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Music and the Body: Richard Powers on the Power of Song

"The use of music is to remind us how short a time we have a body."

Brain Pickings · EN

Meteor of Joy: The Young People’s Chorus of New York City Sings Bird Divinations

Children know the deepest truths about life, the elemental knowledge we unlearn in the act of living, those inarticulable truths music alone helps us remember. To hear children sing the secret wisdom of the heart is to be in the presence of something truer and more transcendent than any of our poems and postulates can touch — the ultimate affirmation of our aliveness, emanating Richard Powers’s beautiful and bittersweet assertion that “the use of music is to remind us how short a time we have a body.” To celebrate twenty years of The Marginalian, composer extraordinaire Paola Prestini set six…

Brain Pickings · EN

Trial, Triumph, and the Art of the Possible: The Moving Story Behind Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy,” a Lifetime of Sorrow in the Making

A hymn of rage, a hymn of redemption, and a timeless love letter to the possible.

Brain Pickings · EN

How Bad Bunny Turned the World’s Cheapest Chair Into a Pop Icon

A collage of Bad Bunny with the Monobloc chair by Francesco Maria Furno No one paid any attention to the Monobloc until Bad Bunny came along to dignify the most common chair in the world. A piece of white plastic that has filled our everyday spaces since the day it was born, with its bland, anodyne spirit. The Monobloc is the commercial product par excellence for resting our backsides. Cheap, easy to stack, transport, and replace, and pretty sturdy for the price it sells at. After the Puerto Rican artist’s Debí Tirar Más Fotos, it’s not only one of the best-selling objects but one of the most

Muzli · EN

The Early Years of Electronic Pop: The Moog Craze, Psychedelic Experiments, and More

There’s a decent chance you’ve heard at least a couple of tracks from Wendy Carlos’ Switched-On Bach. But when was the last time you put on Switched-On Rock, Switched-On Country, Switched-On Santa, or Switched-On Bacharach? More likely than not, you’ve never even heard of those other albums, which have nothing to do with Carlos and […]

Open Culture Tech · EN

Review: Banan-a-Synth Is an Adorable Yellow Synthesizer

Banan-a-Synth is just what it sounds like: a banana-sized, 20-note, capacitive touch keyboard that can mimic different instruments. And it sounds great. The post Review: Banan-a-Synth Is an Adorable Yellow Synthesizer appeared first on Make: DIY Projects and Ideas for Makers .

MAKE Magazine · EN