Music Review | Cameron Carpenter : A âVirtualâ Organ Wins New Converts at a Recital
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In a program split between organ classics and audacious arrangements, Cameron Carpenter showed that the digital organ can produce the grand sound of a pipe organ.
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After centuries of guesswork, architects have a high-tech way to hear the acoustics of buildings they haven't yet built.
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Bruno Morettiâs music turns âOltremareâ into a theater piece both effective and evocative.
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On Saturday Itzhak Perlman  brought recent alumni of his Perlman Music Program to the Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, for the first event in a new three-concert series.
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Truly a compelling contemporary musical feast by Rajhesh Vaidhya.
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Yamaha's Disklavier is an Internet-connected piano that,  with its DisklavierRadio service, streams Internet radio  stations suited specifically for the piano -- such as classical  and jazz -- for a subscription fee of $20 per month. A new  service called DisklavierMusicStore allows users to download  permanent music files to the piano's built-in 80 GB hard drive.
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As a wave of contemporary art installations is being unveiled in cathedrals, churches and chapels across Europe, religious spaces are once again becoming showcases for many artists.
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The Steinway & Sons Model-D ups the ante on audio reproduction in the digital age.
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DENVER -- A Colorado man underwent a kidney transplant Wednesday in what is believed to be the first such operation involving an organ obtained through a for-profit Web site -- a transaction that has raised legal and ethical questions.
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A modest, good-natured example of new-from-old appeared in the middle of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Centerâs Sunday program at the New York Society for Ethical Culture.
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(InfoWorld) - Future models of consumer goods, from digital cameras to MP3 players, could take a leap forward with a new type of analog circuit demonstrated at a trade show Thursday by researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The MIT team showed a comparator-based switched capacitor (CBSC) circuit, which could be manufactured with smaller size and better power efficiency than traditional analog circuits using operational amplifiers. The team had presented a rougher version in 2006, and improved on the design this week by unveiling an 8-bit, 200 MHz analog-to-digital converter at the International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) in San Francisco. The advance could help analog technology catch up to the tremendous pace of improvement in digital circuits, which have shrunk in recent years thanks to software-aided design tools and to manufacturing processes such as complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) technology, said Hae-Seung Lee, one of the MIT professors involved in the work. Despite those enormous improvement in digital circuits, electronic devices will always need analog circuits too, because the sights and sounds in the world around us exist as variable analog data, not discrete digital bits. Analog circuits translate between those two languages by amplifying, processing, and filtering natural data and then converting it to digital signals, Lee said. From playing songs on iPods to sending and receiving voices on cell phones, analog circuits are part of most consumer devices. "Analog circuits sit on PC boards; when you put a disc in a CD-ROM drive to play music, the music is encoded in digital format, but what you're hearing is analog. That's a digital-to-analog converter doing that," Lee said. Engineers could use the new CBSC circuit as a more efficient tool to filter and modulate analog data, leading to less expensive, longer-lasting devices. "Current analog circuits consume a disproportionate amount of power, which really drains the batteries. We think we can reduce the power consumption of analog circuits by at least an order of magnitude," he said. In addition to saving space and power, the CBSC circuits could also work with emerging technologies like carbon nanotube or nanowire and molecular devices, a looming challenge for conventional analog circuits. And since they work with CMOS fabrication techniques, the new circuits are immediately applicable to those challenges. Still, products using the new circuits will probably not reach store shelves for several years. "We have demonstrated a proof of concept, so we know the technology is good. But there are still some practical questions to answer, like 'Is it robust enough to work in consumer electronics?' So it will be a couple of years before we see it in stores," Lee said.
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New high-quality audio files may entice audiofiles to buy classical fare on the web.
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A survey of Messiaenâs organ music performed by Gail Archer is sure to be among the yearâs highlights, to judge by the initial installment on Sunday afternoon.
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A composer and koto player reinvents an ancient Japanese stringed instrument by way of an Apple G4 PowerBook and tightly focused beams of light. By Alexander Gelfand.
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Some music is tailor-made for open-topped convertibles.
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Pierre-Laurent Aimardâs piano recital on Monday at Zankel Hall was a carefully planned, illuminating program that included the surprise premiere of âCatÃ©naires,â a new work by Elliott Carter.
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A few composers are seeing new possibilities for percussion concertos. At least four such pieces are scheduled in the US over the next month.