![]() I was just curious, and had a few minutes of free time… Given that he’s been around a lot longer than the other red lantern – Portugal the Man I had to look them up to see who they were – I guess not many people like him. And poor Kenny Rogers I have nothing against him, but I can’t see him being the object of major fandom. These numbers don’t suggest that Pono purchasers are interested in specific types of music, but a few of those artists on the bottom end are pretty unknown. I wonder how the artists whose numbers are low feel about this. Pono offered 500 of each, at a cost of $400. These are special Pono players bearing an artist’s logo and/or signature. I was looking at the Pono Kickstarter page today, and I find it interesting to see which “Artist Signature Series” Pono players have sold, and which were flops. I’ve talked about Neil Young’s hi-res music player Pono plenty of times on this site. Via Audiences hate modern classical music because their brains cannot cope – Telegraph. It took me a long time to learn to understand Charles Ive’s Concord Sonata, which is full of dissonance, but now that I do understand it, I can appreciate his music. While I’m not a fan of the serialists – twelve-tone composers – because I find their music sterile, there is some dissonant music that I do appreciate. I’ve written that a lot of contemporary classical music is boring, and that’s not because I don’t understand the styles, but, simply, because it’s not written to be enjoyable in the first place. No one wrote down the rules composers simply figured them out from what worked. ![]() Not so much strict musical formulas, but a way of making music that was familiar. “Mr Ball believes that many traditional composers such as Mozart, Bach and Beethoven subconsciously followed strict musical formula to produce music that was easy on the ear by ensuring it contained patterns that could be picked out by the brain.” It was only in the 20th century that these changes became revolutionary – as they did in the visual arts and literature – and listeners were left without landmarks. Music follows a path of evolution, with gradual changes over the centuries, each composer varying slightly from what preceded them. “While traditional classical music follows strict patterns and formula that allow the brain to make sense of the sound, modern symphonies by composers such as Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern simply confuse listeners’ brains.”Īt the risk of making a bad pun, this really is a no-brainer. “A new book on how the human brain interprets music has revealed that listeners rely upon finding patterns within the sounds they receive in order to make sense of it and interpret it as a musical composition. “For decades critics of modern classical music have been derided as philistines for failing to grasp the subtleties of the chaotic sounding compositions, but there may now be an explanation for why many audiences find them so difficult to listen to. ![]() ![]() “Of course, if someone DID sign into your iCloud account via a Web browser, that person would see the email, too and could reset your password, locking you out! Unless you use 2-factor authentication then it might be harder to do the last.” In any case, by the time you get the email, it might be too late.Īs my friend and editor Michael Cohen pointed out: ![]() People will, over time, get tired of these messages and just delete them.Īnd, what if I just accessed iCloud around the same time someone broke into my account? Will I get two emails? Or will I just assume that the email I get is for my access? Sure, if you didn’t sign into iCloud, you can reset your password, but too much security hampers usability. This is interesting, but is it useful? First, if you get one of these every time you sign into iCloud on the web, it’ll just be a bother. Apple was strongly criticized because of the iCloud selfie breach, and Tim Cook announced that the company would be implementing new security procedures.Īs of today, one of them is live: if you sign into iCloud on the web, you’ll get an email: There is always a fine balance between security and usability. ![]()
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