What to do with an old handheld?

Reware your PDA from Hans-Christoph Steiner on Vimeo.

This video introduces the Reware project: you can turn an old PDA, Pocket PC, Palm Pilot and the like into a musical device.. Learn about the Reware project, see how to easily install GNU/Linux and Pd on your Palm TX, and see some example projects.

http://dev.eyebeam.org/projects/reware/
Video by Albert Wilking

Toumani Diabate

The kora is a chordophone string instrument from Mali. Watch this video of Toumani Diabate playing:



March 25, 2008 — This performance of 'Cantelowes' is from the recent live World Premiere of "The Mandé Variations" at the prestigious El Real Alcazar de Sevilla in Spain which left the audience spellbound and was described by the The Independent as "a performance that surpasses anything....for sheer scale of ambition and technical achievement."

Read an interview with Toumani Diabate and see another video at this web page.

Ballet Nacional De España

"Not ballet, but definitely national, the Ballet Nacional de España aspires to a post-Franco ideal: to be a distinctively Spanish company that can accommodate regional and historical differences, as well as modernise and innovate." (http://guardian.co.uk/)

BALLET NACIONAL DE ESPAÑA (2004-05)

LiceuOperaBarcelona — November 05, 2009 — El loco
Coreografía: Javier Latorre
Música: Manuel de Falla
Escenografía y vestuario: Jesús Ruiz
Iluminación: Nicolás Fischtel (A.A.I)

Cambio de Tercio


Ballet Nacional De Espana


"The company represents all the original dance forms on the Spanish peninsula. They are based on folk and popular dances and also classicalSpanish dance. That's not ballet, by the way. Spanish dance is very rich and, although flamenco is the most well-known, we have other forms of dance."
Elvira Andrés, interview with Stuart Sweeney, 2003

Keeping Score

Keeping Score is the website of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, and it is a very interesting place! It is an outgrowth of the Symphony's television program on PBS in the US.

"The Keeping Score web site is designed to give people of all musical backgrounds an opportunity to explore signature works by composers Hector Berlioz, Charles Ives, and Dmitri Shostakovich in depth, and at their own pace. www.keepingscore.org offers an interactive area for each composer, with clues and context to illuminate the musical mysteries presented by the television episodes. The interactive audio and video explores the composers’ scores and pertinent musical techniques as well as the personal and historical back stories. The site is designed to particularly appeal to high school, college and university music appreciation students and their teachers, and its interactive learning tools offer a unique and in-depth online learning experience. The site includes groundbreaking and acclaimed interactives on composers Beethoven, Stravinsky, Copland and Tchaikovsky. The site also includes a new historical timeline that takes users deeper into the seven individual composers’ political, social, and cultural milieus as well as downloadable lesson plans created by teachers who have experienced the Keeping Score Education program."

Screen shot from KeepingScore

You can search the website for content by tag or keyword at this page.