Sunday, December 26, 2010

NYT on the decline of diva melissma in pop singing

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NYT December 24, 2010 Trilling Songbirds Clip Their Wings By DAVID BROWNE AS symbolic shifts go, two recent events in pop music couldn’t hav...
Saturday, December 11, 2010

Roentgenizdat: Soviet Era "X-Ray LPs" of Banned Western Recordings

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From Weird Vibrations October 12, 2009 Roentgenizdat: Sentimental Songs on X-Ray In the 1950s, music enthusiasts in the Soviet Union made co...
Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Music Helps Aging Adults' Movement

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NYT November 26, 2010 Aging: Unsteady on Your Feet? Try Moving to Music By RONI CARYN RABIN Elderly people in a new study cut their risk of ...
Monday, November 22, 2010

Singing and Dancing Robot (Japanese, of course)

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And female, of course. I really hate the legs; they give me the creeps.
Thursday, November 18, 2010

Vocaloid Holograph Anime Pop Singer Miku Hatsune

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Voice is electronically generated (hence the vocaloid), performance is mix of extremely sophisticated holographic imagery and a slamming liv...
Tuesday, November 16, 2010

The Shadow Scholar: Writing College Assignments for Profit

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Here's a rather depressing article written by someone employed as a writer of college papers for cheating students: undergrads, grads, t...
Sunday, November 07, 2010

Rappers Arrested in Iran

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CNN Young rappers arrested in Iran By Reza Sayah, CNN (CNN) -- Police in Tehran have arrested several members of underground Iranian rap gro...
Friday, October 22, 2010

Stanley Clarke 10-21-10

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Monday, October 11, 2010

Street Artist Banksy Directs Dystopian Simpsons Opening Sequence

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Saturday, October 09, 2010

Another what's wrong with classical music post

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This one, with some good sections, is from 3quarksdaliy : ... The use of classical music in public places is increasingly common: in shoppin...
Sunday, October 03, 2010

Dora La Conquistadora

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See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor .
Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Klingon Opera

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From the encyclopedia Brittanica blog comes an entry about an actual Klingon opera, though I really question what they built their opera up...
Saturday, September 18, 2010

Michael Manring Solo Bass: "Selene"

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Michael Manring plays a custom Zon bass like noone else. This amazing solo piece shows part of his technique:

Historical Star Wars Art

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A great collection of sci-fi art and the original references is located HERE.
Saturday, September 11, 2010

U2's "Walk On" From a Tribute to Heroes Concert

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