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Eugene Koh '96-'97 writes about technology issues for the Harvard Crimson. He is Remote Staff Manager, Media Services, at America Online, Inc. He also composes soundtracks for CD-ROMs and may be reached online as "ekoh@fas.harvard.edu...
...Trink quit comfortable jobs in advertising agencies in 1986 to try to cash in on the new technology. Today their New Jersey-based firm, Princeton Direct, has $6 million in revenues and 14 employees engaged in the business of putting multimedia catalogs and other marketing material on diskettes and CD-ROMs. To keep up with the workload, Zyontz and Trink two years ago brought in computer expert and psychologist Jeff Friedman as a third partner...
...their debut, the Cranberries focused on songs that were dreamy and tender. Their new CD shows they can handle tougher rock -- Zombie, a track that deals with violence in Northern Ireland, swaggers along with snarling guitar power chords. "This album is a bit more experimental," says O'Riordan, 23. "And a bit more outspoken...
...music on Keineg's debut album, O Seasons O Castles, is folksy and hypnotic, the lyrics both heartfelt and cerebral. The title is from an Arthur Rimbaud poem that reads, "O Seasons, O Castles/ What soul is without sin!" Several songs on the CD explore sin, including Franklin, which is about a woman breaking away from an abusive partner. "I'm going to find me a good man who don't drink/ who don't shout/ who don't throw my prized possessions about," sings Keineg, who has a throaty alto with just a touch of mysterious smokiness...
...three singers strive to connect themselves to old, grand traditions. They use Celtic imagery, and Keineg sings one song, the stately O Iesu Mawr, in Gaelic; O'Connor quotes William Butler Yeats on the liner notes of her CD, and O'Riordan pays him tribute in the song Yeats' Grave. This awareness of a particular past helps distinguish their songs from the typical rootless algae of pop music. In his poem A Coat, Yeats wrote, "I made my song a coat/ Covered with embroideries/ Out of old mythologies/ From heel to throat." As modern women conscious of an Irish heritage...