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PMP featured on Straits Times Life!

Sun, 30 Jan 2011 18:56:57 +0800

PMP featured on Straits Times Life!

purestform: CymaticsOpiumble + ZIZIZIC via Triangulation Blog

Sun, 30 Jan 2011 18:52:33 +0800

purestform:

Cymatics
Opiumble + ZIZIZIC

via Triangulation Blog

ctrlsave: Falling Lights by Troika

Sun, 02 Jan 2011 17:55:04 +0800

ctrlsave:

Falling Lights by Troika

those were the days

Fri, 24 Dec 2010 14:04:23 +0800

those were the days

reaktorplayer: via synapticstimuli.com

Fri, 24 Dec 2010 14:03:59 +0800

reaktorplayer:

via synapticstimuli.com

The beauty we failed to see in secondary...

Fri, 24 Dec 2010 14:03:41 +0800

The beauty we failed to see in secondary school

reaktorplayer:

via synapticstimuli.com

In beauty lies danger - pmp

Fri, 24 Dec 2010 14:02:39 +0800

In beauty lies danger - pmp

junpoco: 明和水産

Fri, 24 Dec 2010 13:58:36 +0800

junpoco:

明和水産

peachkellipop: animatedcorpse: A tiger mother lost her cubs...

Thu, 23 Dec 2010 14:20:47 +0800

peachkellipop:

animatedcorpse:

A tiger mother lost her cubs from premature labor, shortly after she became depressed and her health declined. She was later diagnosed with depression. So they wrapped piglets up in tiger cloth, and gave them to the tiger. The tiger now loves these pigs and treats them like her babies.

this is so cute i could die!

aww babies, so cute!

A million years of erosion ( ok i made it up...

Thu, 23 Dec 2010 14:20:26 +0800

A million years of erosion ( ok i made it up )

fuckyeahprettyplaces:

Port Austin, Michigan.

sayy-luh: tamburina: These days, people don’t talk much about...

Thu, 23 Dec 2010 14:15:51 +0800

sayy-luh:

tamburina:

These days, people don’t talk much about Biafra. Many probably have never even heard of it before, let alone know which continent it’s on and what happened there. During the 1960s, however, the name Biafra was a synonym for the horrors of famine and civil war, as much as the names Sarajevo, Srebrenica, Rwanda or Darfur are synonyms for atrocities committed during our generation. In 1967, the Igbo — a people in the oil-rich south east part of Nigeria who were Christianized by missionaries (like many areas in coastal Western Africa) — unilaterally declared their independence from Nigeria.

The Republic of Biafra was doomed from the start; its independence was recognized by only five countries, but Biafra became a battleground on which dying imperial powers and their tumultuous successors fought one of the last proxy wars. France, which officially denied any involvement, sent arms to Biafra via Gabon and the Ivory Coast. France and Portugal, which controlled the nearby islands of Sao Tome and Principe, assumed that they could benefit from the break-up of Nigeria, a former British colony. Britain which had major oil contracts with Nigeria decided to back the Nigerian government. Meanwhile, Soviet Union, South Africa and Rhodesia all saw the conflict as a chance to increase their influence in the region.

After initial setbacks, Nigerian Army blockaded Biafra, cutting off food supplies. Western food aid was refused by the Biafra government, paranoid that it would have been poisoned, and the route for food aid would have opened a gap in the Biafran defence. What happened over the next three years was tragic, because it was all too preventable. It took a long time for the West to see pictures of Biafra; during the first six months of the fighting, few photographers managed to penetrate anywhere near the front lines. Yet, slowly reporters and photographers arrived, making Biafra the world’s first media famine. But the world could only sit and wait as more than one million people perished, mostly from starvation. With the pictures such as that of a hauntingly emaciated albino boy, Don McCullin introduced the world to the sight of children with stick-thin limbs and grotesquely distended stomachs, characteristic of protein deficiency — images which are to become all too tragically familiar in subsequent decades as famines happened in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Uganda, and the Sudan.

Biafra eventually collapsed. In 1970, its president, Lt. Col. Emeka Ojukwu fled the country with just one $100 bill, all that was left of the massive £7m personal fortune; the remainder having been spent on food supplies and arms to protect his country.

reaktorplayer: Rynth @ MFRU - Paul Prudence (by Paul Prudence)

Thu, 23 Dec 2010 14:12:12 +0800

reaktorplayer:

Rynth @ MFRU - Paul Prudence (by Paul Prudence)

supercool scores. Page18 of Solo for Piano from Concerto for...

Thu, 23 Dec 2010 14:11:40 +0800

supercool scores.

Page18 of Solo for Piano from Concerto for Piano & Orchestra - John Cage [detail,1958] (by Paul Prudence)

reaktorplayer: Milton Babbitt: Three Compositions...

Thu, 23 Dec 2010 14:10:02 +0800

reaktorplayer:

Milton Babbitt: Three Compositions (1947-1948)

Wiki: Babbitt was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and was raised in Jackson, Mississippi. He studied violin and later clarinet and saxophone as a child.

Babbitt’s father was a mathematician, and it was mathematics that Babbitt intended to study when he entered the University of Pennsylvania in 1931. However, he soon left and went to New York University instead, where he studied music with Philip James and Marion Bauer. There he became interested in the music of the composers of the Second Viennese School, and went on to write a number of articles on twelve tone music including the first description of combinatoriality and a serial “time-point” technique. After receiving his bachelor of arts degree from New York University College of Arts and Science in 1935 with Phi Beta Kappa honors, he studied under Roger Sessions, first privately, later at Princeton University, where he joined the music faculty in 1938 and received one of Princeton’s first Master of Fine Arts degrees in 1942 (Barkin & Brody 2001). During the Second World War Babbitt divided his time between mathematical research in Washington, DC, and Princeton, where he became a member of the mathematics faculty from 1943 to 1945 (Barkin & Brody 2001).

In 1948, Babbitt joined Princeton University’s music faculty and in 1973, became a member of the faculty at the Juilliard School in New York.

In 1958, Babbitt achieved unsought notoriety through an article in the popular magazine High Fidelity (Babbitt 1958). His title for the article, “The Composer as Specialist”, was changed, without his knowledge or consent, to “Who Cares if You Listen?” More than 30 years later, he commented that, because of that “offensively vulgar title”, he was “still … far more likely to be known as the author of ‘Who Cares if You Listen?’ than as the composer of music to which you may or may not care to listen” (Babbitt 1991, 17).

Babbitt later became interested in electronic music. He was hired by RCA as consultant composer to work with their RCA Mark II Synthesizer at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center (known since 1996 as the Columbia University Computer Music Center), and in 1961 produced his Composition for Synthesizer. Babbitt was less interested in producing new timbres than in the rhythmic precision he could achieve using the Mark II synthesizer, a degree of precision previously unobtainable in live performances (Barkin & Brody 2001).

Babbitt continued to write both electronic music and music for conventional musical instruments, often combining the two. Philomel (1964), for example, was written for soprano and a synthesized accompaniment (including the recorded and manipulated voice of Bethany Beardslee, for whom the piece was composed) stored on magnetic tape.

How deep is the ocean, via synaptic stimuli

Wed, 22 Dec 2010 17:55:45 +0800

How deep is the ocean, via synaptic stimuli

unproductive: sound fragment11 (by Emma McNally)

Wed, 22 Dec 2010 17:53:22 +0800

unproductive:

sound fragment11 (by Emma McNally)

Photo

Wed, 22 Dec 2010 17:52:05 +0800

scipsy: Cell Nucleus (by mrkism)

Wed, 22 Dec 2010 17:51:27 +0800

scipsy:

Cell Nucleus (by mrkism)

reaktorplayer: A technology fetish is an idea fetish. —...

Wed, 22 Dec 2010 17:46:40 +0800

reaktorplayer:

A technology fetish is an idea fetish. — Synaptic Stimuli

Photo

Wed, 22 Dec 2010 17:45:27 +0800