Ask any hardcore music listener in 2006 and they’ll all likely say the same thing: buying CDs is for suckers. Yet that hasn’t stopped BookZone in Ackerman Union from changing up its tried and true formula. Despite the closing of numerous Westwood CD vendors over the past four years, including Tower Records, Rhino Records and […]
Author Archives: Alex LaRue
Music seniors give their swan songs
Cory Barger knows exactly how hard making a career in music can be. Despite spending the past few months diligently preparing for her senior recital, her most nerve-wracking solo performance thus far, she knows that things are only going to get more difficult. “It’s about as hard to make it into a top-level orchestra as […]
Taking a byte out of illegal sharing
“At this time, it has come to our attention that you have made available the following files at the following times.” Certainly more chilling letters have been received in the mail. But beneath the bureaucratic language lies a real threat to music, video and software enthusiasts who have found illegal downloading more valuable than paying […]
Campus group to help animate gamers
The video game industry is booming. It’s riding a $30 billion wave of consumer interest, which, these days, exceeds the profits of movies at the box office. New machines, such as the Playstation 3 system displayed at the recent E3 convention, are creating excitement, while the academic side of video games is being assessed by […]
The way to Spring Sing
When singer-songwriter Stacey Capoot mistakenly wandered into a Spring Sing talent meeting last February, it was a good thing she had something prepared. “Actually, I didn’t even plan on auditioning. I went to the meeting because I thought it was a meeting to be on the committee,” said Capoot, a first-year communication studies student. “It […]
Essential education
African drums dance their polyrhythmic dance and a Javanese gamelan meditates in its eternal cycle. Somewhere in Bulgaria, a women’s choir sends their mesmerizing dissonances ricocheting across the hills. These are not sounds often heard in the United States, but during April and May, the UCLA Ethnomusicology Department’s Festival of World Music will bring the […]
Movie Music
For Christoph Bull, UCLA organ professor and, this weekend, accompanist to the films of Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd, sometimes silent movies are best left silent. “Last year I was doing the movie “˜The General’ with Buster Keaton, and there was one scene where a train was crashing down a bridge, and it […]