His latest release has a regular CD version that’s a single long track of Enonian ambient music. But the iTunes version is a mini-app in itself, using algorithms to create music that’s always changing – “growing” – and never ends.
Author: Matthew Westphal
When Robert Rauschenberg And Jasper Johns Did Display Windows For Tiffany’s
It’s true: “Between 1956 and 1958, the artists created a series of Surrealist-style window displays using materials such as leaves, flowers, fruit, dirt and sand … to showcase Tiffany’s iconic jewels.”
The Brilliant European Musicians We (Almost) Never Get To Hear In The States
“During a short, pre-Christmas week in Paris, I heard one performance after another of artists barely known in the United States. They included significant, even towering figures.” David Patrick Stearns reports on several of them, including one conductor whom some call the next Carlos Kleiber.
‘I’ve Never Made A Plan In My Life’: Royal Ballet Star Edward Watson At 40
He’s been at Britain’s flagship ballet company for 22 years now. “I think I’ve always struggled, and I’ve always found everything quite hard, so [turning 40]is no different. Sometimes you do look around the studio and think, ‘God, I’m twice your age’, but I feel good. I feel better than I did at 30, that’s for sure.”
Cosmetics Company Rips Off Artist’s Drawing, Then Sues Artist For Copyright Infringement
What’s Korean for chutzpah?
Conductor Gets Mad At Audience Of Young Kids, Tells Them Santa Doesn’t Exist
It was late in a performance of “Disney in Concert” performance of Frozen at the Parco della Musica in Rome when angry maestro Giacomo Loprieno yelled “Babbo Natale non esiste!” (Yeah, he got fired.)
We’ve Been Completely Missing The Message Hidden In ‘Hamlet’, Says Scholar
Gary Taylor, editor of The New Oxford Shakespeare and professor at Florida State, thinks that the figure of Fortinbras, the Norwegian king and deus ex machina who takes over Denmark after Hamlet has killed what’s left of the Danish royal family, is meant to be a flattering allusion to James I coming from Scotland to take the English throne.
No, We Had ‘Hamlet’ Right Already, Says Skeptical Professor About New Theory
“I envy Gary Taylor his confidence. I am increasingly coming to think that the most useful new discoveries about Shakespeare are the negative ones.” Jonathan Bate, who edited the complete First Folio for the RSC, has his doubts about Gary Taylor’s theory. (James I’s Danish queen, for one, might not have found Hamlet very flattering. And there’s documentary evidence Taylor’s overlooking.)
Ancient Sites Destroyed In Syria Rise Again, Virtually, In France
A team of archaeologists, architects, and software engineers sent drones around historic buildings and ruins, collecting many thousands of measurements and images so that monuments like Palmyra, if and when they’re destroyed by ISIS, can be recreated in 3D in safer locations.
More Dead Sea Scrolls Fragments Found In Cave Of Skulls
Also discovered are a large variety of objects, from arrows to beads to lice combs.