Adding to the Crescent City feel are the Rebirth Brass Band, which Mr. Ruffins cofounded and played in for a decade; and New Mardi Gras Sounds, an amalgam of Mardi Gras Indian parade music and contemporary electronics conceived by the alto saxophonist Donald Harrison Jr. 3 p.m., Central Park SummerStage, Rumsey Field, 72nd Street and Fifth Avenue, (212 360-2777; no cover.
In tribute to that idea, Gordon decided to enlist a few contemporary electronics experimenters like Oneohtrix Point Never, Fennesz, Squarepusher, and more to rework the recordings for a new compilation called Timber Remixed, which demonstrates even further the disorienting potential of the piece when twisted and manipulated.
Voicehandler (Jacob Heule and Danishta Rivero) play intuitive, incantatory music grounded in the human voice and percussion, but juxtaposed with contemporary, disembodied electronics.
Camping stoves, 1950's Scandinavian cookware, domestic interior design and contemporary consumer electronics.
Like ICON and Legacy, two firms that remanufacture vintage trucks and SUVs with contemporary powertrains, electronics, and suspensions to deliver go-anywhere reliability, the trio turned to Detroit "crate motors," brand-new emissions-legal GM V8s that neatly drop in.
Nick Luscombe's selection includes new ambient drift music from Ensemble Economique, contemporary Kinshasa electronics from KOKOKO! plus late '60s oud jazz/folk from Ahmad andul-Malik and his Jazz Committee For Latin American Affairs.
(Petrusich) THE REAL TUESDAY WELD (Wednesday) The British songwriter Stephen Coates (and occasionally his collaborators), under the alias the Real Tuesday Weld, employs contemporary technology (sampling, electronics) to pervert and rearrange old-time music (cabaret, Tin Pan Alley).
In theory, any flood-damaged automobile can be fixed, but when a contemporary vehicle, packed with electronics, is submerged in water to dashboard level, the cost of repairing the car will almost certainly exceed its value, and if repaired, it may never be quite right.
The first solo album by Joshua Tree violinist + composer Julie Carpenter is electronics-heavy contemporary classical music inspired by the fluctuating weather of her desert habitat.
This approach exploits contemporary developments in miniaturization of electronics and other satellite systems to allow the construction and operation of highly capable spacecraft massing in the kilogram range, so-called nanosats.3 In contrast, a geostationary communication satellite is typically 1000 times greater in mass.
A logical host for such a portable artificial pancreas platform is a contemporary smart phone, a consumer electronics device that meets virtually all of these aforementioned requirements.
