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Touched by a Wild Mountain Gorilla (HD Version)

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An amazing chance encounter with a troop of wild mountain gorillas near Bwindi National Park, Uganda

Charles Limb: Building the musical muscle

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Uploaded by TEDtalksDirector on Dec 1, 2011
http://www.ted.com Charles Limb performs cochlear implantation, a surgery that treats hearing loss and can restore the ability to hear speech. But as a musician too, Limb thinks about what the implants lack: They don't let you fully experience music yet. (There's a hair-raising example.) At TEDMED, Limb reviews the state of the art and the way forward.

Charpentier - Depuis Le Jour from Louise

   

Three versions of the aria "Depuis Le Jour" from Gustave Charpentier's opera "Louise".

Maria Callas is Maria Callas, full of emotion but with a tendency to over "wobble" on the high notes.

Kiri Te Kanawa is very precise and has a wonderful voice but for me the Leontyne Price version taken from the Derek Jarman contribution to the 1987  film "Aria" is exquisite and by far my preferred version.

Happy Birthday, Stephen Sondheim - Video Library - The New York Times

Happy Birthday, Stephen Sondheim - Video Library - The New York Times

Murmuration #video #starlings #amazing

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A chance encounter and shared moment with one of natures greatest and most fleeting phenomena.

TateShots: Turner Prize 2011, George Shaw

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Uploaded by tate on Oct 20, 2011
Painter George Shaw is one of the nominees for the Turner Prize 2011.
For almost two decades his subject matter has been the place in which he grew up, a housing estate in Coventry and the surrounding streets. Every detail is scrupulously captured in Humbrol enamel paint, the kind of paint used by children on Airfix model kits.

Shaw's paintings are full of nostalgia for a lost childhood and exude a sense of time passing. More recently he has focused on the grim urban decay that is slowly infecting the local area.

The Turner Prize is a contemporary art award that was set up in 1984 to celebrate new developments in contemporary art. The prize is awarded each year to 'a British artist under fifty for an outstanding exhibition
or other presentation of their work in the twelve months preceding'.

Turner prize 2010: Adrian Searle's video verdict

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Published on Oct 28, 2011 by TheGuardian
With sculptures by Angela de la Cruz, paintings by Dexter Dalwood, video from the Otolith Group and sound art from Susan Philipsz, this is one of the most diverse Turner prize shows for years. The Guardian's art critic Adrian Searle finds there's much to like about this year's exhibition, and offers his tip for the winning entry.

Listening to Ray LaMontagne - Felt (out Oct 10th) #music #musicmonday #nowplaying

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Quiet & relaxing music.

Nils Frahm, born in 1982, had an early introduction to music. During his childhood he was taught to play piano by Nahum Brodski – a student of the last scholar of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. It was through this that Nils began to immerse himself in the styles of the classical pianists before him as well as contemporary composers. Today Nils Frahm works as a composer and producer in Berlin. In early 2008 he founded Durton Studio, where he has worked with likeminded musicians.
Read more… http://www.last.fm/music/Nils+Frahm

International team discovers planet made of diamond #astronomy #science

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An international research team led by the Swinburne University of Technology, identified a pulsar star (PSR J1719-1438) with a hidden planet. This small planet is much denser than any other planet and consists largely of carbon. Because of its density, scientists speculate the carbon must be crystalline. Effectively meaning a large part of the planet is diamond.

The planet is estimated to be the remains of a massive star that has lost its outer layers to the pulsar star it orbits (PSR J1719-1438), leaving behind the crystallized core.

The planet is located about 4,000 light years away in the constellation Serpens.

Daedelus - Fin De Siècle #music #video #youtube #orion #nebula

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Daedelus x Orion Nebula

"This musical romantic weaves together a true “love-sound” that falls between honeyed melody and all out rave. He taking the acoustics further with the husband & wife pairing, The Long Lost.

Once working from a studio in Santa Monica, California. A young Daedelus began noodling Bass Clarinet notes, and soon after attempting Double-Bass. After an ill-fated affair pondering classical and jazz, rave paved the way, and a burgeoning record collection fueled Daedelus’ artistic creativity, preparing the path to his first full length release, Invention." via http://www.last.fm/music/Daedelus