I’m tired of having to switch blogs constantly. My new blog, which is really my old blog, is called The Modern Sound, which I plan on using as a personal off-shoot to a blog I’m trying to start on Contemporary (i.e. living) composers and New Music in general.
The address is:
themodernsound.tumblr.com
Why is it impossible to find classical music, at least modern classical music, on Limewire? It is endlessly frustrating.
If anyone’s got a tip for this, please, let me know.
i thought this was pretty funny
btw. fxckSB1070
Hahahahahaha excellent.
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thedailywhat:
Art Project of the Day: Argentinian artist Leandro Erlich’s “Swimming Pool” installation at The 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa, Japan, is composed of small layer of water above two water-encasing acrylic glass sheets spaced a foot apart, presenting the illusion of a full swimming pool.
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This is rather bitchin’.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l1ukkjjWwm1qzpwi0o1_400.jpg)
Art Project of the Day: Argentinian artist Leandro Erlich’s “Swimming Pool” installation at The 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa, Japan, is composed of small layer of water above two water-encasing acrylic glass sheets spaced a foot apart, presenting the illusion of a full swimming pool.
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This is rather bitchin’.
Looks a little like…
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http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/30/leaked-memo-sees-bigger-oil-risk/?src=twt&twt=nytimesscience
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casimir_effect
That’s just the shell. Read the article, and be ok with the fact that “nothing” can have a sizable effect on the universe.
Basically, the idea is that (+1) + (-1) = 0, (+2) + (-2) = 0, etc… So any particles that will annihilate each other and end up equaling 0 are allowed to exist (and in fact do, as this effect and several other observed phenomena show) as long cancel each other out within a given time limit.
The really interesting part of all this you can see if you look up the basis for the phenomenon, Virtual Particles. Reading about this seems strange, but then when you get a little further down, you realize that the lines between reality and this “virtual” world start to break down a bit.
Now, I might be grossly oversimplifying things here, which brings me to my point:
I wish I could understand things the way that the people who’ve discovered this stuff (and are still discovering similar things) do. There’s something to be said for seeing the world through the eyes of an artist, being able to appreciate and create the abstract (or concrete, if you like), but even more than that being able to see those associations. But I would love to spend one day, just a day, in the shoes of these brilliant, brilliant people.
…so why is it so hard to sleep?
— Note that I posted this at about 4am last night. I’m usually not sleeping now. Just put it on the wrong blog. Read away —
I sleep all the time.
I hate sleeping.
This is a Frank Gehry house. It is hugging itself.
I want summer to come so I can write again. I’ve made a lot of music this year but not much else. I want the time to be creative again. In every way, not just one.
I want to learn how to make visual art as well. Everything I make is temporal. I want to make something that is still, at least in the sense that it is fixed in some way. Something that is solid. You can’t touch music and you can’t touch theatre or poetry. Yeah sure, they’re on paper, but that’s not really the essence of either medium.
http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/exhibitions/on-view-now/contemplating-the-void
Holy shit my friends. This is what we call excellent. You can view the pieces on the site. Just click the “View the online exhibition” link.
Some of these are absolutely excellent. For instance, Experiencing the Void looks practically amazing, and Unraveling the Guggenheim is simply an excellent piece of art.
There are also a few I don’t like. ZenithNadir strikes me as jumping on the eastern bandwagon. I know I’m probably very outspoken on that point — everyone and their mother seems to be currently drooling over eastern culture at this moment in time, especially many of the damn hipsters who give serious artists, musicians, writers, etc…a bad name — but I think we’re at the point where we’ve bastardized Eastern Culture as much as they’ve bastardized Western Culture. (See Jpop for an example.)
This is beside the point however. The point is that there is new art in a big museum. You should check it out and support it, if only by clicking on the link and browsing through the pieces. You probably won’t like all of them, and neither did I. But there would be something wrong with the exhibit if you did.
Cheers.\
But now, after approximately a month with no computer, I now have a laptop I can call my own again.
That functions.
And for which all accessories necessary for use function.
Hell yes.
