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Winner Winner Chicken Dinner

https://youtu.be/q3KLJIuiEPM

When you win in Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds, you see the message: “Winner Winner Chicken Dinner”. “’Winner Winner Chicken Dinner’ came from alley craps back in the Depression. They used to play craps in alleys and didn’t always use [money], but if they did it use [money] and they where winning, it meant they they could afford chicken for dinner that night.” The literature on the subject is limited, however, and Guzman allows that “Winner winner chicken dinner” may have roots in Cockney rhyming slang. And here comes to the best funny stream moments, memes, funny fails and pro plays.

Liszt, la campanella, by Yundi Li

La campanella is played at a brisk and lively allegretto tempo and studies right hand jumping between intervals larger than one octave, sometimes even stretching for two whole octaves within the time of a sixteenth note. As a whole, the étude can be practiced to increase dexterity and accuracy at large jumps on the piano, along with agility of the weaker fingers of the hand. The largest intervals reached by the right hand are fifteenths (two octaves) and sixteenths (two octaves and a second). Sixteenth notes are played between the two notes, and the same note is played two octaves or two octaves and a second higher with no rest. Little time is provided for the pianist to move the hand, thus forcing the pianist to avoid tension within the muscles. Fifteenth intervals are quite common in the beginning of the étude, while the sixteenth intervals appear twice, at the thirtieth and thirty-second measures.

The Water Music Dance

From 1.40 to 4.09

The Water Music Dance, is a traditional practice of the women from Gaua Island.

‘The music and dances evoke the sounds their ancestresses have lived with for thousands of years. The crescent formation reflects the way the women have worked standing in a semi-circle at the water’s edge, or in the river, washing and bathing and collecting shellfish.’  -Worldmusiccentral.org

 

The Water Dance has prompted me to explore the use of water as an instrument to evoke an immersive state of mind, similar to that used in traditional meditative techniques.

 

 

Binaural Beats

How Binaural Beats Work

For hundreds of years ancient cultures and tribes have believed in the spiritual healing properties of repetitive, rhythmic sound. It is down to developments in technology and science that these benefits have been proven, and shown how the brain can be entrained by certain beats. Binaural beats are used in meditation and are simply beats constructed at a certain frequency that when listened to, lower your brainwaves to a natural relaxed state. (The science behind this is explained in the link)

You cannot ‘switch off’ your ears, unlike other senses, you are always aware of the sounds around you. This is why sound is so powerful in hypnosis, you can be unconscious yet still aware of the sounds around you. I am interested in the use of sound as a form of escapism, and would like to explore the different ways in which sound can help you switch off and feel immersed in another environment.

What colour is Tuesday?

 

My piece will be a reflection of my experience with synesthesia,  a condition where the brain essentially mixes up senses.  I want my finalised piece to be mostly personal but somewhat informative, so I have been watching videos and researching the condition and the many forms of it. This video from Ted-Ed summarises the condition well in 4 minutes. I may even use some speech from the video in my sound, as the narrator explains it straightforwardly. I can relate to the title’s question since I have grapheme-colour synesthesia, where I see numbers, letters and words in colour. For me, Tuesday is dark red.

When computers become smarter than us

Artificial intelligence is getting smarter by leaps and bounds. Within this century, research suggests, a computer could be as “smart” as a human being. And then, says Nick Bostrom, it will overtake us: “Machine intelligence is the last invention that humanity will ever need to make.” A philosopher and technologist, Bostrom asks us to think hard about the world we’re building right now, driven by thinking machines. Will our smart machines help to preserve humanity and our values, or will they have values of their own?

What I found interesting about this TED talk, is how Nick Bostrom believes that as human beings we have a core desire to progress AI technology until it kills us. He believes there is a part of our minds that actually wants us to die but robot; which ultimately means our progression and intelligence will be the death of us.

Also, the point he makes about us becoming reliant on the robots/technology, and how that will stop us from hitting the “off switch”. This made me question how much we rely on robots already. Examples of everyday AI include google maps, Email spam filters and Facebook; all of which I use on a daily bases. Not to say I couldn’t live without them however, travel, work and communication would be harder without them. A scary thought, one that makes me wonder what technology we will be living with in 10 years or 20 years time; and whether it is improving society or making it lazier.