Seventh Wave Festival To Feature Richard Barbieri, Thomas Dolby, Scanner

The Seventh Wave Festival of Electronic Music: Number Three is coming to Birmingham, UK, July 7-9, 2017. The event will feature: Thomas Dolby (this will be the UK book launch for his memoir ‘The Speed of Sound’); Richard Barbieri (Porcupine Tree/Japan and for whom anyone and everyone has been queuing up to praise his new… Read More Seventh Wave Festival To Feature Richard Barbieri, Thomas Dolby, Scanner

Flashback Friday: The Great Synthesizer Showdown Of 1985

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4p7VIE9jQk The 27th Annual Grammy Awards, held thirty years ago, on Feb 26, 1985, featured an all-synth performance by the epic lineup of Stevie Wonder, Herbie Hancock, Thomas Dolby, and relative newcomer Howard Jones. The performance has been described as “The most ’80s thing that ever happened. Ever.”

Thomas Dolby Now Professor Dolby At Johns Hopkins University

Johns Hopkins University has announced that synthpop pioneer Thomas Dolby is joining their faculty as the first ‘Homewood Professor of the Arts’. At Johns Hopkins, starting in the fall, he will be teaching ‘Sound on Film’, a collaboration between Homewood’s Film and Media Studies program and Peabody’s Recording Arts and Sciences program. In the programe, students create… Read More Thomas Dolby Now Professor Dolby At Johns Hopkins University

Moogfest 2012 Lineup Features Orbital, Squarepusher, Thomas Dolby & Others

Organizers have announced the line up Moogfest 2012, a festival of ‘electronic and visionary music’ that celebrates the spirit of Bob Moog. Moogfest 2012 is scheduled for Friday, October 26 and Saturday, October 27, 2012 in Asheville, NC. The 2012 Moogfest lineup includes Primus 3D, a stop on the 3D-enhanced live musical tour, Swedish electro-pop artists Miike… Read More Moogfest 2012 Lineup Features Orbital, Squarepusher, Thomas Dolby & Others