Music Making Goes Sci-Fi
I’m now dying to see this orchestra! Watching the Karmetic Machine Orchestra is like getting a peek at the inner workings of a factory through a sheet of glass. It churns. Gears turn. Wired mallets beat drum heads. Some of the musicians sit at laptops looking like workers as they rhythmically press buttons. Read the [...]
Free Stuff Friday: Oh, The Audacity!
Audacity is probably one of my favorite open source projects. I could play with it for hours (not kidding!). In a nutshell: Audacity is a free audio editor and recorder that will work on a MAC, Windows, or a Linux-based PC. And according to their website, it’s even award-winning! Audacity was voted “Best Project for [...]
Early Scottish Music Notation
Go read this article. Too cool! Markings on a 16th Century carving from Stirling Castle could be the oldest surviving piece of written Scottish instrumental music, historians believe. A sequence of 0s, Is and IIs have been found on one of the Stirling Heads – wooden medallions which would have decorated the castle’s royal palace. [...]
Michael Kaiser Says – "Arts in Crisis"
I just read a thought provoking article by Michael Kaiser (President of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and Nonprofit Turn-around Guru). There’s a healthy debate in the comments section of the article too, but I have to say, I agree whole-heartedly with what Mr. Kaiser has to say. I think he hit the nail right on the head in identifying the real issue.
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