Music

November 20, 2018

This Awesome ‘Rock Alphabet’ Book Teaches Kids the ABC’s of Music Legends

As a baby cruises into toddlerhood, it's time for a major rite of passage: learning the ABCs. Books that spell out the alphabet with cuddly animals and ordinary objects are cute, but why not give your little rockstar a book that really strikes a chord? Luckily, The Rock Alphabet by Andrew Morgan gives preschoolers a musical education as they memorize their letters.

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June 8, 2016

Animated Light Projections of Tiny People Seem to Play the Piano with Every Step

In classical music, the word “adante”—which means “walking” in Italian—describes a moderately slow tempo, like an average walking pace. MIT's Tangible Media Group has created a clever visual interpretation of the term, presented in a short film by the same name. In Adante, tiny digitized figures are projected just above an automated piano's keyboard, seeming to scale the keys—literally. Each animated step, skip, and stride sounds a new note.

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October 28, 2008

What happens when you have cool dj and producer friends? You collaborate! Good Charlotte remixes coming Nov 25th!

I'm not a Good Charlotte fan but I'm digging their remixes! Check them out now on their MySpace page. Jay-Z remixes “Fight Song,” while Fall Out Boy's Patrick Stump tries his hand at reinterpreting “Little Things.” The album also features Metro Station's cover of “I Don't Want to Be in Love.” And what would rock bands be if they didn't stand up against war?

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