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Music for a sunday




Arcade Fire

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Some of the best Grammy Awards of this year were for musicians I love! Oh! Ya, I just can't live without music.

So, let's see! Arcade Fire won 'Best Album of the Year' for 'Suburs'. Herbie Hancock  for his 'Imagine' won 'Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals' and 'Best Improvised Jazz Solo', Esperanza Spalding won 'Best New Artist'. 
I wrote about Spalding last sunday, afternoon. She is absolutely incredible! 


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And today, my musical hit goes to Jeff Beck the legendary rock guitarist. He won 3 Awards.

Jeff Beck, rock guitarist extraordinaire, captured three Grammy® awards at the star-studded ceremony held February 23 2011 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. 

His latest studio album, Emotion&Commotion, was nominated for five Grammy awards, making him the most nominated artist rock artist this year. 

Beck won 'Best Rock Instrumental Performance' for 'Hammerhead' and 'Best Pop Instrumental' performance for 'Nessun Dorma', both from Emotion&Commotion. 


http://www.jeffbeck.com

This marks only the second time an artist has won Grammys in both of these categories in the same year. The first time was in 2006 by guitar legend and Beck mentor Les Paul. 

Beck also won for 'Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals' for 'Imagine', his collaboration with Herbie Hancock, Pink, India Arie, Seal, Konono No. 1& Oumou Sangare. Beck has previously won five Grammy awards.

Jeff Beck and his performance for 'Nessum Dorma' is absolutely crashing! Among the differents perfomances on YouTube, I really prefer this one...




Jeff Beck
Air Canada Centre
Toronto
February 21, 2010

G-Souto
20.02.2011
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(in a lovely sunday break)

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Arcade Fire, funny & pedagogical




Well, talking about music and pedagogy, why not share with you an interesting project! Music and Google maps!

So, let's talk about! Arcade Fire! Do you know this group of music don't you?! Here, the last project of "Arcade Fire", very innovative, using the latest Technologies.


http://www.chromeexperiments.com

So,  Google joined this canadian group Arcade Fire to conceptualize an interactive video that shows some of the potentialities of the new "markup" language.

The Wilderness Downtown choreographed windows, interactive flocking, custom rendered maps, real-time compositing, procedural drawing, 3D canvas rendering... this Chrome Experiment has them all.




"The Wilderness Downtown" is an interactive interpretation of Arcade Fire's song "We Used To Wait" and was built entirely with the latest open web technologies, including HTML5 video, audio, and canvas.

 



"The Wilderness Downtown" an interactive film by Chris Milk, is part of the new album of Arcade Fire.

It demands our interaction using Google Maps and Street View to include these resources in the video images from the town where we are or live! 



Google Maps API for fetching dynamic routes to destination and checking Street View content at points along the route.

On the  website, you must enter the address of the town where you grew up and it's so amazing!! 

I did the experience and it is fantastic! I just loved it!

Listening the song that goes on in our city, following several browser windows 3D that open and close at the music rythm. At the end of the interactive video, an ecological message! Trees for everywhere! Wow! It's amazing!




Street detection for animated trees composited dynamically in place over Street View.

A postcard is created by an analog signal: you! This site takes that postcard and converts it to digital. The Wilderness Machine brings it back to analog. Look for it on tour with the band in North America. If you're lucky enough to get someone's postcard from it, plant it. A tree will grow out of it.

What a wonderful tool to geo-studies in classroom with your students! They will be so surprised! Don't forget! Let them do this geo-study on their smartphones ! 

Ready to start?


G-Souto
11.10.2010
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