Slim times
News
Millimetre-thick speaker wins Wall Street Journal Award.
Source: scenta
Date Published: October 19, 2009
Strictly classed
News
MP3 music undergoes a new shuffle.
Source: scenta
Date Published: August 27, 2009
In the air
News
Samsung signs up to ‘intelligent airwaves’ development plan.
Source: scenta
Date Published: May 18, 2009
Asher Roth: Asleep in the Bread Aisle
Features
Given the excitement surrounding Eminem's imminent return, it's easy to forget that his rise was not greeted with untrammelled delight by the hip-hop community. Indeed, some suggested his success might effectively signal the end of hip-hop as we know it. Once the music industry found a million-selling white rapper, it was bound to search out others and promote them at the expense of their black counterparts. Honky was going to go on one of his periodic musical mission creeps; hip-hop would be annexed as thoroughly as R&B had been by skinny kids from Richmond and Newcastle in the early 1960s.
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Date Published: April 17, 2009
Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier Books I & II; Angela Hewitt
Features
Angela Hewitt made her first recording of the 48 Preludes and Fugues in the late 1990s, as part of her Hyperion cycle of Bach's keyboard works. Her return to them seems to have been prompted by a sense of greater familiarity with the music itself, matured over 10 years of playing the pieces in recital. In fact, not a great deal about her performances has changed, though the piano itself has: for Hewitt now prefers the pearly glow of a Fazioli to the greater assertiveness of the Steinway. In some preludes, her rhythms are far more unbuttoned than before - a result, she suggests, of getting to know more music by French baroque composers such as Couperin and Rameau. But only occasionally does she take more liberties with expressive rubato than the music can stand. What shines through her playing most of all is a sovereign control of touch, texture and dynamic, so that every line is perfectly characterised and distinct. This is by no means the only approach to playing Bach's masterpiece on
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Date Published: April 17, 2009
Good reading
News
Intel launches e-book for the blind and dyslexic.
Source: scenta
Date Published: November 11, 2009
Inflatable seatbelts
News
Ford has put air bags into the back seat.
Source: scenta
Date Published: November 10, 2009
Shifting the flow
News
A new conducting film could lead to more energy-efficient displays.
Source: scenta
Date Published: November 10, 2009
Space elevator competition
News
NASA funded competition could see passengers get a lift to space.
Source: scenta
Date Published: November 05, 2009
Bluetooth rescue
News
Modified Bluetooth technology used to speed up telemedicine.
Source: scenta
Date Published: November 03, 2009
