Enzo Jannacci
Ho saputo della morte di Enzo Jannacci attraverso Twitter. Drammi raccontati in pochi caratteri, come in questa sua splendida e visionaria canzone. Non riesco a pensare a un miglior modo per ricordarlo...
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Musica
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Bach on a Moebius strip
The geometrical beauty in J.S. Bach's opus, visualized. The Moebius strip is, simply put, a surface with just one side. A canon is a musical composition based on a melody, played along with one or...
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Perspective
The best minds of my generation had apparently more to say about the early demise of Steve Jobs, a brilliant entrepreneur, than they felt appropriate for Amy Winehouse. This is said without the least intention...
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L’ultima del Tristano
Che senso ha parlare di Paese del Bel Canto, di tradizione e di patrimonio culturale se non si coltivano la conoscenza e la pratica della musica? Roberto Casati e Maurizio Giri propongono cinque misure...
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Crowsourcing!
It's not a typo... When seeing birds on a wire, I always wonder what sort of tune they'd compose. Jarbas Agnelli, musician and movie director, did the thing for good. [via Open Culture] ...
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Twitterdämmerung
One month to create an Opera, libretto and musical score, and perform it - starting from just an opening scene:One morning, very early, a man and a woman were standing, arm-in-arm, in London’s Covent...
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Singing eBook
My original stance about eBooks was that it might be a great way to save us from the burden of useless paper, so welcome electronically distributed newspapers: but please don't mess with the relationship...
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Sing a Sad Song
A summer meme is travelling the Italian blogosphere these days. Ignited by Luca Sofri, its purpose is to write a post the personal choice for the saddest song ever. Mine is Tom Waits' Martha - it is not...
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Eurovision 2008
I have just finished watching a few minutes of the 2008 Eurovision song contest, hosted by Serbia (having won the last edition with Marija Šerifović's Molitva). As the Museum of Broadcast Communication...
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Degradart attack!
The law proposal S1861, approved by the Italian Senate, allows free publishing on the web for images and music, provided that they are in low resolution or degraded, for scientific or educational purposes...
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Allegorical game
Jason Rohrer's Passage is a small example of what can be achieved with videogames, if the goal is communicating emotions instead of providing addictive gameplay. The best thing to do is to download (it's...