Arts Live Music News Beck is coming to Sydney with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra for three special shows in May by Tammy Moir Beck brings his good self back to Aus with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra for three big nights This May, the genre-bending songwriter joins the Sydney Symphony Orchestra for three exclusive…
Arts Music News Politics Philip Glass withdraws ‘Lincoln’ Symphony from Kennedy Center by Chi Chi Attard “The values of the Kennedy Center today are in direct conflict with the message of the Symphony” says Glass. Glass is only the latest of many artists who have cancelled…
Music News WATCH: The Smashing Pumpkins reimagine Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness with an Orchestra in Chicago by Tammy Moir Thirty years on, Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness still feels like a universe you can get lost in. The Smashing Pumpkins are marking the milestone in their hometown of…
Music News Jeezy Breaks Guinness World Record with 101-Piece Hip-Hop Orchestra by Tammy Moir Vegas just witnessed Jeezy’s biggest performance ever – landsliding over Cypress hill’s 72 piece symphony Atlanta rap veteran Jeezy has made history. During his Las Vegas residency TM:101 Live at…
Music News 432 Hz: The Bizarre Theory linking standard Musical Tuning to a Nazi Plot by Alex Cooper Is the standard 440 Hz pitch a Nazi-era manipulation, or just musical myth-making? Beneath the universal language of music lies a discordant conspiracy theory: the claim that every instrument in…
Music News Sigur Rós Drop Extra Orchestral Tour Dates After Selling Out in Record Time by Tammy Moir Sigur Rós fans, you asked, and they delivered – the Icelandic Post-Punk legends have added extra dates After their highly anticipated Australian orchestral tour sold out almost instantly, Secret Sounds…
News Pro Audio EastWest Hollywood Fantasy Orchestra by Oliver Ashby The sounds of magic and adventure, right under your fingers Do you dream of conducting and recording a vast orchestra of all of the obscure and interesting instruments you hear…
Music News Genesis Owusu is set to perform live with a full orchestra by Tom Disalvo Genesis Owusu will be flanked by 40-piece orchestras in Sydney and Brisbane for an upcoming concert series. Genesis Owusu is set to host a collaborative concert with the symphony orchestras…
Music News Politics An orchestra in Cardiff is under fire for cancelling a Tchaikovsky concert by Lochie Schuster Cardiff Philharmonic Orchestra are no longer playing music written by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky due to the conflict in Ukraine. The world is piling bans on Russia at the moment, from…
Features Pro Audio Romanticism to Radiohead: the unlimited potential of string instruments by Josh Davies String instruments are some of the oldest and most popular instruments in history. Ranging from traditional Asian instruments, like the Erhu from China and Koto from Japan, to the electric…
Features Pro Audio Baroque, Beatles and beyond: exploring the impact of brass instruments by Josh Davies Brass instruments are capable of some of the most explosive effects of all instrument families. But, the members of the brass family are a diverse group of instruments that can…
News Pro Audio Spitfire launches Discover: a top-quality, yet affordable sample library by Dave Stano Spitfire Audio has recently released BBC Symphony Orchestra Discover, an affordable version of its high-quality orchestral sample library at a fraction of the cost. Discover offers 35 instruments and 47…
News A new supergroup led by King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard is set to re-score ‘Suspiria’ by Luke Haggart Horror movies and supergroups, two awesome things that can only work well together. This is exactly the point in mind for production company Hear My Eyes who are enlisting the…
