by Pier Marton | Jun 2, 2013 | Art, iOS, iPhone, Music, Mystery, Software, Sound, Spectacle
Soundscape 2 Visual music for VJs or those who want to “see music.” WARNING: this software does not work only with bad music! Anemone 1.5 will probably also fascinate & hypnotize you! From the developer, David De Candia’s website, Dean Radin:...
by Pier Marton | Jun 2, 2013 | Deals, iOS, iPhone, Music, Software
(and non-HD for the iPhone/iTouch) Thank you Richard Bao. Most realistic sounding piano… and by playing with the upper left setting one can choose to play also guitar, bass, harp, marimba, and music box. – as if designed by Apple –...
by Pier Marton | May 12, 2013 | Afri, Death, Highlights, Human Rights, Humor, Ideas, Idées, Music, Politics, Popular, Racism
The talented Cyril Effala dies in Yaoundé at the age of 35 from typhoid fever. More songs (Le laboureur, Nuits Perdues, Ashuka Ngongoli, Saint Pierre) are available on this MySpace page. May someone produce a compilation CD! Thanks to my friend Jay Lou, I have one...
by Pier Marton | May 4, 2013 | Afri, Art, Asia, Highlights, Hispanic, Human Rights, Humor, Ideas, Jewish, Music, Politics, Popular, Quotes, Sound, Travel
The multi-talented world hero, musician & ethnomusicologist. If you are not living on the edge, you’re taking too much room. B.B. He used to quote Sun Ra: The planet is asleep, and it’s the fault of musicians who are not true to themselves. [Ed.: I...
by Pier Marton | Apr 24, 2013 | Books, Film, France, Humor, Idées, Music, Poet, Spectacle
With the release in France of a second film version of L’Écume des Jours – Mood Indigo – by Gondry (cf. below for the 1968 version) the marriage of two French zany authors is a done deal! Boris Vian (writer, poet, musician, singer, translator,...
by Pier Marton | Mar 19, 2013 | Art, Ego, France, Highlights, Humor, Media, Music, Poet, Politics, Video
Jean-Christophe Averty, Satrape du Collège de Pataphysique (Pataphysics)* – et premier artiste-vidéo – et Alfred Jarry, créateur de la science des solutions imaginaires, se rencontrent électroniquement parlant en 1965. *dont les cahiers ont été composés...