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Entries from Torontoist tagged with 'goldbergvariations'

June 27, 2007

Photo by Sylvain Dumais from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. Old people, prepare to get pissed off. SoundProof Magazine asked a whole bunch of Toronto bloggers—Torontoist's staff included—and asked them to make a list of their favourite Toronto albums ever. The results are in, and though 158 albums got votes (!!), the list is very recent-album heavy: Broken Social Scene's You Forgot it in People shoves some old dude named Neil Young out of the......

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September 25, 2006

Ok, it's not that dramatic but Glenn Gould's 1955 rendition of the Goldberg Variations is being reperformed, sort of. John Q. Walker, a computer programmer and musician has created software that will allow a piano to very accurately reproduce performances. The Globe reports on the intriguing invention: "There are about 10 different musical attributes that we analyze," continues Walker, "including pitch, moment of impact, strike velocity, duration, how the note ends, and the angle of......

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