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Classical music visualized as a roller coaster ride:
This great short film by the Zurich Chamber Orchestra illustrates the intensity behind a lot of classical pieces by turning the first violin part on the fourth movement of Ferdinand Ries’ second symphony into a looping, whirling roller coaster ride.
… called "records" and I walked to school – uphill both ways!
From Michael Leddy - Zenith All-Speed Record Changer:
[Life, August 28, 1950. Click for a larger view.]
There’s something poignant about the prepared-for-all-eventualities mindset that this turntable is meant to satisfy:First and only changer that plays any speed record now made or yet to come, 10 R.P.M. to 85 . . . with two simple controls a six-year-old can operate.
Record lovers— here is the changer that sets you free forever from the nightmare of speeds, sizes, attachments and adjustments!
Zenith engineers, who revolutionized record reproduction with the world-famous Cobra® Tone Arm, have now brought you an automatic changer — the new “Cobra-Matic” — so unbelievably simple that you simply won’t believe it until you operate it yourself!
You touch one control knob — and set it for any size record — 7, 10 or 12 inch! You touch the other control knob — and set it for any speed! Yes, for 33 1/3, 45, 78, or any speed from 10 R.P.M. to 85 that the modern world may dream up! You can play them all — with one marvelous new Super-Cobra Tone Arm — not even a needle to adjust, not even one single attachment to fuss with!
The LOC's just released online National Jukebox offers cutting-edge material for sure, but circa 1901 through 1925: 10,000 ready-to-audit recordings made by the Victor Talking Machine Company.- Posted using BlogPress from my iPad
Some cautionary words regarding Google's just announced Music Beta service.
Editorial: Engadget on Google Music and Movies for Android:
It's already slightly disturbing to access the web version of Android Market and see every device I've reviewed pop up, now every one of my many ill-judged musical choices must be known to Google too? Let's not kid ourselves, all those sales Apple makes on iTunes aren't going unrecorded either, but Google is unique in the vastness of data it can source and accumulate about us as individuals. It's all done with our best interests in mind, we're told, but I urge caution when hitching a ride on the cloud of convenience -- data is the information age's currency and Google Music is shaping up to be yet another massive aggregator of it for Mountain View.
It's early, and the review does say "could be a major hit," but a great cloud-based music service would be great for everyone - competitors, including Apple, would have to up their game.
Hands-On With Google Music Beta on the Web:
After testing it for a little bit, it quickly becomes clear that this could be a major hit for Google. Indeed, among today’s music locker services like Amazon’s Cloud Drive and MP3tunes, Google’s efforts come the closest to recreating the convenience of Lala, the service that Apple bought last year and promptly shut down.
Sony will close one of its biggest CD making factories due to the growth and popularity of digital downloads as well as other economic influences. Based in Pitman, New Jersey, the plant has been operating for 50 years and first produced vinyl records. When its doors close on March 31, nearly 300 people will be out of work.
The NPD Group reported Tuesday that Apple's iTunes Store is responsible for selling one in four songs in the United States.
Radiohead said in a magazine interview that it wouldn’t release any more full-length albums, instead focusing on downloadable singles like its recently released ‘Harry Patch (In Memory Of)’ and shorter EPs.
‘None of us want to go into that creative hoo-ha of a long-play record again. Not straight off,’ said Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke, in an interview with the Believer. ‘I mean, it’s just become a real drag. It worked with ‘In Rainbows’ because we had a real fixed idea about where we were going. But we’ve all said that we can’t possibly dive into that again. It’ll kill us.’
Ge Wang, an assistant professor of music who previously founded a laptop orchestra at the center, has now organized a Mobile Phone Orchestra (MoPhO) that takes advantage of the iPhone’s multiple built-in technologies to create a powerful performance device.
We've never heard of the Mentalists (because we're old), but this four-woman London band just covered MGMT's Kids using just iPhones.
Ever wonder what it would sound like if it was Bingo instead of Ringo? If it was Poodles instead of Paul? Fido instead of George? Or Rex instead of John?
