The Best Buildings You'll Ever Hear

An interesting article on concert hall design, so most of the top acousticians in the world are Japanese?!

Model of Jean Nouvel's new concert hall for Paris.

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My LIfe in the Bush of Ghosts

"In a way making music is constructing machines that, when successful, dredge up emotions- in us and in the listener." - David Byrne

This album is one of my all time favorites, way ahead of its time, and definitely worth repeated listening. Many other interesting observations can be found in his essay on the making of the album.

My Favorite Female Comedian

The very lovely Sarah Silverman! Would I like her as much if she wasn't so cute?!

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Pharoah Sanders

I knew about Pharoah for quite sometime, but never did get any of his music. After I saw the Bill Laswell video - Sooundstage with Bill Laswell Axiom Sound System Musical Freezone (this concert premiered on PBS July 13, 2006), which featured Pharoah on sax, I decided to check out some of his more recent works produced by Bill Laswell. On his "Save Our Children" album, there were a few good tracks, for me Far Off Sand and Kazuko sounded very nice, very Laswellian.
The same video also featured Buckethead, man, he can play! Not just guitar, but nunchucks!!

iTunes Registry - What ya listening to?

I was looking for an application to give me some statistic on my itunes library, there seems to be a few for the Mac, but none for the PC (I tried a few but they did not do what I wanted). But I came across this website and uploaded my library file, it should work (the dame upload is taking forever).

[Update] The site seems to have quite a bit of problem with its hardware, it took several tries before I was able to upload my library. But I like what I see now that I have got it to work. It provides many interesting statistic - the most alarming one is that only 0.1% of my songs are rated, which is identical to the site users' average. I guess most people just like listening to the music instead of rating the songs, put it another way, we are just basically all lazy...

Here is the Genre list that I wanted (but found no easy way to parse from the itunes library):

African, Afro Cuban, Alternative, Alternative & Punk, Ambient, Avantgarde, Blues, Bossa Nova, Brazilian, Cajun, Christmas, Comedy, Dance, Darkwave, Disco, Downtempo, Drum & Bass, Dub, EBM, Electro, Electronic, Electronica, Electronica/Dance, Flamenco, Folk, Funk, Glitch, Gospel, Gothic, Hard Rock, Hip Hop/Rap, Hip-Hop, House, Industrial, Industrial Metal, Jazz, Jazz Hip-Hop, Jazz Latino, Jazz-Funk, Latin, Live, Lounge, Mashup, Metal, New Wave, Podcast, Pop, Post Punk, Psychedelic, Punk, R&B, Rai, Rap, Reggae, Rock, Rock Latino, Rumba, Salsa, Ska, Soul, Soundtrack, Synthpop, Tango, Tech House, Trance, Trip-Hop, Vocal, World.

68 of them (including sub-geres), which is quite a bit higher than the average user on the site, but then again I always knew that my taste is much more eclectic than most, so no surprise there...

McIntosh's New Music Server

Like the retro look (well may be not for McIntosh, its product line has remained largely un-touched by audio fashion over the years).