Symphony

Today, November 28, the artificial intelligence space witnessed a major collaboration and several interesting developments. In the first news, the European Central Bank's (ECB) research indicates that the widespread implementation of AI might potentially lead to lower wages for professionals. In other news, Symphony, a markets infrastructure and tech company, is collaborating with Google to enhance its voice analytics services for banks and investment firms. This and more in today's AI roundup. Let us take a closer…

In American Symphony, a moving but scattershot documentary following the recording artist Jon Batiste during a whirlwind year, the transcendent moments tend to come along when its subject is anchored to a piano.Batiste, a musician who harmonizes between genres like jazz, classical, R&B and funk, is most famous for leading Stay Human, the house band on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and taking home Album of the Year at the 2022 Grammys. That prize pairs nicely with his Oscar for scoring Pixar’s Soul alongside Trent…

1 The boy maketh the man. Eva Jagger said of her son: “I always had the feeling that Mike would be something. He was a very adventurous boy when he was younger, but then later he became interested in money. It always struck as odd. Money doesn’t usually interest little boys, but it did Mike.”2. Mick Jagger was always Mick Jagger. In 1959, he appeared on ATV’s Seeing Sport, in a sequence on climbing for young people, filmed in Tunbridge Wells, The presenter, John Disley, holds Jagger’s (“Michael’s”) foot up to show his…

Stunning NASA imagery served as the inspirational material and backdrop for the National Philharmonic's performance of 'Cosmic Cycles: A Space Symphony' It could be the ultimate blend of art and science—a new seven-suite "space symphony" inspired and illustrated by NASA's latest mind-boggling images. The world premiere outside…

Five hours is enough time to watch a New York Mets game. It is enough time to listen to the Spice Girls' "Spice" album (40 minutes), Paul Simon's "Paul Simon" album (42 minutes) and Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 3 (his longest). It is enough time to roast a chicken, text your friends that you've roasted a chicken and prepare for an impromptu dinner party.Or you could spend it checking your email. Five hours is about how long many workers spend on email each day. And 90 minutes on the messaging platform Slack. It's a weird…

An LITG runaround yesterday on Bleeding Cool, what you were reading and when, as well as the last four years. Also comic industry birthdays!LITG: Bleeding Cool stopped doing April Fools a few years ago, though we have been known to collect and compile those from others. Just so you know, the only foolishness today from LITG on will be our usual tomfoolery. So anyway, welcome to the Daily LITG. The world can seem like a terrible and strange place sometimes, but at Bleeding Cool, you can still read all about comics, merch,…

Boom has revealed more details about Symphony, the engine for the Overture jet with which it aims to bring back commercial supersonic air travel after the retirement of Concorde. Most importantly, the company has secured a new partner to develop the engine after it parted ways with Rolls-Royce in September.  FTT, a division of Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, will help design Symphony. Some of FTT's engineers were behind the F-22 and F-35 fighter jet engines, so they have experience in powering supersonic…

Time is weird. Although under consistent conditions, the passage of time remains the same (relative to the speed that you’re travelling), our perception of it can be radically different. These past few years have felt particularly strange, given the existential dread and disruptions of routine and schedules many of us have been under. The rhythm and flow of time has felt off, as if something has gone terribly awry. It was only 2017, only five years ago now, that Underwinter – Symphony by Ray Fawkes and Steve Wands, was…

Sega has announced that the Sonic The Hedgehog 30th Anniversary Symphony will be embarking on a tour, with the first live performance in October 2022. After the success of 2021’s Sonic The Hedgehog 30th Anniversary Symphony event, which was broadcast live for two hours and was seen by millions, it has now been announced by Sega that the Symphony will be going on a world tour. The tour was announced during yesterday’s (June 7) Sonic Central stream, and there’s no word on what regions it will cover as of publication You…

Among Charles Koechlin’s huge catalogue of works – well over 200 with opus numbers, and plenty more without – there are four symphonies. Like most of Koechlin’s music they are rarely performed, but his Seven Stars Symphony at least gets sporadic performances, and, as the Capriccio release proves, even occasional recordings. Having been rather disdainful of silent film, Koechlin realised the potency of the talkies in 1932 when he saw Marlene Dietrich in The Blue Angel, and quickly became so enthralled by the new art form…