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POPSDigital Sound Separator The new tool promises to give musicians and producers powerful new ways to manipulate recordings both old and new.It might let studio engineers peer inside a chord-heavy rhythm-guitar part and nudge individual notes into tune. Or it could let them salvage unheard takes by classic musicians like Duke Ellington or Jimi Hendrix, left unreleased due to out-of-tune instruments or misplayed notes. It will certainly give musicians new ability to sculpt sound, such as prerecorded samples or loops, as if they were modeling clay.
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POPS‘Leopard Behind You!’ A human in a blue shirt is announced differently from a human in a yellow shirt. In and of itself, it’s not surprising that the sounds animals make are not just noise, or a reflection of the state an animal’s in (scared, happy and so on). But the subtlety of the calls — the full amount of meaning they contain — is only now being appreciated. Animals of one species often respond to the alarms of another. In a small way, it’s like those childrens’ stories that have rats talking to toads, or elephants arguing with ostriches. Predators sometimes respond too. After all, alarm calls don’t just let other animals know there’s danger in the area. They can also let a predator know that it’s been seen. Ambush predators, like leopards, often give up and go away once an alarm has been sounded. <<
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POPSWoman dies after making fake 911 call A US woman who made a bogus call to 911 was forced to phone an emergency operator again just six minutes later when she became trapped under a garage door, suffering fatal injuries.
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POPSLife of TV chef Floyd celebrated Floyd, who was born near Reading in Berkshire, presented a number of popular cookery programmes from the 1980s, characteristically enjoyed with a glass of wine in his hand. Recordings were often made on location, which was groundbreaking for the time.
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POPSJoscho Stephan & Gypsy Jazz Guitarre J. S. is a fabulous swing guitarist. Recently, I had the privilege to see him and his band at the CAAS 2009 Convention (Chet Atkins Admiration Society). He and the band were wonderful, what a great time! While he follows in the footsteps of the great Django Rhinehart, Joscho is definitely his own man, as you can hear from the two "Honeysuckle Rose" recordings.
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POPSA Change In Customer Service I post this video because it would good to see a change of attitude in many industries. I for one think of the phone/internet provider I currently use - which falls down dismally in its handling of customer queries which then turn into complaints because they don't fix it the first time. Talking to voice recordings and being transferred around the company for a full day (not just once but on a number of occassions) constitutes incompetence (at least for me). Though the service itself is brilliant.
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POPSRussian Probe Tried to Beat Apollo to the Moon—But It Crashed more (at source): The recordings were made over three days at the Jodrell Bank Observatory in Manchester, where researchers used the Lovell Radio Telescope to listen to transmissions from Apollo 11—and Luna 15. Sir Bernard Lovell, the inventor of the telescope and the founder of Jodrell Bank, can be heard narrating events with conversation from the Apollo 11 astronauts in the background. Sir Bernard notes a change in the orbit of Luna 15 to take it closer to the US landing site and later reports a rumour from a “well-informed source in Moscow” that the craft is about to land. People in Jodrell’s control room can then be heard shouting “it’s landing” and “it’s going down much too fast” as they track Luna 15’s final moments before it crashes .
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POPSRep. Jefferson Indicted in Bribery Probe
"Mr. Jefferson, Louisiana Democrat, is on trial in federal court in Alexandria on bribery, money laundering and other charges stemming from a 16-count indictment. Mr. Jefferson, who served nine terms in Congress before he was defeated last year, is accused of taking bribes in exchange for promoting telecommunications services and equipment to several West African nations. The three-week-long trial has included hours of complicated testimony regarding business deals in West Africa, but the cash in the freezer is still the symbol of the case. Despite her important role in the case, prosecutors have said they will not call Ms. Mody to testify. They have not said why, but defense attorneys have said that she is emotionally unstable and that the apparent bribe was merely part of an FBI plot to set up a member of Congress. Without Ms. Mody's testimony, prosecutors have had to use the testimony of FBI agent Timothy Thibault to introduce the recordings into evidence. "
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POPS"A kid from Harlem reaches toward extraterrestrials" more: "My idea was to send sounds of nature into space. Thunder, lightning, the ocean, rain. I thought aliens might hear them and recognize them," he said. Kamau also made other recordings he thought would offer little glimpses of our world: a man grilling chicken on the street, a crow's caw being drowned out by an airplane overhead and so on. Kamau was one of six winners of the Kids' Science Challenge, a new nationwide competition funded by the National Science Foundation in which third through sixth graders submit experiments and problems for working scientists and engineers to solve. Kamau posed the question, "How can we communicate with extraterrestrials if we donÕt know if they have a language similar to ours and if we donÕt know their communication system?"
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