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iPod Classic: The day the music died
The Independent – Independent – Oct 31, 2007
Instead a whirring noise indicated that the hard disk inside each affected gadget was spinning fast. Meanwhile on the computer screen iTunes didn’t even register that an iPod was plugged in. As the disk kept spinning the iPod would get hotter and hotter – and the users found that they had no prospect of playing music on it. No one knows exactly how many people were affected by this problem but internet user forums suggest it has been relatively widespread. It seems to have been an unwelcome by-product of the trend for Apple (and many other companies) to issue more and more software updates over the internet. From Sat-Navs to electronic organisers all kinds of gadgets are updated this way. Barely a week goes by for example without a new patch for computer operating systems such as Microsoft Windows… No one knows exactly how many people were affected by this problem but internet user forums suggest it has been relatively widespread. It seems to have been an unwelcome by-product of the trend for Apple (and many other companies) to issue more and more software updates over the internet. From Sat-Navs to electronic organisers all kinds of gadgets are updated this way. Barely a week goes by for example without a new patch for computer operating systems such as Microsoft Windows. In theory updates are fine: their purpose after all is to improve the product. But updates for iPods have a mixed track-record when it comes to causing problems. Earlier this year a small number of the first batch of iPod Classics began to crash when owners tried to load the artwork from album covers by connecting to iTunes.
CLASSICAL MUSIC
Washington Post – Oct 31, 2007
: the Extra-Terrestrial. "– Grace JeanContemporary Music ForumClassical music fans who scorn contemporary works often forget that the masterpieces they cherish may well have confused shocked or even delighted their first audiences centuries ago. The Contemporary Music Forum puts modern classical music in front of the public with more dedication and skill than any other group in Washington and on Sunday presented the Verge Ensemble playing six works of diverse means and ends for us to consider. Though all six had interesting facets four stood out as especially satisfying. Washington native Jeffrey Mumford found a natural match for his suggestive melodic fragments in poems by Sonia Sanchez who read the texts Mumford used in "two haiku settings: of place and love" before Sunday’s performance. The instrumentation of marimba vibraphone and cello created lean gleaming novel sounds while soprano Kathryn Hearden gave lovely voice to her separated evocative monosyllables and knitted them into an affecting whole… Low blurts (sometimes refracted electronically by Steve Antosca’s computer) anchored and disrupted carefree melodic flights and frequent breakdowns into uncertain trills increased the unease. Douglas Geers’s "Enkidu" drew a kaleidoscopic array of colors from violinist Lina Bahn also with occasional electronic assistance from Antosca as she threw herself into narrating the character’s tale from the epic of Gilgamesh. And Erik Santos’s "Sundogs" ran at a breakneck pace further fueled by some rock drumming in an emphatic performance by percussionists Barry Dove and William Richards.
Reviews of religious music and a Web site.(Website overview)
Free with registration – Dallas Morning News – AccessMyLibrary.com – Oct 31, 2007
(Website overview) MUSIC “Remedy” David Crowder Band (sixstepsrecords) Compared with 2005′s sprawling genre-busting album A Collision the new Remedy is almost DCB in miniature _ or as David Crowder puts it “it’s like Crowder condensed. ” It’s also superb a celebration of living life in Christ. Making use of all of the band’s signature sounds _ driving guitars the occasional dance beat (including one waltz) electronic beeps and burbles and a stray violin and banjo _ Remedy is an album of unexpected musical treats and lyrics that manage to be both heartfelt and.