beatnic - just wondering

TED Talk: Tod Machover & Dan Ellsey: Releasing the music in your head

Via Joe Lazarus via Scobleizer on Twitter.

If you’ll pardon the pun.

I’ve just been sent this info about an event taking place in July. I’ve added in the link showing where the venue is on Google maps.

Title: Gas Organ exhibition
Venue: The Sassoon Gallery
Location: Blenheim Grove, Peckham Rye, London SE15
Date: 16th - 18th July
Time: Midday - 9pm
Cost: Free

On three sultry nights in July, the sepulchral vault of Peckham’s underground venue The Sassoon Gallery will reverberate to the eerily melancholic strains of the infamous Gas Organ.

The Brain-child of founding collaborators Lou Smith and Rufus Burdett, the Gas Organ is a fabulous musical instrument, able to play itself, or be controlled or played remotely.

Constructed from freely available plumbing, electrical and laboratory components, the Gas Organ is a fusion of Art, Science and Engineering, beautiful in its clinical appearance and mesmerising in its auditory effect. Witnesses of the event have their credulity challenged as they view the ephemeral chaotic turbulence of a flame producing such incredible range and depth of sound; how can a science lab experiment evoke such an emotional response as this? I am watching this, but I don’t believe it.

Weblink: www.experiment1.co.uk

I will definitely be checking it out.

My friend Francis Rodino and his band are playing at the Half Moon in Putney at 8pm on August 18th.

Entry: £5 / £4 with flyer (or if you follow this link)

You can hear some of his songs at www.myspace.com/francisrodino

I think he’s really got something.

This public information film via Kathy Sierra’s superb Creating Passionate Users

This sounds like fun

Pazzazz Music is led by professional performers and educators from the UK’s top arts establishments. Pazzazz Music is the only music club for these ages of 4 to 7 that embraces conventional music training but also uses the children’s creativity as a core educational principle.

During each 6 week course the children will produce and perform a composition that will be recorded onto their own CD! Within the composition process we address the fundamental skills, essential for their future music education.

The classes are open access, anyone interested is welcome to attend, regardless of any previous musical training.

Taster sessions in Dulwich at 1pm-3pm on Saturday 4th Feb, and Greenwich at 1pm-3pm on Saturday 11th Feb.

More info here at http://www.pazzazzmusic.co.uk/

And Joanna did the website :-)

1. The Killers - Hot Fuss
   Massive tracks - remind me of The Cure, The Psychedelic Furs and U2

2. Athlete - Tourist
   Deptford’s Coldplay (ducks for cover)

3. Hothouse Flowers - Home
   Probably more famous for their 1980s hit “Don’t Go” from a different album. “I can see clearly now” and “Movies”, two tracks back to back in the middle of this album take me back to my days at Southampton University in 1988-1990.

4. Supergrass - In It For The Money
   Saw them play live at an Xfm gig in Islington last year - very energetic that Gaz Coombes

5. Jack Dee - Live (somewhere)…
   Free with the Observer a few months ago. Funny bloke.

6. Norah Jones - Feels Like Home
   Soothing stuff

7. U2 - How to dismantle an atomic bomb
   Large

8. Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head
   I like the piano in clocks

9. Empty slot for some reason

10. Scissor Sisters - Scissor Sisters
    My two-year old son always requests this one

I really must get an MP3 player…