Metamatics & other: April 2008

Thursday 24 April 2008

Taraf De Haidouks

Artist: Taraf De Haidouks

   Genre(s):
Folk
   Retro

Discography:

Band of Gypsies

Year: 2001
Tracks: 14

Musique Des Tziganes De Rouman

Year: 1991
Tracks: 15

Honourable Brigands, Magic Ho..

Year:
Tracks: 16

Friday 18 April 2008

IRCAM Academy, City Halls, Glasgow

IRCAM, the Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique founded by Pierre Boulez in 1977, on a regular basis leaves its Paris base to bedspread the electro-acoustic son in what it calls "academy workshops". The first base of these in the UK took place in Glasgow, organised in collaboration with the BBC Scots English Symphony Orchestra, whose composer-in-association, Jonathan William Harvey, workings regularly with IRCAM.Aboard the workshops and lectures was a twin of world concerts hosted by the BBCSSO, and a vitrine of IRCAM's contributions to electro-acoustic euphony. Pierre Boulez was represented by Dialogue de l'Ombre Double, in which a aristotelean clarinet is surrounded by electronic reflections and transformations of itself in an elegant tracery of arabesques. From each one concert likewise included a work by William Harvey: a episode of extracts from his 2007 opera Wagner Dream, and a performance by the Quatuor Diotima of his outstanding Fourth String Quartet, in which the real time processing and projection of the sound produces a complex and poetically rich people texture.

Unsuk Chin's Xi, from 1997, was a letdown, a procedure mesh of live orchestra and pre-recorded sounds; Yan Maresz's Metallics, for solo trumpet, showed it is completely to a fault tardily to manipulation IRCAM hardware to plain stitch a convincing piece out of flimsy material. The purely acoustic items included as contrast were better. The Scots Supporting players gave mightily accounts of Xenakis's Aroura and his Ittidra, and Ilan Volkov conducted the BBCSSO in Richard Ayres's No 37b, an orchestral suite with a typically anarchic trend. It was a perfect tense foil to the serious-minded note-spinning around it.· Send on Wireless 3's Hear and Now from May 10.

Thursday 17 April 2008

Mariah Carey on track for No. 1 debut

New York -- Mariah Carey looks certain to debut at No. 1 on next
week's Hoarding 200 with "E=MC2," based on massive first-day sales
from the baseball club chains that report to Nielsen SoundScan's Building
Graph.

Unweighted gross revenue for the Island Def Block record album are at 154,000 units
on the report released Midweek. That's to a greater extent than pentad multiplication the
total garnered by the current chart-topper, Leona Lewis' "Intent"
(Syco/J).

By equivalence, Carrie Underwood's "Funfair Ride" (Arista
Capital of Tennessee) had first-day gross sales of 150,000 and wound up shift
527,000 in its number one week.

Billboard estimates that the merchants world Health Organization report to the Construction
Chart -- Trans Earthly concern Entertainment, Starbucks, Best Buy, Lap
City, iTunes, Border's, Target, Carl David Anderson Merchandisers, and
Handleman Co. -- represent 80% of the U.S. retail food market.

Carey's last tone ending, 2005's "The Emancipation of Mimi," debuted at
No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with first-week sales of 404,000 copies.