Yuri Suzuki and Pentagram drop anti-Brexit acid house album
Japanese artist Yuri Suzuki has released an acid house record and corresponding video protesting Brexit and the rise of anti-immigrant mentality. Read more
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Berlin’s Hermannstrasse station to trial anxiety-inducing music in bid to reduce crime
Germany’s national rail operator has announced plans to play atonal music in a Berlin station, in an attempt to deter criminal activity. According to local paper Tagesspiegel, Deutsche Bahn plans to experiment with playing music at different volumes in Hermannstrasse station, to judge its effectiveness at driving away loiterers without upsetting passengers. “Few people find it beautiful —
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Olson Kundig reveals plans for Bob Dylan Center in Oklahoma
Seattle architecture firm Olson Kundig has unveiled a proposal for a museum dedicated to American musician Bob Dylan in Tulsa, close to a substantial archive of his belongings. Olson Kundig will act as lead architect for The Bob Dylan Center, after the firm was selected in an international competition for the project spearheaded by George
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Movie shows experimental musicians recording inside Philip Johnson’s Glass House
This captioned movie shows experimental musicians Ryuichi Sakamoto and Alva Noto recording their latest album inside Philip Johnson’s Glass House, which at the time was housing an installation by artist Yayoi Kusama. More on Yayoi Kusuma’s installation at the Glass House › Movie is by Derrick Belcham.
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30 Cool Headphone Stands & Earphone Holders To Make a Feature of Your Beats
You’ve got the latest headphones. You’ve got the latest sounds. There’s one thing you’re missing: a unique stand to showcase them on. These headphone and earphone hangers, hooks and mannequins make more of your latest headgear than your bedside table or desk. Glass heads provide a crafted canvas for your headphones’ premium metallics. Wooden curved […]
30 Cool Headphone Stands & Earphone Holders To Make a Feature of Your Beats
You’ve got the latest headphones. You’ve got the latest sounds. There’s one thing you’re missing: a unique stand to showcase them on. These headphone and earphone hangers, hooks and mannequins make more of your latest headgear than your bedside table or desk. Glass heads provide a crafted canvas for your headphones’ premium metallics. Wooden curved […]
Shigeru Ban’s La Seine Musicale incorporates a wall of moving solar panels
Pritzker Prize-winning architect Shigeru Ban has completed a music complex near Paris, featuring an egg-shaped auditorium and a wall of solar panels that move to follow the path of the sun. The Japanese architect’s Paris-based office won an international competition held in 2013 to design La Seine Musicale – a musical facility comprising a large
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These Wireless Wall Mounted Speakers Look More Like Art
German company Concrete Audio have designed a collection of wall mounted speakers that are made from concrete, wood, or a custom design, that allows them to look more like art hanging on the wall rather than a speaker. The F1 Speaker has 41 electrodynamic mini-speakers that act like one large membrane, and allow […]
Weathering steel clads “pop temple” in Leiden by Ector Hoogstad Architecten
A+Awards: this concert venue in the Dutch city of Leiden is clad with panels of weathering steel and was awarded a 2016 Architizer A+Award. Rotterdam firm Ector Hoogstad Architecten inserted the Gebr. De Nobel among buildings the city’s 19th-century ring. Described by the architects as a “pop temple”, the venue includes a main hall that
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