Chile is a country whose traditions and cultural identities are commended through the works of skilled artisans that hand down their own working techniques from one generation to another. Chilean design encloses this, being still far from well-known brands and industrial factories. The designer Pablo Ocqueteau has realised handmade clay speakers that combine ancestral ceramic techniques with
October 9th marks what would have been John Lennon’s 75th birthday. To commemorate the Beatle and her life partner who was murdered in 1980, artist and activist Yoko Ono is trying to realise the world’s largest human peace sign. The challenge of “Imagine Peace” is not at all easy: on 6th October in Central Park,
Since 2009 Karen Aplin is a researcher in the Physics division at Oxford University. Before getting to manage the teaching laboratories of this renowned English university, Karen obtained a doctorate degree in atmospheric physics at the Department of Meteorology at the University of Reading, but also a diploma in music performance from Trinity College, London. Metheorology
Music gives hope, music as a universal language. Music has the power of bringing very different cultures together and, in some cases, could be a learning tool. That’s what Matt Westerberg msh have thought. He is a volunteer of the Peace Corps organisation who teaches English in a small village of Tigrai, in Northern Ethiopia through Perl
Janis, directed by Amy Berg, nominee at the Oscars in 2006 for the documentary Deliver Us from Evil, retraces the story of one of the greatest blues singer rock has ever had: from her private life with its troubled loves and excesses to her artistic life when she lived at the Chelsea Hotel, the legendary hotel in
“On Your Wavelength” is an interactive site-specific installation that combines arts, music and neuroscience. It’s a large-scale installation of lasers that uses the participants’ brain data and the latest light and sound design technologies. In a dark tunnel-like space, users are equipped with EEG earphones that monitor their brain wavelengths (electroencephalography is the recording of the
Even before coming into the world, the outer sounds we hear are filtered by liquids. But music, as well as water, has an effect on people as an underwater environment. Maybe this is the reason why the combination between water and music has always been stimulating the artistic imagination and production, from John Cage to
Alpharita Costancia Anderson – or simply Rita Marley – widow of the reggae prophet Bob Marley, will be assigned the Living Legends Award and African Women of Excellence Awards (AWEA). During a ceremony that will take place in New York on 12 September, the reggae queen will receive this very important award from the United Nations’ Women
Stephen Orlando, a photographer based in Ontario, has always devoted himself to capture movement on a film through time and space, as if he was obsessed by it. So, in his last project Motion Exposure, he found a way of catching the movements of sound by photographing music. In effect, Stephen, by using LED lights carefully
Guitar and skateboard decks. If we consider these two objects we immediately think of distorted guitars, shabby clothes and evolutions in empty pools in California. But gutar and skateboard are also Nick Pourfard’s main hobbies, a 22-year-old young artist and designer from San Francisco. Nick has recently established his own company, Prisma Guitars, in which
