Interested in joining the first-ever collaborative online orchestra? Professionals and amateur musicians of all ages, locations and instruments are welcome to audition for the YouTube Symphony Orchestra by submitting a video performance of a new piece written for the occasion by the renowned Chinese composer Tan Dun (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon). We have tools to [...]

I am still fighting my deadlines, so I will leave you with Cameron Carpenter. He is an organist who “…is on a mission to transform the way people think about organists and their instruments.” I love the sound of an organ, it’s the first additive synthesiser, it’s powerful, full of symbolism and has a [...]

I have been scarce lately, mainly due to a couple of evil deadlines (still going). A little while back I went to get my ears checked out, I received a newsletter from the hearing centre where I got my ears tested and I thought I would share what they had to say. It is a [...]

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I love this, the audio is from a podcast on ‘Time’ by Radiolab. One of the radio producers recorded snippets of his daughter (nothing to do with the picture above) from birth to 12 years old and edited the recordings into 2 minutes and 12 seconds. Enjoy!
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