From the monthly archives:
“The instrument with no name” by Iner Souster
If you have a very high speed connection and patience, log on to Iner Souster’s website. (He needs to break his blog into pages as he’s got far too many files and downloading data that will make you wait forever.) If you have the patience to wait, you [...]
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I’m not sure whether you know it or not, but there are a hell of a lot of blogs devoted to ripped LPs and CDs. What do I mean? They have digitized LPs and made them into mp3s. Or they have turned the AIFF files on CDs into mp3s. The mp3s are of course [...]
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Lest you think that Finland is the only country that turns out zany and nerdy music videos, watch these crazy Korean girls get down.
Korean madness
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I found an excellent example of Chladni patterns on YouTube. You’ll see sand scattered on a plate. The plate is likely on top of a speaker, and as the pitch is slowly raised you see Chladni patterns appear! (You might want to keep the voume down as it gets a bit loud.)
Chladni patterns illustrated
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Check out Scott Blake’s barcode art. You can download large poster size pictures of your favorite personalities like Martha Stewart, Bill Gates, Marilyn Monroe, and many more. You can also buy T-shirts, coffee mugs, flip books, and participate in a 9/11 project.
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Organists are becoming scarce
I’ve seen the number of students who study organ decline over my years of teaching. I hear rumors from organists that there aren’t enough players to go around. The Chicago Tribune confirmed this in an article today.
When the National Association of Schools of Music began surveying accredited colleges and universities in [...]
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I’ve put quite a few of my analytic essays up on this blog as well as excerpts from some of my transcriptions. I shouldn’t be surprised to see bleeding chunks of my analyses as well as my transcriptions showing up in student term papers. Someone called sunny_storm has written a posted this essay on Live [...]
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Timed Out New York has been publishing tasty articles about Rufus’s upcoming Carnegie Hall concert featuring the music from Judy Garland’s 1961 Live at Carnegie Hall concert. He tells us it’s not a drag show, or a female impersonator evening, but Rufus Wainwright’s own performances. That being said, Stephen Oremus is “resurrecting” the the original [...]
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Last night I happened into a ticket to Madonna’s Confession Tour. I must confess that I like a lot of what she does. This show features a neo-disco Madonna. Now 47, she works out 3 hours a day and she looks it. Her moves are not as acrobatic as the old days (whose are), but [...]
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You know how everyone has different abilities in tolerating pain. Here is a very interesting video by Alberto de Michele that illustrates our different facial reactions to receiving a mild shock.
“Shock” by Alberto de Michele
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