Google Arts & Culture がフレデリック・ショパン国際ピアノコンクール (ショパンコンクール) 開催に合わせ、「Chopin Forever」を公開している (The Keyword の記事、 動画)。
今回のショパンコンクールは日本人2名が入賞して注目を集めたが、Chopin Forever ではコンクールを主催するフレデリック・ショパン研究所や 6 か国 12 パートナーの協力により、作曲家・演奏家 フレデリック・ショパンの人物像や作品に焦点を当てた記事や資料がまとめ…
Vinyl Is Selling So Well That It’s Getting Hard To Sell Vinyl
“Vinyl was nearly at death’s door not that long ago. After CDs came out, the predictions of vinyl’s demise were an every day occurrence,” writes Slashdot reader smooth wombat. “And for a time it looked like the vinyl record, something which had been ar…
A shriek-blob-a-boo! bop, a wop-damn-doom
r/VintageObscura is a subreddit for crate diggers. Since Halloween 2014, u/kaptain_carbon has celebrated shocktober by compiling spooky obscurities and campy exotica submitted by fellow redditors into virtual HellPs, most of which are handily located i…
What’s New Pussycat? review – high-voltage collision of two Tom Joneses
Birmingham Repertory theatreThe 18th-century novel and Welsh crooner meet on 1960s Carnaby Street in a spirited jukebox musicalThis is a madcap mashup of a musical. Its basic premise is, bizarrely, a meeting of two Tom Joneses: the foundling and rakish…
DJ and producer Anz: ‘This is music for all hours – and music that’s all ours’
One of the brightest talents in UK dance music is getting used to bigger stages, thanks to her infectiously fun tracks that draw deeply from black cultural historyNights out are a culmination of so many stimuli: pre-party rituals, journeys through the …
Mental health charity declines donation from Jamie Lynn Spears
Britney Spears’s younger sister has had her offer to give proceeds from her forthcoming book to the non-profit organisation This Is My Brave turned downJamie Lynn Spears’s offer to donate some of the proceeds from her forthcoming memoir to a mental hea…
Kate Bush – Live at the Apollo (full concert video)
The full concert footage of Kate Bush’s 1st & only tour has surfaced (SLYT)
電子音楽の脱植民地化はソフトウェアから始まる
ソーシャルメディアをはじめとするあらゆるアルゴリズムが中立ではないように、電子音楽の制作ツールにも無意識のバイアスが組み込まれている。デフォルトで与えられる4ビートや平均律は、アフリカやアジアやラテンアメリカの音楽の特性を生かした曲づくりを根本のところで困難にしてきたのだ。「植民地化されてきた」音楽を解放しようと、グローバルなチューニングシステムの実験を促すプログラムがリリースされた。
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‘Everyone’s laughing at it!’ – how we made Release Me by Engelbert Humperdinck
‘I sang it live on TV and it sold 80,000 copies the next day – keeping the Beatles’ Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields Forever off the No 1 slot’I started off working in clubs under my real name, Gerry Dorsey. Then I got tuberculosis and nobody in showbusine…
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If working in the spreadsheet mines is getting you down, here’s a Spotify radio station based on the Mass Effect map music that will make you feel more… Legendary (SLSpotify) Like all spotify radio stations, it dynamically updates so no two listens a…