Popular Cartography: Your Favourite Pop Titles Charted on One World Map
Who doesn’t like maps? Maps are great. They’re not only useful, but attractive to look at, too. Something about the arrangement of line and colour draws our gaze; from a...
Posts Tagged: "music"
A Rare and Gifted Poet: Leonard Cohen Will Be Missed
LEONARD COHEN (21st September 1934 – 7th November 2016) You Want it Darker was released only weeks before Leonard Cohen’s sad passing. The album completes what could be seen as...
How Science Inspired These Classic Album Covers
Music is an art, right? Not science. Well, the definitions of art and science, being broad enough to encompass much of human endeavour, are not mutually exclusive. And science has...
Inner Ear Headphones Free Up Your Hearing When You Listen To Music
Headphones can put you in a little bubble, which is sometimes what you want, but there are times when this audio isolation is inconvenient. Want to listen to music, but...
Hip-Hop Inspired Cover Remixes from Marvel Comics
Marvel Comics and hip-hop music aren’t two things that most people would instinctively put together, but like a lot of the world’s greatest odd but successful combinations, the two go...
How Does Music Affect Work?
We’ve long known that music can have an effect on our motivation, concentration and our overall mood, depending of course on the type of music you’re listening to (and I...
Bach In Lights: Beautiful Video Visualises The Well Tempered Clavier
Visual artists Alan Warburton has produced an incredibly clever and unique visualisation of J.S. Bach’s The Well Tempered Clavier, using thousands of fluorescent light bulbs. Transforming two compositions – Prelude...
In Pictures: Glastonbury 2015 Opening Day
A summer downpour, wedding proposals, political protests and a 50-tonne fire-breathing mechanical spider with a DJ booth in its belly. All in a day’s work for the Glastonbury Festival, and...
Google Launches Interactive Music Timeline
Search giant Google have launched an interactive music timeline, displaying the popularity of different genres, sub-genres and artists over the last 60+ years. The interactive visualisation uses aggregated data from...