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I have decided to share this, because of the impact that tiny desk concerts from NPR have made on today's music scene. Being able to share intimate performances in a digital space is incredible. I highly recommend perusing through their YouTube page and even subscribe on ITunes.

LOVE all of these guys. Great link !

There are orchestras being formed, mainly by students, to perform video game music, and they collaborate with professional orchestras i. Also, video game makers are turning to professional composers and musicians for musical accompaniment so that music for video games is becoming more symphonic. However, the performances with orchestras are not interactive, which seems to me to defeat the purpose.

This site allows you to find specific performance locations and times of ballet/opera in HD at the cinema. This is one of the best examples of Ballet meeting Technology and using it well.

This site shows how ballet and opera meets technology in its presentation of the art in HD in cinematic form. SpectiCast is a private digital broadcast company focused on distributing unique content for which there is underserved demand. SpectiCast broadcasts live cultural and performing arts and entertainment events never before available to Multi-Viewer Venues TM, including assisted living facilities, independent care facilities, and continuing care retirement communities, for use in their community entertainment spaces.

informational site for opera performances, performers, and agencies.

This is a daily digest I receive. Thomas Cott finds the best and most pertinent things in aggregate and summarizes them in a daily email. Mostly pertains to Performing Arts, ticketing, development, audience building, etc. But, there is excellent info in his daily emails that I often share with my staff at work. Great for new ideas and generating new conversations!

Frank is a performance artist, composer, humorist, musician who has compiled a website that is filled with an amazing assortment of how tos such as some tongue in cheek (or not) emotions for actors or how to dance properly, to poems where people can collaboratively contribute illustrations or prose, or "angrigami" where one can create beautiful origami out of a sheet of hateful and angry words and so much more. Inspiring, creative, funny. For an introduction to Ze Frank, here is a TED talk with him:http://www.zefrank.com/ted/2010.html

A study by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation on the usage of technology in the arts field. Wonderful information if you are ever doing a report/paper on this topic!

A selection of free and paid apps for use in stage and theatre designs. Especially useful for lighting designers and technicians is the portable gel book. Very cool!

Article and three minute video. "Pixel" is the latest from Adrien M / Claire B, a French dance company specializing in cutting-edge physical-digital performance.

The H2 begins with a simple idea: provide brilliant stereo recording in an easy-to-use, ultra-portable device. Now everyone can record pristine audio in an infinite variety of applications. From seminars and conferences, to electronic news gathering(ENG), interviews and podcasting, to musical performances, songwriting sessions and rehearsals, the H2 provides amazing recording quality.

A performance inspired by Rumi's mystic poetry and Sufi whirling. The question asked by the creator was how can 'new media technologies … be used to augment the experience of watching performative art."

Daniel Levitin is the Author of "This is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession". He is a musician and neuroscientist and this post is him giving a talk about his research and book at Microsoft Research. One of his main premises from his research is that music may be more fundamental to humans than language.

This is a very riveting talk. I didn't come away with the idea that music might be more fundamental to humans than language, but that music is fundamental, as is language, and that each of us is a musical expert, if not expert performers!

I have continued thinking about this topic...Levitin also intimated that musical capacity is similar to language acquisition in that there is a window of time in which that capacity needs to be triggered in order for fluency in music to be attained. The window for language acquisition is birth to puberty. If your language capacity is not triggered within this time frame, you can't learn to speak as we understand speech. I wonder if this is really true of musical capacity...perhaps, but perhaps not in the way that it is of language. Of course they massive amounts of research have been applied to the question of language.

Great music blog for keeping up with what is going on in the classical world--both performance, and music-gossip-wise.

I am familiar with Alex Ross's writings on music, but I wasn't aware of his blog...good to know!

Several cool links to free and paid apps that are useful tools for costume designers or anyone working with textiles and designs. As a costume designer for my school's theater and musical productions, I have used several of the applications listed here.

This is awesome, as a keyboard player that likes to keep his skills brushed up. Reminds me of the old Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing program I had on my first Packard Bell computer.

Thomas Cott is the director of marketing for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. "You've Cott Mail" is a fabulous weekday email for arts enthusiasts, managers, administrators, or artists. He picks a different topic everyday and scours the web for interesting/good/useful blogs, articles, etc, compiles them into one email with several links, and delivers it to your inbox. I can't recommend "You've Cott Mail" enough.

"In advance of the responsive orchestra website review later this week, it makes sense to provide a working example of not only what responsive design is, but why it is a necessary component for contemporary performing arts org web design." Drew McManus provides a compelling example of how easy it is, and how crucial it is for arts organizations, to create better websites. He shows how one was designed in 13 days for only $500.

"The internet and social media are integral to the arts in America. A survey of arts organizations that have received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) finds that technology use permeates these organizations, their marketing and education efforts, and even their performance offerings." An interesting report revealing the (mostly) positive effect technology has had on arts organizations.