The hobby of producing personal electronic music has been around for less than a decade. The Macbook Laptops of the late 90’s that had the computing power large enough to handle multi-bit programs such as Logic, Sonar, Cubase, and Ableton Live brought the raw energy of production-power Digital Audio Workstations
Author: Nicolas Nanez
Pomona Seniors Quartet Shines in Debut EP: Taliesin West by The Monikers
The Monikers, a four-piece band hailing from Boston, recently debuted a five track EP entitled Taliesin West. Peter Chiman PO ’12, The Monikers’s guitarist, began playing with bassist Tim Marchetta-Wood and singer/songwriter Francis Anderson in high school. Drummer Erica Warner joined the band after the trio went off to college.
Scripps’s Motley Coffeehouse ‘Plays for Change’
In 2004, independent music producer Mark Johnson began a project that he thought could change the world for the better. Johnson picked up a camera and set off around the world, grabbing astoundingly true-to-life footage of musicians playing their culturally diverse interpretations of the same songs. His Playing for Change
Rhodessa Jones: “Life on the Swerve”
Rhodessa Jones’s solo dance and theater performance, Life on the Swerve: Observations from that Place Where the World Weeps, was performed Oct. 5 at Garrison Theater at Scripps. The show is the culmination of years of Jones’s work with incarcerated women around the world, specifically in countries including South Africa