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HeinSite: January 2013
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Musings on music, art, education and the online experience. Tuesday, January 08, 2013. Oh, the humanity. 8220;User Interface affects everything Humans interact with. Even other humans. Simplicity, clarity, elegance: chase these ‘til you’re exhausted.”. Happy New Year - officially. Well, in the Western world, where Gregory's calendar reigns supreme. I write this as the Julian calendar reached Christmas. What a marvellous world - not knowing when the year ends, let alone what year it is! Apple designed the...
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HeinSite: Dreams and Hopes
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Musings on music, art, education and the online experience. Wednesday, April 10, 2013. 8220;Seeking perfection, we see what our dreams and hopes might look like. We realize they come as a gift through no power of our own, and if we lose them, isn’t that almost worse than never having had them in the first place? Roger Ebert, (1942-2013), his last review of “To the Wonder”. Can you set better goal for next year? Can you set more challenging goals next year? Teaching, like baseball, has its sages. I le...
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HeinSite: April 2013
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Musings on music, art, education and the online experience. Wednesday, April 10, 2013. 8220;Seeking perfection, we see what our dreams and hopes might look like. We realize they come as a gift through no power of our own, and if we lose them, isn’t that almost worse than never having had them in the first place? Roger Ebert, (1942-2013), his last review of “To the Wonder”. Can you set better goal for next year? Can you set more challenging goals next year? Teaching, like baseball, has its sages. I le...
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HeinSite: April 2014
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Musings on music, art, education and the online experience. Sunday, April 27, 2014. CDs and iPods and Smartphones - Oh my! 8216;I still like buying CDs,’ says Hornby. ‘But there are a lot of people who will never pay for music ever again. Why would you? I was talking to a 17-year-old recently, and he said he didn’t think his little brother had even seen a CD. He didn’t actually know that music came like that. ’. Nick Hornby, quoted in “The day the music shop died”. John Harris, The Observer. Are cooking ...
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HeinSite: May 2011
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Musings on music, art, education and the online experience. Tuesday, May 17, 2011. It all starts out with an idea. You don't get taken with the colors of paints that you've got. You've got to narrow it down. It's great to have all the possibilities, but it all starts with an idea. To sit there and hope something will happen is like dumping 400 gallons of paint on the floor and hoping a picture is going to emerge. It doesn't work that way. Daniel Barenboim, in the Reith Lectures for the BBC, claims that t...
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HeinSite: February 2011
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Musings on music, art, education and the online experience. Sunday, February 06, 2011. Life on the 'High Cs'. Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes? Welcome, dear reader. From this leaping off point, for jump is far too prosaic a word, we are going to journey together into the rapidly expanding world of technology. “Haven’t we done this before? The spectre of the always connected life lo...
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HeinSite: In the heart of a friend.
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Musings on music, art, education and the online experience. Saturday, September 28, 2013. In the heart of a friend. The Arrow and the Song. I shot an arrow into the air,. It fell to earth, I knew not where;. For, so swiftly it flew, the sight. Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air,. It fell to earth, I knew not where;. For who has sight so keen and strong,. That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak. I found the arrow, still unbroke;. It is in the t...
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HeinSite: April 2012
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Musings on music, art, education and the online experience. Wednesday, April 11, 2012. Life on the "Hi Cs" - Part 2. For me, singing together and making music together is a fundamental human experience, and I love the idea that technology can bring people together from all over the world and still participate in this transcending experience. Quoted in "Collaborative Creation and Crowdsourcing in the Music Industry". Eric Whitacre—known for pushing the boundaries of classical and choral music—...In other ...
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HeinSite: Oh, the humanity...
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Musings on music, art, education and the online experience. Tuesday, January 08, 2013. Oh, the humanity. 8220;User Interface affects everything Humans interact with. Even other humans. Simplicity, clarity, elegance: chase these ‘til you’re exhausted.”. Happy New Year - officially. Well, in the Western world, where Gregory's calendar reigns supreme. I write this as the Julian calendar reached Christmas. What a marvellous world - not knowing when the year ends, let alone what year it is! Apple designed the...
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HeinSite: January 2012
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Musings on music, art, education and the online experience. Sunday, January 08, 2012. New Ideas, Simple Solutions, and Memory to the Rescue. I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones. For every complex problem there’s a simple solution, and it’s wrong. Your read with interest: “Yes, that's the exact problem I've been having! 8221; or “I never thought of that approach! 8221; or “That's a new piece by my favourite composer! GarageBand 1.1 for iPad, iPhone...
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