music: Austin is Festival Central - 11/02/09 01:04 AM
Austin is well known for the South By Southwest Music and Media Conference and Festival each spring and the Austin City Limits Music Festival each fall. But music isn't the only thing putting Austin on the map. Austin also hosts the Texas Book Festival and the Austin Film Festival and Conference every year.
Started in 1994, the Austin Film Festival is all about the creative process of screenwriting and film making. The annual film festival and conference held in October highlights local organizations and businesses that work in all elements of the film industry.
This year's festival features … (0 comments)
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music: Mid-Winter Fest Dispels Winter Duldrums with Traditional Music - 02/03/09 03:15 AM
The Austin Friends of Traditional Music promise to erase our winter duldrums with this year's Mid-Winter Festival. The festival includes an impressive performance roster as well as workshops in Irish fiddle, Appalachian clogging, bluegrass vocal harmonies, jug band music, and more.
The festival kicks off with Mary Hattersly and the Blazing Bows, a children's fiddling group that applies the Suzuki method to playing Texas fiddle music. Next on the docket are the 1001 Nights Orchestra, a Middle Eastern group that plays songs ranging from Southwest Asia and the Caucuses in the East to the western shores of the Mediterranean, … (0 comments)
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music: Armadillo Christmas Bazaar - 12/27/08 03:47 AM
It's an original Austin tradition that started 33 years ago. What was once an only two day affair has grown into a two week shopping bazaar! And bazaar it is! The Armadillo Bazaar adds to the Austin image of "Keep Austin Weird."
The honky- tonk shopping spree begins on December 12th until December 24th. It begins at 11:00 am and runs until 11:00 pm. That gives shoppers twelve hours to find that perfect unique gift for someone special! Admission is cheap, only $6.00 on evenings and weekends and only $3.00 on weekdays if you get there before 7:00 pm … (1 comments)
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music: State Parks at Christmas Time - 12/12/08 03:31 AM
Nothing can be more beautiful than Christmas at a state park, and there are plenty in and around the Austin area. Visiting a state park at Christmas time is a spectacular site. It's wide open space with lots of holiday lights and the fresh air of the great outdoors!
Bastrop State Park, just down the road in Bastrop, has a wonderful holiday display, "Christmas in the Pines." It takes place on December 14th and will host many fun things for the entire family, such as sugar cookie ornament decorating, clay ornament decorating and a visit to the lost pines couldn't … (0 comments)
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music: Christmas Time in Austin - 12/08/08 11:43 PM
There are several places families can go to hear and sing along to your favorite Christmas songs and see beautiful lights and celebrate Christmas in Austin.
The Austin Symphony has a wonder free concert every year. This year it is "Ring-a-ling, hear them ring, soon it will be Christmas Day." Each December the symphony conducts a free Christmas concert for the public. This year it is being held at the Riverbend centre, and is being conducted by Carlton Dillard. This year's line up will include Frosty the Snowman, Dr. Suess' The Grinch, Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer and no Christmas … (0 comments)
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music: KUT Radio Stations: Keep Austin Wired - 11/25/08 12:12 PM
Austin's KUT radio station is a public radio station that lives up to its mission "to be the most trusted radio source for news and music in Central Texas." Owned and operated by the University of Texas at Austin, KUT focuses on broadcasting mostly locally-produced music programming and news, as well as some NPR, PRI, and BBC broadcasts.
From the call-letters alone, you can tell the station has a long history. Three-letter call numbers started falling out of use in the 20's, when four-letter call numbers were introduced to help accommodate the growing number of radio stations. Originally, radio call … (0 comments)
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music: Austin City Limits: Where the Music World Comes Together - 09/01/08 02:48 AM
Every year, during the sweltering late summer months, bands from across the country converge on Austin, Texas for one weekend of music, food and hot, sweaty fun. Thousands upon thousands of people, young and old, flock to Austin each year for the massive music event that is the Austin City Limits Music Festival. Some of the biggest names in music show up every year. The festival's eight stages, spread out across Zilker Park, host more than 100 bands over the course of the weekend, each playing for sold out crowds. In recent years, music legends such as Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, … (1 comments)
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music: Austin Area Festivals: Music and More - 07/11/08 02:44 AM
What do music, chili peppers, bamboo, wine, watermelon, ice cream and Eeyore the donkey from Winnie the Pooh have in common?
They all have festivals devoted to them in Austin or nearby towns. In fact, there are so many festivals of all kinds in the Austin area that it is difficult to keep track of them. The Austin American-Statesman apparently gave up trying to keep count back in 2004, judging by a recent visit to the festivals page on their current website a quick count there reveals there were more than 50 festivals in existence then, and the compilers of … (0 comments)
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music: Eeyore’s BirthdayParty - 07/01/08 06:09 AM
One of the most quintessentially "weird" Austin festivals, Eeyore’s Birthday party was first held in 1963, and hasn’t missed a year since. A costume party, festival, fund-raiser and all around good time, this annual event is marked by games and contests, and lots of drumming. Although a hippie-atmosphere prevails, families and lots of children always enjoy the maypole, face-painting, and other family-friendly activities. Usually held the last Saturday in April, before the heat of the summer sets in, this is one of the most pleasant and fun experiences, and for many it is a spring time tradition.
Named for the … (1 comments)
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music: South By Southwest - 06/24/08 04:51 AM
Every year, Austin is descended upon by thousands of music, film, and web industry professionals, artists, and fans, all attending the annual South by Southwest Festival. Although it started as a local music festival, as it now enters its third decade, SXSW has become one of the premier industry conferences, and has gained a reputation for launching the careers of the artists involved.
SXSW is comprised of three components – music, film and interactive, but this being Austin, the music events are among the most popular, and it has become one of the most famous music festivals in the world. … (0 comments)
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music: Restaurants In Austin With Live Music - 06/24/08 03:36 AM
Austin is known as the Live Music Capital of the World. One of the best parts about having that distinction is that even if you aren’t necessarily into the club scene, you can still hear live music at restaurants throughout the city. Whether you feel like hearing Cajun, blues, country, Latin or rock, you can almost always find a great meal enhanced by a great band playing.
Threadgill’s is legendary not only for their chicken fried steak and cheese grits, but for also being the place that gave Janis Joplin her start. With a newly refurbished north location, and their … (1 comments)
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music: Austin Children’s Museum - 06/17/08 07:10 PM
Austin families are lucky indeed to have a facility such as the Austin Children’s Museum. With 7,000 square feet of interactive and educational permanent exhibits, inventive traveling features, story-times and public events, this museum serves as a hub of Austin’s family community.
Upon entering, kids are delighted to board a scaled down Austin Metro bus. Sitting in the driver’s seat or holding a strap in the passenger section, this exhibit is cleverly planned to distract the kiddos as the adult pays admission and learns about the day’s events. Other permanent exhibits include the dairy cow, an oversized milk-cow statue with … (1 comments)
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music: Restaurants with Playscapes in Austin - 06/10/08 12:22 AM
One of the challenges we faced as new parents was what to do on those nights when you just need to go out and grab a quick bite – no time to plan for a sitter or make reservations. Nothing in the fridge, too tired to slice and dice, or an all too common scenario in our household: “Wait, I thought YOU were doing dinner tonight!?” When our child was a baby, this was fairly easy – pop him in the car seat, pop him into a high chair, and keep the zwieback coming. As he got older, it got harder. … (0 comments)
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music: Things to Do in the Campus Area in Austin - 05/09/08 10:31 PM
With over 50,000 students there are numerous entertainment venues around the University of Texas. Austin is frequently referred to as the live music capital of Texas. And although when people talk about the music scene in Austin they usually think of downtown the campus area also reflects this saying with nightspots such as the Hole in the Wall, which is an Austin institution and has been the home of many local recording artists for more than twenty-five years, as well as the U.T. campus itself, which hosts regular live music performances in the Cactus Café, which is adjacent to the student … (1 comments)
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music: Live Music in Austin - 04/24/08 06:58 AM
There is more live music going on in Austin, Texas on any given night than there is in any other city in the world. That’s why the city has put a trademark on it’s slogan “Live Music Capital of the World.”
There are hundreds of live music venues in the city and its immediate environs. Many are situated in three main entertainment districts: Sixth Street/Red River, the Warehouse district and South Austin. Sixth Street/Red River is the famous sector in downtown Austin that is known around the world for it’s live music scene and often boisterous crowds that fill Sixth … (0 comments)
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music: Health Insurance for Musicians? - An Innovative Austin Program - 04/23/08 02:53 AM
Austin enjoys the self-promoted but well-deserved reputation as live music capital of the world. In recent years, the city has decided to put its money where its mouth is to ensure that it stays that way. One of the most innovative and socially progressive ways it is doing that is by providing an insurance program for working musicians through HAAM, or Health Alliance for Austin Musicians.
It’s a unique concept. Besides New Orleans, Austin is the only city in the US to provide such comprehensive health care to its local musicians.
"This city loves those who make music for … (0 comments)
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music: Synthesizer Fundamentals - 04/08/08 06:09 AM
So I usually write about real estate. But every so often I get burned out on real estate and write about something a little bit different.
While many timbres, like those which come from bowed strings and woodwinds, are readily recreated with synthesizers, percussive instruments are some of the most tricky to create convincing emulations of. Piano and harpsichord are most easily dealt with through sampled instruments, but the enharmonic qualities of bells and xylophone instruments are relatively easier to create. In this context, enharmonic refers to the relative balance of harmonics in a given audio source being unrelated to … (1 comments)
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music: South by Southwest in Austin - 03/12/08 04:05 AM
In 1987, South by Southwest started as a weekend long music festival run by a handful of people, and today has grown into a 10 day long music, film and interactive festival with a full time, year round staff, and 1500 volunteers. The number of musical acts has increased ten fold, and attendance has gone from 700 people to over 10,000.
Ten years ago, Billboard magazine didn’t even recognize SXSW as an actual industry event. But by catering to the public instead of solely “industry experts” the festival has grown exponentially and industry professionals from around the world clamor to … (1 comments)
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music: History of the SXSW Music Festival - 03/08/08 08:13 PM
The South by Southwest Music Festival has been running strong, and getting stronger, since it originated in 1987. Austin considers itself the live music capital of the world, and though cities would like to battle that claim, musicians and music industry types clamor to the capital of Texas every March from around the globe.
Austin has had an entertainment district for several decades. As the home of the state government and the University of Texas, Austin has always had lively nightspots, some of which date back to the 1800s, when many of General Custer’s troops poured into clubs after the … (3 comments)
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music: Synthesizer Fundamentals:Snare Drum - 03/03/08 10:27 PM
Analog synthesizers have regained some degree of popularity in recent years, as electronic dance music has become more widespread and successful. Although analog technology has become replaced by cheaper digital modeling technology with more features, the goal of VA (virtual analog) synthesis is to be able to recreate the warmth and nuances of the highly variable analog circuits of yesteryear. The ability of digital components to accurately model is the subject of great debate and beyond the scope of this article, but a general consensus is maintained that they are becoming more and more difficult to tell the difference between.
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