#Stephen Lipson

[torchlitinthedesert]

Linda McCartney played on Paul's 1989 album Flowers in the Dirt (specifically the song Rough Ride). Producers Trevor Horn, Stephen Lipson, and Chris Hughes were completely besotted remember working with her:

Trevor Horn: The other thing that I remember about Rough Ride was that we brought Linda in and Linda played some really great synths. She came up with this idea for a mini-moog part. We really liked Linda. So I was pretty keen to get her on the record. She also seemed to have a really good influence on him. He really liked her, if you know what I mean. [I know] that’s a dumb thing to say, but he did. Sometimes you meet people who don’t like their wives, you know.

Stephen Lipson: She was wonderful; absolutely brilliant. I haven’t got a bad thought in my head about her. She was the best; so warm. She invited us into their lives in a really lovely way. And that was Rough Ride. And then we mixed it.

Chris Hughes: I got very close with Linda. She was great. I spent a lot of time with her, and both of them; just hanging out. The pair of them invited me around to their place and cooked supper and they were great. Linda, particularly, was wonderful.

Trevor Horn: What are my memories of it? My memories are of Linda. I’ve still got the photographs she took of me and Steve, I’ve got them up on the wall downstairs. 

[nervoussystemmusicreverence]

Prefab Sprout - The Sound of Crying

Music Video

Artist

Prefab Sprout

Composer

Paddy McAloon

Lyricist

Paddy McAloon

Produced

Stephen Lipson

Released

June 6 1992

Streaming

[doyoulikethissong-poll]

Billie Eilish - No Time to Die 2020

"No Time to Die" is the theme song for the James Bond film of the same name. Performed by American singer-songwriter Billie Eilish and written by Eilish and her brother and collaborator, Finneas O'Connell, the song features orchestration by Hans Zimmer and was produced by Finneas O'Connell and Stephen Lipson. Seventeen years old at the time of recording, Eilish is the youngest artist to have recorded a James Bond theme in the history of the franchise.

The song debuted at the top of the UK Singles Chart and the Irish Singles Chart. It became Eilish's first number-one single in the UK and made her the first artist born in the 21st century to top the chart. The song is the second Bond theme overall to top the UK chart. "No Time to Die" debuted and peaked at number 16 on the US Billboard Hot 100.

"No Time to Die" received various accolades, including the Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media, the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song, the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Song, and the Academy Award for Best Original Song, making it the third-ever and third consecutive Bond theme to win the Academy Award (after "Skyfall" by Adele in 2012 and "Writing's on the Wall" by Sam Smith in 2015). Eilish became the first person born in the 21st century to win an Academy Award.

"No Time to Die" received a total of 62% yes votes! Previous Billie Eilish polls: #10 "NDA"

[blogmistermusic]

Throwback Review: "Scream If You Wanna Go Faster" de Geri Halliwell

Dos años después llegó el segundo álbum de estudio de Geri Halliwell, Scream If You Wanna Go Faster, el cual estaba formado por 12 temas encuadradas dentro del pop, dance-pop y pop/rock compuestos por la propia Geri junto a Absolute (los artífices de su álbum debut) además de Rick Nowels, Stephen Lipson, Gregg Alexander y Peter-John Vetesse. Mientras que “Schizophonic” era un álbum ecléctico y…

[vmonteiro23a]

SONGS TO REMEMBER: Pet Shop Boys - "Left To My Own Devices"

SONGS TO REMEMBER: Pet Shop Boys – “Left To My Own Devices”

SONGS TO REMEMBER: Pet Shop Boys – “Left To My Own Devices” “PRODUCED BY TREVOR HORN AND STEPHEN LIPSON/WRITTEN BY NEIL TENNANT AND CHRIS LOWE PARLOPHONE/NOVEMBER 1988 UK CHART:4 Now this is what I mean about deciding for yourself what records are about. After more than a decade of being genuinely moved by my fave PSB song because I thought it really was Neil’s life story, I pick up the…

[sonyclasica]

HANS ZIMMER

HANS ZIMMER LIVE

Hoy, Sony Classical anuncia el lanzamiento del nuevo álbum doble del ganador de dos Premios Oscar® Hans Zimmer, titulado Hans Zimmer LIVE, que saldrá a la venta el 3 de marzo de 2023 y que ya está disponible para reserva. Junto con la noticia de hoy, se ha publicado el primer single, "The Last Samurai Suite".

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Hans Zimmer LIVE presenta más de dos horas de nuevos arreglos de algunas de las composiciones más populares del legendario compositor de Los Ángeles. El álbum se grabó durante la exitosa gira de conciertos del mismo nombre en Europa en la primavera de 2022. Zimmer creó “suites” de algunas de las melodías más conocidas de bandas sonoras oscarizadas Ò-como Dune y El Rey León, al igual que de clásicos como The Dark Knight, X Men: Dark Phoenix, Dunkirk, Gladiator, Inception, Interstellar, The Last Samurai, Man of Steel, No Time to Die, Pirates of the Caribbean y Wonder Woman 1984.

"Simplemente quería hacer el mejor álbum", dice Zimmer, que grabó Hans Zimmer LIVE como una producción de estudio durante 10 noches, y pasó semanas mezclando el álbum con su amigo y productor, Stephen Lipson. "Quería crear una oportunidad para que la música respirara de forma diferente, en su propio contexto. Para esta aventura, estoy encantado de haber contado con el mejor equipo posible de colaboradores".

Junto con su banda de 20 integrantes "The Disruptive Collective", que incluye a compañeros musicales de larga data, la Orquesta y el Coro de la Ópera de Odessa, Hans Zimmer ha creado un espectáculo musical épico que fusiona arreglos ambient de clásico y elementos electrónicos con el poderoso sonido de una banda de rock.

"The Disruptive Collective" cuenta con músicos que llevan mucho tiempo colaborando con Zimmer, como los cantantes y compositores Lisa Gerrard (Gladiator), Lebo M. (The Lion King) y Loire Cutler (X Men: Dark Phoenix), la chelista Tina Guo (Wonder Woman) y Nick Glennie-Smith (director musical de la banda). Otros solistas son Andrew Kawczynski (sintetizador, percusión), Pedro Eustache (vientos), Refi (vocalista), Rusanda Panfili (voz), Guthrie Govan (guitarras), Andy Pask (bajo vertical), Aicha Djidjelli (batería), Steven Doar (percusión, teclados), Molly Rogers (voz), Juan García Herreros [Snow Owl] (bajo eléctrico), Nile Marr (guitarras), Leah Zeger (voz), Holly Madge (batería), Aleksandra Šuklar (percusión). Hans Zimmer toca varios instrumentos en el álbum.

Hans Zimmer LIVE estará disponible en los servicios de streaming en estéreo y en los formatos inmersivos Dolby Atmos y Sony 360 RA, para su descarga digital, así como en un DigiPac de 2 CD y en un set limitado de vinilo audiófilo de 4 x 180 g.

Zimmer ha llevado a cabo con gran éxito la gira Hans Zimmer Live por todo el mundo y recientemente ha concluido la primera parte de su gira europea en abril de 2022. Los fans podrán seguir disfrutando de la gira de conciertos Hans Zimmer LIVE en abril de 2023. Para más información, visita: www.hanszimmerlive.com

HANS ZIMMER LIVE – FECHAS DE LA GIRA 2023

23 de abril

Oberhausen, DE

Rudolf Weber Arena

25 de abril

Antwerp, BE

Sportpalais Antwerp

27 de abril

Frankfurt, DE

Festhalle Frankfurt

29 de abril

Stuttgart, DE

Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle

01 de mayo

Turín, IT

Pala Alpitour

03 de mayo

Bologna, IT

Unipol Arena (aplazado desde 2022)

06 de mayo

Niza, FR

Palais Nikaia

07 de mayo

Montpellier, FR

La Sud de France Arena

09 de mayo

Bordeaux, FR

Arkea Arena Bordeaux

11 de mayo

Bilbao, ES

Bilbao Exhibition Centre

13 de mayo

Lisboa, PT

Altice Arena

16 de mayo

Madrid, ES

WiZink Center

20 de mayo

Hannover, DE

ZAG Arena

22 de mayo

Zurich, CH

Hallenstadion Zurich

24 de mayo

Munich, DE

Olympiahalle Munich

26 de mayo

Berlín, DE

Mercedes-Benz Arena

28 de mayo

Hamburgo, DE

Barclays Arena

30 de mayo

Cracovia, PL

Tauron Arena Krakow

02 de junio

Praga, AT

02 Arena

03 de junio

Viena, AT

Wiener Stadthalle - Sala D

05 de junio

Budapest, HU

Papp László Sportaréna

06 de junio

Bratislava, SK

Ondrej Nepela Arena (aplazado de 2022)

09 de junio

Colonia, DE

LANXESS Arena

10 de junio

11 de junio

Ámsterdam, NL

Ámsterdam, NL

Ziggo Dome

Ziggo Dome

12 de junio

Rotterdam, NL

Ahoy Rotterdam

14 de junio

Londres, Reino Unido

The O2

15 de junio

Londres, Reino Unido

The O2

16 de junio

Machester, UK

Manchester Arena

18 de junio

Dublín, IE

3Arena

22 de junio

Bruselas, BE

Palais 12

23 de junio

París, FR

Accor Arena

24 de junio

París, FR

Accor Arena

ACERCA DE HANS ZIMMER

Hans Zimmer ha puesto música a más de 500 proyectos en todos los medios, que, combinados, han recaudado más de 28.000 millones de dólares en la taquilla mundial. Ha sido galardonado con dos Premios de la Academia®, tres Globos de Oro®, cuatro Grammys®, un American Music Award y un Premio Tony®. Sus trabajos más destacados incluyen Dune, No Time to Die, Gladiator, The Thin Red Line, As Good as It Gets, Rain Man, la trilogía The Dark Knight, Inception, Thelma and Louise, The Last Samurai, 12 Years A Slave, Blade Runner 2049 (música compuesta con Benjamin Wallfisch), Dunkirk, y el tema de Planet Earth II , además de poner música a películas  recientes como Top Gun: Maverick, Wonder Woman 1984 y Kung Fu Panda. Además, Zimmer ha ganado el premio de la Academia® al mérito en música escrita para películas por Dune. En 2019, Zimmer compuso el remake de acción real de El Rey León, por el que recibió una nominación al Grammy® a la mejor banda sonora para medios visuales.

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[mychameleondays]

Annie Lennox: Diva

RCA PL 75326

Released: April 6, 1992

[rainingmusic]

Annie Lennox - Don't Let It Bring You Down

[mitjalovse]

ZTT, the label which house Frankie Goes To Hollywood and Propaganda, was also the 80's home of Grace Jones, who is one of those people that achieved so much she's taken for granted. While she is known for her endeavours in many other fields, one must not forget she is also an incredible musician. To be honest, I think she's severely underappreciated, even though her 80's discs are fabulous. Her LP that was produced by Trevor Horn, for instance, Slave To The Rhythm is basically a collection of different variations of the title song. O.K., that does not describe it correctly, it's not a remix album, because it is one of those records that must be heard. It contains a wild concept that is paired with sonic ingenuity and it also serves as a great entry point for Mrs. Jones.

[edsonlnoe]

P⬤21 Score Dune Hans Zimmer The Green Knight Daniel Hart The Lost Daughter Dickon Hinchliffe Luca Dan Romer Minari Emile Mosseri No Time to Die Hans Zimmer The Power of the Dog Jonny Greenwood Supernova Keaton Henson Swan Song Jay Wadley Soundtrack The Harder They Fall Judas and the Black Messiah Luca Nomadland Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings Swan Song Canción “Akh Lar Gayee (ft. Surinderjit Singh)” — Prem-Hardeep Prem-Hardeep, Surinderjit Singh The White Tiger “Dos Oruguitas” — Sebastián Yatra Lin-Manuel Miranda Encanto “Fight For You” — H.E.R. Gabriella Wilson, Tiara Thomas, Dernst Emile II Judas and the Black Messiah “The Harder They Fall” — Koffee Shawn Carter, Jeymes Samuel, Mikayla Simpson The Harder They Fall “Lead the Way” — Jhené Aiko Jhené Aiko, James Newton Howard Raya and the Last Dragon “No Time to Die” — Billie Eilish Billie Eilish, Finneas O’Connell No Time To Die “Rain Song” — Han Ye-ri Stephanie Hong, Emile Mosseri Minari “Run It (ft. Rick Ross & Rich Brian)” — DJ Snake William Sami Étienne Grigahcine, Brian Imanuel, Christian Dold, Rick Ross, SIM  Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings “Speak Now” — Leslie Odom Jr. Leslie Odom Jr., Sam Ashworth One Night in Miami... Mezcla de Sonido Dune Ron Bartlett, Doug Hemphill, Alan Meyerson, Thomas J. O'Connell , Mac Ruth, Don White Encanto David Boucher, Scott Curtis, David E. Fluhr, Gabriel Guy, Doc Kane, Paul McGrath, Alvin Wee In the Heights Vinny Alfano, Ryan Collison, Lewis Goldstein, Eric Gotthelf, Drew Kunin, John Marquis, Connor Nagy, Aaron Southerland, Jerrell Suelto, Tami Treadwell No Time to Die Mark Appleby, Al Clay, Simon Hayes, Stephen Lipson, Paul Massey, Adam Mendez, Mark Taylor Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings Sona Balam, Onnalee Blank, Jason Butler, Peter J. Devlin, Richard Duarte, Lora Hirschberg, Doc Kane, Yung Q, Fred Runner West Side Story Doc Kane, Tod A. Maitland, Shawn Murphy, Andy Nelson, Frank Rinella, Gary Rydstrom Edición de Sonido Dune David Bach, Clint Bennett, Theo Green, Mark A. Mangini, Ryan Rubin, Dave Whitehead The Green Knight Christopher Barnett, Richard Gould, Chris Manning, Johnny Marshall, Greg J. Peterson, Mark Jan Wlodarkiewicz Luca Barney Jones, Justin Doyle, André Fenley, Pascal Garneau, Samuel Lehmer, Justin Pearson, Larry Oatfield, Christopher Scarabosio, Lodge Worster No Time to Die Hugo Adams, Christopher Benstead, Bryan Bowen, Michael Fentum, Dawn Gough, James Harrison, Eilam Hoffman, Michael Maroussas, Becki Ponting, Oliver Tarney A Quiet Place Part II Erik Aadahl, Nancy Allen, Ramiro Belgardt, Malte Bieler, Chris Diebold, Brandon Jones, Vanessa Lapato, Nancy Nugent, Jim Schultz, Del Spiva, Ethan Van der Ryn Raya and the Last Dragon Chris Frazier, David C. Hughes, Shannon Mills, Samson Neslund, Steve Orlando, Brad Semenoff, Jim Weidman

[dihalect]

actually heres the reading list for the artificial life class i mentioned in the tags a couple posts ago. if anyone wants a pdf of one/some of these and can't find it elsewhere, just hmu

(and if you're interested in this sort of thing, i also recommend taking a look at other papers in these publications, including other issues/years)

David Goldberg, Genetic Algorithms in Search, Optimization, and Machine Learning, Addison-Wesley, 1989

John R Koza, INTRODUCTION TO GENETIC PROGRAMMING TUTORIAL GECCO-2004—SEATTLE

Joel Schiff: Cellular Automata, A discrete view of the world (2008) Addison Wesley.

Stephen Wolfram, Cellular Automata, Los Alamos Science, Fall 1983

Christopher Langton, Self-Reproduction in Cellular Automata, Physica 10D (1984) 135-144

Thomas Ray, An approach to the synthesis of life (1991) Artificial Life II

Richard Lenski et al (2003) The evolutionary origin of complex features. Nature 423 8 May 2003

John Maynard-Smith (1982) Evolution and the Theory of Games, Cambridge Univ Press

Robert Axelrod (1980) Effective Choice in the Prisoner’s Dilemma, The Journal of Conflict Resolution Vol. 24, No. 1, Mar., 1980

Kristian Lindgren, 1992, Evolutionary Phenomena in Simple Dynamics, Artificial Life II and Nick Moran (2019) Appendix A of PhD Dissertation

P Prusinkiewicz et al. 1995 The Artificial Life of Plants, Siggraph 95 Tutorial

Gabriela Ochoa 1998 On genetic algorithms and lindenmayer systems, PPSN V.

Peter Angeline et al (1994) An evolutionary algorithm that constructs recurrent neural networks, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks

Ken Stanley & Risto Miikkulainen (2002) Evolving neural networks throught augmenting topologies, Evolutionary Computation 10(2)99-127.

Frederic Gruau, 1993, Genetic synthesis of modular neural networks, ICGA 93

Richard Dawkins, 1986, The Blind Watchmaker, Norton.

Jimmy Secretan et al (2010) Picbreeder: A Case Study in Collaborative Evolutionary Exploration of Design Space, Evolutionary Computation

Jeff Clune and Hod Lipson, Evolving Three-Dimensional Objects with a Generative Encoding Inspired by Developmental Biology (2011) ECAL

Danny Hillis, Coevolving Parasites Improves Simulated Evolution as an optimization Procedure, 1990, Physica D 42, 228-234.

H. Juille and J. Pollack (1998) Coevolutionary Learning: A case study. Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Machine Learning.

Watson, R.A. and Pollack, J.B. (2001). Coevolutionary Dynamics in a Minimal Substrate. Proceedings of the 2001 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference.

Karl Sims, "Evolving 3D Morphology and Behavior by Competition" Artificial Life IV Proceedings, ed.by Brooks & Maes, MIT Press, 1994, pp.28-39.

Pollack, Jordan. B., Lipson, Hod, Hornby, Gregory S. and Funes, Pablo (2001). Three Generations of Automatically Designed Robots. Artificial Life, 7:3.

[realindevelopment-returns]

We were filming The Producers - a supergroup comprising of Trevor Horn, Lol Créme, Stephen Lipson and Ash Soan - when discussion turned to Frankie Goes To Hollywood's immortal Two Tribes, specifically whether Mark O'Toole of the band played the full, extremely difficult bassline live or not. And then, these incredible men who have made some of the greatest pop records of all time played Two Tribes - the record they originally produced, engineered and played on. And here it is.

[thecomposerthatwaspromised]

The album features features new recordings of the original songs written by Elton John and Tim Rice for the 1994 animated classic, the score by Hans Zimmer (Gladiator, Inception, The Dark Knight) who received his first Academy Award for the animated movie, plus African vocal and choir arrangements by Grammy-winning South African producer and composer Lebo M. Also included Pharrell Williams produced five songs on the soundtrack. Also included is the John- & Rice-written original song Never Too Late performed by John, that features an African choir and will appear in the film’s end credits. The soundtrack will be released digitally on July 11, 2019 and physically on July 19. [...]

Here’s the album track list:

1. Circle of Life/Nants’ Ingonyama – Performed by Lindiwe Mkhize; African vocals performed by Lebo M; written and composed by Elton John and Tim Rice; “Nants’ Ingonyama” written by Lebohang Morake and Hans Zimmer; produced by Hans Zimmer; vocals produced by Stephen Lipson 2. Life’s Not Fair – Hans Zimmer 3. Rafiki’s Fireflies – Hans Zimmer 4. I Just Can’t Wait to Be King – Performed by JD McCrary, Shahadi Wright Joseph and John Oliver; written by Elton John and Tim Rice; produced by Pharrell Williams; co-produced by Stephen Lipson 5. Elephant Graveyard – Hans Zimmer 6. Be Prepared (2019 Version) – Performed by Chiwetel Ejiofor; written by Elton John and Tim Rice; produced by Hans Zimmer and David Fleming 7. Stampede – Hans Zimmer 8. Scar Takes the Throne – Hans Zimmer 9. Hakuna Matata – Performed by Billy Eichner, Seth Rogen, JD McCrary and Donald Glover; written by Elton John and Tim Rice; produced by Pharrell Williams; co-produced by Stephen Lipson 10. Simba is Alive! – Hans Zimmer 11. The Lion Sleeps Tonight” – Performed by Billy Eichner and Seth Rogen; written by Luigi Creatore, Hugo Peretti, George David Weiss and Solomon Linda; produced by Pharrell Williams 12. Can You Feel the Love Tonight – Performed by Beyoncé, Donald Glover, Billy Eichner and Seth Rogen; written by Elton John and Tim Rice; produced by Pharrell Williams; co-produced by Stephen Lipson 13. Reflections of Mufasa – Hans Zimmer 14. TBA 15. Battle for Pride Rock – Hans Zimmer 16. Remember – Hans Zimmer 17. Never Too Late – Performed by Elton John; African vocal and choir arrangements created and produced by Lebo M; written by Elton John and Tim Rice; produced by Greg Kurstin; additional production by Elton John and Matt Still 18. He Lives in You – Performed by Lebo M; written by Mark Mancina, Jay Rifkin and Lebohang Morake; produced by Lebo M and Mark Mancina 19. Mbube – Performed by Lebo M; African vocal and choir arrangements created and produced by Lebo M; written by Solomon Linda; produced by Pharrell Williams

Soundtrack Album for Jon Favreau’s ‘The Lion King’ Announced

[mychameleondays]

Simple Minds: Real Life

Virgin V 2660/211 393

Released: April 8, 1991

[rainingmusic]

PROPAGANDA -THE MURDER OF LOVE

[odk-2]

Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Two Tribes (1984) Holly Johnson / Mark O'Toole / Peter Gill from: "Two Tribes " / "One February Friday"/ "War"          "Welcome to the Pleasuredome" LP

Personnel: Holly Johnson: Lead Vocals Paul Rutherford: Backing Vocals Brian Nash: Guitar Mark O'Toole: Bass Peter Gill: Drums

Additional Album Personnel: J. J. Jeczalik: Keyboards / Programming / Software Andrew Richards: Keyboards Anne Dudley: Keyboards Stephen Lipson: Guitar Trevor Rabin: Guitar  / Keyboards Trevor Horn: Bass / Backing Vocals Luís Jardim: Percussion

Arranged and Produced by Trevor Horn