Experience Jazz is a genre-bridging music ensemble program for aspiring musical artists with a common desire to make new music rooted in jazz, blues, pop and hip-hop, to create and collaborate together.
While rooted in jazz, this program embraces the power and artistry of hiphop, rhythm & blues, and other genres students and instructors want to explore together. Minnesota Jazz Education strives to bring together students of diverse cultural and musical backgrounds in an innovative music-making environment. Now in its 4th year, Experience Jazz has had a meaningful impact on area youth–last year’s students created and released a whole album while working from home, which was recently featured in the Star Tribune!
A digital experience: Is virtual reality the next frontier for Twin Cities artists? Twin Cities musician Lady Midnight premieres a new VR soundscape.
By Sheila Regan Special to the Star Tribune January 19, 2021 9:32am Text size Copy shortlink:
Will the pandemic finally make virtual reality more than just a fringe technology used by gamers?
With massive numbers of people sitting in their living rooms, musicians without venues to play in, and creatives needing new outlets, perhaps this is the year we see Antonin Artaud s 1938 vision of la réalité virtuelle come to fruition.
People in the VR industry certainly have their hopes up. A recent report projects that its U.S. revenues will nearly q