This weekend I had the awesome pleasure to play at Dub War, NYC’s great dubstep party at Love. It was a great night and I want to thank Dave Q and the whole Dub War crew for inviting me. Here is the listing from Time Out New York for the show. Looking forward to next month!
Clubs
Dub War: Martyn + Raz Mesinai + Ben Neill
Description
The dubstep-oriented Dub War crew hosts another night of deep,
rumbling rhythms. This month’s edition is yet another amazing one: The
Netherland’s Martyn, who heads up the 3024 label and is responsible for
some of the best deep, chiming and haunting dubstep around recently,
hits the decks; Raz Mesinai, better known to fans of dubbed-out, Middle
East–tinged rhythms under his Badawi and Ladyman monikers, performs
live. As an added bonus, Ben Neill—the creative composer, genius
performer and inventor of the “mutantrumpetâ€â€”also takes the Love stage.
Joe Nice, Dave Q and Alex Incyde complete the lineup. Go to
dubwarnyc.com for more info.
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The Metropolitan Opera is using interactive video technology in its new production of Berlioz’ Damnation of Faust directed by Robert Lepage. This story is particularly interesting to me because I have used samples from this work in several of my songs, namely the title track from the Goldbug CD and Somnabula, a track on the Astralwerks compilation Excursions in Ambience Vol. 4. It makes a lot of sense to introduce this technology in the work of Berlioz, since he was such a technological innovator himself, not to mention being a kind of 19th century psychedelic personality. The full article appears here: Techno-Alchemy at the Opera
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What an amazing sensation today! There truly is a feeling of dramatic change that will be far-reaching and broad in its implications, way beyond politics and way beyond the borders of the US. Michael Moore’s letter today talks about the possibilities for creativity and art:
We may, just possibly, also see a time of refreshing openness, enlightenment and creativity. The arts and the artists will not be seen as the enemy. Perhaps art will be explored in order to discover the greater truths. When FDR was ushered in with his landslide in 1932, what followed was Frank Capra and Preston Sturgis, Woody Guthrie and John Steinbeck, Dorothea Lange and Orson Welles. All week long I have been inundated with media asking me, “gee, Mike, what will you do now that Bush is gone?” Are they kidding? What will it be like to work and create in an environment that nurtures and supports film and the arts, science and invention, and the freedom to be whatever you want to be? Watch a thousand flowers bloom! We’ve entered a new era, and if I could sum up our collective first thought of this new era, it is this: Anything Is Possible.
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