Gaetano Scippa
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Chile is a country whose traditions and cultural identities are commended through the works of skilled artisans that hand down their own working techniques from one generation to another. Chilean design encloses this, being still far from well-known brands and industrial factories. The designer Pablo Ocqueteau has realised handmade clay speakers that combine ancestral ceramic techniques with
October 9th marks what would have been John Lennon’s 75th birthday. To commemorate the Beatle and her life partner who was murdered in 1980, artist and activist Yoko Ono is trying to realise the world’s largest human peace sign. The challenge of “Imagine Peace” is not at all easy: on 6th October in Central Park,
“On Your Wavelength” is an interactive site-specific installation that combines arts, music and neuroscience. It’s a large-scale installation of lasers that uses the participants’ brain data and the latest light and sound design technologies. In a dark tunnel-like space, users are equipped with EEG earphones that monitor their brain wavelengths (electroencephalography is the recording of the
Even before coming into the world, the outer sounds we hear are filtered by liquids. But music, as well as water, has an effect on people as an underwater environment. Maybe this is the reason why the combination between water and music has always been stimulating the artistic imagination and production, from John Cage to
Different places shape the sound in different ways. But, unless you are professional musicians, probably you wouldn’t often think about acoustics. Every environment where you are in, both open or close, has unique sound features that leave their marks on your voice. Wikisinger, a video directed by Vincent Rouffiac and produced by Touché Videoproduktion in collaboration
In 1977, the twin spacecraft Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 were launched by NASA. Along with astronauts, a few records of gold-plated copper (Golden Records) containing sounds, music and images of the Earth were sent aboard of the spacecraft. All this was sent with the instructions for use and a record player. Today, it is possible to listen to and
Music has many beneficial effects on humans and, according to recent studies, even on patients in the surgical environment, since it helps reduce pain, anxiety and stress. A joint study of the University of Lisbon and a clinic of Barreiro, Portugal, published in the Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery, reveals that music has positive influence
“The secret of my success? We’ve worked hard,” said Saad Lamjarred, the current most popular Arabic singer, to the interviewer of Al Arabiya. Born in 1985 from an artistic family, the Moroccan young man reached almost 23 million views on YouTube with his latest song “LM3ALLEM (The Boss)” in only 3 weeks, breaking a Guinnes
It is widely known that some pieces of classical music can be relaxing and, especially during a concert, everyone can fall asleep. Starting with this assumption, but also taking into account that we are living in a hyperkinetic society, Max Richter, a 49 years old British composer, wrote a song lasting 8 hours and called “Sleep”, specifically to
Escaping the city to dive into nature. Literature, cinema and music often tell stories about urban escapism. For the John Moose folk band, composed of five musicians coming from Värmland’s wild woods, Sweden, environment is a vital issue. To such an extent that they thought to “oblige” their listeners to escape into woods to listen
