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Saturday, February 6, 2010

PS22 Chorus - Walking On A Dream - Empire of the Sun

http://ps22chorus.blogspot.com/

The PS22 Chorus has become a bonafide internet sensation over the last few years, singing choral renditions of classic & alternative pop songs. The kids have sung with Tori Amos, Passion Pit, Crowded House and Common! They have also performed for President Obama and the first family, Beyonce, Lady Gaga, Stevie Nicks, Rihanna, Jordin Sparks, Randy Jackson, Marcia Gay Harden, Nancy Pelosi, and Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Celebrity fans include Perez Hilton, Ashton Kutcher, Jason Mraz, Tom Kaulitz (Tokio Hotel), Suzanne Vega, Rob Dyrdeck, Innocence Mission, Bonnie Hunt, David Hasselhoff, Alyssa Milano, and many more.....

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Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Ancient Egyptian music - Hymn to the Seven Hathor

In collaboration with Syra Bonet, musicologist Rafael Perez Arroyo has just released the first fruit of many years of research into the music of Ancient Egypt.
The result is this spectacular entitled Music in the Age of Pyramids, performed by Arroyo's Hathor Ensemble. Realization of the music by Arroyo was based on study of the metric structure of hymns which survive in writing, discussion of music theory from heiroglyphics, sonic descriptions by ancient authors, and iconography. Arroyo has also made an effort at decoding a partial chironomy (hand gestures, the same source claimed for Biblical music), and discovered three basic modes for Ancient Egyptian music.

Ancient Egypt - Music In The Age Of The Pyramids

In The Lost Symbologist, Trylyan returns from ancient Egypt, only to find out that things are not quite what they seem:

http://lostsymbologist.posterous.com/back-to-the-starbucks-washington-monument-tim

Hathor, goddess of love, motherhood and music:

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Saturday, January 30, 2010

The Impossible Hamster Club

"We wanted to confront people with the meaning and logical conclusion of the promise of endless economic growth. We used a hamster to illustrate what would happen if there were no limits to growth because they double in size each week before reaching maturity at around 6 weeks. But if a hamster grew at the same rate until its first birthday, wed be looking at a nine billion tonne hamster, which ate more than a years worth of world maize production every day. There are reasons in nature, why things dont grow indefinitely. As things are in nature, sooner or later, so they must be in the economy. As economic growth rises, we are pushing the planet ever closer to, and beyond some very real environmental limits. With every doubling in the global economy we use the equivalent in resources of all of the previous doublings combined."

http://www.impossiblehamster.org/

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