The wonder of technology

[jee]

Totally mag!

185 voices. 243 tracks. 12 countries. A choir unlike any other. What started as a simple social media experiment, has become a poetic metaphor of our shared humanity and the power of connection.

Acclaimed composer and conductor Eric Whitacre offered the sheet music of his original composition, "Lux Aurumque", as a free download and invited singers to submit a video of themselves performing one part (soprano, alto, tenor, or bass). These rather ordinary videos of solo performances were then pieced together to form a choir of singers who have never met each other...but have unwittingly created music in perfect harmony together.

http://www.karmatube.org/videos.php?id=1958

[capanno]

This sounds very familiar. Didn't someone do this with an orchestra? Still, very cool!

[Anthro]

I had chills - Logitech Z230's turned up FULL Bass n 'Ol

[jee]

With the wonder of tech also comes the dangers:
a new form of illiteracy? or more exactly, dysgraphia, the inability to write

Texting and typing are replacing the elaborate strokes that make up written Chinese. And when it comes time to jot down a few words, more Chinese are realizing they can't remember exactly how.

The more gadgets people own — cellphones, smart phones, computers — the less often they go through the elaborate sequence of strokes that make up Chinese characters. Whether on their computers or texting on phones, most Chinese use a system where they type out the sound of the word in Pinyin, the most commonly used Romanization system — and presto, they are given a choice of characters to use.

No muss, no fuss, no pens, no pencils — not to speak of inkwells and calligraphy brushes.

character amnesia