If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don't bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking. ―Buckminster Fuller Public Domain Image via Pixabay
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Quote for Today: Vincent van Gogh
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. --Vincent van Gogh Public Domain Image via pexels.com
Quote for Today: Bill Bryson
Among the many thousands of things that I have never been able to understand, one in particular stands out. That is the question of who was the first person who stood by a pile of sand and said, "You know, I bet if we took some of this and mixed it with a little potash … Continue reading Quote for Today: Bill Bryson
Quote for Today: Robert M. Pirsig
That sounded right, and the more he thought about it the more right it sounded. Schools teach you to imitate. If you don’t imitate what the teacher wants you get a bad grade. Here, in college, it was more sophisticated, of course; you were supposed to imitate the teacher in such a way as to … Continue reading Quote for Today: Robert M. Pirsig
Acoustic Dance Music: Experimentation and the Indigenous in Olive Tree Dance’s Airport Tunnel
Olive Tree Dance is a Portuguese band who fuse Australian aboriginal music, Afro-Brazilian music and contemporary dance music to create something quite unique. Their style has been dubbed bio-natural for its use of acoustic, particularly indigenous, instruments to imitate the sounds of the electronic machines used to to produce most contemporary dance/club music. The group … Continue reading Acoustic Dance Music: Experimentation and the Indigenous in Olive Tree Dance’s Airport Tunnel
Tree Music: Works of Diego Stocco
Diego Stocco is a Italian composer, music sound designer and performer who combines the electronic with the natural. In other words, he is right up our alley here at Synkroniciti. You may have heard his work in the films Chernobyl Diaries, Takers, Sherlock Holmes, Crank and Into The Blue; the television shows The Tudors, Moonlight and Sleeper Cell; or the video games Assassin's Creed, Far Cry Instincts and The Conduit. His … Continue reading Tree Music: Works of Diego Stocco
Cool Noise: Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories and Giorgio Moroder
Daft Punk became popular in the 1990s and is credited with some of the biggest hits of the French house music scene, including Phoenix and Rollin' and Scratchin'. Audiences in the United States probably know them best for One More Time. The electronic music duo of Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter is known for its theatrical … Continue reading Cool Noise: Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories and Giorgio Moroder
