http://www.maurograziani.org/wordpress Musica Arte Tecnologia Storie Estreme Sun, 14 Mar 2010 14:29:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This site claims to produce "authentic cat music based on feline communication and hearing." When I was a student, there was cats on my house. I remember that, when listening to music, sometimes I observed their behavior and try to imagine their perception of the sounds and the meaning of the ... http://www.maurograziani.org/wordpress/archives/1972 ...it's a series of audio recordings by David Foster Wallace, the author of Infinite Jest, which Time included in its All-Time 100 Greatest Novels list. The collection is here and is broken into four categories: Interviews & Profiles Readings Eulogies & Remembrances ‘Brief Interviews’ Staged Readings http://www.maurograziani.org/wordpress/archives/1971 Site has been down for maintenance. Sorry for the inconvenience. http://www.maurograziani.org/wordpress/archives/1970 Austrian composer Georg Friedrich Haas (b. 1953) truly experiments with sound. His extraordinary constructions of micro-intervals and pure harmonics create beautiful and opalescent soundscapes that move in ways that seem at once mysterious and obscure. Here is the String Quartet No. 2 [1998] played by the Kairos Quartett. Thanks to NewMusicXX channel ... http://www.maurograziani.org/wordpress/archives/1969 Ivo Malec: Pulsations a movement from Exempla for Large Orchestra (1994) http://www.maurograziani.org/wordpress/archives/1968 Besides the ocean audio stream, the Alfred Wegener Institute has many recordings of underwater acoustic phenomena and ice sounds that you can listen from this page. Among this materials, there are some sounds caused by the icebergs whose origin is not yet known. Click the image. http://www.maurograziani.org/wordpress/archives/1965 Written and directed by Jonathan Bensimon and produced by Jonas Bell Pasht, Tokyo/Glow follows the nighttime journey of an illuminated man from a crosswalk sign as he embarks on an adventure through the streets of Tokyo. Shot on location throughout Tokyo using thousands of individual digital stills, the short film ... http://www.maurograziani.org/wordpress/archives/1964 The great Trans Siberian Railway, the pride of Russia, goes across two continents, 12 regions and 87 cities. The joint project of Google and the Russian Railways lets you take a trip along the famous route and see Baikal, Khekhtsirsky range, Barguzin mountains, Yenisei river and many other picturesque places of ... http://www.maurograziani.org/wordpress/archives/1961 Tactus performs Arabia Felix by Charles Wuorinen at the Manhattan School of Music. Mary Kerr - Flute, Rachel Field - Violin, Anne Rainwater - Piano, Jakob van Cauwenberghe - Guitar, Mike Perdue - Vibraphone, Matthias Kronsteiner - Bassoon, Conductor: John Ferrari http://www.maurograziani.org/wordpress/archives/1960 Morton Feldman: De Kooning (1963) Morton Feldman's elegant chamber work dedicated to the painter "De Kooning" and scored for horn, percussion, piano, violin, and cello was composed in 1963. After composing works in the early 1950's that were in graphic notation and left most of the musical parameters (pitch, duration, timbre, event ... http://www.maurograziani.org/wordpress/archives/1959 It’s not that I’m so smart; it’s that I stay with the problem longer. [Albert Einstein] http://www.maurograziani.org/wordpress/archives/1958 The hydrophones of German Alfred-Wegener-Institut transmitting live from the Ocean below the Antarctic Ice in the Atka Bay. This project is called PALAOA (PerenniAL Acoustic Observatory in the Antarctic Ocean) that means "whale" in Hawaiian. Click here for mp3 audio stream. Please note, this transmission is not optimized for easy listening, but ... http://www.maurograziani.org/wordpress/archives/1956 The Drawing Center (35 Wooster Street, New York) opens a large show (nearly 100 works) of drawings by Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001), including mathematical renderings, architectural plans and sketches for compositions. I know that it's a little away from here, but see this page for drawing examples with video and audio. Listen to ... http://www.maurograziani.org/wordpress/archives/1953 Macmillan announced a new kind of textbook called DynamicBooks: a remixable electronic textbook that will give professors the ability “to reorganize or delete chapters; upload course syllabuses, notes, videos, pictures and graphs; and perhaps most notably, rewrite or delete individual paragraphs, equations or illustrations.” Essentially, Macmillan provides the core text, ... http://www.maurograziani.org/wordpress/archives/1955 The Wet Ink Ensemble is a New York-based new music collective. Our mission is to present innovative programs of contemporary music, with a focus on creating, promoting, and organizing adventurous American music. Pendulum V - Alex Mincek - Wet Ink Ensemble from Wet Ink Ensemble on Vimeo. http://www.maurograziani.org/wordpress/archives/1952 An interesting application for iPhone that links sound and gestures. The sound needs some improvements but the idea is stimulating. http://www.maurograziani.org/wordpress/archives/1951 A mio modesto avviso, qui qualcun'altro deve morire se proprio non riesce ad astenersi... Vogliamo ricominciare a prendere le cose un po' seriamente, di qualsiasi cosa si tratti? "Sì, lo so che non so cantare, ma vado a sanremo". "Sì, lo so che non so amministrare, ma faccio il politico". Ma il termine "etica" ... http://www.maurograziani.org/wordpress/archives/1950 Fortunatamente sono sfuggito al festival nazional-popolare, ma ho passato la serata di sabato prima dormicchiando e poi riflettendo sulla vicenda di Giacinto Scelsi e del suo principale trascrittore, Vieri Tosatti. Riflessioni stimolate da una bella conferenza di Franco Sciannameo a cui ho assistito, nel pomeriggio, al Conservatorio di Trento, ... http://www.maurograziani.org/wordpress/archives/1949 This funny chart (found on Boing Boing) does a superb job of explaining how the insertion of a lot of "business model" (FBI warnings, unskippable trailers, THX vanity sequences) makes buying a DVD a lot worse than pirating the same disc online (click image to enlarge). A side effect is that ... http://www.maurograziani.org/wordpress/archives/1947 The wide landscapes of Australia are the new spaces of contemporary sculpture Neil Dawson's Horizons, made of welded steel, is an imposing 15m high and 36m long. Anish Kapoor's Untitled is 25m long, 8m high and made of mild steel tube and tensioned fabric. Andy Goldsworthy's Arches was created in 2005. It is ... http://www.maurograziani.org/wordpress/archives/1946 Hugues Dufourt ricorda Gérard Grisey. NB: dovete cliccare play due volte perché prima appare la pubblicità di Megavideo, dove risiede il file. Segnalato da Ermes http://www.maurograziani.org/wordpress/archives/1945 Playing the Building is a sonic project by ex-Talking Head David Byrne that came to London in 2009. You could sit down at an “antique organ” and hit whatever keys or chords your heart desired—but you wouldn’t be producing notes. You would instead trigger a “series of devices,” as Byrne describes ... http://www.maurograziani.org/wordpress/archives/1944 The Ocean of Light project explores the creative and immersive possibilities of light-based visualisation in physical space. It uses bespoke hardware to create dynamic, interactive and three-dimensional sculptures from light. Surface is the first artwork to be exhibited using the Ocean of Light hardware. It uses minimal visuals and sound to ... http://www.maurograziani.org/wordpress/archives/1941 Hitler's opinion about iPad. http://www.maurograziani.org/wordpress/archives/1937 Karlheinz Stockhausen, "Mixtur 2003 (Forward Version)" for 5 orchestra groups, 4 sine-wave generator players, 4 sound mixers, with 4 ring modulators and sound projectionist From the Musica Viva Festival Bavarian Radio Orchestra, Lucas Vis Recorded January 27, 2008 Muffathalle, Munich The essential aspect of MIXTUR is, on one hand, the transformation of the familiar orchestra sound ... http://www.maurograziani.org/wordpress/archives/1939 Che cosa sia l'Italia oggi si può anche dedurre anche dal fatto che una applicazione su iPhone che contiene clips audio, video e testi di 100 discorsi del dittatore è stata la più scaricata nel nostro paese nel breve tempo in cui era disponibile, raggiungendo il 2° posto nella classifica ... http://www.maurograziani.org/wordpress/archives/1938 Speaking about Brian Eno (see previous post), on You Tube there is the whole Imaginary Landscapes, a film on Eno by Duncan Ward & Gabriella Cardazzo. Imaginary Landscapes is a profile of a modern artist at the cutting edge of technological change and popular taste. It brings into an intensely personal ... http://www.maurograziani.org/wordpress/archives/1943 Paul Morley recently spoke to Brian Eno for a BBC arena documentary in which Eno proved that he is always good for a controversial and catchy phrase about the music industry: The record age was just a blip. It was a bit like if you had a source of whale blubber ... http://www.maurograziani.org/wordpress/archives/1942 Il nostro elegante commander-in-chief è finito sul popolare Photoshop Disasters per una serie di immagini malamente e dilettantisticamente ritoccate tratte dal libro Noi amiamo Silvio edito da Peruzzo. Nella fattispecie si vede una foto in cui pezzi di folla sono stati chiaramente duplicati al fine di far apparire più gente intenta ... http://www.maurograziani.org/wordpress/archives/1936 Chi ha letto Il giovane Holden (The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger, 1951) potrà ora seguire le sue deambulazioni per Manhattan grazie a una mappa interattiva completa di citazioni pubblicata sul New York Times. Trace Holden Caulfield's perambulations around Manhattan in "The Catcher in the Rye" to places like the ... http://www.maurograziani.org/wordpress/archives/1935