Some of these possibilities are not yet sufficient, however. Even when synthesizers have developed in recent decades become an important and influential style musical instrument, many artists want more and already working on revolutionary concepts for the future. The musical avant-garde that has discovered more than five decades, the Synthesizerfür experimental music using today's technologies of the 21st Century. Anyone who is interested, is recommended as the first point of Peter Kirn's Create Digital Music blog. Peter has just once again about Onyx Ashanti reported.

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Onyx Ashanti is not only his own music, but also his instruments. And he does everything right. He stubbornly tinkering for years to be personally adjusted musical instruments, his music made suit. Armed with a soldering iron, carbon-fiber-reinforced plastic, smart phones, mini-computers and a lot of hot glue it creates a kind of portable music exoskeleton. He wants to ultimately realize his musical vision of the “Jazz Beat”.

In each hand he holds a controller that provides significantly more functionality than about a Wiimote. Through a mouthpiece, it can trigger other signals, another technique he has strapped to his arms or on the body. Onyx Ashanti hardly moved hands and body, pushes a few buttons on the controllers and use the mouthpiece, you will hear music. The control of wearable sensors take on Arduino, small and low-cost microcontroller, whose blueprint was released as open source. As a development environment for signal processing of music and graphic modules is to use Pure Data, also an open source software. Already used for the basics Onyx Ashanti so widely-used Open Source components.

Now he wants his advances, that is specially adapted to his music specially written for the hardware and Linux software to perfect and make public as open source. But this “basic research” costs money. Therefore Onyx Ashanti has launched a campaign in Crowdfunding IndieGogo. Until Thursday, he collects contributions from interested small investors to fund his work. Even with $ 5 you can be there to support the project. As always, the crowd funding investors but get something in return. That's enough of an EP on the software and the hardware to the construction plans to the instruments themselves and who devote the entire $ 25,000 will receive a complete equipment and goes on tour with Onyx Ashanti.

But even a lot of cattle manure does add up to too many small contributions. I too have been “geclaimt Perk” one, but do not tell, what are your turn now, the Kampgane runs only until the first December!

the appearance of Onyx Ashanti at the prestigious TED, where he introduces his music to a large audience is to see here:

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No other jazz label embodies the spirit of optimism and experimentation of the 60s so exemplary as “Impulse!” Records. Among the trailblazing motto “The New Wave In Jazz”, the label founded in 1961, has published more than 15 years, the most advanced, the Jazz had to offer. There were visionaries like Sonny Rollins, Charles Mingus, Albert Ayler, Keith Jarrett, Archie Shepp and Pharaoh Sanders, who celebrated in “Impulse” their first big successes. But above all an artist has shaped the identity of the record labels and assured him of his lasting impact John Coltrane.

playfulness and experimental back at this year's festival that is at the center. And the program can be more than excellent – in two senses: because those without tickets for the festival, can listen to almost all the concerts live on the radio or even watch the live stream! Www.jazzfestival.hr2 kultur.de or under-Arte liveweb.arte.tv under the video streams are offered. But back to the program.

Thursday 27 October 2011,

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The capital plays Hanns Eisler: Who has the great album “Ballads & Barricades” and “Conflicts & Conclusions” have not heard from the capital, should catch up quickly. Rightly been the trio will get awarded that evening the German Record Critics Prize.
Bob Degen Quartet feat. Valentin Garvie
“Africa / Brass”
 

Friday 28 October 2011,

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Jonas Kullhammar Quartet
McCoy Tyner Trio feat. José James and Chris Potter: At this concert I am most happy. Doyen Tyner, to Potter on sax and the brilliant and still relatively young José James, who incidentally just released a new single called “Trouble.”
Archie Shepp & Joachim Kühn: Two more pulses sizes!. Rolf Kühn and his brother are the only German one album for Impulse! taken just days after the death of Coltrane.
 

Saturday 29 October 2011,

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hr-Bigband feat. Vincent Herring
Harriet Tubman Double Trio
“Impressions of New York” – Rolf & Joachim Kuhn, John Patitucci, Brian Blade: The Kühn Brothers play to the above mentioned album. Epic.
 

Sunday 30 October 2011, 15:30 clock

 
Children's Concert
 

To get here I link to this podcast from hr2, which corresponds to the Jazz Festival. Is still quite exactly one week out, to be heard in Frankfurt, the first notes.        .

It emerged from the recordings of gigs Brand New Heavies, Mark 'Snowboy' Cotgrove, Steve Williamson and Bukky Leo. Paul's pal Tony Williams interviewed while Paul Bradshaw, Gilles Peterson, Eddie Pillar and other acid jazz protagonists of the first hour. Paul cut his material together with the interviews and produced a half-hour feature. Recently, he has it posted on the Internet. 1991, the early days of Acid Jazz: The boys all looked like typical English white bread

Acid Jazz with Gilles Peterson. feat. Brand New Heavies – Mark 'Snowboy' Cotgrove – Steve Williamson and Bukky Leo at Dingwalls. TV from Paul on Vimeo.

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Sometimes the audience

stopped breathing, looked so fragile, some of the repetitive melodies that built gradually but more energy and then exploded in an acute sound explosion. Other songs like Black 'classic' Leave My Head Alone Brain “housy grooved so hard, as one might expect from the music of choice-Berliner, too. Only the two just played everything live, improvised schonmal drauflos, took detours, painted scrolls, swung carelessly and easily found at the end back to the finish. So it's true, because together what belongs together.

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On Sunday, I am continuing my tour at the joint appearance of Bugge Wesseltoft and Henrik Schwarz. The Norwegian pianist and the German producer laptop have current album “Duo” at the start, which is already well anlässt. I suspect, however, that the collaboration of the two can only really unfold live. Even if the tracks are therefore partly calmer: I hope the fire station not seating

Finally

again be transformed into top and let it rip right times. His trademark dark-ambient sound of course he is still perfect on it, but the guitars sound walls do hear his music well.

be exhausting days, but I am already on it and will blog afterwards, as it was. If there is anyone of you, but just give notice, maybe we can chat before or shortly afterwards

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More information is

for her course on the Enjoy Jazz festival website, blog or at the festival metropoljazz.de.

 
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Wiesbaden Schlachthof organize the Darmstadt Dubstepper of Chrome! since its July 2010 regular dubstep parties to which they invite guest DJs. Next date is the 4th November 2011 with audite from Leipzig.

Flexomat Pander and Chrome! are also in Mainz café culture of the party, when on 22 October 2011 premiere of 30Hz is staged. Behind it are the guys from Jump Up The Bass Line, including track and Tinkerman Smith, who some may already include DJ's know as the Hip Hop Culture-Radioshow on Radio Rheinwelle.

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So now a 15 track album complete, has filed at the Vindahl four long years. Who is not ashamed of '80s synth-soul-pop, you will love Serendipity. Admittedly, in the late Eighties and early Nineties, there has been a lot of interchangeable mass-produced musical, but it is also quite a lot of pearls, the only learned by and by the respect they deserve. Vindahl celebrates this sound and missed him today for the necessary freshness.

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reminds me of my early Teenhood, but I think for younger people.

     Vindahl – Serendipity by Tokyo Dawn Records
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The half-century

Impulse! is indeed at the German Jazz Festival in Frankfurt recognized extensively. There is all about the so-influential label that just released not only the music of John Coltrane, but especially in the 1960s, so many influential musicians offered a home. Among others were the two German Rolf and Joachim Kühn album “Impressions of New York” record there, just days after Coltrane's death.

But back on topic: Those looking for an introduction to the music of the contemporary jazz avant-garde, at Impulse! 2-on-1 just as good hands as long-time fans, here perhaps one or the other, produced by Bob Thiele and Rudy Van Gelder's studio in discovering recorded pearl. The effects of the decades-old images seem at least until after today: African rhythms, civil rights movement, a lot of improvisation, playfulness and a certain Abgespacetheit played and play it in a hip-hop and various types of electronic music is still playing a major role. Impulse! which helped to a great breakthrough.

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Heidelberg takes the starting tomorrow for a week as an occasion marked by celebrations of hip hop. From 26.09. to 02.10. found in various record stores, movie theaters.

highlights of the anniversary week of the Torch should be in the concert and the birthday party in halle02 Ziegler, on the others also Denyo, Marteria, Tony L and DJ Dynamite will be present. Sounds like a very exclusive and intimate birthday party!

The complete program is

here. Allen Heidelberger Homies a nice party!

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