The New Sound (1979) features Paddy Kingsland, Rick Wakeman and Peter Zinovieff (via @jonnytrunk)
Librarians Wanted are extremely happy to host our friends Banana and Louie’s magnificent Alphabet Soup album launch, at the Victoria, Mile End Friday 7 September.
Who’s Banana and who’s Louie is a secret, but the band consists of Matthew and Sharon from one of our favourite bands, A…
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On Friday, police arrested 182 people en masse for participating in the Critical Mass bike ride. With their usual indifference to decency, the Met managed to assault participants (2), keep at least twenty of them on a bus overnight, and detain arrestees at far-flung stations, releasing…
This week as been a especially depressing time to be on the left. I do not wish to spill any more bytes on the question of Assange and rape and the terrible reaction of the wider left to this where others have made the point so well. What I do want to question a fundamental assumption made by…
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978, dir. Philip Kaufman)
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Iamus, classical music’s computer composer, live from Malaga
The first music composed by computer considered good enough for top-class musicians to play is to be performed to mark the 100th anniversary of Alan Turing’s birth
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As soon as you see the title of Iamus’s composition Transits – Into an Abyss, you know it’s going to be challenging, modernist stuff. The strings pile up discords, first spooky, now ominous. But if your tastes run to Bartók, Ligeti and Penderecki, you may like it. At least you have to admit this bloke knows what he’s doing. But this bloke doesn’t know anything at all. Iamus is a computer program. Until the London Symphony Orchestra was handed the score, no human had intervened in preparing the music. “When we tell people that, they think it’s a trick,” says Francisco Vico, leader of the team at the University of Malaga who devised Iamus. “Some say they simply don’t believe us. Others say it’s just creepy.” He expects that when Iamus’s debut CD is released in September, performed by top-shelf musicians including the LSO, it is going to disturb a lot of folk. (via Iamus, classical music’s computer composer, live from Malaga | Music | guardian.co.uk)
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