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Podcast: Ambiguity, Process, and Information Content in Minimal Music
Recent trends in music composition push bounds by creating pieces ...
Recent trends in music composition push bounds by creating pieces which are either more complex or simpler than works of the past. And yet, our ability to understand and be interested in the compositions at these extremes has kept pace. In this talk, Michael Cuthbert shows how simple minimalist processes give rise to highly ambiguous structures, while many of the most complex moments are reducible to easier to comprehend processes. The effect of potentially endless works—including sections of Beethoven symphonies--will generalize the talk to other musical styles and other media. Cuthbert, visiting assistant professor of music at MIT, has worked extensively on fourteenth-century music and on music of the past 40 years. A recipient of the Rome Prize of the American Academy, Cuthbert earned his Ph.D. from Harvard in 2006. Download Here!
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Podcast: "The Real World''s Faker than Wrestling: Former WWE Champion and Best-Selling Author Mick Foley
Mick Foley, one of the top wrestling performers of the ...
Mick Foley, one of the top wrestling performers of the past decade, alked about his experiences as an entertainer and bestselling author who has written three memoirs (including Foley Is Good: And the Real World is Faker Than Wrestling) two novels, and a variety of children's books. Foley has been a professional wrestler since the mid-1980s and was a headlining star for World Wrestling Entertainment (www.wwe.com) under the personas of Mankind, Cactus Jack and Dude Love. Foley will discuss telling stories in a variety of written and performative genres and how he has managed to bridge the gap across multiple genres and entertainment forms. This is the 2nd part of our multi-part American Pro Wrestling series. Download Here!
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Podcast: Communications Forum: "Evangelicals and the Media"
American evangelicals have a long history of engagement with the ...
American evangelicals have a long history of engagement with the media, dating back to Great Awakening of the late eighteenth century. Today evangelical groups are active in all media, from the Internet and cellular telephones to print journalism, broadcasting, film, and multi-media entertainment. In this Forum, our speakers discuss the social and political impact of the evangelical movement’s use of media technologies. Gary Schneeberger is special assistant for media relations to James Dobson, founder and chairman of the evangelical group Focus on the Family (www.family.org). Diane Winston is the Knight Chair in Media and Religion in the USC Annenberg School for Communication and author of Red-Hot and Righteous: The Urban Religion of the Salvation Army. The Forum was moderated by the Rev. Amy McCreath, MIT’s Episcopal chaplain and coordinator of the Technology and Culture Forum at MIT (web.mit.edu/tac). Download Here!
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Podcast: "Old World, New World: How Communities, Culture, Connectivity, and Commerce are Changing How We Create Culture, Media, Education and Politics"
Alan Moore, CEO of engagement marketing company SMLXL and co-author ...
Alan Moore, CEO of engagement marketing company SMLXL and co-author of Communities Dominate Brands, believes that community-based engagement initiatives and the enabling of peer-to-peer flows of communication within organizations, and those that engage with them, will replace the traditional media orthodoxies of government, management, business, media distribution and marketing Download Here!
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Podcast: Communications Forum: "What's New at the Media Lab?"
A conversation between Frank Moss, new director of the Media ...
A conversation between Frank Moss, new director of the Media Lab, and CMS Director Henry Jenkins about ongoing projects and inventive digital applications at MIT's legendary laboratory. Demonstrations were also shown and discussed. The MIT Communications Forum hosts a summary of the event. Download Here!
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Podcast: Communications Forum: "Remixing Shakespeare"
New technologies are enabling forms of borrowing, appropriation and "remixing" ...
New technologies are enabling forms of borrowing, appropriation and "remixing" of media materials in exciting, provocative ways. In this Forum, two MIT scholars who have studied and written about the remixing of Shakespeare will describe their research, show some salient audio-visual examples and discuss the implications of their work for contemporary culture. Literature Professor Peter Donaldson is director of the Shakespeare Electronic Archive which since 1992 has used computers to develop new ways of studying the text, image and film records of Shakespearean publication and production. Literature Professor Diana Henderson is the author of Collaborations with the Past: Reshaping Shakespeare Across Time and Media and A Concise Companion to Shakespeare on Screen. She is an active participant in MIT's partnership with the Royal Shakespeare Company. The forum will be moderated by Mary Fuller of the Literature Faculty. The MIT Communications Forum hosts a summary of the event. Download Here!
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Podcast: Communications Forum: "Why Newspapers Matter?"
This is the third and final forum in the Will ...
This is the third and final forum in the Will Newspapers Survive? series presented by the MIT Communications Forum. Why Newspapers Matter, features Jerome Armstrong of Netroots.com and MyDD.com; Pablo Boczkowski, associate professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Northwestern University; Dante Chinni from the Christian Science Monitor; and David Thorburn, professor of literature and director of the Communications Forum at MIT. The MIT Communications Forum hosts a summary of the event. Download Here! (This has been converted from RealAudio to MP3 in order to be played on standard digital audio players, and as a result has a loss of fidelity compared to previous releases)
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Podcast: Communications Forum: "The Emergence of Citizens' Media"
This is the first forum in the Will Newspapers Survive? ...
This is the first forum in the Will Newspapers Survive? series presented by the MIT Communications Forums. The Emergence of Citizen's Media features Alex Beam of the Boston Globe, Ellen Foley from the Wisconsin State Journal and Dan Gillmor, founder of the Center for Citizen Media. The MIT Communications Forum hosts a summary of the event and our own Sam Ford wrote an article for the CMS page in October. Download Here! (This has been converted from RealAudio to MP3 in order to be played on standard digital audio players, and as a result has a loss of fidelity compared to previous releases)
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Podcast: "Half-Real: A Video Game in the Hands of a Player (Audio)"
This is an audio recording of a lecture Jesper Juul ...
This is an audio recording of a lecture Jesper Juul gave to us on November 28, 2006. (A video recording of the same event will follow). This lecture ties into his recent book, Half-Real: Video Games between Real Rules and Fictional Worlds. Download Here!
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Podcast: Futures of Entertainment 2006: "Not the Real World Anymore (Video)"
This is the seventh in a series of seven podcasts, ...
This is the seventh in a series of seven podcasts, recorded during the Futures of Entertainment Conference hosted by the Convergence Culture Consortium and Comparative Media Studies at MIT. Not the Real World Anymore was the fifth session of the conference. The panelists featured in this recording are John Lester, from Linden Lab; Ron Meiners, Developer Relations Manager at Multiverse.net; and Todd Cunningham and Eric Gruber, from MTV Networks. The moderator was Joshua Green. Futures of Entertainment 2006 - Fan Cultures - Recorded Nov. 18, 2006 (Video/Quicktime, 2hr16min / 275MB)
