News and Tips

Glass's Birthday Cake, by the Cake Boss.

To honor Philip Glass’s birthday on January 31st, there are some interesting recordings of Philip Glass circulating throughout the internet.  One recording is works by Glass played on accordion (by what capitalism was).  U Can Unlearn Guitar interprets and “covers” album Glassworks, called Glassworked.  And for those who love mash-ups, radio station WFMU is streaming what they call Glassbreaks. It’s a delicate blend of Hip Hop and Glass, featuring songs like Einstein on the Beast, a combination of  Einstein on The Beach and The Beastie Boys.

You can also stream more of Glass’s music at DRAM and Naxos (BGSU Authentication required), and look for even more scores and sound recordings by searching “Glass, Philip” in the library’s catalog.

We’ve posted and tagged the Book Tableaux from last Friday night’s Arts Extravaganza.  See them on Flickr or on our Pinterest board.  Big thanks to everyone who enacted a cover or helped with the event!

September 17th is Constitution Day and the Man in Black has something to sing about it.  Listen to his album We the People, A Musical Celebration of our Constitution online at American Song.  (BGSU Authentication Required)

Sounds needed?  Wander on over to the FreeSound Project.  According to their website, “The Freesound Project is a collaborative database of Creative Commons licensed sounds. Freesound focuses only on sound, not songs.”

Image by pol ubeda

For more sounds and sound effects, visit the Music Listening Center to check out our Sounds Effects Index, which lists hundreds of SFX recordings within the library and archives.  Or try a Subject Search for the word “sounds” in the catalog.

The following is the library’s hours of operation for the week of Thanksgiving:

Monday, 8am-10pm
Tuesday and Wednesday, 8am-5pm
Thursday, Friday and Saturday, CLOSED
Sunday, 6pm-10pm

Have a good holiday!

Jim Bumgardner created an interesting info-graphic showing “a musical realization of the motion graphics of John Whitney as described in his book Digital Harmony“.

The Library of Congress has an excellent series of podcasts from a variety of contributors, who talk about neuroscience, music and how they interact with each other.

Hold onto your hats and prep your RSS feeds!  Our Sleeveface of the Week feature is now it’s own blog, Library Sleevefacing.

No need to fear THIS change.  The Library Sleevefacing blog will begin featuring posts from other libraries, allows commenting on posts, and much more!

Head over now and see this weeks latest entry.

In honor of last week’s Banned Books Week, listen to some great sound recordings about music censorship. And check out Billboard’s recent article “Banned Music: 20 Artists Censors Tried to Silence”.

Nat King Cole listens to all the vinyl and CDs he can at the Music Listening Center.

In this photo: Nat King Cole, Tania Moldovan and Michael Lee.  Photo by Liz Tousey.