French electronic grandmaster, Jean-Michel Jarre started a new venture: Jean-Michel Jarre Technologies manufacture exclusive and expensive hardware products. They have two products at first: AeroSystem is a glass-based active speaker system for mp3 players, having a 2 x 200W performance, plus a 450W sub-bass. USB and iPod docking is performed, and the visual deisgn is wonderful. It has several different skins, you cn select an appropriate one for 449 euros. The other goodie is a digital picture frame, AeroFrame that costs 200 euros. The size of the display is 8", and it has rechargeable battery.

For four USD founder of Roxy Music and the ambient movement, Brian Eno will move into your iPhone. His new application, Bloom generates music real-time, after you set some rules. It still let some interactivity during the music making process. Buy it here at the App Store.

A new art project, Telemegaphone is still in active state until 6th, September. It is a seven meters tall speaker set in the fjords of Norway, which can send your voice real-time three kilometres around if you call the phone number specified here. The unit is totally green, powered by the wind, and the volume was set carefully not to disturb the people living there but to have a real impact.

The Klaus Schulze book has finally arrived, but with a very simple title - Klaus is the Electronic Music Legend in fact, no doubt, but it is really not a title that screams. The author, Greg Allen follows the career of the genious carefully, and interviews the persons around him, plus some colleagues: Jörg Schaaf, Klaus D. Müller, Steve Roach, Kitaro. Photos were taken from Schulze's own archives. Order here immediately.

Impressive, isn't it? We don't know what we have found exactly but it's a rather cool experience: nude girls surrounded with synth legends like Fairlight CMI 3, Moog Micromoog, EMS and so on. We would have some questions about this project so if somebody has the answers please drop a comment.

Nokia is asking this question in their newest competition. Your task is to collect a sound sample set of your city from the sounds you find most characteristic. The most innovative, most exciting sets will be used in a special track composed by DJ Shadow, exclusively for Nokia. Prizes are not too attractive, but the story can be a good fun - check here.

Edgar Froese, father of the most innovative e-music group, Tangerine Dream, after an almost-30-years pause, plays Mellotron again. Last Sunday he played live in Eindhoven with his band, and onstage he used the new M4000 model which was premiered by us last year. The Mellotron sound was an essential element in the most successful years of TD in the seventies - and they did a good job to let the audience worldwide what kind of instruments it is. They heavily used all the preset tapes, and even recorded custom ones, filled with orchestral instruments and industrial noises. Now Froese played the instrument in only one classical song, Maroubra Bay.

Gary Kibler, a tricky producer from London made a full album with only a single Korg Kaossilator module. It is available from ReverbNation freely, check it here, it is called "The Yellow Album". Although it will not hit the top position of the charts it made a huge impression on the music market already. Songs are repetitive - as they came from this device only, real-time, no preparation or cut-copy-paste applied -, but anyway, the material is quite enjoyable.

Last week, at the age of 79, composer and great inventor of electronic music, Karlheinz Stockhausen has passed away. He was born in a small village in Germany, and started to learn music when he was 7. His career was extremely successful but controversial - he was the most famous composer of the so-called contemporary music which was often described as leaving the audience completely. In contrary, Stockhausen had the greatest influence on lots of experimental pop musicians of the seventies who made the ground for 90s' and 2000s' electronic pop music.

One of his last public words on the terror attack of the WTC, 2001 caused serious scandal - he found some similarities between art and terror.

We took our picture from Wikipedia - if you want to read more check Stockhausen's article there.