His music always sounds fresh and cutting edge, but the audience is inevitably seduced as opposed to being bewildered or worse, indifferent.
But Locarno, 66 years old this year, is distinctive mainly for being what its new artistic director, Carlo Chatrian, calls "a frontier festival" — one that draws both from the margins and the cutting edge, keeping faith that audiences will respond not just to the tried-and-true but also to the prospect of discovery.
With AnandTech attracting a large, specialized audience of cutting edge techies, it has plenty of advertising.
He is also an avid popularizer of science, using public speaking, videos and books to bring cutting edge ideas to a general audience.
Last year, the Featured Artist Coalition organised a technology showcase aimed at giving artists "some hot inside technology tips from four music services at the cutting edge of connecting artists with their audience".
The early disco DJs – David Manusco, Nicky Siano and Francis Grosso – knew that these gospel disco records could send a dancefloor into meltdown – especially among the gay, African American clubbers who were their most devoted audience at the cutting edge of dance music.
This is exactly why Mehlan brought in Laraaji, as well as Ezra Buchla and Peter Blasser to present their cutting edge music technologies to the festival audience which Mehlan reckons made up of "75% electronic musicians".
RYOT, the Culver City, California-based virtual reality outfit snapped up by the Huffington Post last year, works on the cutting edge of the news business, bringing audiences straight to the scene.
We talked about the financial challenges facing theatres around the country as they try to build audiences while doing cutting edge, innovative work.
"At Pornhub it is our duty to provide our global audience with the latest in cutting edge technology," said Corey Price, Pornhub Vice President, in a statement.
