Make Your Own Muzak
Apple has filed for a patent that will select music to match your activity level. Just think of your iPod as that guy beating the drum in the rear of the galley.
Making Stuff Invisible
Well, only stuff that's a fraction of a millimeter square and only for one ten thousand millionth of a second—but that's a start.
Making Vinyl Records, Part 1
How records are made: This segment covers making the lacquer and then cutting it.
Malcolm Arnold: A Re-Evaluation
Terry Teachout's Commentary essay on Malcolm Arnold suggests that it's time to re-evaluate the critical consensus that Arnold's music wasn't serious simply because it was, well, among other things, not hard on its listeners.
Male Restroom Etiquette
Somehow it all relates to Maslow's hierarchy of human needs.
Man, the Tool Using Animal
As the son of a hardware store owner, I'd call us men, the tool hoarding animals. According to a recent archeological find in Jordan, not">http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/12/13/ancient-toolkit.html?dcitc=w19… much has changed in 14,000 years.
Manualism
A demonstration of the art of manualism. The well known winter holiday tune "Sleigh Ride" by Leroy Anderson is played simply by squeezing air through the hands.
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Mapping Music
Here'shttp://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1582330-1,00.html">Her…; an interesting article about Princeton University composer Dmitri Tymoczko, who has string theory mathematics to represent the relationship of musical chords to one another in a graphic form.
Mapping Music
So string theory is good for something?
Marceau Speaks
The Christian Science Monitor took the occasion of Marcel Marceau's death to reprint its 1974 interview with the mime.