:: Stockhausen and Self Assembly

The flat-pack Stockhausen (original article)

An article from the guardian.co.uk about a new recording of Stockhausen's piece Plus Minus. The score (diagram) for this composition provides performers the basic "material" for completion of the indeterminate piece.

Thanks to Peter Lloyd Jones for sending this my way.

:: Chromoscope

 

"View the Universe

Chromoscope has been created using public-domain datasets from a number of all-sky astronomy projects. It lets you easily move around the sky and fade between wavelengths using a simple user-interface to illustrate the similarities and differences between what is visible at each wavelength.

There are currently seven included: gamma ray (Fermi), X-ray (ROSAT), H-alpha (WHAM), optical (DSS), infrared (IRAS), microwave (WMAP) and radio (Haslam). You can click on the credit information, shown at the bottom-right of the Chromoscope screen, to learn more about each survey."

from www.chromoscope.net

see also Planck's View