Music the artform and artists
The underground Arab producers making waves
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- Tuesday, 14 April 2020
By now, we’re all familiar with the likes of DJ Khaled and Noah “40” Shebib, but there’s a new crop of Arab producers taking the local music industry by storm.
Predicting Tectonic Changes in Classical Music
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- Tuesday, 14 April 2020
Not long after the last global pandemic, in which some 50 million people died from Spanish flu, a social change began to take place in living rooms across the world.
Hands Off: A 100th Anniversary Guide to Theremin Music
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- Tuesday, 14 April 2020
The year is 1920. At a government-run think tank in Petrograd, a brilliant young Soviet scientist harnesses the power of something called the “heterodyne beat frequency” to create a mysterious-looking, antennaed box that creates a high-pitched wail, which intensifies when his hands come closer to it.
Inside the world's largest dedicated collection of Latin American music
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- Tuesday, 14 April 2020
Considered one of the greatest collectors of music from the region in the world, her archive now includes over 50,000 recordings on LP, 78rpm, 7″ and CD, with an expanding collection of music films and DVDS.
Daphne Oram, pionnière oubliée de la musique électronique
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- Tuesday, 14 April 2020
Véritable génie, complètement sous-estimée à son époque, membre du mythique cabinet d'expériences sonores de la BBC avant d'en être chassée, Daphne Oram est une pionnière de la musique électronique.
Krzysztof Penderecki, Boundary-Breaking Polish Composer
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- Tuesday, 31 March 2020
Krzysztof Penderecki, one of the world's leading composers, died Sunday at the age of 86. The Polish Ministry of Affairs announced his passing in a tweet.
No Pianist Left Behind: A History of Piano Pieces for the Left Hand
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- Tuesday, 31 March 2020
The left hand knows no justice. “Sinistra,” the Latin word for “left-handed,” meaning “wrong” or “unlucky” — an ancestor of the word “sinister” — is in part to blame for lingering perceptions that the hand, and those for whom it is dominant, deserves our disdain.
The lost art of deep listening: Choose an album. Lose the phone. Close your eyes.
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- Tuesday, 31 March 2020
What’s your favorite album? When was the last time you listened — actually listened — to it from start to finish? With intention, like you were watching a movie or reading a novel.
That time in 1965 when a teen Ray Kurzweil made a computer compose music
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- Tuesday, 31 March 2020
At age 17, Ray Kurzweil – he of the “singularity” – wrote a pioneering piece of “AI” music software, and showed it off on a TV show with Steve Allen.
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