Oates for Tanger
Fri, 31 May 2002
Automats and Artificial Intelligence
CNN have a review of Tom Standages book The Turk about Kempelen's famous chess playing automat. More information on the Turk book site and on Tom Standages site. All of which reminded me that I'd always wanted to read another of his books, The Victorian Internet which chronicles the introduction of the telegraph network and compares it with the growth of the internet in our own times.
Posted at 12:00 #
L'infatigable Ulisse
Gradualy getting things setup. Sorted out some technitrivia and done a new page for the chamber group I play with.
Listening, again, to a recording I found a while back of Jacquet de la Guerre's "Le Sommeil d'Ulisse" and "Samson" by Isabelle Desrochers and Les Voix Humaines and its wonderfull.
Posted at 23:05 #
Baroque flute players arise!
I hereby claim that this is the first amateur baroque flute players blog.
To celebrate I did the rounds tonight of the sites you need to tell when you start a new weblog. For the record and to the best of my knowledge that's blogdex, syndic8 then ping weblogs.com. Couldn't find the subscription page at News is free. Have I missed any?
Listening to Concerts, Cantates françaises by Michel Pignolet de Montéclair (Jacqueline Nicolas soprano, Pariser Quartet)
Posted at 21:34 #
With (or without) style
Just discovered that the style sheet doesn't work with mozilla on windows. I'm working on it. Update: hmmm.. the html and css now validates clean having fixed a few errors and it still doesn't work with moz/windows. Update: fixed ouf!
Posted at 16:23 #
Dusty shelves
The three links at the right under "books" are a gold mine if you're searching for second hand books. I've just received copies of Jane Bolands method for the one keyed flute and Bukofzers Music in the baroque era both of them more or less unobtainable here (france). Lots of reading in store. The Boland has an excellent list of 17th century flute tutors available in facsimile which sent me diving back .. into the three links on the right.
Posted at 21:51 #
18 Melodious Canons
Mr Borzeix introduced me a while back to one of the Telemann canons for two flutes in a recorder transcription. Copies of the original (untransposed) version are available for free downloading at Johan Tufvessons site. I spent an extremely enjoyable hour sight reading them on traverso today with Mark Hervieux.
Posted at 21:00 #
Blosxom
I'd long thought of starting a blog of my own. Now the deed is done, or at least the starting bit is.
Many thanks to Rael Dornfest for the wonderfully minimalist Blosxom.
Posted at 20:30 #
