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Congotronics 2,” a compilation featuring seven Kinshasa-area bands, the music gains a wider scope, which promises to expand the scene’s growing crossover appeal. Konono No.1 continues to sound the most familiar to western ears; the band’s beats and riffs are dense and quick-paced, introducing dissonance into supple vocals and generally submerging traditional melodies in a wash of sound that would be at home in any scenester dance club. Other bands on this album reflect varying degrees of similar fusion. On Masanka Sankayi’s track, electronic effects...
...shift my perspective from trying to advance myself and my own agenda to trying to live in balance with the rhythms that other people have. All of us exist in different ways. The thing to do is not to try to force everyone to follow the same beat, but to try and get everyone’s beats in synch with each other. It’s about the way you live your life and how you learn from other people...
Welcome to the Wonderful World of Common Casting," reads a chalked sign in the Loeb Ex’s black box theatre, a surreal room transformed by candy, a functioning green swing, and drum beat soundtrack. Returning actors greet one another with full body hugs, while nervous novices and first-years fret over potentially awkward interaction with strangers, especially when directed to act "sexual, but not explicit...
...human involvement for 20 minutes. The club, which consists of 35 Harvard and MIT undergraduate robot enthusiasts, hopes to qualify for the international showdown of simulated soccer players: the RoboCup World Cup. “The ultimate goal of RoboCup is to create a team of robots that can beat the World Cup champions by 2050,” says club Co-President Jeffrey K.L. Ma ’07. But with the average robot standing at just 15 cm tall, it certainly will take some time–or at least a growth spurt–before these robots...
...Being No. 1 also brings out the competitive juices in the opposition. "Canada has won all the tournaments the past couple of years," says Koivu, "but I know that every country that plays against them is going to be ready, because they want to beat them. They can't go forever being the top team." But while Canada's rivals are feeling motivated, they also are coping with some key losses. A leg injury suffered by Czech goaltender Dominik Hasek in the team's opener against Germany prompted NHL vice president Bill Daly to withhold the league's commitment...