Friday, May 24, 2013

you hear with your eyes [in german]

Wem Musik vorgetragen wird, den beeinflussen auch optische Reize. Diese können die Wahrnehmung des Klangs sogar dominieren - und das selbst bei geschulten Ohren.

http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/studie-mit-profimusikern-das-auge-hoert-mit-a-917390.html

Thursday, May 9, 2013

Neanderthal Bone Flute Music


Short film, full title is Playing the Neanderthal flute of Divje babe, is authored by Sašo Niskač, music is performed by Ljuben Dimkaroski, scientific adviser is Dr. Ivan Turk, archaeologist. Extraordinary find from 1995 in Divje babe cave site, western Slovenia, it is most comprehensively described in the paper athttp://www.cpa.si/tidldibab.pdf, was met with great enthousiasm on one side and with great scepticism on the other side of the scientific audience, for details see http://www.greenwych.ca/divje-b.htm. Only in 2009 the dilemma if the holes in the bone were accidental or purpose-made, was finally resolved. Ljuben Dimkaroski, member of the Ljubljana Opera Orchestra for 35 years (trumpet), was given a clay replica of the flute by the curator of Slovenian National Museum on occasion of Ljuben's exhibition "Image in Stone". In his dreams, about a year later, he got a clue of how to play this prehistoric instrument. The result you can see and hear by yourself, or live, performed on a concert, at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38AFm-TUywE