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Counting down to HE2007, I'm starting to link each day to a hi-fi topic.
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HE 2007 Coverage Coming Soon!
We will begin coverage of HE 2007 in New York starting Thursday, May 10. Stay tuned for reports from all three days of the show.
Audio Cassette RIP
"A massive 83 million tapes were sold in the UK in 1989. Yet by last year the figure had fallen to a mere 100,000. In the Nineties sales of pre-recorded tapes were overtaken by CDs and record companies started phasing them out."
Impressive Body of Work
I check in on aggregator blog <I>Locust Street</I> every week and it's almost always worth the visit. The last two weeks, however, have been extraordinary. Last week's deep excavation of the "Dry Bones" meme was perfect, but this week's theme of party girls is even better. Go—but only if you have a few hours to spend.
Colony Collapse Disorder?
<I>Classical Values</I> takes a sharp look at the much ballyhooed honeybee blight. "The bees that seem to be suffering from Colony Collapse Disorder are the ones that get boxed up and trucked around, and they've been kept going for decades with regular dustings of miticides. Whether this is good for bees and how long they can be expected to compete with wild insects is of course debatable."
Closer and Closer
Days pass, there are weddings and funerals, pink flowers smile everywhere, and we get closer and closer to the 2007 Home Entertainment Show.
Countdown to Ecstasy
Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy! Tonight, John Atkinson is going to give me an honest to God <I>production</I> copy of the Attention Screen <I>Live at Merkin Hall</I> CD. You need to get one too. In the meantime, here's an interview with one of the truly great improvisors, Keith Jarrett.
Words and Music
MIT Media Lab has posted a survey seeking to discover "what words people use to describe sounds—and whether everyone uses a common vocabulary, or whether the choice of words is related to a person's musical or cultural background—and how the chosen words relate to a sound's timbral characteristics."
A Matter of Scale
Subway maps of the world, rendered to scale. Why do I link to that? Because it's got subways . . . and maps . . . and, uh, scale.
The 25 Most Exquisitely Sad Songs in the Whole World
<I>Spinner</I> picks 'em. Yeah, it's a list, but this one has the songs embedded, so you can hear the ones you don't know—or the ones you love, for that matter.