Getting the town of Cremona to stay silent for a bit to make an important recording. (via NPR . audio and text, you'll probably want the audio)
I've done a bit of serious recording.. getting noise levels down is maddening.
Krista Tippett's On Being interview of Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn is simply terrific.. if you like music, take a listen. Go for the unedited version if you're a fan of either musician.
31 tones per octave
This piece is useful as it has some nice examples to listen to.
Recreations of the instruments in Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights sound terrible. The fact they don't offer a video or audio file is outstanding or troubling depending on your point of view.
Mongolian rock/pop/folk...
I remember this from a long time ago.. a song by Peggy Seeger
noted in the blog of the Union of Concerned Scientists
The final movement to Beethoven's 9th Symphony - a tip of the hat to Bjarne
flash mobbery seems to have died out.. perhaps it's no longer cool .. perhaps it's something bad about the pessimistic period we're living through
thought to be the first violin sonata composed by a woman
Isabella Leonarda (1620 - 1704)
'Sonata duodecima' in D minor for violin solo and continuo from "Sonate a 1,2,3,4 istromenti op. decima sesta" Bologna 1693
David Byrne has curated a playlist of protest songs over the past six decades
More...
gonna be an engineer...
I remember this from a long time ago.. a song by Peggy Seeger
noted in the blog of the Union of Concerned Scientists
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