Bits, bites and blurbs from Michael Cervieri.
Most of my Tumbling is at the Future Journalism Project.
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So, This Happened Recently
The Thank You Facebook Song.
Do yourself a favor: head to YouTube and read the comments.
A bit of genius: Wagner’s Ring Cycle as a professional wrestling epic.
Via ArtInfo:
The Metropolitan Opera’s blockbuster production of Wagner’s Ring Cycle may be eliciting pity applause uptown, but a very different new staging of the epic saga in the East Village is earning its performers loud cheers and high-fives from the audience. Performance Lab 115’s “The Ring Cycle (Parts 1-4),” at the Incubator Arts Project through April 29, transfers Wagner’s mashup of German, Scandinavian, and Norse myths from Valhalla to a WWF-style wrestling mat. The opera’s bellowing gods are now the lords of a different ring — outfitted with ‘80s fright wigs and loud costumes of glittering Spandex — who settle their age-old scores in elaborately choreographed fake fights. Improbable though the shift of setting may seem, writers Jeremy Beck and Dave Dalton (who also directs) remain tirelessly faithful to Wagner’s original, and their obvious reverence for the material, combined with an indefatigable cast, make the unconventional adaptation a chest-thumping success.
London Calling and other Kitteh Covers
Via The Kitten Covers.
Creating the World’s Ugliest Music
Via TED:
Scott Rickard set out to do what no musician has ever tried — to make the world’s ugliest piece of music. At TEDxMIA, he discusses the math and science behind creating a piece of music devoid of any pattern.
And via Slashdot:
He used mathematics of Évariste Galois (who was born 200 years ago) to create pattern-free sonar pings which he mapped to notes on a piano, and then played them using the non-rhythm of a Golomb Ruler.
Michel Gagne visualizes jazz with Sensology:
The creation of this film was a true spiritual and artistic journey. Sometimes, I felt like I was channeling the images. I did no storyboards and virtually no preliminary work. I animated in a stream of consciousness, one frame at a time at a rate of 30 frames per second. The shapes revealed themselves as I listened to the music over and over again. The process was intensely focused and required large amount of concentration. I was becoming part of the music and expressing my creativity at its rawest and most primal.
Like Kandinski tought us, every shape and sound has a equal vibration in the soul. When Paul Plimley saw a portion of the film for the first time, he said to me with tears in his eyes, “It’s like you read my soul.” Sensology was handdrawn (painted) with a Wacon tablet at first, and later, a Cintiq, using Adobe Photoshop. The drawings and frames were then composited and manipulated in a 2D software called Animo. There is no vector animation at any point in the film.
Cookie Monster sings Tom Waits’ God’s Away on Business.
Couldn’t sleep last night so spent some hours browsing the Reddits.
This is what sticks with me now that I’m up and about this morning.
Self portrait of my mind and and its sometimes firing synapses.
Part one of a four-part trilogy called A Universal Mental.
Happy Tau Day
Via the Atlantic Wire:
Every June 28, a rogue fleet of math nerds makes its case for the abolition of arguably the most important irrational number in the world: pi. These men and women of the “tau” are adamant that pi, the ratio of circumference to diameter of a circle, should be replaced by tau, the circumference of a circle divided by the radius. They contend not that 3.14159265, the value of pi, is wrong, but that it’s the wrong number to associate with a circle because “circles are more naturally defined by their radius than diameter,” Michael Hartl, author of the Tau Manifesto, told CNN.
Fucking rock star. Lauren Hill. Doo Wop/That thing.
And if that doesn’t convince: Could You Be Loved.
H/T: TammyEmma.
Some thoughts on the music of PI… and copyright.
