Click through our list of the five most fascinating genre collaborations of the year and judge which ones served their old masters best.
On his first visit to Australia for St. Jerome's Laneway Festival and a few sideshows, I gave him a buzz to talk about genre, collaborations, dance music, and Japanese candy.
Metamorphosis is the brainchild of the National Gallery curator Minna Moore Ede, who felt the Cultural Olympiad should be marked by some kind of grand Diaghilevean multi-genre collaboration.
EAR HEART MUSIC Embracing a landscape where cross-genre collaboration is not the exception or a special occasion but the rule and standard operating procedure, this contemporary chamber music series, organized by the flutist Amelia Lukas, keeps up its high ambitions with a season at Roulette full of new and recent compositions.
Saunders's piece will serve as the actual liner notes to the forthcoming musical-comedy album "2776," a cross-genre collaboration among musicians and comedians (Patton Oswalt, Aimee Mann, Aubrey Plaza, Ira Glass, and Yo La Tengo, to name a few) to benefit the organization OneKid OneWorld.
His industry-wide prominence positioned him perfectly to realize his vision of cross-genre collaboration, like the famous 1985 fundraising track "We Are the World," or Jones's hip-hop/bebop fusion record Back on the Block from 1989.
Cross-genre collaborations featured prominently throughout Tectonics.
May-to-December, cross-genre collaborations maybe aren't the surprise they once were.
They're upping the ante with cross-genre collaborations, million-dollar revamps and upgraded customer service both on- and offline.
He has doubtless also been helped by how much closer the different segments of the city's musical world have grown, fueled by cross-genre collaborations like his own and by anxieties about declines in record sales and audiences.
He's directed a number of cross-genre collaborations (including one with electro rockers the Presets), worked with the likes of actor Barry Humphries and cartoonist Michael Leunig, and established the ACO Underground and ACO Virtual.
