Project Steiger Defiance (2003)

Art of Life 1993.12.31 Tokyo Dome is a live DVD released by X Japan on September 24, 2003. It claims to contain the band's "Art of Life" performance on December 31, 1993 at the Tokyo Dome as part of the two-day concert series X Japan Returns But this name is misleading as it really is an edited mix of both nights. Most of the video was filmed on December 31, but the piano solo part was filmed on December 30. This is the same version that appeared on Art of Life Live five years earlier. Some parts of Toshi's vocals were touched up by studio software to make up for the apparent faults at both live concerts. ~Wikipedia

Ghent's Steiger are a piano trio, but not in the classical sense. With their versatile style, influenced by different musical genres such as jazz, rock, pop, classical and electronic music, they try to find a balance between composition and improvisation through the use of experimentation and electronics.

SONOR was established in 1975 as a forum for the presentation of new music by the faculty of the University of California, San Diego. Resident composers with the ensemble have included Erickson, Ferneyhough, François, Ogdon, Rands, Reynolds, Steiger and Yuasa, most of whom have written new works for the ensemble.

The compositional company kept on this recording reveals a broad spectrum of artistic sensibilities and musical techniques. Its members are equally oblivious to fashionable trends and sectarian dogma. Miriam Gideon, the elder member of the group, studied with the Russian composer Lazare Saminsky and then with Roger Sessions from 1934 to 1941. From the mid-1940s she began her own extensive teaching career. A generation younger, Mario Davidovsky, who had studied composition in his native Buenos Aires, began his American career at the Berkshire Music Center at Tanglewood, where he came in contact with Aaron Copland and Milton Babbitt. His compositional lineage converges with Gideon at this point, since she and Babbitt studied with Sessions at the same time. Davidovsky encountered Edgard Varèse, Bulent Arel, and Vladimir Ussachevsky in his early years on the faculty at Columbia University working with them and Babbitt in developing the techniques and idioms that would dominate electronic music during the following decade. Chinary Ung, a native Cambodian, studied with Chou Wen-Chung and Davidovsky at Columbia in the Sixties. Like Davidovsky, his musical training was already quite advanced by the time of his arrival in the United States. Ung also worked with an influential predecessor at Tanglewood, in this case, George Crumb. However, Ung's music—with its involvement of forthrightly Asian elements in a musical style that also directly engages contemporary American concert music techniques—defies any easy listing of influences.

On Summer of 2003, an all-star lineup of the Misfits released the covers album Project 1950, performing renditions of vintage Classic Rock and Roll songs from the 1950s and 1960s. The album featured guest appearances from Ronnie Spector, Jimmy Destri, Ed Manion, and John Cafiero. In October 2014 the album was reissued as expanded edition with a bit different sound.