Cellist Maya Beiser plays a gorgeous eight-part modern etude with seven copies of herself, and segues into a meditative music/video hybrid — using tech to create endless possibilities for transformative sound. Music is Steve Reich’s “Cello Counterpoint,” then David Lang’s “World to Come” with video by Irit Batsry.
The video for the song Assessment by The Beta Band from their 2004 album Heroes to Zeros.
“Cars” is a 1979 pop music song by UK artist Gary Numan, and was released as a single from the album The Pleasure Principle. It reached the top of the charts in several countries, and today is considered a new wave staple.
As a tribute to the recent passing of the composer, Classical KUSC, this past Saturday, broadcast a version of Henryk Górecki’s Third Symphony, also called the “Symphony of Sorrowful Songs“. The version was recorded in 1997 at the Górecki Festival and was conducted by the composer himself. KUSC streamed it …
Johann Sebastian Bach’s famous Brandenburg Concertos No. 1 – 6 by the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra in a playlist of nineteen YouTube videos: Playlists for the separate concertos: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 A Czech Radio performance of the concertos is downloadable in mp3, ogg, and flac format.
Via Open Culture a radio series by CBC Ideas on science (and the history and philosophy of science): If science is neither cookery, nor angelic virtuosity, then what is it? Modern societies have tended to take science for granted as a way of knowing, ordering and controlling the world. Everything …
An Edge Conference featuring Roy Baumeister, Paul Bloom, Joshua D. Greene, Jonathan Haidt, Sam Harris, Marc D. Hauser, Josua Knobe, Elizabeth Phelps and David Pizarro was held July 20-22, 2010. Edge has made a number of videos and texts available from this conference. Read the introduction to the conference by …
Soundway Records is dedicated to unveiling forgotten chapters from some of the world’s richest musical cultures. From the Highlife, disco and rock sounds of 70s Nigeria to the golden age of Panamanian music, Benin’s Afro-Latin grooves, Colombia’s Champeta and all other forms of Tropical and Afro sounds imaginable. Soundway’s mission …