In this short, a neurologist issues a dare to a ragtime piano player and a famous conductor. When the two men face off in an fMRI machine, the challenge is so unimaginably difficult that one man instantly gives up. But the other achieves a musical feat that ought to be impossible. http://www.radiolab.org/blogs/radiolab-blog/2011/jul/26/4-track-mind/
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A 4-Track Mind
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Percussionlab | Featured Set | Saturn Never Sleeps - Exclusive DJ Mix
Percussion Lab - Live and DJ Sets from around the World
Saturn Never Sleeps is the fruitful collaboration between legendary producer King Britt and singer/artist Rucyl. For the past two years or so they have been holed up, perfecting their craft and dedicating themselves to continuing a mutant, forward thinking version of fellow Philadelphian Sun-Ra. With their debut album, Yesterday’s Machine, they have launched themselves into the spotlight, with a wide ranging tour and technologically informed sound. This mix sees the duo splitting selection duties into two engrossing parts, mixing new contemporaries such as Africa Hitech with classic BOC and Aphex tunes as well as their own Saturn Never Sleeps material. Check the album, out August 2nd on the prolific Alpha Pup Records. Speaking of Alpha Pup - their new regular NYC takeover shows have been causing quite a stir out here. Be sure to check their monthly Knitting Factory events. TRACKLISTING Pt. 1 - Rucyl Africa Hi-Tech - Don’t Fight It Michael Jackson - Billie Jean (Nico’s Rework) Murcof Martes - Memoria Art Department - Without You Saturn Never Sleeps - Take It Out Chloé - Suspended MisKate - Wizards Are Lucky (Diss0nance Remix) Finesse - Elevate
Pt. 2 - King Britt Saturn Never Sleeps - Tomorrow is a Rumor Eurythmics - Julia Peter Gabriel - Drowning the Wound Stevie Wonder - Venus Flytrap Chick Corea - Yellow Nimbus Brian Eno/David Byrne - The Carrier Jan Hammer - I Sing George Duke - The War Fugitive Interlude Saturn Never Sleeps - DRK Durutti Column - Detail for Paul Boards of Canada - Telephasic Workshop Alice Shields - Farewell to A Hill Colleen - Bubble Which on the Water Swim Aphex Twin - Prepared Piano No 2
http://www.percussionlab.com/sets/saturn_never_sleeps/exclusive_dj_mix
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By Design 2011-05-18
We need to ‘pivot’: Joichi Ito, MIT Media Lab, says why. ‘Pivoting’ says Joichi Ito is the skill we all need to acquire. Serendipity is also important. Meet Joichi, the new director of MIT Media Lab. Joichi is recognised as one of the world’s leading thinkers and writers on innovation, global technology policy, and the role of the internet. He is chair [formerly CEO] of Creative Commons, sits on the board of Mozilla Foundation, and was an early investor in Twitter and Flickr. Profile: Ilse Crawford, designer with soul Ilse Crawford is a designer sought after worldwide. She runs her own company, studioisle, and holds the rather intriguing post as Head of Department for Man and Wellbeing at the renowned Design Academy, Eindhoven. She has walked an intriguing path from her very early days as a sub-editor at the Architects Journal, followed by the World of Interiors — then catapulted into the job of launching Elle Decoration, in the UK, that went on to change the world of design magazines. She advises many of the world’s big design companies — Ikea and Volvo, for example — and has a list of private clients. Micromansions: The Hutwheels Project. In Trends this week we´re looking at a new push to encourage people to downsize into smaller homes, and an interesting project to reinvent the mobile home as an affordable and sustainable housing form. Listeners’ Letters Here is an audio clip of this week’s Listeners’ Letters. Enjoy. AA Gill on ingredients, restaurants and food culture Adrian Anthony Gill is restaurant reviewer and TV critic for the The Sunday Times in London and a frequent contributor to GQ and Vanity Fair magazines. He also writes for Australian Gourmet Traveller. Frequently controversial, he is a writer of noted and acerbic wit.
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Cities - Radiolab Podcast
In this hour of Radiolab, we take to the street to ask what makes cities tick.
There’s no scientific metric for measuring a city’s personality. But step out on the sidewalk, and you can see and feel it. Two physicists explain one tidy mathematical formula that they believe holds the key to what drives a city. Yet math can’t explain most of the human-scale details that make urban life unique. So we head out in search of what the numbers miss, and meet a reluctant city dweller, a man who’s walked 700 feet below Manhattan, and a once-thriving community that’s slipping away.
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Robot Opera and Immortality
http://onpoint.wbur.org/2011/03/07/robot-opera
In the new robot opera, “Death and the Powers,” humans are history. So is flesh and blood- as ‘so over’ as the dinosaurs.
The high-tech drama, composed by Tod Machover, tells the story of how one eccentric billionaire led the way, by refusing to die. He uploads himself – his mind – into the realm of digital immortality, and leaves his worldly body behind. Machover, known as “America’s most wired composer” and director of the Opera of the Future group at the MIT Media Lab, thinks of his character Simon Powers, as “a combination of Howard Hughes, Walt Disney and Bill Gates,” who rather than wanting to live forever, desired “to leave the world, but leave everything about himself here.”
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MaxFunCon 2010: Jad Abumrad
Jad Abumrad gives the MaxFunCon audience some insight into how Radiolab is made. Jad explains some of the behind-the-scenes techniques used to make the information presented on his radio program sound like music.
http://www.maxfuncon.com/2010/12/maxfuncon-2010-jad-abumrad.html
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WNYC - Radiolab » The Loudest Miniature Fuzz
This week Jad talks with the band Buke and Gass (pronounced ‘Buke and Gase’) about the weird and wonderful twangy chaotic sounds they make with their homemade instruments. Though they sound like a whole rip-roaring party of bodies, the band is in fact only comprised of two people: Arone Dyer and Aron Sanchez. Together they play for us, attempt to describe their genre-bending sound, and talk a bit about what’s it like to play out what you don’t say.
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Seeing Impostors: When Loved Ones Suddenly Aren’t
Numerous sci-fi films since have capitalized on our fear of being surrounded by duplicates — replicas who look just like our loved ones but are not. And while there have so far been no confirmed cases of a human being replaced by an alien or any other life-form, the feeling that your loved one has been replaced by someone else can be very real.
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Deceptikon From the Metropolis Mix
http://www.percussionlab.com/sets/deceptikon/from_the_metropolis_mix
I’m pretty sure Deceptikon has soaked in plenty of neon synths and heavy bass since his relocation to the west coast. "Mythology of the Metropolis," his upcoming third album on Daly City Records, is a hard hitting departure from his more chilled out hip hop instrumental work on Merck Records. Electro beats, growling lazer bass and sine wave melody workouts are the name of the game. I almost wish I had a car so I could bomb around this spring, blasting this mix with the windows down.
Tracklist ———————————————————————————- John Carpenter - Street Thunder Deceptikon - Kinyoubi Deceptikon - Tokyo Burning Jega - Bluette Deceptikon - Echolocation Boards Of Canada - Rue The Whirl Missy Elliott - Pass That Dutch (Instrumental) Deceptikon - The Humans Return Deceptikon - Indo Loops Zapp & Roger - More Bounce To The Ounce Deceptikon - Broken Synthesizers
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WNYC - Radiolab: Stochasticity (September 11, 2009)
STOCHASTICITY This hour, Radiolab examines Stochasticity, which is just a wonderfully slippery and smarty-pants word for randomness. How big a role does randomness play in our lives? Do we live in a world of magic and meaning or … is it all just chance and happenstance? To tackle this question, we look at the role chance and randomness play in sports, lottery tickets, and even the cells in our own body. Along the way, we talk to a woman suddenly consumed by a frenzied gambling addiction, two friends whose meeting seems purely providential, and some very noisy bacteria. http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/episodes/2009/09/11
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