Holly Herndon: Stanford’s newest ingenue muses on “Movement”
Herndon, a Ph.D student in electronic music here at Stanford, has spent the last five years in the Berlin music scene.
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World Town brings the party to San Francisco
Though electronic dance music has experienced a recent surge in popularity–June’s Electric Daisy Carnival in Las Vegas reported some 85,000 attendees on one day alone, and artists like Tiesto and David Guetta are practically household names–this was hardly the case just a few years back, when local DJ Trevor Simpson was trying to get his foot in the door.
The World Needs More Electric Daisies
Taking place over two beautiful days in June in USC’s Exposition Park (with the main stage smack in the center of the Coliseum), EDC is a neon wonderland filled with glittering carnival rides, professional dancers dressed to the nines and over 150,000 concert-goers – some hardcore ravers and others just looking to dance.