The News Review:

- Wrapped in scrap an island home couldn’t be cozier
- Two sons of NC racer die in crash
- Morrissey live reviews | Music | Arts & Entertainment – Times…
- A composer’s lifelong quest: Moving the music forward
- MP3 player matches music to your heartbeat
- Sub Pop’s got some kind of record

Wrapped in scrap an island home couldn’t be cozier
Seattle Times – Jan 27, 2008
Local talent contributed to the craftsmanship of the home. Contractor Kim Hoelting of Northwest Woods and builder Richard Merrill incorporated all the salvaged wood doors and hardware that Fernandez gathered. Metal worker Tim Leonard who worked on Seattle’s Experience Music Project made the metal grid windows. He used scrap and salvaged metal to craft a door deck railings and the strapping that appears to hold parts of the building together. “I chose these folks to work with because they liked to figure it all out as we went along” says Fernandez a man who clearly loves not only the result but also the process of building his new home. Valerie Easton is a Seattle freelance writer and author of “A Pattern Garden. ” Her e-mail address is.

Two sons of NC racer die in crash
Rock Hill Herald – Jan 27, 2008
“James also raced motorcross and spent time at the race shop working on his motorcycle and hanging out with members of his father’s team. n his Web site James referred to himself as “Jameszilla” and wrote that “me and my friends love to do stupid stuff like with skateboards and our bikes and stuff. “Several of Jon’s classmates from SouthLake said the senior loved cars and driving fast video games and heavy metal music. Thursday nights he raced on a dirt track in Cherryville but didn’t intend to make racing a career. Friend and classmate Tanner Travis 17 said the two planned to room together next year at Appalachian State University. “He was probably the best driver that I know” Travis said. “He did speed but he was always in control no matter what.

Morrissey live reviews | Music | Arts & Entertainment – Times…
Times nline – Jan 27, 2008
This has been done so that correct url isgenerated if we are coming from a section or topic –>Stewart Lee at Roundhouse NW1div#related-article-links p a div#related-article-links p a:visited {color:#06c;}Camden’s historic countercultural hotbed the Roundhouse reopened in 2006with a stack of concrete bars holding areas and walkways appended to itstubby body like those glaringly modern visitor centres attached to ancientremains at World Heritage Sites. Crossing the metal bridge from the brightlylit 21st-century annexe into the darkness of the 19th-century engine housewe leave our humdrum modern lives behind as we prepare to view anotherancient monument of a distant age: Morissey exiled king of the fabled landof 1980s indie rock. Morrissey is condemned to live in the shadow of the Smiths the band who savedthe lives of thousands of bedsit depressives yet his 2004 solo album YouAre the Quarry surpasses any Smiths album and the one Smiths show I saw wasan oddly underwhelming Midlands stop on the Meat Is Murder tour whensausages were thrown in Morrissey’s unhappy face by loutish wags. Tonightmiddle-aged men and a healthy smattering of new fans chant Morrissey’s namefootball-crowd-style without a sausage in sight. At 9pm exactly a screendrops to reveal their idol and his five-piece band styled in tight denimsuits like the capering prisoners of Elvis’s Jailhouse Rock. In the slackworld of rock’n’roll even his punctuality seems subversive.

A composer’s lifelong quest: Moving the music forward
San Diego Union Tribune – Jan 27, 2008
Now in his seventh year as Professor of Music and Director of Electro-Acoustic and Media Composition at San Diego State Waters hasn't exactly knocked the doors down. But he is broadening the school's focus beyond the European classical music tradition that has dominated music education for centuries. Waters whose quartet SWARMIUS makes its local debut Saturday at the Neurosciences Institute has the audacious notion that serious music – and music schools – should be inclusive of contemporary culture. “It's an idea whose time has come” Waters said… ”Since Waters' move to San Diego NWEAM has broadened its reach and now presents an annual festival in about a half-dozen cities worldwide including San Diego (this year in ctober at SDSU) and has hopes of presenting concerts on the online virtual world Second Life (where the organization's board of directors already holds its meetings). At San Diego State Waters collaborated with like-minded faculty members Todd Rewoldt and violinist Felix lschofka (and “guest percussionist” Joel Bluestone) to form SWARMIUS which is dedicated to Waters' most potent weapon: his genre-defying music. And Waters has started a new major at SDSU in Electro Acoustic Composition intended for composers who in the words on the university's Web site began “their creative experiments within so-called 'Popular' genres such as rock metal hip-hop electronica. ” The program calls itself “one of the most forward looking in the world. ”Waters believes there is an increasing number of faculty at SDSU who are open to fresh ideas. “There is a group of us now who feel that the underlying principles of what constitutes an academy of music really need to be rethought so that they in some way address who we are becoming as a culture” he said. The School of Music and Dance's new director Donna Conaty acknowledges Waters' vision and expects it will be one aspect of the school's focus.

MP3 player matches music to your heartbeat
Denver Post – Jan 27, 2008
This MP3 player scans your music collection and plays tunes in sync with your heartbeat. The player works in four modes: workout fitness training and a standard music-playing mode. The workout mode automatically matches your music with your heartbeat — slow down and you might get some smooth jazz; speed up and you get grunge — while the other two modes play music at a brisk tempo encouraging you to work harder. It comes with a set of electronic beats or can pull music from your own collection assuming there are ample upbeat beats available. The BodiBeat software lets you record runs and plan workouts based on intensity and speed… It includes a pulse and pace sensor for measuring heart rate and distance completed. With its new camera Pentax sees the lightPentax last week introduced the K20D a digital single-lens reflex camera for serious photographers that it will soon show off at the Photo Marketing Association trade show in Las Vegas. The sensor in the K20D uses complementary metal-oxide semiconductor technology better known as CMS instead of the more common charge-coupled device or CCD. This new wave in cameras allows a vastly greater sensitivity to light yielding better pictures. CCD cameras including most compacts can be turned up to a sensitivity of about IS 400 before pictures show grainy “noise. ” Pentax says the K20D can operate at IS 3200 and with a custom setting even at 6400. The camera can employ higher shutter speeds as well freezing motion without blur even in dimly lit rooms.

Sub Pop’s got some kind of record
Seattle Times – Jan 27, 2008
Major-label dealsThe pair still had amateur aesthetics but real money to play with now. Poneman and Pavitt spent some of it flying in British gonzo-journalist Everett True and plying him with drinks — it worked as he went home and wrote Melody Maker articles on Sub Pop and the Seattle scene. (“They’re speed demons with long hair flaying whose revivalist left-of-centre metal is flung in our faces with an enthusiasm and awareness of heritage that’s hard to resist” True wrote in a 1989 article that praised Mudhoney Screaming Trees Tad and Soundgarden. )It was also 20 years ago that Nirvana’s recording career had its innocuous launch with Sub Pop releasing its “Love Buzz” cover (with “Big Cheese” as the B-side) as a single. It didn’t cause much of a stir but Sub Pop released the full-length “Bleach” the following June. Two years later Nirvana had a multimillion-selling Geffen album the ubiquitous “Nevermind. ” The almost ridiculous surge of Nirvana from an obscure Sub Pop band to a generation-defining entity led labels to sign all sorts of bands around Seattle in the vain search for the next big thing… As for the label in 1995 Sub Pop signed a deal selling 49 percent ownership to Warner Bros. Records — imitating the “sign with a major label” success of many of its bands. By 1996 Pavitt had had enough of the music business and retired from Sub Pop. Poneman rode out some lean years in the late-’90s a time that many around Seattle predicted the little label would die — just like grunge which it helped birth. They’re not dead yet”Going out of business since 1988″ is one of its slogans but the demise of Sub Pop is yet to happen. Indeed sales have never been better as in recent years records by the Postal Service Iron & Wine Hot Hot Heat and the Shins became big sellers for Sub Pop. f course “big sellers” is relative as the label has had but one “platinum” seller Nirvana’s “Bleach.