More Than Just Streaming Classical Music

There are two interesting sides to this experiment: Coding project aims to deepen the experience of streaming classical music (Ars Technica). I like listening to classical music, but I often wonder: is what we hear today really what the composer intended? Or: why did the composer use those instruments? Having a running commentary while listening to a piece could be quite illuminating, if and when some of my favourites were to belong to the selection.

On the other hand, this project is a nice illustration of some of the powers of HTML5. Food for techies and music fans at the same time!

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Jazz Fever

There’s a lot jazz music to be heard in Antwerp (Belgium) these days: the jazz festival ‘Jazz Middelheim‘ starts next friday, and the public radio stations play more jazz music than usual.

I also stumbled upon a 2008 concert registration on TV, where the Pierre Anckaert Trio (featuring Pierre Anckaert on piano, Hendrik Vanattenhoven on double bass and David Barker on drums) clearly showed why they won the Jazz Hoeilaart competition in 2007. I have ordered their first CD ‘Candide’ online ;-)

Pierre Anckaert Trio - Candide

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NUKLEOS WEBLOG 2007-10-09

Blog Cops? No, I went to see The Police yesterday evening, so I had no time for blogs! And yes, it was a good concert, if a bit short – but we know now that Stings voice wasn’t 100%…

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NUKLEOS WEBLOG 2007-08-01

Tongue-in-cheek Indeed. A few weeks ago, Scott Ambler presented ”a formula for calculating the cruftiness of a document”, which measures the degree in which development documentation is ‘badly designed, poorly implemented, or redundant’. Great! Now: can that same formula be applied to the applications and systems themselves?

Thirteen Indeed. Frank Zappa probably would have been amused, rather than proud, to see that a small ugly street originally called ‘Number 13′ is now being named after him: “Schön ist sie nicht, die Straße Nummer 13 im Industriegebiet. Und doch wird sie ab morgen als erste Straße in Deutschland den Namen der US-Rocklegende Frank Zappa (1940-1993) tragen” (from the Berliner Zeitung Online).

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NUKLEOS WEBLOG 2007-07-29

Just A Bit More about Frank Zappa: the Zappa Wiki Jawaka.

And Just A Bit More about Hypercard: Hypercard’s History.

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NUKLEOS WEBLOG 2007-02-22

No, I Wasn’t Looking For Bach. In fact, it was developerWorks’ John Swanson who pointed me to Jóhann Jóhannsson : IBM1401, A User’s Manual : www.ausersmanual.com. Inspiration for great things can be found everywhere – even in old computers. This is fine music – I can see myself buying this CD.

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NUKLEOS WEBLOG 2006-07-23

Sing Along - or just enjoy: “A love song about web standards“. The lyrics are very funny, and the song is not bad either… Let’s call it an excellent way to smooth over the passage from holiday to web development work!

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NUKLEOS WEBLOG 2006-07-17

Modern Times. The wonders of modern technology in a nutshell: here I am, 800km from my home, in a so-called summer residence, small yet cosy and with all the comfort we have learned to take for granted. Satellite TV broadcasts will turn out to offer the high-quality station you know so well (keep it up, Arte). What’s that wonderful opera they’re showing? Boot up the PC and you’ll know it´s Rossini´s “L’Italienne à Alger” (great show, live from Aix-en-Provence). Grab a mobile phone, and wake up your buddy to tell him about it. It’s no wonder we call our kids obsessed with tech stuff – we have taught them to be obsessed with it!

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NUKLEOS WEBLOG 2006-06-28

Sing Along With Lisp. I can’t remember how I got hold of this URL, but I sure do want to remember it: Experiments in Musical Intelligence. Apparently, David Cope is a well-known composer, who also happens to be an author and an authority on what I will call computer-generated music compositions. He has some amazing samples in MP3 format; enjoy!

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NUKLEOS WEBLOG 2006-03-12

Aaargh! I’m not a specialist on the subject, but I love jazz music, and I know that Belgium has something of a reputation in the subject. I was happy to read about a Belgina new website – and very disappointed when I visited the site: the content of the Jazz Centrum Vlaanderen seems OK… but page structure and layout scream “Frontpage” and amateurism. Let’s hope they find a better webmaster…

(Technorati Tags: Belgium, Jazz)

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NUKLEOS WEBLOG 2005-09-15

20 Is A Good Start. I thought I had mentioned this link before, but if that’s so, it’s well hidden in this blog: 20 Cool Tiger Features You Might Not Have Heard About. At least now I know how to change the size of my mouse pointer ;-)

Food For iPods. “Classic Cat is a directory with links to over 3000 free to download classical performances on the internet, sorted by composer and work” – now that is something I have to try immediately (thank you, Schockwellenreiter).

(First published at http://nukleos.editthispage.com/2005/09/15…)

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NUKLEOS WEBLOG 2005-05-26

I Didn’t Know They Were Coming: Zappa Plays Zappa – Tour de Frank or “Ahmet & Dweezil Present & Perform The Music Of Frank Zappa With Sternly Accomplished Special Guests & Other People“. This is a hard decision: on the one hand, I would love to hear Zappa’s music performed on stage; on the other hand I’m unfamiliar with the Zappa sons – and I don’t like the acoustics of the Belgium stage (Vorst Nationaal). Luckily for me the ticket sales haven’t started yet… or so it is being said in the press.

Write! If you live in Belgium and want to help the fight against European software patents, then go read Oproep aan het Europees Parlement: stop softwarepatenten! and act as you see fit.

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NUKLEOS WEBLOG 2005-04-11

Faut Le Faire. Het tweede net van de franstalige openbare televisie, “La Deux”, heeft twee dagen na elkaar een uitzending gewijd aan Nathalie Loriers, haar bands en haar composities. Het concert op het Gaume Jazz Festival in 2004, met oa. Yadh Elyes en Tony Overwater in het project “Chemins Croisés”, was indrukwekkend mooi – iets om te gaan zoeken op CD! En hoedje af voor de RTBf – ik zie de VRT, laat staan de commerciële omroepen, nog niet meteen aandacht besteden aan de Belgische jazz. En dan nog wel twee avonden op rij.

Compact translation: if you like jazz, go listen to Nathalie Loriers!

 

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