Archive - Trebuchet

If Only it Were So Simple: An Algorithm to Predict Hit Songs

18/12/2011

Can science predict a hit song? Most people remember listening to the official UK top 40 singles chart and watching the countdown on Top of the Pops, but can science work out which songs are more...

Loitered Lens: If [Pics]

18/12/2011

Who are these men? Where do they come from? How do they keep going? Shut up and pass the gasoline. A band comes together for so many reasons and after a while the purpose becomes unimportant....

Physics meet Music, Music meet Physics

17/12/2011

An internationally renowned composer and an award-winning violinist, are bringing particle physics to life through a series of classical compositions. The composer Edward Cowie is teaming up with...

Outside my apartment window, across a wind-blown courtyard, the crimson leaves of a white oak are falling into a swirling breeze, revealing the gnarled limbs and stark branches of the time-battered...

Christopher Hitchens: RIP

16/12/2011

Far from being the most popular of journalists within his lifetime (he supported the Iraq wars, intelligently and with erudition, but such taboo thoughts are not popular with the emotional masses),...

Peter Wyeth: Humming New Time

16/12/2011

Found sounds, field recordings, loops. Grabbing them, bringing them together and making music is only one part of the process. Creating a compelling musical narrative from the components is the...

Nitin Sawhney Presents ‘Spin The Globe’ on BBC R2

15/12/2011

Producer, songwriter, DJ, multi-instrumentalist and orchestral composer Nitin Sawhney brings his eclecticism to BBC Radio 2 in January with a series exploring music from all cultures and...

Bear Cavalry

15/12/2011

No, not the Canadian reinforcement to the mounties. Bear Cavalry, it's a band. A bit math-rock in the guitar figure, a bit strop-rock in the vocal. Tipped by Tom Robinson, Edith Bowman and (a...

American Classics UK [Pics]

15/12/2011

The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors,...

fiN: Live

15/12/2011

After touring arenas with Incubus, fiN are back 'on the circuit', in this case the intimate surroundings upstairs at north London's Garage. Energised and ferocious, they're beginning...

Christmas Presents: Give Less, Impress More. Bargain!

14/12/2011

Now this is a piece of psychological research that will come in handy. Adding little additional presents to one big gift not only makes you look dithering and a bit needy, but makes the whole package...

Riots and Rods of Iron: An Academic in Africa

14/12/2011

It is both a curse and a blessing that we don’t know what other people think of us. I am much better than I used to be, but I know that I still spend much of my time in conversation with an...

Artists’ Families to Benefit from Resales

13/12/2011

Interesting to see how this will be greeted by the bottom-feeders. In a follow-on to September's extension of music copyright law, a similar series of benefits have recently been applied to...

Trace Elements: Twister

13/12/2011

I’ve never been to Mumbai, but if their train journeys into work are less overcrowded than London’s, I may outsource myself soon. Plus a mutant insect flew into my mouth I guess I’d...

Racism Makes You Miserable

12/12/2011

See, all that time we'd been worrying about how it feels to be on the receiving end of a rascist or xenophobic rant, we should have been worrying about the frothing bigot instead. Flippancy aside...

Islet: Illuminated People

12/12/2011

Islet's Illumiminated People is awash with the self-indulgence of a band who have little to fear from the ignominy of failure. That's the official line at any rate. Famous now for not being...

Four-tailed Galaxy Beast

11/12/2011

Greedy galaxy. The Milky Way Galaxy continues to devour its small neighboring dwarf galaxies, and the evidence is spread out across the sky. A team of astronomers led by Sergey Koposov and Vasily...

NASA finds its first habitable planet

11/12/2011

NASA’s Kepler mission has confirmed its first planet in the “habitable zone,” the region where liquid water could exist on a planet’s surface, on a planet close to a sun-like...

Loitered Lens: The Castells [Pics]

11/12/2011

The Castells are cool. "Wearing daft shirts and playing effortlessly, The Castells become one, effortlessly. Baby belle wax figurines, A penguin becomes a tangerine. If time...

Saggy in the Middle? 77,000 Year-Old Mattress

10/12/2011

Oldest Known Mattresses From South African Rock Shelter: Early humans in South Africa were constructing sleeping mats out of local plants as many as 77,000 years ago, according to a new study. Some...

The Degree To Which You Resist Is The Degree To Which You Are Free

10/12/2011

I've noticed a meme beginning to fester among liberal insiders who are positing that the Occupy Wall Street movement is starting to "distract" the citizenry from the wicked machinations...

ASG: Sign To Relapse Records

09/12/2011

Relapse Records is extremely proud to announce the signing of North Carolina’s finest psychedelic, stoner-punks ASG! Impossible to pigeonhole, ASG has been wheelin’ and...

Oliveray: Wonders

09/12/2011

Geezer Alert! This review contains nostalgic revisionism. The under-thirties – oh ye of predictive texting and sleepful nights unbroken by groggy visits to the loo – will be baffled by...

Sound Helps You See!

08/12/2011

This story is for anyone who ever ducked their head in the cinema. Even unconsciously, sound helps us see "Imagine you are playing ping-pong with a friend. Your friend makes a serve. Information...

Panic Room: Live Review

08/12/2011

Panic Room have come a long way since their first live appearances back in 2008. The band emerged from the ashes of the first incarnation of celtic proggers Karnataka, with that band's...

The Wedding Present: BACK!

07/12/2011

“I never really enjoy New Year’s Eve!” With those fateful words David Gedge set into motion a train of events that has culminated in the “Seeing Out 2011 With The Wedding...

Into the Unknown: Death in Vegas

07/12/2011

Death in Vegas – Your Loft my Acid After listening to a regularly reliable machine based radio show The Electronic Tonic there it was: The return of Death in Vegas. We all know what happens to...

Fool’s Gold Gets Valuable

06/12/2011

Pyrite, those flecks of shining 'gold' you see in river gravel, might not be as worthless as once believed. Clean, cheap energy. Bring it on. Just don't tell the petrochem baddies!...

It’s Called Viral for a Reason

06/12/2011

In the relative blink of an eye, we have culturally swallowed a crazy idea: that the capacity to grab people’s attention is more important than what is being done to grab their attention. We...

Earth: Angels of Darkness/Demons of Light, plus tour dates

05/12/2011

The second half of Angels of Darkness/Demons of Light is at hand and Earth are ready to unveil it on the highways and byways of the UK and EU. The line-up again consists of Adrienne Davies on...

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