Nobody ever asks me why my characters don’t text each other. Besides, as soon as you put something ‘electronic’ in a book, it’s already out of date by the time it’s published: everything will have changed. Human emotion, on the other hand, will never change.
Counterintelligence is, in effect, chasing ghosts, which is why the tools used to investigate foreign intelligence activity are secret, like human sources or electronic surveillance.
Electronic distribution is more of a fall-back strategy for putting out a book that isn’t deemed profitable enough to print. You hardly make any money publishing an electronic book.
It’s funny, but to me, when you go to a concert hall and hear electronic pieces from the ’60s, I think they sound really dated. But when an orchestra plays a piece from that period, and it’s going to sound different every time, it feels more modern to me.
I love pop music. I love drum and bass, Calvin Harris, all these electronic things, but it’s nice to have something organic as well.
With the Patriot Bill in place, the NSA no longer needed to get a warrant from a judge to tap into anybody’s electronic information. A Surveillance State that would have boggled the mind of Orwell was born.
Hip-hop and electronic music are so similar, in the fact that they’re both very visceral, have so much bass; a lot of times, it’s the same tempos. The culture and some of the sound design is different but a lot of times, it’s the same stuff.
Throughout my years in From First to Last, I was always dabbling and making electronic music on my own time. The first records I ever owned were crossover electronic rock, like Prodigy, Marilyn Manson and Nine Inch Nails.
I don’t want to be typecast as the ‘ambient guy’ or someone who only does electronic scores. I think most of the work that comes my way is because people feel they know me musically.
In the future, we will probably see cyber operations that change or manipulate electronic information to compromise its integrity instead of simply deleting the access to it.
Beyonce’s ‘Bow Down,’ to me, that could be a grime tune. If it’s electronic and 140-ish bpm, and people go crazy to it, to me, that’s grime.
When I began making electronic music, the only thing I was thinking about was creating music that I really liked. I didn’t think about what effect it would have; I was busy doing it.
A MIDI file contains coded instructions to play a particular series of notes on an electronic music synthesizer. A MIDI file is more like a piano roll in a player piano than any type of sound recording.
Many of the touted advantages of electronic voting can still be achieved with paper ballots if you use a computerized ballot marking scheme.
Rap is the pulsation given by some, usually an electronic rhythm section, without any tonality, and you have someone reading high-school poetry.
People are very frightened in publishing at the moment. Nobody knows what sells. More so now because the market’s changing so fundamentally because of Kindle and electronic publishing. It’s a fundamental shift in the way stories are put out into the world.
I hesitated before buying a Kindle. I wasn’t worried that the digital reader would ruin literature as we know it. Rather, my concern centered on using an electronic device in the bathtub.
I wanted to make the kind of records that I heard in the discos that I danced in at that time. Funky, electronic sounds, while the musicians in the band were more rock oriented. This I suppose created the sound we know as Frankie Goes To Hollywood.
If ‘Queen Of Denmark’ was about my childhood, then ‘Pale Green Ghosts’ is definitely about my adolescence, and that period was completely dominated by electronic music.
When it comes to electronic music, I started listening to a lot of Daft Punk, way before I knew what house music was, and then progressed into a lot of Steve Angello, Eric Prydz, Axwell, Sebastian Ingrosso, and Laidback Luke.
I’ve discovered this new electronic technique that creates new speech out of stuff that’s already there.
What we need is an electronic encyclopedia of life, with one page for each species. On each page is given everything known about that species.
I tried so many different musics. I kind of burned out on classical and wanted to make it fun again. I started playing with indie bands and country bands and finally realized electronic music brought my style to life.
Electro is today’s disco – making electronic music not for the sake of selling it but for sharing it and touring around the world D.J.-ing.
We have an electronic vein we have tapped and applied it to a rock setting like tons of bands out there.
I consider the electric guitar to be like a drum with strings. It became the drum of the Baby Boom generation. And the drum has always been the center of the tribe, a new electronic tribe.
My work has taken me from historical research to involvement in electronic publishing ventures to the directorship of the Harvard University Libraries.
The most important thing about a TV set is to get it back against something and not out in the middle of a room where it’s like a somber fellow making electronic judgments on you.
Virtual Self’ was me trying to paint a picture of a very foggy, distorted memory that I had of electronic music on the internet.
I think making electronic music isn’t much different from writing a book or painting a picture or making a film. It’s a creative process, and it’s an art form.
I think the focus of the media changes. At the moment the more electronic stuff like trip-hop was the flavor of the month, just a little while ago. It all depends on the angle, from which point of view you see it.
From early on, when synthesizers were first introduced into music, I liked the idea that you could get a big sound with them, electronic, but like an orchestra. And I could play it all myself. That was exciting.
People are always bemoaning the fact that electronic music is finding its way into the mainstream. To me, that’s the best possible thing. It’s going to give us a much bigger platform. It’s going to train people’s ears to these sounds so they can listen to a track even if it doesn’t have vocals.
I was a big fan of Middle Eastern elements of music and experimental electronic and tribal sounds.
When I was a policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, I became obsessed with end user license agreements.
I read actual physical books and have thus far avoided the electronic lure.
I once stood in the middle of New York city watching my name go round the electronic zipper sign in Times Square and I felt pretty thrilled, but not quite as thrilled as I felt when I saw my name in the ‘Examiner’ for the first time.
Even though I’m totally dependent on modern electronic gizmos, from my laptop to my iPod to my cell phone, I love to embrace old technology or no technology at all.
All the music we’ve done with Daft Punk has got a wider, more diverse style; it has rock in it but it’s really full of special electronic beats… It’s not just rock so the music is different.
Catalyzed by the Recovery Act, adoption of electronic health records is increasing dramatically.
As a medium, electronic screens possess infinite capacities and instant interconnections, turning words into a new kind of active agent in the world.
I learned the technology and tradecraft of electronic security in self defense, with a lot of expert help.
It’s hard for me to use any electronic sounds at all, really. I’m always just layering acoustic sounds.
I have always been far more interested in sound than technique, and how sounds work together, how they can be layered. I think electronic music, in its infancy anyway, allowed us to create music in a way that hadn’t really been possible before. It created a new kind of musician.
I’ve been really excited about some new cutting edge electronic music and technology.
My first project was to build an ionization gauge control circuit for Professor Edgar Everhart’s Cockcroft-Walton accelerator. In those days, vacuum tubes were the active components in electronic circuits. I can still recall the warm orange glow of the vacuum tube filaments and the cool blue glow of the thyratron tubes.
I’d like an old car just so I can control the windows with a handle. I hate electronic windows.
I’m a big online everything. But for me, shopping online started with music, obviously, then it went onto books, meditation CDs, and I just recently bought these electronic cigarettes. My husband is trying to quit smoking, so I went online and I bought those BluCigs cigarettes in every flavor for him.
Our government should not be spying on the electronic communications of American citizens. Nor should our iPhones or Android devices be subject to unreasonable searches and seizures.
I’d call what I do pop music, but it’s folky and electronic and it doesn’t really sound like much else.
There’s still a lot of things you can legitimately do to make America safe through electronic surveillance.
Students do everything on laptops these days, so I definitely think electronic books are a trend that’s going to expand.
Also, with information having just come out at the time about J. Edgar Hoover’s electronic surveillance of Dr. King, it gave greater weight to the statements of those persons who were alleging involvement of the FBI.
What the strength of events like Ultra have shown us is this thing we call, ‘electronic music,’ is not a passing trend, but a big industry of passionate artists, event organisers, fans etc.
