MUMBAI: BBC director of audio and music Tim Davie announced the launch of the BBC Audio Research Partnership at an industry event at MediaCityUK.
BBC Research and Development will use the initiative to work in closer collaboration with leading universities in the field of audio research and innovation. Its primary academic partners will be University of Surrey for audio-visual research and University of Salford for research into acoustics.
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MUMBAI: �Con Brio 2011 - Western Music Festival & Piano Competition' begins today at Experimental Theatre, NCPA. The festival presented by NCPA and Furtados is dedicated to the late John Gomes for his 50 years of contribution in the development of music.
Directed by Parvesh Java this year the fest will be anchored by four pianists: Marialena Fernandes, Mark Troop, Paul Stewart and Ranko Markovic along with soprano Patricia Rozario. Con Brio 2011 will also celebrate the birth bicentenary of Franz Liszt and death centenary of Gustav Mahler.
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MUMBAI: The war between two best item songs of 2010, Munni Badnaam (Dabangg) and Sheila Ki Jawaani (Tees Maar Khan) still continues, as they carry on to reign musical charts with rankings in the top five countdowns. Both the numbers have been topping the charts of Ormax Media’s weekly music countdown chart ‘Heartbeats’ since the time it started in September 2010. Amounting to almost 36 weeks, Sheila Ki Jawani (Tees Maar Khan) has occupied the number one slot for 17 weeks and Munni Badnaam (Dabangg) for 11 weeks....
MUMBAI: Clear Channel Radio has announced the �iHeartRadio Music Festival', a two-day music event hosted by Ryan Seacrest, on 23 -24 September at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. The music festival will celebrate the official launch of the new iHeartRadio and also mark the biggest live concert event in radio history.
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MUMBAI: Microsoft has announced the launch of music streaming service �Xbox Music' which will offer instant access to more than 11 million songs. Based on Zune Marketplace, the service will enable users with voice commands to search for songs.
CEO Steve Ballmer revealed in a Conference, that Xbox Music will be available through the Xbox Live community and is expected to be in market by October. Users with Kinect for Xbox 360 will also be able to perform voice searches for the songs.
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MUMBAI: Pioneer expands its speaker line-up with the launch of two multi-media computer speaker systems �S-MM751RU' and �S-MM301'
The compact S-MM301 model is equipped with a 2.0 channel speaker built with triple coil drivers and USB powered compact speakers claiming to provide better sound quality as compared to laptop speakers. The speaker being USB powered eliminates the need for an additional AC adapter, S-MM301 also features volume controls, metal grill for the protect...
MUMBAI: ValCom, Inc. announced today that it has started production on the first of many albums that will be distributed commercially through multiple sources including Universal Music Distribution.
The Platters Golden Anniversary album will feature digitally re-mastered cuts of classic Platters songs including Only You, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, and The Great Pretender. The Album will also feature new, original recordings with Platter's lead singer Sonny Turner and two surprise Top 40 recording artists.
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MUMBAI: Rhapsody, the leading premium, on-demand music service today announced it has crossed the 800,000 subscriber milestone and now offers more than 12 million tracks to its increasingly active membership base
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MUMBAI: The new FM radio policy will speed up growth but the pie will not expand enough to make the sector profitable unless the bids are pursued within rational limits, experts said.
The private FM radio sector, sized at around Rs 10 billion, is expected to grow at 30-35 per cent due to Phase-III expansion as new towns surface and stations broadcast differentiated content in metros.
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