Young guitarist Keshav Singh wins coveted award
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- Young guitarist Keshav Singh wins coveted award
- Zivix hopes that Guitar Hero strummers will want a real guitar
- 1st symphony manifests fiddler ‘Connor’s destiny
- ‘Silent Drum’ makes noise at music competition
Young guitarist Keshav Singh wins coveted award
San Jose Mercury News
His parents are both economics professors — his Advertisement yld_mgr. place_ad_here(”adPosBox”); father Nirvikar Singh is at UC Santa Cruz; his mother Inderjit Kaur teaches at the University of San Francisco — but his mother is a student of Indian classical music. His parents were also fans of Western pop and rock music and by the time young Keshav first picked up the guitar at the age of 12 his first interests were in the music of the Beatles Simon & Garfunkel and similar acts. “The first thing I remember liking as a kid was Thriller’ by Michael Jackson. I was a big Michael Jackson fan. Singh’s musical interests took a turn during his sophomore year at PCS when increasingly serious about his guitar playing he turned to older musicians in the school’s jazz program.
Zivix hopes that Guitar Hero strummers will want a real guitar
Boston Herald
By holding and feeling out a real guitar players may actually want to learn how to play the instrument and write music said Zivix president and founder Dan Sullivan. “There is a certain group that aspires to go beyond the game” said Sullivan who started Zivix in 2006. “They had a taste of what it’s like to be a real guitar player because that’s the illusion. Why not take the next step and being able to play?”Zivix is also developing software called JamSession that it could package with Headliner. The software allows multiple users to mix prerecorded song loops from different instruments and genres.
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1st symphony manifests fiddler ‘Connor’s destiny
The Associated Press
He remembers his father as a laborer who drank and was aloof from the family. ‘Connor’s mentor was his mother who died when he was 20. A classical music lover she gave him a guitar when he was 3 and found a classical guitar teacher two years later. Proudly taking a trophy off a shelf in his 57th Street apartment ‘Connor said he won the award — second prize — from the University of Washington when he was 10 in a competition with college students. The following year he was given a violin. His talent was his ticket out. His mother took him to the South where he developed his fiddling skills.
‘Silent Drum’ makes noise at music competition
CNET News
Not a drum you’d find in the music shop at the mall but that was exactly the idea behind the contest which solicited new instruments–in physical or virtual manifestations and played by humans robots or computers–that enhance music performance and creation. Nearly 30 inventors from seven countries performed on Georgia Tech’s campus to demonstrate their instrument’s musicality design and engineering features and compete for prizes–$5000 for first place $3000 for second $2000 for third and free copies of the Rock Band for those nabbing fourth through sixth place. Taking top spots after liver were Eric Singer from the. He won second place for his.
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