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Happy New Year 2011



The future is robotic
Photograph: Blutgruppe/zefa/Corbis


"The robots are coming. The second decade of the 21st century will see the rise of a mechanised army that will revolutionise private and public life just as radically as the internet and social media have shaken up the past 10 years."


Marina Gorbis, futurologist and head of Californian thinktank The Institute for the Future.




The innovation is in our life everyday! And that is splendid! Innovation and creativity are in music too! Perhaps the most innovative art crossing the centuries. From classical, to pop-rock, jazz, alternative or electronic. There are wonderful composers, musicians, innovative projects. 


Now we have music using the latest Techonologies! Arcade Fire and Google maps, Gorillaz composing on iPad. So, we can say, dawn of the age of the Tech music! 


"Music is the poetry of the air", said Jean Paul Richter. Read some music quotes and choose the perfect one to begin the New Year!



Happy New Year with Music

View more presentations from G. Souto.

Did you find an inspirational music quote to add to the soundtrack of your life? 

"My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require." 

Edward Elgar


My idea? Just follow the music of your heart! Enjoy it!

Happy New Year 2011!! 


G-Souto
31.12.2010
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Dawn of the age of the robot


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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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