Releasing the music in your head

From the very fertile minds that gave you “Guitar Hero”, comes Hyperscore, a musical composition software program that uses a friendly interface to score music. What is lovely about this program is that it is accessible to everyone, kids and adults, musicians and nonmusicians. Once the graphical interface has been rendered in colours and shapes and so on, it can then be instantly transformed into a musical score with notes.

 

In this wonderful TED video, Tod Machover (of MIT’s Media Lab) introducesDan Ellsey, “a young man with cerebral palsy who has found his voice through music created and performed using Media Lab technologies. Ellsey plays his “My Eagle Song” in a soaring rendition that underscores music’s power to heal, to communicate, and to inspire.”

 

How Lumiere can “virtually” restore paintings

Here you will see The Mona Lisa, the most protected painting in the world, which will never be restored. Using a remarkable high definition camera capable of “seeing through” spectral layers of paint this technique expose the artist’s visible and invisible painting stages revealing for the first time in hundreds of years the original color and appearance of the painting.

Imagine seeing for the first time the painting as it was meant to be. No cracked varnish, no grime, etc. Not only that, imagine discovering “underpainting”, or first draughts, to see how La Gioconda had “moved” her hands.

Link:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=rLpLxvyWHuU