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Fascinating article about Hugh Tracey's recordings in Kenya.

The Magnificent Cross-Cultural Recordings of Kenya’s Kipsigis Tribe Listening to “Chemirocha III” feels like a lesson in the inadvertent benefits of intercultural melding, and of the slipperiness of the concept of musical “purity.”

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Can you remember what a bicycle looks like?

Bicycles Built Based on People’s Attempts to Draw Them From Memory In 2009 designer Gianluca Gimini started asking friends and strangers to draw a men’s bicycle from memory. While some got it right, most made technical errors — missing fundaments parts of the frame or chain. The exercise is similar to … Continue reading →