I’m a little late to this one, but wow: My grandmother may finally care about what I do for a living.
[via Tom Service/Guardian]
And if you’re still looking for procrastination material: Unrelated to music, except in the “Q: Where were you before you moved to Williamsburg? A: Oberlin.” kind of way…
[via Dial “M” for Musicology]
Just so we’re clear: The takeaway from the first video should not be “a cat could have written Op. 11;” rather, it should be “dozens of cats, functioning independently and composited painstakingly, can be construed to approximate the sound of Op. 11.” Isn’t that a richer encapsulation? (richer=wonkier)