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Keyboardwizard.net goes live!

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 01:00:00 -0500

We are very pleased to announce the release of www.keyboardwizard.net, an interactive, animated, flash-driven website featuring the sound universe of keyboardist, Jordan Rudess. The site is sponsored by Intel and created by animator Mika Tysska, Dream Theater cartoonist, along with audio by Jordan Rudess.

Visit www.keyboardwizard.net where you can interact with the Keyboard Wizard in his laboratory and create your own musical masterpiece.

Enjoy everybody!

Jordan's Intel Video Online!

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 01:00:00 -0500

Not too long ago Jordan and his crew set out on a couple of days filming around New York for a promotional video for Intel. The video is now online!

You can watch it right here -

Jordan Rudess and Richard Lainhart Live!

Sat, 25 Oct 2008 01:00:00 -0400

DEEP SPACE

An Improvised Sonic Exploration featuring Richard Lainhart and Jordan Rudess

Tune in on Sunday November 16th @ 2pm eastern standard time.

Join us as RandoRadio broadcasts live from Richard's home studio. Treavor Hastings and Gus Mason will host the program, called Deep Space. It will feature live improvisational excursions using cutting-edge synthesizers and keyboards along with old-school Moogs and various insane gadgetry.

Richard will feature his Buchla 200e [boo-kla] and Jordan will be performing on his various Moog [moe-g] synthesizers and keyboards.

RandoRadio will provide both video and audio streams for this event so that you get the best of both worlds.

Jordan Rudess entered the prestigious Juilliard School of Music for classical piano training at the age of nine. By nineteen, he began to include the rapidly developing world of synthesizers in his recordings and performances. Today, Jordan is a recording artist, composer, producer and performer. He is currently in the studio and on tour with the Progressive Rock band, Dream Theater.

Richard Lainhart is an award-winning composer, author, and filmmaker. He studied composition and electronic music with Joel Chadabe at the State University of New York at Albany, and has worked and performed with John Cage, David Tudor, Steve Reich, Phill Niblock, David Berhman, and Jordan Rudess, among many others.

So check it out!! Sunday November 16th at 2pm eastern ONLY on RandoRadio.com.

Rudess Morganstein Project in Poland

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 01:00:00 -0400

Jordan Rudess and Rod Morganstein are taking the Rudess Morganstein Project to Poland for a couple of special shows this month as part of the 17th International Percussive Festival Eventus.

Both Jordan and Rod will also be doing clinics while there.

Dates are as follows -

Fri Oct 17 - Academy of Music, Katowice
Sat Oct 18 - Academy of Music, Katowice
Jordan Rudess Clinic - 2pm
Rod Morganstein Clinic - 4pm
Sun Oct 19 - Opole Philharmonic, Opole

Online Conservatory adds Extreme Drum Solo Mastery course!

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 01:00:00 -0400

Jordan's Online Conservatory is proud to announce its newest video satellite course, Extreme Drum Solo Mastery taught by Charlie Zeleny.

If you are a drummer, or are interested in advancing your drum soloing abilities, you owe it to yourself to check this new course out.

You can watch a trailer for the course on this page.

Limited time offer: Sign up for the OC and/or Charlie's course before October 10th, and get 20% off! Just use coupon code: OCT10

Jordan Rudess Online Conservatory

Chaos in Motion DVD Details

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 01:00:00 -0400

The new Dream Theater DVD "Chaos in Motion" is set for release worldwide over the next couple of weeks. Check out the details of this great set below!

Few bands inspire such fanaticism among their fans as Dream Theater. The best way to satiate this dedicated legion is to provide them with even more material to devour and Dream Theater are doing just that this September. The band will release Chaos In Motion 2007/2008, which documents their "Chaos In Motion" world tour, which kicked off June 3, 2007 at the Monsters of Rock Festival in Milan, Italy and concluded almost a year to the day later on June 4, 2008 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. It's essentially a travelogue of their most recent touring experience and it hits shelves on September 23. Chaos In Motion 2007/2008 will be available in two configurations: as a double DVD set and as five disc collector's set which includes two DVDs and three CDs, containing 14 live tracks featured in the DVD set and expanded artwork.

The Chaos in Motion Tour was a trek that found the band traversing the globe, playing 115 shows in 105 cities in 35 countries on five continents to hundreds of thousands of fans. It also included the first annual Progressive Nation Tour, an idea that the band had kicked around for a few years and finally launched into action this past spring.

Chaos In Motion 2007/2008 is the latest in a series of DVDs from the band and it features performances captured throughout the entirety of the tour, unlike their last three RIAA-certified Platinum DVDs, Metropolis 2000: Live Scenes From New York, Live at Budokan and Score, all of which focused on as single concert event.

Drummer and DVD creative director Mike Portnoy plumed his personal archives for footage in order to provide fans with the ultimate tour souvenir. He assembled over three hours of complete live performances, taking footage from shows in Rotterdam, Buenos Aires, Toronto, Boston, Bangkok and Vancouver. The tracks were mixed and effectively brought to life by Kevin Shirley. The second disc is packed with bonus material, including promo videos, live screen projection films, a photo gallery and a 90-minute documentary that'll make you feel like you're riding in the passenger's seat of the band's tour bus, as it takes you on the road and behind the scenes with the band and crew. It's like a virtual backstage pass that grants fans further unprecedented access.

The official content and tracklisting for the DVD are as follows and are subject to change:

Double DVD Set

Disc One:

�Around The World In 180 Minutes� Live Concert Footage

1. Intro/Also Sprach Zarathustra
2. Constant Motion
3. Panic Attack
4. Blind Faith
5. Surrounded
6. The Dark Eternal Night
7. Keyboard Solo
8. Lines In The Sand
9. Scarred
10. Forsaken
11. The Ministry Of Lost Souls
12. Take The Time
13. In The Presence Of Enemies
14. Medley: I. Trial Of Tears II. Finally Free III. Learning To Live IV. In The Name Of God V. Octavarium

Disc Two:

�Behind The Chaos On The Road� Documentary

Promo Videos: Constant Motion, Forsaken, Forsaken (In Studio), The Dark Eternal Night (In Studio)

Live Screen Projection Films: The Dark Eternal Night (N.A.D.S), The Ministry Of Lost Souls, In The Presence Of Enemies Pt. 2

�Mike Portnoy Stage Tour"

�Mike Portnoy Backstage Tour�

Photo Gallery

Deluxe Collector�s Edition 5-Disc Set

Chaos In Motion 2007/2008 Double DVD Set PLUS:

* 3 CD�s containing the live 14 tracks featured in the DVD set
* Expanded artwork and more

Indeed, Chaos In Motion 2007/2008 is a completist piece that will keep Dream Theater diehards satisfied until the band takes to the road again.

You can pre-order the DVD set in both regular and limited editions via The Official Dream Theater Website.

Dream Theater no longer playing one off Quebec Show.

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 01:00:00 -0400

Due to circumstances beyond our control, Dream Theater has been forced to pull out of the festival in Quebec City on August 31st. We're sorry for any inconviences.

Dream Theater available to download for Rock Band!

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 01:00:00 -0400

That's right, Dream Theater's "Constant Motion" will be available to download for the Rock Band game for 80MSP ($0.99) for the first month!

The song is available as part of a "Roadrunner Pack" and features other tracks by label-mates Airbourne, DevilDriver, Killswitch Engage, Machine Head and Megadeth!

The tracks will be available from August 12th. For more details visit the Rock Band DLC page.

After the first month the cost of the Roadrunner Pack and individual songs goes up, so get in quick!