January 13, 2004

The South by Southwest (SXSW) Music Conference and Festival, scheduled to take place Wednesday, March 17 – 21, 2004 in Austin, Texas, has announced two SXSW Interviews with notable artists Ani DiFranco and Wayne Coyne along with a partial list of bands.
Many more speakers, panelists and session topics will be announced in the near future.
Some highlighted acts scheduled to appear include: Alkaline Trio (Chicago IL), The B-52’s (Athens GA), Cory Branan (Memphis TN), Cartel de Santa (Monterrey MEXICO), The Church (Sydney AUSTRALIA), Carmen Consoli (Catania ITALY), David Cross (Atlanta GA), The Crystal Method (Las Vegas NV), Matthew Dear (Detroit MI), The Decemberists (Portland WA), The Fiery Furnaces (New York NY), The Holmes Brothers (New York NY), Junior Senior (Copenhagen DENMARK), Jimmy LaFave (Austin TX), Bernie Leadon Band (Nashville TN), Los Lonely Boys (San Angelo TX), Mission Of Burma (Boston MA), Modest Mouse (Issaquah WA), N.E.R.D. (Virginia Beach VA), NOFX (Los Angeles CA), Ozomatli (Los Angeles CA), Papa Roach (Sacramento CA), Pedro the Lion (Seattle WA), Liz Phair (Los Angeles CA), Pretty Girls Make Graves (Seattle WA), The Sleepy Jackson (Perth AUSTRALIA), The Stills (Montreal QC), Telefon Tel Aviv (New Orleans LA), Tendril (Dallas TX), The Flatlanders (Lubbock TX), Sharde Thomas and The Rising Star Fife And Drum Band (Senatobia MS), The Thrills (Dublin IRELAND), Tv On The Radio (New York NY), Uzbegim Taronasi (Tashkent UZBEKISTAN), The Walkmen (New York NY)
see sxsw.com for more info.

Oscar statuettes will be presented to audio company Digidesign and to Bill Tondreau of Kuper Controls at the scientific and technical awards ceremony February 14, which precedes the main Oscars on February 29.
Tondreau is being honored for developing robotic-camera systems used in visual effects. Digidesign is being honored for its Pro Tools workstation, a digital setup used in movie soundtracks.
Other technical awards announced Monday by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences include: Oscar plaques for four Eastman Kodak employees who developed technology to control static-charge buildup on film; Kinoton GmbH for developing a new high-speed studio projector; and Stephen Regelous for an animation system used to create large numbers of computer-generated extras in battle sequences for “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy.
Source cnn.com.