A Modern-Day Ziggurat

In today's New York Times, author Nicolai Ouroussoff tells us about an architectural movement in the Netherlands by talking about the new Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. It's a great article, with a wonderful slide show. Check it out here.

Ooooou-Eeeee-Ooooou

The BBC had a little department called the Radiophonic Workshop (1958 - ~1995) that created a lot of amazing and innovative music first using tape decks (truly experimental music) and later using the first Moog synthesizers. Here is a BBC 4 documentary about it. Have a listen, even if only for a few minutes -- it's great.

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KCET & Beyond

It has been fascinating to watch the evolution of the Public Broadcasting Corp. (both on TV and the radio) as they find ways to employ new media & integrate new technologies in their quest to stay vital & connect with the increasingly technology-dependent public. You can now watch Charlie Rose in living colour on the web (full episodes), download podcasts of The News Hour, and explore all kinds of background & extra information on the myriad topics that cross the PBS screen or grace the NPR airwaves throughout the day.
In one valiant attempt to reach out to the youth, they are recording concerts and posting the entire shows on their website for free. A good one that I stumbled upon recently is OK Go, a Chicago-based garage band probably best known for their music video that has been all over youtube lately, where the band performs a choreographed dance routine on a set of treadmills, accompanied by their song "Here It Goes Again." Listen to their live performance here.