Britten Sinfonia hooked up to a twitter-parsing robot, with dubious results

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Tips to add depth to a shot
1. Depth of field
2. Back light
3. Foreground element
4. Perspective
5. Paralax
6. Smoke

Madrid-based Triton Studio introduces Hip Hop Triton 1.0, their new music app developed specifically for the iPad. Hip Hop Triton turns your iPad into an easily manageable professional studio which you can use to make your own music and share it with friends and family through email, Facebook or Twitter. Hip Hop Triton provides six audio tracks. Grouped in 5 categories, choose from a built in collection of over 400 professional quality sounds to cook up your theme.

I wantr to let you in on a little secret, because I think you will be pleased. It is a secret, and Mr. Ives must never know you heard it. Recently he sent us a check. The excuse was: he said he was afraid we might incur some expense in copying his music. But he knew this couldn´t happen: he had already arranged himself to have everything copied for us. The real purpose was half hidden in another sentence. He said that if we should need to have any of Mr Schoenberg´s music copied, we shouldn´t hesitate to use the money also for that. He wanted to make sure that none of your music would have to be omitted because we didn´t have the money to pay for copying it. I think you will value the spirit of his intention and be glad for it. Kindnesses like that are too precious to be kept secret. He was very determined that you shouldn´t know about it. But in our harsh and often clumsy world it does us good, it inspires us to learn of a real kindness.

International Journal of Contemporary Composition (IJCC) is an online peer-reviewed open-access journal, dedicated to providing the worldwide musical audience with free access to high-quality works by contemporary music researchers and composers.

10 rules of photo composition (and why they work) http://t.co/oGx33T0j (via @nathanpc)

jMusic is a project designed to provide composers and software developers with a library of compositional and audio processing tools. It provides a solid framework for computer-assisted composition in Java™, and is also used for generative music, instrument building, interactive performance, and music analysis. 

The Journal of Writing Assessment

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