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The Orchestrion Project
by Pat Metheny
 The Orchestration Project represents a conceptual direction that merges an idea from the late 19th and early 20th centuries with the technologies of today to create a new, open-ended platform for musical composition, improvisation and performance.
"Orchestrionics" is the term that I am using to describe a method of developing ensemble-oriented music using acoustic and acoustoelectric musical instruments that are mechanically controlled in a variety of ways, using solenoids and pneumatics. With a guitar, pen or keyboard I am able to create a detailed compositional environment or a spontaneously developed improvisation, with the pieces on this particular recording leaning toward the compositional side of the spectrum. On top of these layers of acoustic sound, I add my conventional electric guitar playing as an improvised component. At least for me, this takes the term "solo record" into some new and interesting areas, somewhat recontextualizing the idea of what constitutes a solo performance by a single musician. This project is the result of a lifelong dream in this area that dates back to my early youth. Read the entire article here.
Chieftains and San Patricios by Mairéid Sullivan
The Chieftains' new album San Patricio is a brilliant artistic conception —especially musically, when we hear how Irish traditional root melodies have evolved to become South-Western and Mexican songs -Tex-Mex, Nortino music.
The CD cover art features the legendary Mexican icon of the Virgin Mary,— Our Lady of Guadalupe holding a dead young Irish soldier in her arms, reminiscent of Michelangelo's La Pietà, depicting the body of Jesus on the lap of his mother after he had been taken down from the cross.
In one of The Chieftains’ most unique projects ever, the ancient connections between the Spanish and the Irish, and the musical souls of two modern nations, Ireland and Mexico, are movingly brought to life. Who were the San Patricios? Full Article.
Musician 2.0, 3.0, 4.0 ...Developing Music Careers in Uncertain Times
A Psycho-Spiritual-Musical Manifesto by Peter Spellman
If you were to judge the health of the recording industry by the mainstream press you’d have to conclude things do look pretty bleak. Industry trade groups like the RIAA and the IFPI continue parading their woeful data on global CD sales and there are no signs of improvement. In real dollars the industry has been flat-lining for nine straight years. And it’s not just the recording industry that’s ailing. Other sectors of the biz – music publishing, music products and the concert industries – are also registering declines. The key word here is “industry”. It’s important for those in the biz to make the distinction between the music “industry” and the music “trade.” The former is primarily the domain of transnational corporations and organizations like the RIAA and the major music companies; the latter the domain of most musicians and a tremendous diversity of small music enterprises, most “under the radar” and perceived by the former as basically insignificant in the larger picture. Full feature here.
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