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For anyone interested in live ambient music, and you live anywhere near Toronto, then go check out The Ambient PiNG, a live ambient music event.<br /><br />If only I lived in Canada<img src="images/smilies/face-sad.png" border="0" alt="sad" title="sad" />

David Byrne of Talking Heads paid a blistering tribute to Brian Eno at San Francisco's Davies Symphony Hall on the Monday October 6th. <br /><br />They where one of the greatest writing partnerships in modern music releasing three fantastic albums for Talking Heads, and a smaller project in 1981 "My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts."<br /><br />You can read more <span style="color: #ffff00;">HERE</span><br /><br /><br /><strong><span><span>Set list:<br /> "Strange Overtones"<br /> "I Zimbra"<br /> "One Fine Day"<br /> "Help Me Somebody"<br /> "Houses in Motion"<br /> "My Big Nurse"<br /> "My Big Hands (Fall Through the Cracks)"<br /> "Heaven"<br /> "The River"<br /> "Crosseyed and Painless"<br /> "Life is Long"<br /> "Once in a Lifetime"<br /> "Life During Wartime"<br /> "I Feel My Stuff"<br /> Encore:<br /> "Take Me to the River"<br /> "The Great Curve"<br /> "Burning Down the House"</span></span></strong>

<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #ffff99;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong>AMBIENT GENRE SPOTLIGHT-OCTOBER</strong></span></span></span><br /><br />
<div style="text-align: left;">There is music, and then there's architectural monuments, and in our very first Spotlight we turn our attentions to the a manufacturer of beautiful spires. <strong>fate_atc</strong>.<br /><br />I stumbled across this artist by pure chance and I'm glad to have made his aquaintance. Always generous with his comments, and a great human being into the bargain, which his why he arrives as the first spotlight-An artist as an artist should be. Honest, pure in imagination and alive with talent that modesty prevents him from even seeing.<br /><br />Hailing from New Zealand and a Mixposure member since May 2008, his music lifts you into the stratosphere and keeps you there until the end. Tracks such as <strong>Exploration, Pathos</strong> and <strong>loves_reply</strong> drive you away from your own existance into a place residing within fate_atc's own mind. <br /><br />Under his influences comes a broad array of fine musicians that echo in and out of his own music. Boards of Canada, Miles Davis and John Coltrane are there to name but a few.<br /><br />"<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>FATC <br />Fate Amenable to Change.</strong></span><br /><br /><em>I am a solo parent of 3 kids emerging from their teenage years.Their mother died.<br /><br />I am recently married to Lisa,my partner in crime,who relocated from Texas to live with me at the end of the earth,and in this I am truely blessed.<br /><br />I received a classical education on piano, then taught myself guitar, and more recently, have been exploring the virtual studio world.<br /><br />I am the midi controller.I believe in a free life for the creative spirit.<br />I like to mind my own business,and not pass judgement on others. Most of the trouble in the world is caused by talentless,unempathic finks who don't mind their own business,who have "nothing" to contribute but the destructiveness that arises from their dead spiritual core.<br />I don't like harassment pandas,and I don't like blowflies.<br /><br /></em>"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench A long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free And good men die like dogs. Theres also a negative side"<br />[William S Burroughs]<br /><br /><em>So,Music for me is a release and a way to have some fun."<br /><br /></em><span style="font-size: medium;">Visit fate_atc's music</span></div>
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<span class="style_1">The UMC32 is an OEM/DIY product that allows Electronic Musicians, Multimedia Artists and Experimenters the ability to create custom user interfaces to control any software application that supports the MIDI protocol.&nbsp; The UMC32 provides the essential core (micro controller, power supply, USB functionality) to allow the user to easily implement their choice of control elements (example: switches, pots and or faders).&nbsp; In short, the UMC32 will allow you to build&nbsp; your own USB-MIDI controller.<br /><br />The USB controller is price at $74.95. <br />Screenshot and purchase</span>

Brian Eno has just tripped out and gone magical on us. He's release an Ambient application for iPHONE <p><strong>Features:</strong></p>
<p>9 different mood settings</p>
<p>Random mood shuffle</p>
<p>Adjustable delay</p>
<p>Shake to clear</p>
<p>Evolve when idle</p>
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