Technologies and media
The Telharmonium was the Spotify of 1906
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- Tuesday, 23 February 2016
Invented by lawyer Thaddeus Cahill and initially known as the dynamophone, the telharmonium made use of telephone networks to transmit music from a central hub in midtown Manhattan to restaurants, hotels, and homes around the city.
Scientists created a three-armed cyborg to play the drums like no human can
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- Tuesday, 23 February 2016
The computerized arm listens to the sound of the human playing and improvises to accompany the beat.
What Sound Is This Gesture?
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- Tuesday, 23 February 2016
The researchers at the Institut De Recherche Et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM) in Paris, France, a place that studies the science of music, discovered that people have a much easier time demonstrating a sound using their voices and gesturing.
Le MP3 mutile le son et l'audition
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- Tuesday, 23 February 2016
Tous ceux qui n'ont pas renoncé aux plaisirs de la fête ont déjà fait l'expérience suivante au moins une fois : dans un appartement peuplé d'une cinquantaine de personnes consommant des boissons fortes, plusieurs jeunes gens, DJ d'un soir, rivalisent aux "platines".
IMPACT Music Conference : Call for proposals
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- Tuesday, 09 February 2016
The African Music Development Programme (AMDP) is organizing the second IMPACT Music Conference centered on the convergence of music and technology in Africa. If you are a talented, creative entrepreneur using digital tools to innovate in the music sector you are invited to submit your project for consideration. Deadline 1 March 2016.
Europeana Music Collections
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- Tuesday, 09 February 2016
The Europeana Music Collections brings together a selection of the best music recordings, sheet music, and other music related collections from Europe's audio-visual archives, libraries, archives and museums.
Soon We Will be Able to Design Custom Sounds with Voice And Gesture
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- Tuesday, 09 February 2016
The first thing an architect or graphic designer will do at the start of a project is to produce some preliminary sketches — just to rough out their ideas on paper, perhaps augmented with computer-aided design software.
Culture Agora
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- Tuesday, 09 February 2016
Agora is a participatory tool with wiki structure, which aims to simplify, benchmark and highlight in a single digital platform a wide range of cultural content which is now currently scattered in the network, providing the maximum dissemination capacity to its promoters, and facilitating the search to interested users through simple filtering mechanisms.
Après 26 ans de silence, une violoniste joue… avec son cerveau
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- Tuesday, 09 February 2016
Grièvement blessée dans un accident de voiture, la violoniste Rosemary Johnson a dû attendre 26 ans et de nouvelles technologies révolutionnaires pour jouer à nouveau grâce à son cerveau.
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