2008年3月29日 星期六

2008年3月22日 星期六

Kiyoshi Awazu


On March 8, pianist Yosuke Yamashita donned a fireproof suit and played a burning piano on a beach in Ishikawa prefecture. The improvised jazz performance went for about 10 minutes until the flames rendered the piano silent.

2008年3月21日 星期五

2008年3月13日 星期四

Present and Future Evolutions

Speaker: Paolo Baggia, Director of International Standards, Loquendo
Paolo Baggia is currently Director of International Standards of Loquendo and actively involved in W3C and the VoiceXML Forum, where he is a member of the Board of Directors. Formerly, he lead the VoiceXML browser development for Loquendo's VoxNauta platform. In 1989, he joined CSELT, Telecom Italia's R lab, and was involved in several research activities, including natural language, speech parsing, spoken dialog design, and language modeling. In 1999, he took part in a large-scale speech application: the automation of TreniItalia railway company's call centers. He holds a degree in computer science from the Università di Torino
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Technologies and Platforms]

Let's Save Earth!

2008年3月12日 星期三

Data Art: The Sheep Market


Artist Aaron Koblin's phalanx of 10,000 sheep, all drawn by random strangers through Amazon's labor distribution mechanism, The Mechanical Turk. Koblin's goal was to raise questions about the emergence of new labor systems in the information age.

Simon's Cat 'Let Me In!'

2008年3月9日 星期日

2008年3月7日 星期五

2008年3月2日 星期日

Paris Fashion Week /Style 2008


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When Piano things talks


[Inprovisation]
Incredible duet by the Genius Chick Corea and pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba recorded in Japan 1995.

2008年3月1日 星期六

Paul Bley

Solo in Mondsee
[Solo in Mondsee]
by Paul Bley,
I highly recommend this well recorded session. Bley is one of the most original, cliche free pianists we have and he's still at the top of his game.

Sad Sidewalk



The Jesse Stacken Trio performs "Sad Sidewalk" live at the Cornelia Street Cafe, New York City. February 17, 2008. Jesse Stacken - piano, Eivind Opsvik - bass, Jeff Davis - drums