By Lawrence Casiraya
INQUIRER.net

GADGET maker Oregon Scientific is literally scaling through great heights to promote its new waterproof camera.

The Portland-based manufacturer will sponsor Everest Rocks, touted as the first-ever rock concert to take place in Mount Everest. The company has formed a partnership with the Love Hope Strength Foundation as the concert’s official sponsor.

A fourteen-day trek up Mount Everest by 40 of the world’s top musicians and mountaineers, Everest Rocks will culminate with the first-ever rock concert to take place at Mount Everest’s Base Camp.

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TOMORROW, Oct. 10, at 9: 30 p.m., New Media Arts Manila (NMAM) will hold its first project, a sound art conference at Club Dredd, second floor of Gweilos Eastwood. The event is open to the public for free, and NMAM’s event partners include Globe, Sony Ericsson and Asus.

Here’s more info from our friend and fellow tech journalist Jing Garcia:

New Media Arts Manila (NMAM) was formed to curate, stage, and promote New Media Art — art made with electronic, audiovisual, and information technologies. It includes sound art, video art, interactive electronics, algorithmic art, computer music, and whatever art forms new technologies may yet spawn. As NMAM’s first project, ELECTROSTATIC SOUND CONFERENCE will showcase the full range of performative sound art pieces through the performances of the following artists:

Malek Lopez, Berklee-trained virtuoso who is the principal composer for the band Drip, and half of the abrasive electronica duo Rubber Inc.;

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CHECK out this video of “The Police: The Early Years Live in Boston” where Boston Phoenix archivist David Bieber narrates the history of the Police’s early shows.

By Eric S. Caruncho
Inquirer

MANILA, Philippines–Prophets of doom notwithstanding, these are boom times for music.

The compact disc might be dead, and the music business as we know it dying, but make no mistake, there’s more music being made — and listened to — than ever before.

It’s just that the local industry hasn’t figured out yet how to make money off file sharing, the dominant form of music distribution. While Apple quickly cornered the market with iTunes, cutting heavily into the CD retailing business, no comparable local model has yet emerged.

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By Erwin Oliva
INQUIRER.net

A GROUP of sound artists, collectively known as New Media Arts Manila (NMAM), is set to stage a gig featuring sound art made with electronic, audiovisual, and information technology.

“It includes sound art, video art, interactive electronics, algorithmic art, computer music, and whatever art forms new technologies may yet spawn,” the group said in an e-mail announcement.

Calling their music “New Media Art,” NMAM was formed to curate, stage, and promote their art.

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