guy Davie another good friend who is the only person I would trust with this job.
One of the main things I wanted to do with this record was to open it up and bring in other people. In 2006 I started co writing with an amazing Australian singer named Lenka, we were working on songs primarily for her but her direction changed and I was lucky enough to end up with two songs sung by her on the record. I asked another of my favourite artists to collaborate on some beats, Bryan Michael from Alka and it was a very interesting process which really inspired me. Of course an album of mine wouldnt be complete without Erin's voice on it and we will probably have two songs with her. - Roger O'Donnell (from his myspace page: www.myspace.com/rogerodonnell)
Bolfish Recordings UK has just released a free teaser EP (Between Two Minds BOLTDIGI003) for City Rains upcoming full length (Light Turned On BOLTLP002) due out in April.
Alka has contributed a remix for between two minds, check out the download links here:
We all know, I’m sure, of the now classic and still frequently used vocoder.. but the voice coder, or VODER (Voice Operating Demonstrator), show in the below video is virtually unheard of today. With great skill and training one could actually construct and "play" words with touch-sensitive keys and a foot pedal. The VODER only produces two different sounds, explained in this very short but amazing video from the 1939 World’s Fair. Inflection and expression can be added depending on how the keys and pedal are played. The vocoder, on the other hand and for those of you who are not familiar, combines two signals, commonly an actual human voice and a synthesizer tone, to create robot-like voices. Both were originally intended for telecommunication purposes.
