If this is what three experienced brass players can get from the vuvuzela, I am afraid that this instrument will not have a great future in classical music

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Sette invettive di William Burroughs, scritte tra il 1986 e il 1989 e tradotte nel 1997 su Millelire Stampa Alternativa (ormai fuori catalogo), sono state rilasciate in CC.

Sette storie brevi che paiono come scivolate inavvertitamente fuori da una delle tasche del completo grigio di William Seward Burroughs – l’hombre invisible – come lo avevano soprannominato i ragazzini di Tangeri negli anni ’60. Sette “routine”, come le definì Allen Ginsberg, racconti sospesi nel tempo come numeri del music-hall, realtà fatta a fette che permette a ciascuno di vedere cosa c’è in cima alla propria forchetta, il pasto nudo.

Le potete scaricare in formato PDF o RTF.

A John Dillinger
con la speranza che sia
sempre vivo

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This post is about a book in italian. Seven short stories by William Burroughs, in italian translation, had been released under CC license (PDF or RTF format).

Da Classici Stranieri

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Sento ora che ieri pomeriggio, durante il secondo tempo della partita Italia - Slovacchia, il sito sui mondiali gestito dalla RAI ha totalizzato 1.500.000 pagine viste. Metà di questa gente guardava la partita in streaming dall’ufficio.

Infatti per tutto il secondo tempo, l’internet italiana era praticamente bloccata. La wireless mi dava 4 Mb/s (di solito è a 54).

Si conferma l’enorme superiorità della TV nella diffusione di eventi di massa.

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Una aurora boreale vista dall’alto, fotografata dalla ISS il 29 maggio scorso. Cliccare l’immagine per ingrandire.

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Astronauts onboard the International Space Station found out on May 29th when they flew through a geomagnetic storm and witnessed this green ribbon snaking over the Indian Ocean.

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Tags: aurora, spazio

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I always feel a special emotion when listening to a great poet reading his verses.

Here T.S. Eliot reads from The Wasteland, one of the great poems of the last century.

Get the full text here (and here is an italian translation).

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I lettori italiani possono leggere qui un ottimo articolo su quest’opera.

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Tags: poesia

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Con tecnplogia digitale verrà un momento in cui nessuna foto e nessun film saranno più ammissibili come prova in un processo. Date un’occhiata qui.

The digital technology will ban photos and films from the trials, some day.

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Questo è il testo di una lettera che ASCAP (la SIAE americana) ha inviato ai suoi membri (i compositori di musica) per chiedere fondi per la lotta contro di Creative Commons, Public Knowledge, e l’EFF.

Ciò che sorprende è il tono della comunicazione. Creative Commons, Public Knowledge, e del FEP sono rappresentati come criminali, che “non vogliono pagare per l’uso della musica“. Invece, le suddette organizzazioni non hanno mai detto che voi (gli utenti) dovreste rubare la musica e non pagare i CD. Stanno solo cercando di diffondere un diverso modello di marketing tra i musicisti diffondendo musica priva di copyright come un modo per accrescere la propria notorietà e guadagnare in modo diverso (più concerti, gadget, ecc.). Si può essere d’accordo o meno, si può pensare che è una bella idea oppure che non possa funzionare, ma, in ogni caso, è una posizione legittima che non giustifica appelli come quello di cui sopra.

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This is a mail that ASCAP sent to his members (the music composers) to solicit funds to fight Creative Commons, Public Knowledge, and the EFF.

What is surprising is the feeling of the communication. Creative Commons, Public Knowledge, and the EFF are depicted as criminals that “do not want to pay for the use of music“. Instead this organizations never said that you (the user) must stole the music not paying the CDs. They are only trying to spread a different marketing model between the musicians. They say that the musicians should spread their music with no copyright at all as a way to gain more fans and find revenues in a different way (more concerts, gadgets, etc).

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Sun Boxes is a sound installation created by Craig Colorusso.

It’s comprised of twenty speakers operating independently each powered by solar panels. There is a different guitar sample in each box all playing together making the composition. The guitar samples are all of different lengths so the whole piece keeps evolving.

Participants are encouraged to walk amongst the speakers. It sounds different inside of the array.  There is a different sense of space inside. Certain speakers will be closer and louder therefore the piece will sound different to different people in different positions throughout the array. Creating a unique experience for everyone.

There are no batteries involved. The Sun Boxes are reliant on the sun. When the sun sets the music stops. The piece changes as the length of the day changes making the participants aware of the cycle of the day.

It’s a very interesting idea. I would like to know how powerful each speaker is. 20 Watt? 50? or more?

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If you find hard to tolerate the vuvuzelas constantly playing below the World Cup’s matches, there is a solution.

According to isophonic.net, this instrument plays a note about 230-235 Hertz (roughly the B-flat below middle C). So we can apply a notch filter on the fundamental frequency and the first harmonic (460-470) to greatly reduce the buzz. Listen to the before and after audio to confirm that it has indeed worked: you can still hear the horns, because the higher partials are intact, but they aren’t so loud. (Note that the effect takes a couple of seconds to work, at the start of the “after” sample.)

People at isophonic.net has created a VST plugin for windows and a LADSPA plugin for Mac OS/X that makes the job. Download from isophonic.net page.

The LADSPA plugin should work on Linux also, but we can do the same work using jack-rack. Here there are instructions that works on any linux box with jack and jack-rack.

But the real solution is to love the vuvuzelas. As John Cage argues:

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.

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Two films by the great Soviet filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky, Stalker and Andrej Rublev, are now free on line in original language on the Film Annex site.

Click here to see Stalker.

Andrej Rublev is splitted in two parts (part1, part2).

From Open Culture

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