World premiere of the Tan Dun composition “Internet Symphony, Eroica” as selected and mashed up from thousands of video submissions from around the globe.
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Sounds like Bill Gates
“We’ve really achieved the ideal of what I wanted Microsoft to become.”
-Bill Gates, June 2008
Industrial Music: David Byrne – Playing the Building
David Byrne: Playing the Building (BBTV)
Playing the building is a sound installation in which the infrastructure, the physical plant of the building, is converted into a giant musical instrument. Devices are attached to the building structure — to the metal beams and pillars, the heating pipes, the water pipes — and are used to make these things produce sound. The activations are of three types: wind, vibration, striking. The devices do not produce sound themselves, but they cause the building elements to vibrate, resonate and oscillate so that the building itself becomes a very large musical instrument.
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Still my guitar gently weeps (Bill Gates jams with the “Slash”)
Bill Gates plays guitar with SLASH at the CES, Las vegas
Unvisualize the Interface
Audiem is a non-visual web experience. It is inspired by online usability studies and the fact that our culture is so dependent on sight. It is designed primarily for people who are not visually impaired, to let them experience a linear audio interface without the distraction of visual content. It also provides podcasts of life without sight. Listen to them and focus on the background noises you would normally tune out. They are what the visually-impaired rely on to experience the world, sounds that most of us discard. We ignore nearly everything we hear and, apart from music, there are few sounds that we consciously focus on.
