A few days ago Antony Hegarty, the lead singer of the band Antony and the Johnsons, participated in the Dark Mofo Festival, a music festival taking place in Tasmania. She sang her hits on the Odeon theatre’s stage in Hobart for an hour without saying a word. But when she got back to the stage for an
Every day, subway is used by billions of people. People have pretty controversial opinions on such mean of public transport. They are useful, but often they are also too alienating and during peak hours they can be a real mess. James Murphy, LCD Soundsystem stated his point of view about New York subway very clearly:
Today, we are used to receive digital information mostly through wearable electronic devices we always bring with us. However, these devices make us alienate from everything surrounding us. That is why some researchers have been working for almost two decades on so called “calm technologies”, technologies stimulating our attention but not demanding it. Developed
Starting in June 2015, the largest digital music store will also features online streaming thanks to Apple Music, the new Apple music application.
The Parisian Vincent Moon, award winning filmmaker for his music videos for indie rock related artists like Sufjan Stevens, R.E.M., Tom Jones and Arcade Fire, launched a crowdfunding campaign to print on vinyl and publish for the record label Le Saule the collection “Chansons du Pérou”, the Peruvian music recorded in a 3-month journey. The
Sonita Alizadeh is an Afghan girl aged eighteen. Now, she lives in the United States and she attends the Wasatch Arts Center, dreaming to become a lawyer. But, throughout her life, Sonita has moved a lot. Her family fled Afghanistan when she was 8 years old because of war and it moved to Tehran, the capital of
Apparently, MuteButton is quite similar to a common digital music player, equipped with comfortable Bluetooth headphones, but if you take a better look, you realise it features an intra-oral array, which is the technological core of this device, conceived to relieve tinnitus, the hearing of a hiss or a buzz when no external sound is present.
Cateura is a little village on the outskirts of Asunción, in Paraguay. It is known for being the landfill of the whole country, as it is literally sitting on a huge mountain of… waste. Cateura is considered to be one of the poorest areas of Latin America, a neighbourhood where people live with tons of rubbish, get information
Quoted Studios is a New York nonprofit organisation working in research and recovery and conservations projects of famous interviews belonging to the American cultural history. What is peculiar is that the news and recordings employed are sometimes unpublished and they are recovered several years later, buried in radio or TV broadcasters archives, forgotten in some journalists’
Scientific communication has been extensively debated. Sometimes problems arise, as it is not always easy to talk about technical topics in a simple and accurate way, without generalising. Climate change is one of these topics. Accurate dissemination of scientific knowledge on that topic, using graphs to compare information, is often too technical and complex to be employed.
