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If you find yourself in
Finland on the evening of April 30th or on May 1st, you must be aware of the following information. Today is
Vappu. Also known as Walpurgis Night, Vappu is a traditional holiday in Finland, and there are a number of unique social customs and dress you must be aware of in order to avoid embarrassment and ridicule.
posted to MetaFilter by Lord_Pall
at 1:04 PM on April 30, 2008
(12 comments)
I want to collaborate in real time (or not far off) on some music with someone who lives far away from me.
posted to Ask Metafilter by sparkletone
at 8:10 AM on April 11, 2008
(5 comments)
I love listening to the groaning music of Mark Morgan (the Fallout soundtracks) and Lustmord (dark, dark ambient) while I read. I've been trying to find some similar music, but last.fm insists that Mark Morgan is like all other game soundtrack composers and Lustmord is akin to gothic wailing*.
So I turn to you. What other artists make music with this grinding, eerie, screetchingly dark post-apocalyptic quality?
* Nothing wrong with gothic wailing, just not when I'm reading.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Skyanth
at 1:41 PM on March 27, 2008
(19 comments)
Celemony are a bunch of crazy German software engineers known best for making Melodyne, a family of top of the line pitch correction tools. Apparently they've recently figured out how to do what they do with polyphonic audio.
I can't begin to explain how cool this is. Just
watch the video.
posted to MetaFilter by stenseng
at 4:10 PM on March 13, 2008
(122 comments)
What are some heavy guitar focused trip-hop albums similar to Massive Attack's Mezzanine?
posted to Ask Metafilter by herbiehancock00
at 9:47 PM on February 26, 2008
(15 comments)
Even if Lou Reed had dropped out of music after the break-up of the Velvet Underground, his name would still be forever etched in the history of rock music. Yet his solo career, filled with eccentric detours and radio-ready rockers in equal measure, remains one of the most fascinating canons in all of rock music. Metal Machine Music, however, is a unique entity in itself, proudly pushing at the very boundaries of what pop music is capable of. Zeitkratzer’s performance not only makes the original album ripe for critical re-evaluation, but it’s a performance that stands on its own ground...
Why Does the Music Have to End?: An Interview with Lou Reed regarding how he came to play
Metal Machine Music live in 2002.
posted to MetaFilter by y2karl
at 10:53 AM on November 17, 2007
(47 comments)
Foetus may, or may not be, a band that once consisted of two Brazilian statistics collectors, their penpal Frank Want, and temperamental singer Phillip Toss. As it stands today, Clint Ruin, aka Frank Want, aka J. G. Thirlwell is the driving force behind the band known as Foetus. Expounding on the underlying themes of "aesthetic terrorism" and "positive negativism," the name has gone through many deviations, but the concept remains the same.
posted to MetaFilter by Zack_Replica
at 9:50 PM on November 9, 2007
(36 comments)
How can I stay up to date on the art/cultural scene in downtown Los Angeles?
posted to Ask Metafilter by phaedon
at 12:06 PM on November 6, 2007
(6 comments)
I need recommendations for beginner-level electronic kits and projects; audio-related kits and projects preferred.
posted to Ask Metafilter by lekvar
at 1:12 PM on October 29, 2007
(19 comments)
The Faces of War, a fascinating document of the prosthetic masks used to cover serious facial injuries from the battlefield. Before plastic surgery was widely practised and used to reconstruct the horrific facial injuries of the First World War soldiers, men with the most serious facial injured were often hidden away from society.
Men such as those
recorded in watercolour, and
in pastels (
warning: some may find these images disturbing); patients of
Harold Gillies, pioneer of facial reconstruction at Queen's Hospital, Sidcup,
the wars major centre for facial reconstruction and plastic surgery.
posted to MetaFilter by chrisbucks
at 7:08 PM on October 1, 2007
(24 comments)
Today marks 30 years since Marc Bolan died. In the five years since
this post, YouTube has come along to offer us videos of a whole slew of
T. Rex songs:
20th Century Boy,
Telegram Sam,
Jeepster,
Hot Love,
Children of the Revolution,
Ride A White Swan,
Solid Gold Easy Action,
Metal Guru, and of course
Bang A Gong (Get It On). Also,
Born To Boogie, Ringo Starr's documentary about T. Rex, has gone from "hard to find" to
available on DVD.
posted to MetaFilter by kimota
at 5:18 PM on September 16, 2007
(16 comments)
How do
you pronounce
them when it's stressed?
For instance, "Don't give it to me, give it to THEM."
posted to Ask Metafilter by Inigo Jones
at 12:00 PM on September 14, 2007
(58 comments)
Help me find guided meditation mp3s.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Ash3000
at 4:47 PM on September 4, 2007
(12 comments)
'Hey, We're Back'
is a new podcast by Jonathan Katz, of
Dr. Katz. Recommended for those who like low-key humor and Katz's soothing voice.
posted to MetaFilter by agropyron
at 10:32 PM on August 28, 2007
(14 comments)
I have a
business card design that I want to get printed inexpensively, but without going
too cheap. But I only know enough about print to be dangerous. What's my best bet?
posted to Ask Metafilter by mendel
at 7:39 AM on July 23, 2007
(23 comments)
Need help figuring out one problem with recording my acoustic guitar at home.
posted to Ask Metafilter by quadog
at 12:57 PM on July 20, 2007
(17 comments)
Is there a way in iTunes (or another application) to make all of the songs on a playlist be approximately the same volume?
posted to Ask Metafilter by k8t
at 6:47 PM on July 11, 2007
(9 comments)
I've had sinus pain for about 11 days now, and I've tried about everything (details below). Suggestions?
posted to Ask Metafilter by rikhei
at 4:46 PM on June 30, 2007
(16 comments)
Guitarweek is quite easily one of the best, if not the best, guitar education websites on the web.
Check out the
Chord worksheets. The load of free
lessons, plus some members-only
flash lessons.
It's a real labor of love by a pretty
interesting guy, who like a lot of people who work more for a passion than money, appears to have
trouble making ends meet on it.
Membership is amazingly cheap to boot.
posted to MetaFilter by bluevelvetelvis
at 3:14 AM on May 22, 2007
(9 comments)
Help me expose myself! How can I get my music heard?
posted to Ask Metafilter by SampleSize
at 3:12 PM on March 29, 2007
(29 comments)
On keeping track of music: how does one know when bands release new albums?
posted to Ask Metafilter by gormanite
at 12:21 AM on February 13, 2007
(20 comments)
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