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Chicken chicken.

Here's Snowball, the sulphur-crested cockatoo that can dance to a beat.

Prior to this, I had only seen the video of Snowball that's on YouTube, and shorter snippets recorded by Ani Patel and his team who studied Sowball's movements and measuring synchronisation with music.

Previously, we thought that only humans could synchronise their movements with auditory beats, but Snowball and anecdotal evidence from other birds suggests that the club of synchronisers could be larger - and possibly include those an

Bobby McFerrin demonstrates the power of the pentatonic scale, using audience participation, at the event "Notes & Neurons: In Search of the Common Chorus", from the 2009 World Science Festival, Ju...

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This is great...

From the description of the video in YouTube: "Atari 800XL was used for the lead piano/organ sound
Texas Instruments TI-99/4a as lead guitar
8 Inch Floppy Disk as Bass
3.5 inch Harddrive as the gong
HP ScanJet 3C was used for all vocals. Please note I had to record the HP scanner 4 seperate times for each voice. I tried to buy 4 HP scanners but for some reason sellers on E-Bay expect you to pay $80-$100, I got mine for $30."

Great dedication to classic equipment.

"Shared narratives create culture"

Säveltäjän ja koreografin yhteistyö on yksi kiehtovimpia kysymyksiä musiikin ja tanssin aihepiirissä. Monille tanssijoille musiikki on "vain" taustaa, ja tunnettua on, että tanssijat laskevat liikkeitään kahdeksaan, meni musiikki mihin tahtilajiin tahansa. Toisaalta, harvoille säveltäjille muu kuin absoluuttinen musiikki on merkittävää.

Vaatiikin jotain erityistä sekä koreografin että säveltäjän taholta, että syntyy yhteistaideteos, jossa sekä musiikki että tanssi hitsautuvat yhteen

This is how it works - a very clear explanation. soundcopyright.eu

From the event organised for MEP's by the Open Rights Group - speaking against the proposed directive to extend the copyright period of sound recordings. Sign the petition at soundcopyright.eu

This one goes straight to my iPod exercise playlist. Great song.

In my opinion this is the greatest comedy bit e...

Motion capture data of a South-African - Finnish choir workshop. Video by Marc Thompson.

Henri Chopin (1922-2008) with his amazing sound poetry, that comes from where human body, poetry, music, movement and imagination meet.

Merry Christmas!

This is very high on the list of all-time best of stand-up...

A great talk about internet as a learning environment and media literacy.