WIG#3 | ms

It used to be that bands were formed in a certain city. The Beatles from Liverpool, The Rolling Stones from London, U2 from Dublin, etc. This was because band members had to meet in the same studio in order to compose. Wiggle used network technologies to allow for musical collaborations over remote locations, and thus did not have to compromise for local musicians – the world was their domain to find talent. Being the first Internet based band to be signed to a major label (1996,) Wiggle received much media hype, with their music videos played on MTV, and being...

Ludwig van Beethoven (16 December 1770 – 26 March 1827) was a German pianist and composer of the transitional period between the late Classical and early Romantic eras. He remains one of the most brilliant, prolific and influential composers of all time. Beethoven is widely regarded as a master of musical construction, sometimes sketching the architecture of a movement before he had decided upon the subject matter. He was one of the first composers to systematically and consistently use interlocking thematic devices, or 'germ-motives', to achieve unity between movements in long compositions. (Some insight into the meaning of the germ-motive...

Wig was formed in 1989 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. After two releases on Nocturnal Records, the band parted ways with singer Preston Cleveland (P.W. Long). They played as a trio for a while as a purely instrumental band, then met up with new singer Clark Nova. The band sooned signed with Polydor. Their first album for Polydor, Deliverance, would be moved to Island Records, due to restructuring at the label. It was released in 1994 and the band toured extensively in support of the album. They began to work on Wireland in 1995, relocating to Los Angeles to put themselves...

The Wiggles are a children's pop musical group formed in Sydney, Australia in 1991. Their original members were Anthony Field, Murray Cook, Greg Page, Jeff Fatt and Phillip Wilcher. In 2006, Page was forced to retire from the group due to illness and was replaced by understudy Sam Moran. Field and Fatt were members of the Australian pop band The Cockroaches in the 1980s, and Cook was a member of several bands before meeting Field and Page at Macquarie University, where they were studying to become pre-school teachers. A school project led to the recording of their first album and...