If I ever woke up on an operating table……no wait,
If you ever woke up on an operating table, which would be a nasty shock in itself, you would be surprised to hear, over the sounds of your resonant screams and the nurse’s panicked squeaks, the faint strains of Yo Yo Ma performing the opening strains [...]

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If you’ve been on YouTube, and had one of those dreaded emails warning you to take your video down, or face the music. Despite the panic reaction, it did grate a little that every little piece of music, even if it played from a TV from all the way across your living room, could be [...]

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You’ve got to dig to dig it, you dig?
Shimon digs it.
So now, robots can do something mere mortals can’t…………improvise. Shimon the Jazz playing robot, can listen and improvise to any musician, not in any spectacularly impressive manner, but it can capture the tone structure, a basic idea of the artists composition, and work on it [...]

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Flying is not exactly a pleasant experience these days. From the stares you get at the security check, to waiting for your bag of peanuts or worst of all, traveling economy class, with the other sheep passengers, and praying you don’t get deep vein thrombosis. It’s such a relief when you can just lie back, [...]

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MONEY OR MUSIC: You Just Can’t get ‘em Both
MySpace Music bought Imeem, the popular networking site, for a reported price of 8 or 10 million dollars, (most of it to pay for the staff, rather than the music or the customers, which actually went for less than $ 1 million) on Tuesday Dec 8th. Imeem, [...]

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Audio d-touch is making a collection of applications for real-time musical composition and performance freely available. Using a web-cam, computer, and printer, you can play sounds using image processing to recognize physical markers. You can visit the site below to get the application which includes a drum machine and a sampling sequencer, both [...]

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If you like sports, whether it is baseball, football, or basketball, you know the experience of attending a live game beats the living room scene. The best part, aside from having your favorite sports team win over the hated rival, is the atmosphere created by the crowd.
A sure fire way to get the crowd and [...]

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How big is too big? The biggest concert by live attendance clocks in at a record 3.5 million people. This begs the question: Do bigger venues, stages, or concerts mean a better concert experience? Personally, the best concerts in terms of performance and sound were at the Hard Rock Cafe in Las Vegas and The [...]

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