Gershon Kingsley News
American composer and musician
- synthesizer, piano
- electronic music, classical music, pop music, religious music, crossover
- Germany, United States of America
- composer, songwriter, conductor, musician
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2024-04-25
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2022-11-21 11:03:58
The songwriter used the new synthesiser as a showcase for a track that still resonates today
2022-09-01 15:17:00
2020-10-24 08:37:00
Hologram future?
[…] home size in the world, the street is our living room, and the concert hall our home theatre system. Yet to focus on what we don’t have distracts from a conversation on what we could have. Today, the ink spills in the direction of some positive, practical thinking. Eighteen months ago, back when a trip to London was about as easy as one across Hong Kong harbor, I initiated a university research project with installation artist Kingsley Ng in how arts and computer science could reflect on global climate change, a guilt-free musical discourse on the indisputable facts. We had a plan - a big data-fueled art and music installation on how we relate to air in Hong Kong, which, with no heavy industry of its own, has lost its clear skies increasingly to smog from an industrializing world. Theatre of Voices would sing it, we would work with groups […]
2020-08-07 09:23:48
Sing Gently: Eric Whitacre's latest Virtual Choir premiere
[…] on the Arts, with a pretty well complete ban on live performances across the spectrum in our hallowed concert halls and theatres nationwide. Hence, the Virtual Performance has entered its heyday, but American composer Eric Whitacre had already been engaged in Virtual Choir projects for the last 10 years from choice not necessity. BBC World Service radio drew my attention to their In the Studio arts programme broadcast recently (28 July 2020) presented by Emma Kingsley featuring an interview with Eric Whitacre who described how once having dipped his toe so to speak in this novel concept, which had been inspired by a video sent to him by a singer, he went from strength to strength including some of his virtual choir videos being featured as installations as part of the 2012 Olympics. Originally having dreamed of becoming a pop star, Whitacre revealed to Emma Kingsley in his BBC Interview […]
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