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Baio didn't make chiptune music himself, but he knew people who did. He bought the proper licensing rights to Kind of Blue and recruited five artists, each of whom agreed to cover one of the five tracks on the album. The musicians had three months to finish the songs. Baio gave them full artistic license; they could experiment or stay as true to the original song as they wanted. His only request was that the finished products retain some of Davis' original feeling and intensity. "Other than that, they were free to do whatever they felt," says Baio. "That...
...that, most musicians come to the medium through their interest in computers. They do not necessarily know how to play an instrument. "You write a program and feed it to the computer, which reads it as if it were sheet music," explains 24-year-old Sam Ascher-Weiss, whose cover of Davis' "All Blues" appears on Kind of Bloop. "You see what it sounds like, mess around with it, and try it again." Ascher-Weiss is a chiptune anomaly: he is a jazz pianist and working musician in New York City. For Kind of Bloop, he recorded himself playing...
...Don’t just pick the concentration you think will have the highest concentration (guffaw) of fun classes exactly like the one you just took and are obsessed with. Nor should you go with the concentration that you think will cover as many topics as possible. Just because you’re an art and architecture concentrator doesn’t mean that you won’t get to take your fair share of math and science courses (in fact, Gen Ed will shove a few down your throat). And don’t forget about related field...
What did you think of the President? He was a very nice, tall guy. And he gives very good details. I liked interviewing him. He's just like a normal person. (Read a TIME cover on Obama and health-care reform...
...Great Leader, where we were instructed to bow, I had already begun to slip dangerously out of character. I was shooting different angles, moving my lens like a pro. The minders and other delegation members said nothing. But I should have known that I was compromising my cover...