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...area for its year-round skiing. There are two Finnish saunas, a dampfbad (or steam bath) and a whole host of esoteric treatments on offer, including sea-salt peels, lymphatic draining and meditation coaching. There's even a floatarium - a salt-water pool in a private room with ambient melodies piped in. The Von Trapps would never recognize it, but such is the new sound of music in Zell...
...turned her back on this success to pursue her first love: music. Amazingly, she’s proved even better at her second career than her first, confounding expectations and enlivening the otherwise dismal constellation of crossover stars. “Son” is a delicate gem of ambient folk-pop, a smooth-flowing album that’s a pleasure from start to finish. On previous albums, she drifted from on extreme to another, from lush electronic soundscapes to unornamented acoustic guitar lines. With “Son,” she finds her balance: all the elements?...
...world audience when they released their “Congotronics” album. It quickly became required listening for every DJ and music collector on the block. The resulting songs were built on the foundation of African polyrhythms, but have new sounds from the city streets: jagged guitar lines, ambient fuzz, and distorted vocals. This homemade Kinshasa sound stands at an acoustic crossroads between folk, noise, and electronica, and its records are attracting fans from all genres. In “Congotronics 2,” a compilation featuring seven Kinshasa-area bands, the music gains a wider scope, which...
...each school to “make some noise.” Students from BC and BU made a formidable racket, but were drowned out by the deafening roar of the Northeastern contingent.But Harvard’s presence was negligible--a smattering of applause, barely audible above the ambient din of the club, was all the noise the Crimson could summon. Where were Blanks.’ fans?Matt T. Boch ’06, Blanks.’ lanky and mop-topped lead singer, explains that the Paradise gig was not a priority for the band...
...sensor is surprisingly simple and maintenance free. It converts ambient energy into electrical energy using, say, a tiny solar cell, vibrations from a spinning tire or even the movement of a light switch. Then an extremely low-power sensor does its job and sends radio signals to a receiver that collects the data. The sensors can be used to adjust shades on a window, measure air pressure in a tire or regulate temperature and humidity in a building. When the city of Dresden began renovating the Baroque Semper Opera House, it wanted to monitor humidity. But regulations protecting historical buildings...