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Kandinsky said it's "the deepest blue of all the instruments." More on synaesthesia.
"Oh, you're still here," Elizabeth said, on her way out.
"Would I leave without saying 'good-bye,' E?"
"Well, I wouldn't normally think so, but you were just so quiet. I thought you'd snuck out. What's going on?"
"I just finished my Sonic Youth review. It took me all day."
"I heard the music playing earlier."
"I've been listening to it for five days straight."
"You know you don't have to like something just because you liked it in the past. It's okay not to like it."
"Oh, I know. But this is really good." I nodded my head for…
How to make your own headphones. They may not be an audio upgrade from the ubiquitous three-buck upchuck earbuds available from your friendly flight attendant, but I love this guy's roll-your-own attitude.
Besides, in this throw-away culture, maybe DIY projects like this are precisely what's needed to create a new generation of component builders.
Here's a fascinating review of John Bridcut's Britten's Children, a book that traces Benjamin Britten's fascination with a succession of young boys and that obsession's role in the creation of so much of his glorious music.
Peter Grimes, starring John Vickers, was my first experience of live opera at the Met, but prior to that I had little experience of Britten's music. I was gob-smacked by the power of the opera and its wonderful orchestral interludes, but in the weeks after seeing it, I kept attempting to suss out why the townspeople of the Borough got so upset over the death of his…
That's ray guns to you and me—and Lockwasher has assembled a beautiful bevy of 'em. I love the spray-gun/toilet float-ball jobbie and just may be inspired to create a few of my own—depending, as Lockwasher says, on what kind of stuff I find.
Via Grow A Brain.
Locust St. finds the hidden links between color and music, Newton and Aristotle, and the Rolling Stones and Dolly Parton.
Nice set.
I had a nice chat recently with Mark Berry, publicist for classical music’s Naxos label. Naxos, for those unfamiliar, is a label with one hell of a back story.
Once they were just purveyors of ultra cheap CDs of classical music, much of it played by ridiculous, unheard of ensembles with names like the North Bratislava Radio Orchestra. Their records, often packed in large cardboard display boxes that stores like Tower would just put out as is, caused a moral split among classical music fans.
One camp held that the label and its owner Klaus Heymann were systematically lowering…
Some things have led us to consider what we want — exactly, more or less, I suppose — from music. Feel free to substitute "the band," or "art," or even "life," for music. That is:
Some things have led us to consider what we want from the band, or: Some things have led us to consider what we want from art, or: Some things have led us to consider what we want from life. Everyone seems to be doing it, considering.
I saw him sliding down the stainless steel wall, dropping to the dirty concrete of Newark Penn Station, exhausted. Among the many pins decorating his backpack lived one…
Mark Lowery's Exciting World of Chess reproduces two of the immortal chess games of all time: the 1851 "Immortal Game" between Anderssen and Kieseritzky and the 1852 Anerssen-Dufresne "Evergreen" game. The best part, if you struggle with chess notation, Lowery has animated the games so you can watch them unfold—at your speed.
Great site.