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Celebrate Mancunian culture at FREE Festival of Manchester this weekend
A A FREE family festival celebrating Mancunian culture is coming to Manchester this weekend. The Festival of Manchester is happening for the first time and aims to celebrate all the different communities that help make our city such a vibrant … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, brazilian style, creatives, Culture, dance, drum, MSS, rhythm, samba
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The spotlight of attention is more like a strobe, say researchers – ScienceBlog.com
You don’t focus as well as you think you do. That’s the fundamental finding of a team of researchers from Princeton University and the University of California-Berkeley who studied monkeys and humans and discovered that attention pulses in and out … Continue reading
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Shore break, Tobias Hägg Source: nevver
How Music Can Heal Our Brain and Heart | Kathleen M. Howland | TEDxBerkleeValencia
Music therapy is an ancient and yet very modern practice that has the power to heal and transform our brains and bodies in significant ways. Kathleen Howland, speech language and music therapist explains how music really does have the power … Continue reading
Festival of Manchester – new one-day event is ‘for the people, by the people’
Launching on 1 September in Platt Fields Park, the event promises ‘a fling of fun for all the family’ (and that’s Manchester School of Samba in the picture)[…] Source: Festival of Manchester – new one-day event is ‘for the people, … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Carnaval, creatives, Culture, dance, drum, Manchester, rhythm
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Sinuously Curved Benches Made with Thin Strips of Steam-Bent Hardwood – Colossal
Brooklyn-based furniture designer and sculptor Matthias Pliessnig creates sumptuous, twisting benches by steam-bending hardwood. He first developed the process in 2006 while studying wooden boat building techniques at the University of Wisconsin-Madison when he realized that by flipping his boat-inspired creations over, … Continue reading
Rhythm Repeat
Loosely based on dreams and made on no sleep. Collab project with Carlos Enciso. Behind the scenes: vimeo.com/219425729 Created for AE PDX’s Design Week 2017 event “DRAEMS”. Audio RefraQ / Joe Mawson “Witching Hour”
Japanese Musician Creates Unique Drum Beats by Tapping on Vintage Tape Recorders
Japanese musicians Ei Wada, Haruka Yoshida, and Masaru Yoshida create reverberating drum beats on the outstretched tape of cracked open reel-to-reel tape recorders from the 1970s and 1980s. The group, appropriately named Open Reel Ensemble, produces an intriguing timbre that more … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, creatives, Culture, drum, Japan, music, rhythm, Technology
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The Uminami Strandbeest – The Kid Should See This
A new design that hearkens to Theo Jansen‘s original kinetic structures from the early 1990s, the PVC tube-constructed Uminami Strandbeest doesn’t get sand into its joints and requires no lubrication to move smoothly. Watch as it speeds across the sand on … Continue reading
Rhythm and Shifting Our Perception | David Alderdice | TEDxPaonia
How can understanding rhythm shift our perceptions of ourselves and the world? In this riveting talk Ethno-musicologist David Alderdice uses a mulltipercussion instrument and engages the audience to demonstrate how poly-rhythms, the simultaneous use of one or two conflicting rhythms, … Continue reading
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