Month: December 2012

New Year’s Day with JPJ

On 1 January 2013, Fiona Talkington celebrates the New Year on BBC Radio 3 with special guest, multi-instrumentalist and Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones performing live in the BBC’s Maida Vale studios. On this special New Year’s installment of Talkington’s Late Junction, Jones plays acoustic piano, lap steel ukulele, and Kyma-processed electric mandolin and lap steel guitar.  The show will air Tuesday, 1 January 2013 at 23:00 on BBC Radio 3 (after which it will be archived on the website for one week).  Happy New Year!

 

John Paul Jones and the POTUS

John Paul Jones, composer/performer/producer and one of the earliest Kyma-adopters, was awarded a Kennedy Center Honor for his work with Led Zeppelin on December 2, 2012.  The award, for exemplary lifetime achievement in the performing arts, was presented by President Barack Obama who said of the seven honorees (and of all artists):

…each of us can remember a moment when the people on this stage touched our lives. Maybe they didn’t lead us to become performers ourselves. But maybe they inspired us to see things in a new way, to hear things differently, to discover something within us or to appreciate how much beauty there is in the world.

They didn’t just take up their crafts to make a living, they did it because they couldn’t imagine living in any other way…

Sonic Screens Milan

U.S.O. Project (Matteo Milani, Federico Placidi), in collaboration with O’ and Die Schachtel, present Sonic Screens, a concert of live electro-acoustic music on Saturday, December 1st at 8:00 pm.  Featuring premieres of two live Kyma pieces— Two Sound Pieces with Repertoire String Music by Agostino Di Scipio and Time Capsule by Federico Placidi.

Featuring sound spatialization, live interaction between electronics and performers, and including the venue itself as part of the interaction, the event will take place at O’ on Via Pastrengo 12 in Milan, Italy (5 €), with Matteo Milani as sound director. O’ is a non-profit organization that promotes various languages of art ​​through exhibitions, lectures, concerts, labs, performances and publications.