Seriously, these performers create music in complete darkness – and expect their audiences to unplug and, very possibly, fall asleep right there.
Category: AUDIENCE
The Philadelphia Orchestra Joins The Music On Demand Game, For Love (And Some Money)
It’s not perfect or pretty, says reviewer David Patrick Stearns, but for $50, listeners can get access to a massive archive of the orchestra’s history.
How Video Games Desensitize People To Violence
“Young children have unprecedented access to violent movies, games and sports events at an early age, and learning brutality is the norm. The media dwells upon real-life killers, describing every detail of their crime during prime-time TV. The current conditions easily set up children to begin thinking like soldiers and even justify killing. But are we in fact suppressing critical functions of the brain? Are we engendering future generations who will accept violence and ignore the voice of reason, creating a world where violence will become the comfortable norm?”
How Akram Khan Turned His Most Famous Solo Into A Children’s Work About Ancestral Tales, A Locked Cellphone, And A Call Center
“The man in the photograph at right is angled slightly to one side, his arm curved and his fingers – held together, sharply separated from the thumb – pointing down into what appears to be an upside-down fish. Above him floats a bee, and a snake curls languorously over a branch, appearing to watch his activities with interest.”
Remember Leonard Bernstein’s Young People’s Concerts? The New York Phil’s Going To Start Putting Them Online
“[Philharmonic management] said Thursday that it was putting videos of Young People’s Concerts, and additional educational materials and interactive games, online for schools and families to stream for free. … The orchestra is calling the initiative ‘Young People’s Concerts Play!'”
Barnes Foundation’s New Boss Is Moving Well Beyond The Art
“Would Dr. Barnes, who died in 1951, be surprised to learn that this fall, the foundation’s executive director and president, Thomas Collins, taught a course on the gay subculture, as represented by artists in the collection like Charles Demuth and Marsden Hartley?”
Want To Write A Bestseller? This Algorithm Is Startlingly Accurate In Predicting How To Do It
“After four years of work, Jodie Archer, a former acquisitions editor, and Matthew Jockers, an academic specializing in computational analysis of style, have been able to ‘predict’ which books were bestsellers and which were not with ‘an average accuracy of 80 percent.’ This means that, out of a randomly selected group of 50 bestsellers and 50 non-bestsellers, the algorithm would predict 40 of each correctly.”
For 50 Years, They’ve Loved Edward Albee In Bulgaria
An avant-garde production of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf at a tiny Sofia theater in 1996 led to a long period of popularity for the American playwright. Even the Communist censors liked his work.
Want To Read This Margaret Atwood Story? You’ll Have To Wait 100 Years
The Future Library is part working library, part conceptual art project, part investment in unborn generations of readers. Starting with Margaret Atwood, a different author will contribute a work to the vault each year, with none to be opened until 2114.
London Now Has Audiophile Clubs Where You Can Hear Recordings At The Highest Quality Possible
“These speakers were built totally without compromise. When you have equipment this good, it can deliver such high quality that it emotionally connects you to the music. We’re not afraid to say that listening to music is a very magical thing.”