Martyn Ware Interview for B&W Society of Sound
Martyn Ware, musical pioneer and founding member of hit band The Human League, talks about his collaboration with British loudspeaker company Bowers & Wilkins and its Society of Sound. For more information about the Society of Sound, including a Sound Blog with contributions from Martyn Ware, please visit www.bowers-wilkins.co.uk/sos
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Martyn Ware of The Human League visits BU
Martyn Ware may be better known for his chart success as a founding member of 80's super band The Human League, rather than creating the sound of the world's preferential city. 'Building dreams in space: sonic architecture for art business and education' was the title of Martyns talk he gave on May 2 at BU, which explored his move from chart synth pop into the world of 3D soundscaping through his company Illustrious formed with Vince Clarke, formerly of Depeche Mode. Here he talks about future collaborations with BU, and why he thinks education is so important. Read the full article here: blogs.bournemouth.ac.uk
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Heaven 17's Martyn Ware : Save 6Music
One of the godfathers of electronic music, Martyn Ware (Founder of Human League, Heaven 17 and BEF), met up with the Save6Music Youtube Channel to air his feelings about the proposed closure of BBC 6Music.
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Martyn Ware Demos 3D Sound
Electronic music pioneer Martyn Ware, founding member of Heaven 17 and The Human League, has been working with Vincent Clarke (Depeche Mode and Erasure band fame) in developing a 3D immersive sound system, with their illustrious Company (www.illustriouscompany.co.uk). With Ware having launched the Future of Sound tour in the UK (www.futureofsound.org), he offered a sneek peak of the technology at a holiday gathering for new media types in London this week. My short clip doesn't do the experience justice, but for now it is all I have to share. This demo piece is an example from an installation done in Mexico earlier this year.
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London Music Tech Fest 2012
Join us for the FREE Music Tech Fest on Friday 18th and Saturday 19th of May See musictechfest.org and jam with the colours. The first ever Music Tech Fest is pulling the entire music technology ecosystem under one roof -- from the big guys in the music industry and media, music tech startups and apps creators, to developers, researchers, artists, performers, creatives and hackers. - New demos, new releases, and cutting edge performances with new instruments - Hackers turning lightsabres into soundsabres and synaesthesia workshops - Live interview by WIRED magazine with EMI, Last.fm, Soundcloud and RjDj, plus Warp, PIAS, Spotify and PRS.. - Martyn Ware about what him and Vince Clarke have been up to at Illustrious, Matt Black, ex Coldcut, showing what he is up to at Ninjatune, Carles Lòpez performing on the Reactable REGISTER FREE on Eventbrite: Friday 18th, including WIRED, EMI, Last.fm, Soundcloud, RjDj, Martyn Ware, PRS, Spotify, BBC, Ogilvy and BBH: musictechfestday2.eventbrite.com Saturday 19th, including Ninjatune, PIAS, EMI, RjDj, Carles Lòpez on the Reactable, Jason Singh the human beatbox, and a sound-hacked lightsabre party: musictechfestday3.eventbrite.com Teaser music: superavi.com
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Tonight Matthew... Martyn Ware as Roy Wood from Wizard
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Martyn Ware Presents the Future of Sound Tour
Martyn Ware, founding member of Heaven 17 & The Human League, presents press guests with news of the Future of Sound tour - www.futureofsound.org. Artist Robin Rimbaud, aka Scanner, discusses his work with recording sound and how he applies his work to public spaces.
Martyn Ware's Billy MacKenzie
Martyn Ware (founding member of The Human League & Heaven 17) shares memories of Billy MacKenzie, following tribute night to his life at the Shepherd's Bush Empire, London, 28 March 2007.
Heaven 17 Temptation + Billie Godfrey LIVE 2010
Heaven 17 are an English synthpop band originating from Sheffield in the early 1980s. The trio comprises Martyn Ware (keyboards), Ian Craig Marsh (keyboards) (both previously with The Human League) and Glenn Gregory (vocals). Although most of the band's music was recorded in the 1980s, they have occasionally reformed to record and perform since then, playing their first ever live concerts in 1997. In 1983 the band released "Temptation" (on which they were augmented by vocalist Carol Kenyon), which reached Number 2 on the UK Singles Chart in Spring 1983 and became their biggest hit. The song was taken from their second album, The Luxury Gap, which featured further chart hits "Come Live with Me" (UK Number 5) and "Crushed by the Wheels of Industry" (UK Number 17). The album itself charted at Number 4 in the UK Albums Chart, their highest ever position and was certified platinum by the BPI in 1984.
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CLOCK DVA - Eternity in Paris live Pandora's Music Box Holland 1983
The incredible post-punk Sheffield scene of the late-70s and early 80s spawned some of the best and most influential electronic/new wave music ever released, and Clock DVA were a major part of it. In June 1977, Adi Newton, Martyn Ware and Ian Craig Marsh formed a group called The Dead Daughters, to perform at a private party held in bar in the University of Sheffield for one performance only. Their next incarnation was the legendary and mythological Studs, consisting of Adi Newton, Martyn Ware, Ian Craig Marsh (The Future), Glenn Gregory (Heaven 17), Richard H Kirk, Stephen Mallinder, Chris Watson ( Cabaret Voltaire), and Hayden Boyes-Weston (2.3). For a short period prior to forming Clock DVA Adi Newton was one of the three members of The Future - who later went on to become The Human League and later still Heaven 17, a name taken from the Music Chart listing in the film A Clockwork Orange. The Future's music explored the boundaries of experimental electronics which was fuelled by their mutual infatuation with futurisism in all its varied forms. The band produced a number of recordings including versions of Almost Medieval, Blank Clocks, Dancevision, Looking for the Black Haired Girls and Future Religion. Shortly after their formation Adi Newton departed due to a conflict of ideas. The Future was based purely in electronic music with no acoustics, and Newton felt restrictions placed by this doctrine would limit possibilities he wanted to explore. He was replaced by Phil <b>...</b>
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Martyn Ware of Illustrious & Future of Sound - Cybersonica AV Lab
First 10 mins of a presentation by Martyn Ware of ustrious & Future of Sound at the Cybersonica AV Lab on Wednesday, 5th November 2008 at The Basement, Brighton, UK. More details at avlab.cybersonica.org.
HEAVEN 17 - Contenders
Heaven 17 first live performance captured on The Tube in 1986. A fantastic funky track and perhaps one of the the finest songs they ever made! Introduced by the late Paula Yates. Originating from Sheffield, Ian Craig Marsh and Martyn Ware formed Heaven 17 with vocalists Glenn Gregory after they split from The Human League in 1980. Supporting vocals from Carol Kenyon.
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Backstage at Claudia Brücken's ComBined concert Scala London March 2 2011
Backstage at Claudia Brücken's ComBined concert at King's Cross' Scala in London on March 2nd 2011. Pictures taken and compilation made by Glenn Gregory (Heaven 17, BEF). Soundtrack is Dream within a Dream taken from the A Secret Wish album by Propaganda (© ZTT 1985). In order of appearance Claudia Brücken, Paul Humphreys, Martyn Ware, Susanne Freytag, Sam Sallon, Melissa D'Arcy, David Watson, Glenn Gregory, Ralf Dörper, Andrew Poppy, Stephen Lipson, James Watson... and a cake! The ComBined concert will be released on DVD later this year.
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Clock dva - the Operators
In June of 1977, Adi Newton, Martyn Ware and Ian Craig Marsh, formed a group called The Dead Daughters, their next incarnation was the Studs. The group which consisted of Adi Newton, Martyn Ware, Ian Craig Marsh (Future, The (3)), Glenn Gregory (Heaven 17), Richard H. Kirk, Stephen Mallinder, Chris Watson (Cabaret Voltaire), and Haydn Boyes-Weston (2.3). For a short period prior to forming Clock DVA, Adi Newton was one of the three members of the Future who later went on to form The Human League and later as Heaven 17. Shortly after their formation Adi Newton left and was replaced by Philip Oakey: the future ended as quickly as it had begun, they changed their name to The Human League and released "Being Boiled". Then, Adi Newton teamed up with his friend Stephen "Judd" James Turner and formed ClockDVA and recruited two additional members David James Hammond for guitar and Simon Mark Elliot Kemp for electronics. In May 1981 Paul Browse joined Clock DVA and remained a constant member until relocating to Berlin in 1989 where he began his Effective Force project for MFS.
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3 Year Old Sings Don't You Want Me Baby by Human League
its the kids fav. Human League began in the late 1970s as the brainchild of two computer operators, Ian Craig Marsh and Martyn Ware, from Sheffield, England. They tried a number of names including the Dead Daughters and the Future until settling upon the Human League after former hospital porter, Philip Oakey, joined the group. Adrian Wright joined shortly thereafter to prepare slide shows for projection during the group's live performances. The first single, Being Boiled, was released in 1978, but the group did not make the charts in the UK until the release of Holiday 80 in the spring of 1980. As a result the Human League's second album Travelogue made the UK Top 20. By 1980 the Human League began to feel strain between the pop music favored by Philip Oakey and Adrian Wright and the more austere electronic sounds favored by Ian Craig Marsh and Martyn Ware. In October 1980 the group split in half. Ware and Marsh left to begin a project called the British Electric Foundation whose first spinoff was the group Heaven 17 and their hit (We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang. Of the remaining Human League pair, only Philip Oakey was a performer. With determination to complete a European tour, Adrian Wright began learning to play synthesizer and two female singers, Susan Ann Sulley and Joanne Catherall, were recruited from among the dancers at Sheffield's Crazy Daisy disco. Bassist Ian Burden was also added as a temporary group member. Early in 1981 the new Human League <b>...</b>
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THE HUMAN LEAGUE - You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling (John Peel session 1978)
Recorded at BBC Maida Vale studios August 8 1978, tx on John Peel's Radio 1 show August 16. The League's cover of the Righteous Bros. 1964 hit, in their own inimitable minimal electronic style. The band later split in acrimony with Ian Marsh and Martyn Ware leaving to form British Electric Federation/Heaven 17. Oakey and Wright remained, and the rest is synthpop megabucks history. When recording the Dare sessions they demoed a cover of River Deep, Mountain High which was in truth probably a bridge too far and it fortunately never saw the light of day.
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Heaven 17: Penthouse and Pavement - Live In Sheffield 2010
Penthouse and Pavement is the debut album by the English synthpop group Heaven 17, released in 1981. The first single, "(We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang", best demonstrates the left-wing outlook of the lyrics, criticising certain aspects of Britain at the beginning of the 1980s which was under the leadership of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. The song was famously banned by Radio 1 disc jockey Mike Read (himself a Conservative and follower of Thatcher) for being overtly political. Other themes explored include nuclear war, religious extremism, American influence in the world and the rise of the Yuppie. Heaven 17 drew on R&B and funk to create pop-friendly, danceable hooks. The album charted at No. 14 and remained in the Top 75 for 76 weeks. The album was played live in its entirety by the band in a series of concerts throughout 2010, one of which (in Sheffield) was filmed and shown on BBC Two on 16 May 2010. A documentary about the making of the album was screened the following night. This album is featured in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. Original Personnel: Glenn Gregory - Vocals Ian Craig Marsh - Synthesisers, Saxophone, Percussion Martyn Ware - Synthesisers, Piano, Percussion and Backing Vocals ... and: Malcolm Veale - Synthesisers, Saxophone Josie James - Vocals on Penthouse and Pavement Steve Travell - Piano on Soul Warfare The Boys of Buddha - Synthetic Horns John Wilson - Bass guitar, Guitar and Guitar Synthesisers on Pavement side <b>...</b>
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System 100 study #01
Two sequencer lines are being sent from the Doepfer A 115 sequencer, to the Roland System 100 with the addition of one System 100 overdub for the space sound effects. This piece is dedicated to Martyn Ware, Ian Craig Marsh, Philip Oakey, Adrian Wright
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BEF feat. Claudia Brucken - Temptation - NY-LON Disko demo version live
Claudia Brucken with Glenn Gregory & Martyn Ware of Heaven 17 live @ The Scala, London 02 March 2011. No copyright infringment intended, for educational and promotional purposes only.
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Red Bull Music Academy London 2010 Highlights: Inside The Academy
Martyn Ware, Trevor Jackson, Minus, J-Wow, Teri Gender-Bender and Hasan Hujairi all talk about their Academy impressions, with highlights from Dam-FunK, and Steve Reich sessions, and glimpses of Henrik Schwarz and Bugge Wesseltoft live, as well as The Sound Of Lucrecia at The Old Blue Last. See more at www.redbullmusicacademy.com and subscribe for updates as they happen.
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Session 2.1 - Digital Content, Intellectual Property and Innovation - Global INET 2012
Session 2.1 - Digital Content, Intellectual Property and Innovation at Global INET 2012, Geneva, on April 24 2012. Moderator: Wolfgang Kleinwaechter, Professor for International Communication Policy and Regulation, University of Aarhus in Denmark Confirmed Participants: Vint Cerf, Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist, Google Leslie Daigle, Chief Internet Technology Officer, Internet Society Ms. Robin Gross, Executive Director, IP Justice Rolf-Dieter Heuer, Director General, CERN David Hughes, Senior Vice President of Technology, Recording Industry Association of America Janis Karklinš, Assistant Director-General, UNESCO Leon Felipe Sanchez, Partner, Fulton & Fulton and Professor, UNAM Law School Martyn Ware, Founder of Illustrious, SonicID, Heaven 17 and The Human League Sacha Wunsch-Vincent, Senior Economic Officer, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Hong Xue, Professor of Law and the Director of the Institute of the Internet Policy & Law at Beijing Normal University Topics: The session will consider: * The relative merits of traditional business models for content creation and dissemination and the new open and collaborative approaches to harvesting the wealth of networks; * Possible "third way" business models that could meet the baseline requirements of content creators by facilitating consumption at reasonable but remunerative rates and thus avoid actions that could undermine the Internet's contribution to the creative economy; * The ability of <b>...</b>
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Human League - Don't You Want Me (1981)
Human League began in the late 1970s as the brainchild of two computer operators, Ian Craig Marsh and Martyn Ware, from Sheffield, England. They tried a number of names including the Dead Daughters and the Future until settling upon the Human League after former hospital porter, Philip Oakey, joined the group. Adrian Wright joined shortly thereafter to prepare slide shows for projection during the group's live performances. The first single, Being Boiled, was released in 1978, but the group did not make the charts in the UK until the release of Holiday 80 in the spring of 1980. As a result the Human League's second album Travelogue made the UK Top 20. By 1980 the Human League began to feel strain between the pop music favored by Philip Oakey and Adrian Wright and the more austere electronic sounds favored by Ian Craig Marsh and Martyn Ware. In October 1980 the group split in half. Ware and Marsh left to begin a project called the British Electric Foundation whose first spinoff was the group Heaven 17 and their hit (We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang. Of the remaining Human League pair, only Philip Oakey was a performer. With determination to complete a European tour, Adrian Wright began learning to play synthesizer and two female singers, Susan Ann Sulley and Joanne Catherall, were recruited from among the dancers at Sheffield's Crazy Daisy disco. Bassist Ian Burden was also added as a temporary group member. Early in 1981 the new Human League hooked up with <b>...</b>
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Heaven 17 - Let Me Go (Radio Edit)
Heaven 17 are an English synthpop band originating from Sheffield in the early 1980s. The trio comprises Martyn Ware (keyboards), Ian Craig Marsh (keyboards) (both previously with The Human League) and Glenn Gregory (vocals). "Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use." Lyrics: Once there was a day We were together all the way An endless path unbroken But now there is a time A torture less sublime Our souls are locked and frozen Once we were years ahead But now those thoughts are dead Let me go All hopeless fantasies Are making fools of me Let me go I walk alone and yet I never say goodbye Let me go A change of heart A change of mind And heaven fell that night Let me go I tried but could not bring The best of everything Too breathless then To wonder I died a thousand times Found guilty of no crime Now everything Is thunder Daytime All I want is Nighttime I don't need the Daytime All I want is Nighttime I don't need the The best years of our lives The hope of it survives The facts of life unspoken The only game in town I'll turn the last card down And now the bank Is broken Broken
Heaven 17 - Temptation (25th December 1983)
HQ audio version: www.youtube.com Carol Kenyon's website: www.CarolKenyon.com Christmas Day, 1983 Temptation, Heaven 17. Top of the Pops, BBC1. Features Carol Kenyon on vocals. Reached no. 2 on the UK singles chart in May 1983, kept off number one by Spandau Ballet's hit True. Interestingly, the woman featured in the official Temptation promotional video is not Carol Kenyon. Trivia: when this track hit number two in the charts it displaced The Human League with (Keep Feeling) Fascination from that position, (also held off the number one spot by Spandau Ballet); Martyn Ware and Ian Craig Marsh (both playing keyboards here) used to be members of The Human League until 1980 when the group split. They then formed Heaven 17 with lead vocalist Glenn Gregory. TOTP presenters: Janice Long and Andy Peebles.
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Heaven 17 - Let´s all make a bomb
New Version from 1983 and B-Side from "Come live with me" 12" also features "Song with no name" as a new version too. Vinyl-Copy British Electric Foundation Producer BEF Greg Walsh
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the human league - dare (full album)
Dare (or Dare! in the US) is the third studio album from British synthpop band The Human League. The album was recorded between March and September 1981 and first released in the UK on 20 October 1981, then subsequently in the US in mid-1982. The style of the album is the result of the rapid evolution of The Human League from experimental avant-garde electronic group into a commercial pop group under Philip Oakey's creative direction following the departure of fellow founding members Martyn Ware and Ian Craig Marsh. Dare became critically acclaimed and has proved to be a genre-defining album, whose influence can be felt in many areas of pop music today.[2] The album and its four singles were hugely successful commercially, with the album reaching #1 in the UK and being certified Triple Platinum by the BPI. In 1981 the Human League considered themselves a "song based group"; this was a deliberate distinction differentiating the band from other electronic artists who specialized in principally instrumental work.[6] The writing style of the lyrics is deliberately obscure; Oakey says this is because he wanted the band's lyrics to provoke thought and get people talking about their songs. Often the meanings behind the songs have only been disclosed by Oakey in various interviews given since the albums release. An important point is that the album essentially evolved during 1981 and wasn't written from a single conceptual starting point.[7] The original album comprised ten <b>...</b>