Of All Schnberg's Magnificent Works, I Can't Help But Love Op. 25 Best. So Marvelous, I Love It As Much

Of all Schönberg's magnificent works, I can't help but love op. 25 best. So marvelous, I love it as much as anything in the world. And Gould's performance is a favorite too, along with Rosen's (good luck finding it).

atonalitydotnet:

iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/schoenberg-piano-music-piano/id203939737

Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/3WSSe3NXOOs1HqyAVSCRoU

Suite op. 25

Complete playlist: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMhNcmmMn0A&feature=PlayList&p=B7EA5853D24983…

Original Article

Glenn Gould plays Arnold Schönberg

Piano players! Worry no more about carpal or repetitive stress injuries! The future will give you an arm, forearm, and fingers to practice 24 hours a day if you've got the stamina for it!

fastcompany:

As part of the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency’s (DARPA) new priority program for breakthrough technology in medicine, a mind-controlled prosthetic arm may be on the market in a few years. Seriously crazy. Just check out the video above and read the details below:

The arm, which was developed at a cost of over $100 million by DARPA and Johns Hopkins University over the past five years, is controlled by a microchip in the brain. The microchip records neuron activity and decodes the signals to activate motor neurons that control the prosthetic.

DARPA’s prosthetic works much like a regular arm, with the ability to bend, rotate, and twist in 27 different ways. It is designed to restore almost complete hand and finger function to patients dealing with spinal cord injury, stroke, or amputation.

Now that the arm has been expedited through the FDA’s program, Johns Hopkins will implant its microchips in five patients and monitor them for a year. There are few safety concerns, but the university anticipates issues with maintaining chip quality over time, according to the Los Angeles Times. If all goes well, the arm could be on the market in just four to five years.

We’re almost scared. Didn’t anyone see Matrix 2: Neo Returns? Machines will be our downfall.

Now if those maidens start to prance when I play Mendelssohn, well then that's a-piano and that's amore!

thepiano:

1903 White House Piano at Smithsonian Museum

It does feel quite sad and broken too often. On the other hand, I'm surprised it works as well as it does. Content that is easier to post/repost than Twitter, yet virtually ALL visual with the exponentially larger bandwidth requirements. Yet I suspect at the moment with a fraction of Twitter's capacity. I hope things improve but the very nature of the service may guarantee that success breeds continued "failure", as it were.

i12bent:

A new design again, already?!

How about working on functionality instead???

I'm sorry to be rexist... but rexes are the best. (I have 3)

cuteboyswithcats:

two curlies: tamsin the cornish rex and p, my hubby.

-clee

People made so much of Gould's rituals, perhaps as much in hindsight as in the moment, but many/most/all of them made tremendous sense. I don't consider myself to have any particular body temperature anomalies, but I can't tell you the number of times before a performance my hands felt either like blocks of ice or too moist or sticky in the webbing or whatever else. Any time I could wet them down, warm them up, and dry them off, I felt much better.

mirroir:

Pianist Glenn Gould soaking his hands in the sink to limber up his fingers before performing.  He starts with lukewarm water and gradually raises the temperature to hot. (by Gordon Parks for LIFE)