Pulse.ph : MUSIC + CULTURE
March 31st, 2008
March 18th, 2008
DIVINE WRITE: SONGWRITERS AND THE CREATIVE PROCESS
There is nothing more elusive than the artistic process. Often, being asked to speak of one’s craft is like being asked to describe the sun, the stars, or the wind: you’d be right, but you’d be terribly mistaken as well. It is also not dissimilar to annotating a movie for the blind—the slipperiness, the state of being water, the groping in the opaque dark. While master practitioners of a particular art-form may be supreme technicians, they could not always be expected to articulate on technique in the most objective manner. In this short essay, I, along with fellow songwriters Ely Buendia, Dong Abay, Vin Dancel, and Owel Alvero, attempt to grasp the ungraspable: the songwriting process.
March 18th, 2008
Drip, one of the country’s front liners in electronic music, launched its second album, Identity Theft, last March 15, Saturday, at Mag-Net High Street, in Bonifacio Global City, Taguig, and boy it was jam-packed! Different individuals gathered to take part in the happening and likewise support the band. Read more…
March 11th, 2008
Composed of four talented individuals: Beng Calma, the adventurous vocalist and the genius lyricist; Malek Lopez,the technical whiz, who also acts as the musical director;Caliph8, the artistic guy in charge of turntables; and Ian Morse, the virtuoso musician responsible for the beats; Drip has certainly made its presence felt in the local music scene, since the band’s inception in 2003. Now, they are here once more to offer listeners another serving of finely-crafted electronic music. Bound by each member’s unwavering passion, they come up with their sophomore album Identity Theft. Read more…
March 8th, 2008
Marooned: My Top 10 Thoughts About the Maroon 5 Concert Experience
10) I don’t have the steadiest hands. Ugh, I hate it! It’s why most of the videos I took were shuddering. My apologies. 9) My digicam has very limited features and capabilities! The optical zooming function and the night mode feature weren’t exactly obliging, especially to someone who was seated at the Upper Box section. Even the one-gig memory card wasn’t enough, that’s why I was only able to catch snippets of most of the performances on camera. Read more…
March 6th, 2008
“Caught you in the arms of another, I’ve been dying everyday since then…” When I heard the lyrics on the radio, I wondered who could be the artist behind that very prolific song. Then, at the end of the song, the DJ mentioned that it was the latest single of Urbandub – and I just said, “Wow.” Read more…
March 3rd, 2008
When Plato suggested that art is purely mimetic, I’m sure he failed to predict tribute albums and cover versions of pop songs and such. The Greek thinker must have been totally unprepared for that likelihood: artists taking “Art is a copy” at face value. As such, therefore, covers are twice removed from reality. With the world as the primary object, and the art it inspires as once-removed copies, covers are—in theory, at least—relegated to artistic sloppy seconds Read more…
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