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Lily Allen is a British pop singer, her record company sold enough copies of Lily Allen albums to get several gold and platinum certifications. Recently she started a blog called “It’s not alright” against music piracy. According to her filesharing is a “disaster” for emerging artists “as it’s making it harder and harder for new [...]

Earlier this blog brought you a story about possible developments in computer technology and music in the future. With increasing computer capabilities it might be possible one day the computer produces music that’s good by human standards. It was mentioned that new algorithms inspired by nature might be used for this, evolutionary techniques improving the [...]

Maybe this question sounds absurd to you. Maybe you think there’s no limit on new musical pieces that can be created. But this can’t be true, limitations on human hearing puts constraints on the number of possible sounds we can hear. Since not all sound is music, it follows that the number of all possible [...]

Nowadays Friesland is just a province of The Netherlands. But long ago Friesland, or Frisia, was an area much bigger, stretching from what is now part of Belgium, a large part of The Netherlands, northern Germany, up to Denmark. One of the Frisian cities, Dorestad, was one of the most important and flourishing trading places [...]

On October 15, 1997, at Black Rock Desert, Nevada, British RAF-pilot Andy Green drove the Thrust SuperSonic Car to speeds above the speed of sound. That day he did two runs, achieving a speed of 759.33 mph (Mach 1.015) on the first run, and 766.61 mph (Mach 1.020) on the second. That makes Green the [...]

You probably heard already that tomorrow will be the 40th anniversary of the historic lunar landing of Apollo 11, putting Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin on the surface of the Moon. A few years after the flight of Apollo 11 Buzz Aldrin left NASA, but he continued to promote space exploration.
The now 79 year [...]