Punkt Digital

09/08/2015

Carl Haber is working to scan information off the surfaces of antique recordings so computers can allow them to be heard.

09/07/2015

Exactly what it says on the tin.

Two years ago, in a post on the pioneering composer of the original Doctor Who theme, we wrote that “the early era of experimental electronic music belonged to Delia Derbyshire.” Derbyshire—who...

09/06/2015

Images extracted from the latter half of Choregraphie, a book first published in 1700 which details a dance notation system invented by Raoul-Auger Feuillet which revolutionised the dance world.

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09/02/2015

Monochromatic images of supersonic waves? Yes, please! Thanks, NASA!

This stunning composite photo is actually a bit of a throw-back: It is a "schileren" image of the supersonic shockwaves created by a USAF Test Pilot School T-38C craft. Schileren images were first made...

08/27/2015

As the means of creating the color black have changed, so have the subjects it represents.

Suddenly, black was everywhere. It caked the flesh of miners and ironworkers; it streaked the walls and windows of industrial towns;…

08/25/2015

Excited to see Avaloch get such wonderful press!

Down a quiet lane in Boscawen once stood an apple orchard. But where fruit once grew, music now emanates from a farm unlike any others in the area. Internationally, the property in the rural, central...

08/24/2015

New research suggests an artist's peak creativity may occur in their 40s.

New research suggests it occurs just a bit before they hit the two-thirds mark of their lives.

08/23/2015

"Across the world, a bolt of lightning struck. Through his headphones came a sound like a laser beam."

Stephen McGreevy looked nervously at the sky. Outside his camper van in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert, angry black clouds gathered…

08/22/2015

Not *exactly* a work of art, but using sound in this way is brilliantly creative!

It listens to your surrounding and verifies if the device you're using to sign in and your two-factor device (such as your phone) are in the same place.

08/21/2015

From the devious aristocrat to the invention of an entire genre, the Guardian picks some of classical music’s best hoaxes and hoaxers.

From the devious aristocrat to the invention of an entire genre, we pick some of classical music’s best hoaxes and hoaxers

08/20/2015

Music critic Alex Ross is stunned by a not-so-terrible classical music scene in Mission: Impossible—Rogue Nation. Did Hollywood *finally* get it right?

A scene in “Mission: Impossible—Rogue Nation,” set at the Vienna State Opera, avoids many old clichés.

08/19/2015

Surgeons asked him to sing while they operated in order to test brain function. They even provided a decent piano accompanist in the operating theatre.

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