Tag: 05.08.21
Analyzing The 17-Year Cicadas’ ‘Grand Magic Insect Symphony’ — And Joining In
"Only the males can vibrate a section of their abdomen called the tymbals to make either phaaaaaroah drone sounds or chchchchhwhhhs noise waves, depending...
Songwriters Are Getting Screwed By Streaming Too
Last month, Midia Research, which specializes in music and digital media, released a study, “Rebalancing the Song Economy,” that was commissioned by Abba's Bjorn...
Muti: COVID Year Was An Experiment In Global Culture
Riccardo Muti called the experience of the past year “an unnatural global experiment” that had “stunned” the world. “If we truly took into account...
The Compromises Of Live-Streaming
Livestreaming adds an additional layer of technical complexity and cost but doesn’t necessarily improve the audience’s experience of the play itself. Pre-recording allows the...
Gabriela Muñoz Speaks About the Importance of Collaboration
The Senior Program Coordinator of the National Accelerator at ASU’s Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts speaks about the impact of collaboration and...
Manzoor Ahtesham, Who Brought Bhopal To Life, Has Died Of COVID At 73
Ahtesham wrote of his native city with care and love. One of his translators said, "He had this almost magnifying glass of an eye....
The Pandemic Massively Accelerated A Digitization Trend
Today, we can see music, theatre, visual art, and new movies all from our chairs, couches, and beds. A year ago, not so much...
Cryptoart Isn’t New, And It Isn’t All NFTs
Instead, it's a way for independent digital artists to make a living. "Beneath the glossy auction houses, breathless headlines and outrage, there is a...
As Glaciers Melt, Relics From WWI’s Alpine Front Emerge
On the 10K Mount Scorluzzo in Italy, "the Austro-Hungarian soldiers who occupied those barracks were fighting Italian troops in what became known as the...
How Sesame Street Went From Radical Experiment To Mainstream Success
When the show premiered, it wasn't the beloved Big Bird and Elmo experience that people think of today. "In 1969, Sesame Street unveils and there is...
Streaming Theatre Will Do For Now
But nothing can replace the live experience. "Call it immediacy or authenticity, unpredictability or uniqueness, but it’s part of the reason people pay more...
Lloyd Price, Whose Smash Hits Prefigured Rock, Dies At 88
Price, inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1998, had his first big rhythm and blues hit with "Lawdy Miss Clawdy"...
The End Of Net Neutrality Was Riddled With Fraud
Fraud - and 8.5 million (Eight. Point. Five. Million.) bot comments secretly created by ISPs to urge against net neutrality. To be fair,...
Lyn Macdonald, Who Preserved The Voices Of WWI Soldiers, 91
Macdonald was a producer for the BBC in 1973 when she "was given what she thought would be a one-off journalistic assignment: to accompany...
Emma Donoghue ‘Toned Down The Horror’ In Room
Those who read the book or saw the movie may not quite believe it, but the real-life case from which the author drew her...
Martin Bookspan, The Voice Of The Lincoln Center, 94
Bookspan realized young that he probably wouldn't make it as a solo violinist, but he brought music to anyone with a radio or TV....
The Big Screen Experience Is Unparalleled
No matter what you've got in your house, there's nothing like watching a movie in the theatre with scores of other people. Then there...
Art Frieze New York Is Back, And So Are The Art Parties
Someone even asked, "Are we going to pretend nothing happened?" But no, not at the fair itself: "To gain admittance at the Shed at...
Musicians Versus The Streaming Companies – Something’s Gotta Change
The artists’ demands are threaded with anger and anxiety over the degradation of creative labor. But the musicians face long odds. Despite solidarity among...