GRAINS FROM THE UNIVERSE

I was living in Tenerife on Sept 11th 2001. I shared an apartment with a guy studying sciences. We shared some books. I was reading a lot by nights, so I could attend a pair of exams that month, though I didn't finish my career and was forced to come back to Gran Canaria later on. I remember I had my mobile off. It was one of those tiny colored Alcatel . Easy to handle, with a little antenna and a good SMS service one could use from time to time.  I had susbscribed to an Spanish News Channel, 'Antena 3 TV,' (from Telefonica, S.A.) and received some news everyday. I was going to give up the channel for there was nothing interesting on it.  I remember that day, at about 5 or 7 p.m., I turned the mobile on and then I read something like 'The US is attacked by a force of planes by whatever forces.' I inmediately thought it was impossible. It was like a game on the mobile. It was a joke made by the journalists there -I thought-. SMS world was starting to work...

Last September, I was looking for some good music to listen to, when I heard something I was fascinated for: What it was? It sounded like an old group of Rock-n-Roll or "Smooth Heavy". It was a rythmic music and a good voice recorded, but I didn't remember it or I had listened to it when I was a child , so I didn't know anything about that group. They had a very good and modern way of dressing code that could be 90's or even nowadays if Suzie didn't wear that  metal collars and too much black. The drummer was also up-to-date.  I thought they had all died. I thought 'perhaps they were famous and sold many LPs once a day,' but it was not true. The singer is still alive and was part of the group "Suzie Quatro."  She's one of the most famous Rock'n'Roll girls. I didn't know anything, for new styles and years have become old-fashioned. Suzie, the singer, is alive and still living in England. She recognizes it wasn...

Recordings and Natural 'sound'. Right now, I'm listening to a very interesting interview the musician and piano-clavichord player Wim Winters (who is doing  new recordings in AuthenticSound Project ) made to Philip Newell, who lives in Vigo, Galicia, Spain. Mr Newell is said to be one of the best technicians of our times, according to the interviewer, for he made recordings of rock and classical music like Mac Oldfield, Queen or Bernstein, amongst many others.  Just listening to this video, I'm listening to the sounds they make in English and, for the knowledge I have in that language, I realize the recording is a high quality one: Each vowel, sound pattern and sentence is heard clearly. I'm using my earphones and a common computer like most of you must have, so I think some Digital Remastered pieces should be heard like this way. When I listen or watch a video, the most important thing for me is not only a good quality image (just a clear one) but a high s...

El reciente óbito de Lina Morgan ha dejado cierto vacío en el panorama del teatro español. Como he leído en ciertos comentarios, si bien no era de una figura destacada en cuanto a físico, sí supo llamar la atención del público de todas las edades y condiciones, sobre todo en su última etapa como cómica, artista de varietés y cantante. El País. Lina Morgan, Una Vida en Imágenes. Cultivó un tipo de teatro que en los años 80 y 90 ya estaba en decadencia y lo salvó de que cayese en el olvido. También, en televisión, logró captar la atención de un público también muy variado y combinó series, escenas (como las de Fin de Año) y dio a conocer grandes obras suyas en el teatro La Latina. Todo esto no hubiera sido posible sin su gran alma y corazón, que se nota a larga distancia que querían con locura a su familia, al elenco de artistas que la acompañaban y a su público (fuera el que fuese). Reconozco, aunque no sea crítico de teatro, que no era una actriz especializada, pero sí una actriz ...

En muchas redes sociales, existen decenas de tutoriales que cuentan detalladamente cómo debemos hacer un buen  blog, a quién debe ir destinado , los puntos básicos que debería tener y cómo debe estar diseñado. En cuanto a la parte de la modelación, a la de la programación, el lenguaje de programación CSS u otro cualquiera, hay más variedad, pero está más bien reunida en torno a cursos interactivos (online) o presenciales, y creo que goza de un mayor prestigio, ya que se trata de un lenguaje de metadatos que se enseña de una u otra manera. El protocolo de cómo debemos escribir o no, de qué temas elegir a la hora de escribir y presentar un blog como el que estoy ahora realizando, tiene decenas de consejeros  por todo el mundo. Los diseñadores siempre dan buenos consejos. Los coachers de contenido , por así llamarlos, a veces son grandes aliados y pueden dar un gran impulso a tu blog o a veces, si no saben bien qué tipo de contenido estás desarrollando pueden no ap...

Nuevo Programa de Radio: Play Ópera. Hace dos fines de semana que he escuchado veces sí, veces no, el ahora medio famoso programa español de la Cadena SER, en colaboración con el Liceo de Barcelona. Su nombre no deja de ser original, Play Ópera. Me estoy dando cuenta de que toda la temática de estas entradas versa precisamente sobre algo parecido a lo que estos programas ponen de manifiesto: alcanzar la ópera al público normal y corriente, con un guion actualizado, ameno, más verosímil y variado en su contenido. Como ocurriera con uno de mis programas favoritos de Radio Nacional de España (RNE) Radio Clásica, Clásicos Populares, que dirigiera el tristemente fallecido Fernando Argenta, pero que cautivaba a miles de radio-escuchas por toda la orbe, ahora es posible, con un poco de buena suerte, que Play Ópera siga una senda parecida (aunque personalmente echaré en falta siempre que RNE no haya recuperado su programa líder en audiencia con al...

My first blog post was in Spanish and it explained how Classical Music could be a new passion, as well as a kind of educative tool for anyone with some level of knowledge in music. I think nowadays, when we have reached some level of culture with some people which cannot access easily Classical Music, but, at the same time, is able to choose a varied kind of musical videos but with no explanation of what they are listening to or what kind of music they are watching (whether it is jazz, pop, rock, soul or any kind of a new piece of rap)this class of video can be the perfect solution. I think old and new forms will reach each other and mix, not in form but in the net, like we can see a video about sciences or making a cake for a host. In arts and culture in general, I think we should not give up and continue helping others, like children, other cultures and elders, for music (and Classical music in this case) is a divine art which is being substituted by common everyday noises....