Discoveries XXXVIII

Every Tuesday I offer three (or so) contributions to the web that I found interesting. I hope you, too, find them inspiring. Enjoy!

This week (17/02/2009):

Let’s start of with some contemplative piano pieces by the inventor of 12 tone music. No, not Schönberg. His name is Josef Matthias Hauer, Austrian like Schönberg of whom he was a contemporary. But Hauer was on a very different trip. Just listen in:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dh9BEuQOsMo

 

Here is an interesting conversation with Freeman Dyson, the eminent physicist. One of his books is called ‘Disturbing the Universe’, another one ‘The Sun, the Genome and the Internet’. In his own words:
http://meaningoflife.tv/video.php?speaker=dyson&topic=complete

 

Listen to this original interpretation of guitarist Stanley Jordan of the Led Zeppelin Hit ‘Stairway to Heaven’:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjXN3OLgoqs&feature=related

 


 

 

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