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Music review: Hebrides Ensemble and Psappha: 25 Years of New Music

Edit Scotsman 12 Nov 2016
To mark 25 years in business, the Hebrides Ensemble shared a splendid programme with Manchester counterpart, Psappha, also celebrating its 25th birthday ... St Andrews-in-the-Square, Glasgow ****. It was an formal affair for Hebrides ... To some extent, though, it robbed our minds of the freedom to interpret the shard-like musical soundscapes ... KEN WALTON. ....

Commercial Ships Could Be Quieter, but They Aren’t

Edit Dissident Voice 12 Nov 2016
Technologies exist to drastically reduce ship noise, but they’re not seeing widespread adoption. Photo by Image Source Salsa/Alamy Stock Photo. Hakai magazine — When a ship’s propeller blades rev up and begin slicing furiously through the ocean, a frothy storm erupts below ... Video of ... Yet as growth in commercial shipping traffic drowns out the marine soundscape, will the IMO turn those guidelines into a mandate?....

Choreographing conflict: how BalletBoyz are remembering the war

Edit The Guardian 12 Nov 2016
How do you depict war using the language of dance? BalletBoyz’s new feature-length film, Young Men, has the answer. It turns out there is no category for war films told solely through the language of dance ... Read more ... Of course choreography must convey emotion and meaning, but it is nothing without the right score, which is why we introduced Iván to Keaton Henson, who was exploring orchestral worlds to create atmospheric soundscapes ... ....

Flaming Lips Plea 'Legalize It, Every Drug Right Now' In Trippy Video For New Song 'How??'

Edit Billboard 11 Nov 2016
Here’s one for #NewMusicFriday -- the second official sampling from the Flaming Lips’ forthcoming studio album Oczy Mlody. Wayne Coyne and friends shared a druggy soundscape called “How??” this morning (Nov. 11) to preview the Jan ... release ... > ....

BBC to debut virtual reality film The Turning Forest

Edit BBC News 11 Nov 2016
The BBC has confirmed it will launch a new virtual reality film, The Turning Forest, next week. The fairy tale will be made available for free on Daydream, Google's mobile virtual reality product ... Google's hot take on affordable VR ... "It takes advantage of decades of research and experience from our own team, partners and universities to create a beautiful soundscape that we hope people will love." ... ....

Psappha/Hebrides Ensemble review – poignant tribute to Peter Maxwell Davies

Edit The Guardian 11 Nov 2016
4 / 5 stars. Peel Hall, Salford ... Though Davies’s rugged soundscape of rare seabirds and ruined chapels scarcely required further visual illustration, the footage of the composer walking along the beach near his home was a poignant enhancement – as was the incongruous addition of the cimbalom to a new arrangement by David Horne of Davies’s beguiling traditional air, Farewell to Stromness ... ....

During art week, free events are all around. Here are our picks.

Edit The Miami Herald 11 Nov 2016
Art Week isn’t just for VIPs. Across Miami and the Beaches, free installations, performances and shows pop up throughout Art Week, this year scheduled for November 27 through December 4. A few of our top choices.Join the parade ... The exhibit opens at 8 p.m ... Through December 4, free tours are offered daily at 2 p.m ... Open 10 a.m ... November 30 through December 4 on the giant Wallcast screen at Soundscape Park outside the New World Center ... 3 p.m....

The future 50: the rising music stars to look out for

Edit The Guardian 11 Nov 2016
Meet the most exciting independent minds in music, chosen by our writers ... Spotify link ... Perhaps not ... “Oh, all kinds ... She has recently collaborated with Blood Orange and Kelela, supported Grimes and Florence and the Machine, and she counters spiritual, celestial classical-crossover soundscapes with pertinent political messages ... Flecks of thumping techno, Chicago house and old school hip-hop reverberate throughout his skittish soundscapes ... ....

UTS Animal Logic Academy announces two key appointments (UTS - University of Technology, Sydney)

Edit Public Technologies 10 Nov 2016
(Source. UTS - University of Technology, Sydney) ... Chris Ebeling, picture supplied ... Dr Andrew Johnston, picture supplied ... He was responsible for the amazing soundscape for the UTS Data Arena showreel which was such an important part of building UTS's relationship with Animal Logic in 2015 and, as the UTS producer for the showreel, I found Andrew an absolutely brilliant collaborative partner ... This is going to be so great.' ... (noodl....

“Arts & Nature in the Calumet Region & Nationwide” at the Douglas Center (NPS - National Park Service)

Edit Public Technologies 09 Nov 2016
(Source. NPS - National Park Service) Date.. November 9, 2016 ... This event includes. Soundwalk on the Miller Trail-Enjoy unique listening experiences at the Douglas Center and along the Miller Woods trail, and consider how soundscapes experienced here relate to wildlife conservation and our appreciation of northwest Indiana's natural splendor. Stay afterwards, as we talk about the soundscapes experienced in Miller Woods ... (1-3 p.m.) ... (noodl....

“Arts & Nature in the Calumet Region & Nationwide” at the Douglas Center (Hopewell Culture National Historical Park)

Edit Public Technologies 09 Nov 2016
(Source. Hopewell Culture National Historical Park) Date.. November 9, 2016 ... This event includes. Soundwalk on the Miller Trail-Enjoy unique listening experiences at the Douglas Center and along the Miller Woods trail, and consider how soundscapes experienced here relate to wildlife conservation and our appreciation of northwest Indiana's natural splendor. Stay afterwards, as we talk about the soundscapes experienced in Miller Woods....

Review: 'Arrival' lumbers, and that's not just the aliens

Edit Seattle PI 09 Nov 2016
The ghostly music by Johann Johannsson — with an assist by Max Richter — is truly a thoughtful soundscape, and the film's inherent stillness is nicely broken by the military's engines of war, which threaten communication in more ways than one ... ....

01-11-2016 | Funding boost for QUT researchers (Queensland University of Technology)

Edit Public Technologies 09 Nov 2016
(Source. Queensland University of Technology) 01 November 2016. A QUT project aiming to address boys' underachievement in reading has received funding in the latest round of Australian Research Council (ARC) grants ... It will assess the effects of pedagogies challenging gender stereotypes and that engage boys in reading ... Professor Paul Roe - $420,500 - Earth Soundscapes.A Human-Computer Approach to Environmental Sound Analysis ... (noodl....
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