Jul 18, 2014 |
Partway through a meeting this evening over drinks, BBC Click presenter LJ Rich took Matthew Hawn and I out into the streets of Covent Garden to experience ‘glitching’ – her music hack that turns urban landscapes into music.
As a “shared auditory hallucination”, it’s kind of trippy. Essentially, it uses effects and harmonisation to turn the city scene into an entirely different audio soundscape – and quite a musical one at that.
LJ has both synaesthesia and perfect pitch, and assures us that London is in the key of B-flat. And so this stripped-down version of the glitching rig makes use of that fact with prepared sounds. With the full kit, LJ has a keyboard strapped to her, a laptop in a backpack, binaural headphone microphones, a portable wifi router and all sorts of other gadgets and bits.
She’s quite keen to bring the kit to Music Tech Fest in September, and let everyone simultaneously experience glitching. That would be interesting….
Mar 2, 2010 |
This audio slideshow was edited from the full length documentary – and explores the musical influences on Zane growing up in New Zealand…
Radio New Zealand has confirmed the following broadcast dates for “Urban Disturbance in Broadcasting House: The Zane Lowe Story”, produced by Sam Coley and presented by Andrew Dubber.
Part One:
4:10 pm Saturday 10 Apr 2010
8:05 pm Friday 16 Apr 2010
Part Two:
4:10 pm Saturday 17 Apr 2010
8:05 pm Friday 23 Apr 2010
For more details, see producer Sam Coley’s website.
Oct 21, 2009 |
Just returned from London where I was interviewing Zane Lowe for a radio documentary I’m making with Sam Coley for Radio New Zealand. The programme is called Musical Chairs, and it’s a series that focuses on New Zealand musicians, and tells their story through interview and music.
Of course, Zane’s not really known over here in the UK as a musician – but then he’s not really that well known back in New Zealand as a broadcaster, so I guess that evens out. The story we’re telling is about both.
Zane is, as far as we can work out (with the possible exception of Phil Keoghan), New Zealand’s most successful broadcaster.
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