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In a practice room on the Stanford campus last week, an ensemble of more than a dozen performing musicians gathered to rehearse for an upcoming chamber concert of student work. One young composer after another stepped to the front of the room, distributed scores, and started cueing entrances and ironing out details of coordination.
Three years ago, when Oxford University Press published “Music, Language, and the Brain,” Oliver Sacks described it as “a major synthesis that will be indispensable to neuroscientists.” The author of that volume, Aniruddh D. Patel, a 44-year-old senior fellow at the Neurosciences Institute in San Diego, was in New York City in May. We spoke over coffee for more than an hour and later by telephone. An edited and condensed version of the conversations follows.
via A Conversation With Aniruddh D. Patel – Exploring Music’s Hold on the Mind – Question – NYTimes.com.
We’re all used to unusual ads these days, no matter what the medium. But once in a while, something is so bizarre, so hilarious or just plain insulting, we can’t help but do a double take. Whether it’s PETA making obesity jokes or a mistress exposing her affair with a married man, check out the 10 most outrageous billboards we could find.
via Billboard Ads – Controversial Billboard Ads at WomansDay.com.
Billboard Love Story Stop motion animation on the epic scale: 355 pictures have been taken, printed in billboard size and shot again (no computer animation involved). This is the second of Olympus PEN videos, see the first
via Billboard Love Story:
Well, European countries are already banning technologies based on the precautionary principle requiring advance proof that they’re risk-free. Americans are turning more protectionist and advocating byzantine restrictions like carbon tariffs. Globalization is denounced by affluent Westerners preaching a return to self-sufficiency.
via Findings – Doomsayers Beware, a Bright Future Beckons – NYTimes.com.
the problem of reasonable aggregation is no idle mattervia The Way We Live Now – Metric Mania – NYTimes.com. the “extreme and hypothetical” illustration is quite good.
Here’s a demo: HTML5 Music Notation Demo
The library has no external dependencies, and all the glyphs, scores, beams, ties, etc. are positioned and rendered entirely in JavaScript.
via 0xFE – 11111110b – 0376 – 254 b9#9: Music Notation with HTML5 Canvas.
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