Music the artform and artists
Introduction à la musique "classique"
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- Monday, 30 November 2015
Entre grandes lignes et petites anecdotes, ce Point Culture vous propose une sympathique introduction à la musique dite « classique ».
The Man Who Wanted To Be An Orchestral Violinist But Perfected Record Players Instead
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- Monday, 30 November 2015
Norman C. Pickering, an engineer, inventor and musician whose pursuit of audio clarity and beauty helped make phonograph records and musical instruments sound better.
IAML: Impressions from the 36th IMC General Assembly
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- Monday, 30 November 2015
The meeting in Rabat started with roundtables called "IMC Talks and Listens". This was a new approach by the IMC Board and the outcome was very successful.
The Evolution of the Analog Distortion
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- Monday, 16 November 2015
Back in distortion’s origin days, it was all about playing loud. Guitarists would crank the volume until an excess of electricity flowing through their amps’ vacuum tubes compressed and distorted the signals produced by their guitars.
The Most Successful Labels in Hip-Hop
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- Monday, 16 November 2015
As the story goes, in 1979 when rap music first became a marketable commodity via the 12” single, there was arguably as much resistance as there was celebration.
Le Maroc accueille la 36e assemblée générale du CIM
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- Monday, 16 November 2015
«Je remercie tous ceux qui ont veillé à la concrétisation de cet évènement qui nous est très cher et aussi important. Car il nous permet de faire le point sur tout qui a été réalisé par notre organisme et, ainsi, d’échanger avec les différents comités membres du CIM, afin de réfléchir ensemble sur ce que nous pouvons faire pour les accompagner dans leurs démarches»
What’s wrong with the classical concert experience in the 21st century?
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- Monday, 16 November 2015
‘If classical music does indeed have an image problem, what image ought it adopt? What must classical music now pretend to be?
The Contemporary Music’s Multiple Threat
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- Tuesday, 03 November 2015
In 2013 her composition “Not I” for chamber ensemble, electronic instruments and voice was deemed the best of the year by the International Music Council’s International Rostrum of Composers.
The man that made jazz sound hip
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- Tuesday, 03 November 2015
If Reid Miles’s iconic album designs define the Blue Note look then it is Rudy Van Gelder’s brilliant engineering skills that give the label’s recordings its distinctive sound.
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