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Jazz Profiles, WNYC’s in-depth look at jazz greats, is a must for jazz fans. Here are some episodes I’ve been enjoying lately:
Duke Ellington The Maestro (1) (2)
Duke Ellington The Bandleader (1) (2)
Louis Armstrong (The Singer) (The Trumpeter)
Jazz Profiles offers a podcast, and most episodes can be opened in the player. Explore the series […]
NPR relaunched its NPR Music site several weeks ago. Clunky real-media files have been replaced by the new NPR-player. The player doesn’t slow browsing, and additional tracks from across the NPR site can be added to the playlist without disrupting the currently playing track. Tracks include NPR series, individual tracks, live streams, and several full […]
The National just released an mp3 of “Fake Empire”, the first track off of their upcoming release, The Boxer. It’s definitely my most-anticipated album of 2007.
For more, The National’s myspace page. and official site.
The National Recording Preservation Registry released their list of 2006 inductees, and they’ve put together a great montage of this year’s entries.
The National Recording Preservation Board, mandated by the National Recording Preservation Act of 2000, is an advisory group bringing together a number of professional organizations and expert individuals concerned with the preservation of recorded […]
Test your hearing here.
Find out just how far your ears can hear into the range of ultrasonic ringtones. Pretty much everyone should be able to hear the lowest tone (8kHz). Many people should be able to hear up to around 14.1kHz, from around 17kHz upwards we get into the range that only the under 20’s […]
I’ve recently stumbled on the great City of Sound blog. Well-written and researched, the site covers architecture, cities, design, music, media, etc… An interesting take on youtube from the 2006 year-in-review post:
But in terms of visual accompaniment to music, this was really the year when we all figured YouTube is not actually about user-generated content […]
The iTunes music store is offering an audio book of John Hodgman’s The Areas of My Expertise, for free. Here is the hardcover from Amazon.
from boingboing
If you’ve got 90 minutes, listen in (or watch, if you have enough hard drive space) to David Harvey’s keynote lecture:
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Internationally recognized urban geographer and social theorist David Harvey delivers a keynote lecture at the Middlebury College Symposium, “Urban Landscapes: The Politics of Expression.”
from the University Channel
Has anyone found other […]
KCRW interviews Zadie Smith in the Bookworm podcast on her recently released (in the US) novel, On Beauty, which incorporates everyone from Forster to Elaine Scarry:
But the problem with readers, the idea we’re given of reading is that the model of a reader is the person watching a film, or watching television. So the greatest […]
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Participants are given a kind of scarf with a mobile phone in each end and off they go to explore the neighborhood. One of the phones takes pictures every 20 secs and collects sounds, the other talks to the GPS (also in the scarf) and to the server inside the gallery space. On a radar […]
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