new technology used by artist for fan outreach

[brightone]

hey all-- just came across this contest that a musician, david garrett is doing. its a geocaching contest.. which is cool in itself, but i thought it was particularly interesting that a young musician was doing this.. it's on his facebook page. facebook.com/davidgarrettofficial. Definitely a unique approach to marketing and contest ideas...

[sushilrai]

Heap played music from an early age, becoming classically trained in several instruments including piano, cello and clarinet. She attended Friends School, a private, Quaker-run boarding school in Saffron Walden. Heap's mother (an art therapist) and her father (a construction rock retailer) separated when she was twelve. By age thirteen, she had begun writing songs.

Heap did not get along well with the music teacher at her boarding school, so she principally taught herself sequencing, music engineering, sampling and production (on Atari computers). She also taught herself to play the guitar and drums, and subsequently two percussion/idiophone instruments, the array mbira and the Hang.[5] After school, she went on to study at the BRIT School for Performing Arts & Technology in Croydon, South London.