Matt Siffert

Articles

• Mainstream musicians don’t profit from making music

  In her Nov. 12 article “Celebrities favor self-promotion over music production,” Rachael Clemmons takes issue with musicians who use clothes, perfume lines, and shoes, rather than good music, to get their names out.

  Forum | November 19, 2007
• CD Dropbox

  Down III - *Over The Under*

  “We’ve been changed by the season of the storm...”

  Pillbox | November 12, 2007
• Origami

  Students and faculty may have been surprised on their way into physicist Robert Lang’s lecture Monday. They weren’t handed sheets with equations or complex physics laws that he discovered. Instead, they were given pieces of paper with dotted lines on them.

  Pillbox | November 5, 2007
• MSTRKRFT performs on Halloween

  Don’t expect Toronto DJ-duo MSTRKRFT to pull any unexpected punches. In the past year, the group — consisting of musicians Jesse Keeler and Al-P — has toured clubs all over the world, getting nods for its dancer-friendly style. MSTRKRFT’s sound is unabashedly simple: A throbbing, up-tempo drumbeat is omnipresent. There’s a fat bass drum that could barely make it through your doorway, combined with...

  Pillbox | October 29, 2007
• Comedy of Errors — more error than comedy

  Casual William Shakespeare readers (and even some more hardcore ones), don’t pay as much attention to his comedies. Like the tragedies, these are equally compassionate and energetic, but with a different focus: farcical hilarity and whirlwind of confusion. Such is the blueprint for an early comedy of his, The Comedy of Errors, now running at the O’Reilly Theater downtown as part of the Pittsburg...

  Pillbox | October 29, 2007