#Roland Forster

[courseyoulovemeyoudontknowme]

Best Heath Ledger movies and performances:

1. The Dark Knight - Christopher Nolan (2008)

2. Brokeback Mountain - Ang Lee (2005)

3. 10 Things I Hate About You - Gil Junger (1999)

4. The Patriot - Roland Emmerich (2000)

5. Candy - Neil Armfield (2006)

6. Two Hands - Gregor Jordan (1999)

7. Monster's Ball - Marc Forster (2001)

8. Lords of Dogtown - Catherine Hardwicke (2005)

9. A Knight's Tale - Brian Helgeland (2001)

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Ardagger - Frühstücksnews - Montag, 23.10.2023

(c) Josef Pfligl: Apfelbaumblüte am 20.10. 2023 – Am Weinberg, Stift Ardagger Sehr geehrte Gemeindebürgerin! Sehr geehrter Gemeindebürger! Guten Tag am Montag – zunächst mit einer Nachricht von der Landjugend Stephanshart: Da wurde gestern neu gewählt: Tanja Dietl und Daniel Zehethofer sind die neuen Leiter. Als Stellvertreter wurden Marlene Schoder und Simon Zarl gewählt. Während Tanja Dietl und…

[justforbooks]

With his shrewd eyes and his forks of corn-yellow hair, Julian Sands was a natural choice to play the valiant, romantic George Emerson, who snatches a kiss from Lucy Honeychurch (Helena Bonham Carter) in a Tuscan poppy field in A Room With a View (1985). “I wanted him to be real, not a two-dimensional minor screen god,” he said. “I liked him in his lighter, sexier moments, less so when he was brooding.”

Sands, who has died aged 65 while hiking in mountains in California, was dashing in that film, but he could also project a dandyish, effete or sinister quality. He was blessed with a mellifluous voice and a lean, youthful, fine-boned face, even if, as a child, his brothers insisted he resembled a horse. (He agreed.) In James Ivory’s film of EM Forster’s novel, he was pure heart-throb material. His participation in the notorious nude bathing scene was no impediment to the picture’s success.

Prior to that, he had played the journalist Jon Swain in The Killing Fields (1984), Roland Joffé’s drama about the bloody rise of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. The picture marked the beginning of his friendship with his co-star John Malkovich. “I’d been cautioned by Roland to keep my distance from John because he was an unstable character,” Sands recalled. “And John had been told by Roland to stay away from me, because I was a refined, sensible person who didn’t want to be distracted. In fact, we bonded instantly.”

Malkovich directed Sands in a one-man show in which he read Harold Pinter’s poetry. First staged in 2011, the production had its origins in an occasion six years earlier when Pinter, suffering from oesophageal cancer, had asked Sands to read in his stead at a benefit event in St Stephen Walbrook church in the City of London. The writer “sat in the front row with his stone basilisk stare”, Sands recalled.

Not all his work was so highfalutin, and a good deal of it fell into the category of boisterous, campy fun. In Ken Russell’s Gothic (1986), he played the poet Shelley, who indulges in sex, drugs and séances with Lord Byron (Gabriel Byrne) and the future Mary Shelley (Natasha Richardson), and is prone to recite verse naked in thunderstorms.

In a similar vein but far less deranged was Impromptu (1991), which brought together other notable 19th-century figures including George Sand (Judy Davis) and Frederic Chopin (Hugh Grant). Sands, who played Franz Liszt, described it as “Carry On Composer”.

Born in Otley, West Yorkshire, he was raised in Leeds and Gargrave, near Skipton; he later described his childhood as “part conservative and part Huckleberry Finn”. His mother, Brenda, was a Tory councillor and leading light of the local amateur dramatic society, while his father, William, who left when Julian was three, was a soil analyst. Julian made his acting debut in a local pantomime at the age of eight.

At 13, he won a scholarship to Lord Wandsworth college, Hampshire. He moved to London to study at Central School of Speech and Drama, and while there became friends with Derek Jarman. He played the Devil in an extended promotional video that Jarman directed in 1979 for Marianne Faithfull’s album Broken English. The role had been intended for David Bowie, who dropped out at the eleventh hour. “You’re devilish,” Jarman told Sands. “You can play it.”

The actor’s first film appearance came in an adaptation of Peter Nichols’s stage comedy Privates on Parade (1983), starring John Cleese and Denis Quilley, from which his one line of dialogue was cut. There was more rotten luck when he won the lead in a new Tarzan movie, only for the financing to fall through. It was eventually filmed as Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984), with Christopher Lambert donning the hallowed loin-cloth.

On television, he starred with Anthony Hopkins in the miniseries A Married Man (1983). In Oxford Blues (1984), he was a rower butting heads with a Las Vegas parking attendant (Rob Lowe) who has tricked his way into a place at Oriel College. He was in The Doctor and the Devils (1985), inspired by the Burke and Hare case. “I had a roll in the hay with Twiggy which took about 15 takes,” he said.

Following A Room With a View, he agreed to play the lead in Ivory’s next Forster adaptation, Maurice (1987), before abruptly dropping out and fleeing to the US. In the process, he left behind his wife, the journalist Sarah Sands (nee Harvey), who described him as “restless” and “dramatic”, and their son, Henry. “I’m not the first person to create stability and security and then dismantle it even more effectively than I created it,” the actor said.

Once in America he took on an array of film parts. In Warlock (1989), he played the son of Satan, wreaking havoc in modern-day Los Angeles. Investing this pantomime villain with lip-smacking brio, he was likened by the Washington Post to a “hell-bent Peter Pan” and nominated for best actor in the Fangoria Chainsaw awards. He reprised the role in Warlock: The Armageddon (1993).

As an entomologist in Arachnophobia (1990), he was called upon to have as many as a hundred spiders crawling all over his face. Alternating these mainstream projects with arthouse ones, he played a diplomat in pre-war Poland in Krzysztof Zanussi’s Wherever You Are … (1988) and a monk in Night Sun (1990), the Taviani brothers’ adaptation of Tolstoy’s short story Father Sergius.

For the Canadian horror director David Cronenberg, he starred in the warped and witty Naked Lunch (1991), which disproved those who had declared William S Burroughs’s original novel unfilmable. Just as outré but less accomplished was Boxing Helena (1993), directed by Jennifer Lynch, daughter of David. Sands played a surgeon who keeps a woman captive by making her a quadruple amputee.

After starring as a young classics teacher in his friend Mike Figgis’s film of Terence Rattigan’s The Browning Version (1994), Sands worked a further six times with that director, appearing in his movies even when he was an unorthodox choice for the job in hand. One example was the part of a menacing Latvian pimp in Leaving Las Vegas (1996).

Later roles include a mysteriously unblemished Phantom in Dario Argento’s version of The Phantom of the Opera (1998), Louis XIV (whom Sands described as “the first supermodel”) in Joffé’s Vatel (2000), a crime kingpin named Snakehead in the Jackie Chan vehicle The Medallion (2003), a computer security wizard in the comic caper Ocean’s Thirteen (2007), a younger version of the businessman played by Christopher Plummer in David Fincher’s take on The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (2011) and a sadistic paedophile in the gruelling wartime odyssey The Painted Bird (2019).

On television, he was a Russian entrepreneur in the fifth season of 24 (2006) and the hero’s father, Jor-El, in two episodes of the Superman spin-off Smallville (2009). For the BBC, he played two very different actors in factually based one-off specials: first Laurence Olivier in Kenneth Tynan: In Praise of Hardcore (2005), then John Le Mesurier in We’re Doomed! The Dad’s Army Story (2015).

His recent work includes Benediction, Terence Davies’s haunting study of Siegfried Sassoon, and the thriller The Survivalist (both 2021), which found him back in the company of Malkovich. One of several titles still awaiting release is the drama Double Soul (2023) starring F Murray Abraham and Paz Vega.

Sands never stopped wandering, walking, running and climbing. “I am on a perpetual Grand Tour,” he said in 2000. Asked in 2018 about his eclectic career, he explained: “I was looking for something exotic, things that took me out of myself. I think I found myself a little boring.”

He was reported missing while out in the San Gabriel mountains, north of Los Angeles, in mid-January 2023. His remains were found in June.

In 1990 he married Evgenia Citkowitz. She survives him, along with their two daughters, Imogen and Natalya, and his son.

🔔 Julian Richard Morley Sands, actor, born 4 January 1958; died circa 13 January 2023

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[venusinmyrrh]

mid-year (ish) reading roundup

I never got how people could read 52 books in 52 weeks, but then I got a library card and downloaded the Libby app, and now holy shit I've read 52 books by August. anyway I borrowed this questionnaire from @wormwoodandhoney!

best book you’ve read so far in 2023? Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History by Richard Thompson Ford. this is exactly the kind of academic book on fashion that I've been dying for. I want ten more of these and to kiss him on the mouth.

best sequel you’ve read so far in 2023? I don't usually read series, but I made an exception for Hannah Whitten's For the Wolf, and I'm so glad I did. it took me a while to fall in love with this fantasy twist on Red Riding Hood, but once I did, I fell hard, and I'm planning on reading the sequel For the Throne once it's finally released.

new release you haven’t read yet, but want to: I don't really keep up with releases, but the new releases I've enjoyed most recently are The Guest by Emma Cline, about a low-level con woman drifting through the New York upper class, and Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, about a sound editor in 1990s Mexico who gets caught up in an occultist's plot dating back to old Hollywood.

most anticipated release for the second half of the year: this is cheating because it's coming out in February, but the teasers for Saint Gibson's An Education in Malice already have me drooling.

biggest surprise: I picked Art and Madness: A Memoir of Lust Without Reason by Anne Roiphe at random off a prop bookshelf backstage, and immediately experienced that wonderful shock you get when meet a stranger who understands you perfectly.

favorite new author (debut or new to you): Jeannette Ng, whose Victorian gothic fantasy romance Under the Pendulum Sun I devoured in less than 24 hours.

newest favorite character: a tie between Catherine Helstone (Under the Pendulum Sun) and Noemí Taboada (Mexican Gothic).

book that made you cry: The Unexpurgated Beaton. these are British photographer, designer, and former Bright Young Thing Cecil Beaton's unedited diaries from the last ten years of his life, and I knew this going in, but still, somehow, it snuck up on me that he dies in the end.

book that made you happy: Maurice by E.M. Forster! what a relief, what a joy, to know that tales of queer love could have happy endings, even in 1914.

most beautiful book you’ve bought so far this year (or received): that honor would have to go to Kit Mayquist's modern gothic novel Tripping Arcadia!

what books do you need to read by the end of the year? Gods of Jade and Shadow (Silvia Moreno-Garcia), Save Me the Waltz (Zelda Fitzgerald), The Language of Fashion (Roland Barthes), and Other People's Shoes: Thoughts on Acting (Harriet Walter)

[crucifiedlovers]

I’m absolutely enamored with all the quotes you post. A few months ago, after a ravaging twenty years of solid dogged longing I have found my eternal beloved. I’ve been craving poetry or books that I can read that elaborate on love, something ecstatic, perhaps summery luminous and lush, or perhaps just so utterly captivating. Could you recommend me some ? I would be forever grateful, since I think your taste in poetry and literature has to be sublime. Merci 💌

sorry for the late reply but thank you for the lovely message🌷and it's wonderful to hear that you've found the perfect person for you!!

as for recommendations, i'm so glad you asked! i haven't been able to read for leisure as much these days but here's a few texts about love & desire—mostly 'captivating' ones but there's a few 'summery' reads too—i've loved in the past, as well as some that i haven't gotten up to yet...

poetry:

let us believe in the beginning of the cold season by forugh farrokhzad

rapture by carol ann duffy

crush by richard siken

destruction or love by vicente aleixandre

literature:

belle de seigneur by albert cohen

a room with a view by e. m. forster

rien ne va plus by margarita karapanou

spring snow by yukio mishima

the lover by marguerite duras

letter from an unknown woman by stefan zweig

first love by ivan turgenev

white nights by fyodor dostoevsky

persuasion by jane austen

victoria by knut hamsun

theory / essays / misc:

the agony of eros by han byung-chul

eros the bittersweet by anne carson

a lover's discourse by roland barthes

the love letters of abelard and heloïse by pierre abélard & héloïse d'argenteuil

the double flame: love and eroticism by octavio paz

the one and only by anne boyer

desire/love by lauren berlant

anything by eva illouz (making my way through consuming the romantic utopia: love and the cultural contradictions of capitalism atm)

enjoy! 🕊️

[5conspiracy-rule]

PFUI TEUFEL

#MossadIsland

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● Huma Aberdin

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LISTE DER HOLLYWOOD PEDO-NAMEN:

● Steven Spielberg

● Kevin Spacey

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● Miley Cyrus

● Errol Flynn

● Billy Graham

● Walt Disney

● Michael Laney (ehemaliger Walt Disney Vizepräsident)

● James Gunn (Disney)

LISTE DER NAMEN VON CELEBS, DIE MIT DEEPSTATE, CIA & MOSSAD verbunden sind:

● Heidi Fleiss

● Jeffrey Epstein

LISTE DER NAMEN, DIE MIT SATANISCHE KULTEN VERBUNDEN:

● Alison Mack

● Stormy Daniels

● Rachel Chandler

● Ghislaine Maxwell

LISTE DER NAMEN DER BESUCHER AUF DER EPSTEIN INSEL:

● Ghislaine Maxwell

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● Elon Musk

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● Jake Tapper (CNN)

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JOURNALISTEN DIREKT MIT JEFFREY EPSTEIN & DER EPSTEIN INSEL VERBUNDEN:

● Barbara Walters

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● Rupert Murdock

● Conrad & Barbara Black; Baron Black von Cross Harbour

POLITITIKER DIREKT MIT JEFFREY EPSTEIN & DER EPSTEIN INSEL VERBUNDEN:

● Bill Clinton (ehemaliger Präsident von Amerika)

● Jon & Mary Kaye Huntsman

● Gouverneur Charles Turnbull (US-Jungferninseln)

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● Maria Shriver (Kennedy-Verwandte / Schwarznegger Ex)

DIE DTLA STANDARD HOTEL :

(Freie 1992-2002)

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[fineartsjournal]

213341 Art Studio IIIA ⋆ Week 2 - Humble Beginnings

I suppose I should begin with the stuff I just plain wasn't able to add to last week's post; particularly, an instrumental track I made over June for an album TBA under my musical alias, Staffroom.

While two thirds of it are 'regularly' composed within Garageband, the first section is entirely sampled; including a home pool recording sent to me by a friend.

Samples used (in order of appearance):

Dreamlovers - If I Should Lose You

Jeff Harmon - Introduction

Aeron - America Today

I also was challenged to sample Ed Sheeran by Olivia, whom I had considered 'un-sampleable', but ended pleasantly surprised:

I've gotten my hands on a delightful self-help book called The September 11 Syndrome: Anxious Days and Sleepless Nights from the uni library. Being released in 2002, and quite clearly for (predominately) Americans impacted by the 9/11 attacks, I'm hoping this text will provide an snapshot into a collective mindset.

I've also picked up Nostalgia: A History of Dangerous Emotion by Agnes Arnold-Forster, which, with being published in 2024 and of a more pop-culture focus, is just what I'm looking for.

🆃🅰🅻🅺 🅰🅱🅾🆄🆃 🅶🅴🅰🆁 !

With it now playing a much larger role in my musicmaking, I should explain the workings (and limitations) of my SP-202.

As a sampler, the SP-202 doesn't make any sounds of its own. Instead, you record sound clips to each of the pads, which in turn play the sound back to you when you press them.

The SP-202 has limited space. Recording in 'Hi-Fi' will quickly drain your available recording time; even more so if you record in stereo sound. A recorded sound can be looped, reversed, or 'gated', allowing you to play it like a piano key.

Your eight pads are assigned to a 'bank'. You have four banks - two saved on internal storage, and two on a removable 2MB SD card. Playing sounds from the SD card is not recommended however, due to the limited polyphony.

The polyphony on the SP-202 is four 'voices'. That means you can play four pads at once. Recording a pad in "Hi-Fi" will use two voices, recording in stereo will double it.

Therefore, it's better to record in mono, at a 'Standard' recording quality (or lower). Using effects on a pad will also take up a voice. Using the SD card doubles this again, which isn't fun.

Effects can be assigned to single samples; including a tempo-only stretch, delay, two types of frequency filter, and a robot-like 'ring modulator'.

These, combined with a necessary use of mono, low quality recording; contribute to an unmistakably crusty sound.

Even for the time, this was a fairly primitive option for beatmaking, as the SP-202 comes without a sequencer; which means that you won't be programming beats as with a drum machine, instead - and unless you're looping a pre-recorded drum beat - you'll have to finger drum as strictly as possible.

The effects are uniquely rough, and can all be interchanged on the fly; leading to many musicians using the SP-202 as an effects module - to the same vein as a guitar pedal.

Looking into samplers has also led me across the Roland P-10 Visual Sampler, a similar-looking tech that samples video clips - as opposed to sound - onto pads.

Released around the mid-2000s, I initially was confused as to where sampling/playing clips on the fly would be useful - family projector nights?

That's where Bella let me know about the concept of VJ'ing - which is Video DJ'ing. This functions in both a live setting; quickly playing clips alongside a stage act; or as a standalone art!

I'll stick to my guns for now, but I have some ideas looming in the distance about sampling a home video, would it be worth in investing in this ~$500 piece of outdated equipment?

Bella attested that both Mike and Eugene's interest in the VJ-ing art form would likely lend them to having some similar equipment in stock, so here's to it!

I'll get to sampling Super Mario 64... eventually. It holds a lot of weight; and I want to test out some ideas on a game a lot nearer and dearer to my heart: Age of Empires.

A point-and-click 'real-time strategy' game from 1997; Age of Empires sees you building up a settlement from stone age to the classical era, managing resources and going to war. Six year-old me played it daily; and the compressed MIDI soundtrack has been etched into my brain.

So I sampled it! I went with a 'boom-bap' style; assigning a kick and snare drum to individual pads on my SP-202. From there, I picked a song from the soundtrack at random, and added a voice clip from a developer interview.

I didn't have any intention to go beyond week three's showcase for this idea, and with this game being less popular than SM64, I have more room to try shit out - and even use my sampler for its designed purpose as a beat maker; rather than whatever the hell I was doing with Taylor Swift last semester!

After recording my jam in Audacity, I added in-game sound effects for that extra nostalgic charm.

Emma caught up with me for a little IPO talk; which at this point had been submitted, although it came across "...complicated and difficult to read" - for my next iteration, I'll put some more focus in simplifying the language, and putting emphasis on outlined concept a little further.

As for the presentation-side of my Age of Empires piece, QR codes were the choice suggestion; which depending on placement - "....completely change how you perceive" a work (or exhibition), and "....force people to look quickly or slowly" - could this also be utilized in the group exhibit?

NOTE: Editions of the Plunderphonical Chronicle [a polished digest of sampling history and my means to source artists] go all the way back to Semester 1! The most recent is in Week 7, detailing the history of samplers right until 1988.

Now, where were we?

The Akai S2000 was a sampler released in 1995, and visually looks to be a step back from the delightfully accessible MPC. It was, however, a cheap option for studio sampling, trading portability for hefty memory and computer power.

For Darren Seltmann and Robbie Chater, better known as The Avalanches, this machine would be foundation to, hands down, the pinnacle of sample-based ambition; Since I Left You.

Released in 2000 and entirely sampled from front to back; Since I Left You is the funky counterpoint to Plexure; with all the same scope, but flowing from track to track with far-more-accessible disco soundscapes, each one lusciously layered to the maximum replayability.

An interview with Sound on Sound would outline their expansive recording process:

"People think you buy a sampler and away you go, you turn into DJ Shadow or something," he laughs. "It's really a game of patience. In the beginning it was literally 'OK, I've got 10 sounds. Two are in tune.' Creating chord changes can take a week — to make the chord change that you need without plugging in an organ. There is a bizarre satisfaction to be got out of that, and maybe that's a more intense satisfaction than actually playing it yourself."

The muddled nature of those recording sessions means it's impossible to know for sure, but a conservative estimate from Chater places the number of samples used at upwards of an astounding 3,500. "Squinting back, most tracks had at least two S2000 programs full of samples," he says. "That's 100 keygroups per program, one sample per keygroup, multiplied by 18 songs..."

It's daunting to think about, especially since we haven't really seen a plunderphonic project that matches this level of production intricacy since; as if we stood back and started moving lateral.

It's also inspiring. The amount of time needed to go out and find a record, listen to it, buy it, sample it, and modify it - multiplied by 1000 - is a testament to what sample-based music can be.

Here I am now, able to instantly gather a sample from YouTube and record straight into Audacity by clicking twice. The world is my oyster.

[haovinhmusic]

Cấu tạo của đàn piano điện

Nếu ai thường theo dõi về lĩnh vực âm nhạc đều sẽ dễ dàng bắt gặp các loại đàn piano khác nhau. Tuy nhiên, không phải ai cũng biết đến đàn piano điện. Đây là dòng đàn hiện đại, có thiết kế nhỏ gọn, mang tới màu sắc âm nhạc đa dạng. Bài viết hôm nay sẽ giúp bạn hiểu rõ hơn về đàn này để có lựa chọn phù hợp với nhu cầu sử dụng. 

Đàn piano điện (hay còn gọi là đàn piano kỹ thuật số) là dòng đàn thiết kế với công nghệ hiện đại, sử dụng bộ cảm biến để tạo ra âm thanh. Mang đến cho người dùng những trải nghiệm mới mẻ.

Đặc điểm của đàn piano điện

Thiết kế tối giản: Đàn có thiết kế không có dây đàn, khung dây, bảng cộng hưởng và bộ máy cơ. Chính vì thế mà đàn piano điện nhỏ hơn so với đàn cơ, phù hợp khi đặt ở nhiều không gian khác nhau.

Âm thanh tích hợp được nhiều nhạc cụ: Có nhiều âm thanh nhạc cụ được tích hợp như Vibraphone, Organ, các loại đàn dây. Với ưu điểm này, người chơi có thể chơi được nhiều thể loại như pop, rock…

Đàn hoạt động nhờ bộ phận cảm biến phát hiện chuyển động của các phím đàn. Khi người dùng tác động lên phím, âm thanh sẽ được ghi lại và phát ra thông qua hệ thống loa. Do đó, bạn sẽ thấy âm thanh phát ra dưới tác động của người chơi vào phím đàn. Với piano điện, bạn có thể tùy chỉnh độ vang, âm trầm trên đàn. 

Lịch sử của những cây đàn piano điện tử

Đàn piano điện đã trải qua quá trình phát triển rất dài kể từ khi nó ra đời.

Cuối thập kỷ 1920 và đầu thập kỷ 1930 của thế kỷ 20, âm nhạc trải qua một giai đoạn phát triển đáng kể. Bên cạnh âm nhạc cổ điển, thời điểm này bắt đầu xuất hiện những thể loại âm nhạc mới như Pop, Rock, Jazz… Những thể loại này phát triển mạnh mẽ và lan rộng trên toàn cầu. 

Tuy nhiên, việc mang một cây đàn piano cơ nặng và cồng kềnh lên sân khấu trở thành một vấn đề cho các nghệ sĩ. Các phiên bản đàn keyboard thời đó không đủ số lượng phím và cảm giác phím không thực sự tự nhiên. 

Nhận thức được những khó khăn này, các nhà sáng chế bắt đầu nghiên cứu và phát triển một loại đàn kết hợp cả hai yếu tố: nhẹ nhàng nhưng vẫn có đầy đủ số phím, âm thanh trung thực và cảm giác phím tốt. Vào năm 1929, đàn piano điện đầu tiên được Neo-Bechstein chế tạo và được sử dụng rộng rãi. 

Sau đó, đàn piano điện Vierlang-Forster được giới thiệu vào năm 1937. Năm 1939, đàn piano điện tử RCA Storytone được phát triển thông qua một liên doanh giữa Story & Clark và RCA. Đây là một dự án do nghệ sĩ và nhà thiết kế John Varvatos thiết kế. 

Đàn piano này không có soundboard nhưng vẫn giữ được cấu trúc dây và búa của cây đàn piano truyền thống. Âm thanh được tăng cường thông qua các thiết bị điện tử, mạch điện và hệ thống loa, tạo nên chiếc piano điện thương mại đầu tiên trên thế giới. Ban đầu, các cây đàn piano điện này được thiết kế với nhiều mục đích, nhưng mục tiêu quan trọng nhất vẫn là phục vụ âm nhạc.

Trong suốt thế kỷ 20, đàn piano điện không ngừng phát triển và hoàn thiện về chất lượng, tính năng và thiết kế. Các công ty sản xuất nhạc cụ lớn như Kawai, Yamaha, Casio và Roland đã liên tục nghiên cứu và cạnh tranh để đưa ra những sản phẩm chất lượng cao nhất cho người sử dụng. Các mẫu đàn piano điện như CT-401, CT-701 của Casio, CP-70, PF10, PF12, PF15 của Yamaha và EP-30, HP-300 của Roland đã trở thành huyền thoại trong những năm 1980.

Ngày nay, đàn piano điện vẫn tiếp tục phát triển. Với việc ra mắt nhiều sản phẩm mới và tích hợp nhiều tính năng đa dạng. Đàn piano điện không chỉ phục vụ cho nhu cầu biểu diễn âm nhạc mà còn được sử dụng rộng rãi trong giáo dục và giải trí.

Cấu tạo của đàn piano điện

Cấu tạo đàn piano điện tử có những bộ phận chính như: Phím đàn, hệ thống âm thanh và mạch điện… Cụ thể như sau:

Bàn phím và phím đàn

Bàn phím của đàn piano điện đa dạng từ 61 đến 88 phím, được làm bằng nhựa cao cấp hoặc gỗ tùy từng loại đàn. Bàn phím sẽ gồm các phím đen trắng xen kẽ nhau, được sắp xếp theo trật tự, mỗi phím đàn tương ứng với một nốt nhạc để bạn tùy biến khi chơi đàn. Khi nhấn một phím đàn, một tín hiệu điện được tạo ra và gửi đến hệ thống âm thanh để tạo âm thanh tương ứng. 

Hệ thống âm thanh và mạch điện

Hệ thống âm thanh của đàn piano điện tử bao gồm các thành phần chính như mạch điện, bộ khuếch đại, loa và công nghệ tái tạo âm thanh. Hệ thống âm thanh hoạt động nhờ các con chip điện tử thu sẵn âm thanh của nhạc cụ khác vào hệ thống, sau đó phát ra loa. 

Khi một phím đàn được nhấn, một tín hiệu điện từ bàn phím được chuyển đến mạch điện. Mạch điện sẽ xử lý tín hiệu này và tạo ra một tín hiệu âm thanh tương ứng. Tùy thuộc vào công nghệ và thiết kế của đàn piano điện tử, có hai phương pháp chính để tái tạo âm thanh. 

Một phương pháp sử dụng module âm thanh để tái tạo âm thanh của các dây đàn piano cơ. Module âm thanh này chứa các dữ liệu âm thanh được ghi lại từ các dây đàn piano cơ và được phát lại khi cần thiết. 

Phương pháp thứ hai sử dụng công nghệ mô phỏng âm thanh để tạo ra âm thanh giống với các dòng đàn piano cơ nổi tiếng. Điều này được thực hiện thông qua việc sử dụng module âm thanh số hóa và các thuật toán xử lý tín hiệu để tái tạo âm thanh chân thực.

Kết nối và tính năng điều khiển

Đàn piano điện có thể được kết nối với các thiết bị khác như máy tính, bàn mix, hoặc hệ thống âm thanh ngoại vi thông qua các cổng kết nối như cổng MIDI, cổng USB hoặc Bluetooth. 

Ngoài ra, nhiều đàn piano điện hiện đại còn có tích hợp các tính năng điều khiển như các nút điều chỉnh âm lượng, chế độ âm thanh, hiệu ứng âm thanh, đệm tự động và các nút chức năng khác để điều khiển các tính năng đa dạng trên đàn.

Nguồn bài viết: https://haovinhmusic.vn/dan-piano-dien/

[brookston]

Holidays 10.18

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Lucky & Unlucky Days

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Premieres

Battlestar Galactica (TV Series; 2004)

Chet Baker Big Band, by Chet Baker (Album; 1956)

Cowboy Bebop (Japanese Anime Series; 1998)

Howard’s End, by E.M. Forster (Novel; 1910)

How I Won the War (Film; 1967)

Jojo Rabbit (Film; 2019)

La Bamba, by Ritchie Valens (Song; 1958)

Moby-Dick (Novel; 1851)

Roseanne (TV Series; 1988)

Symphony No. 3, by Aaron Copland (Symphony; 1946)

12 Years a Slave (Film; 2013)

West Side Story (Film; 1961)

What a Wonderful World, by Louis Armstrong (Song; 1967)

The Yellow Kid (Comic Strip; 18896)

Zombieland: Double Tap (Film; 2019)

Today’s Name Days

Lukas (Austria)

Zlata, Zlatan, Zlatka, Zlatko, Zlatomir (Bulgaria)

Flavijan, Justus, Luka, Lukša (Croatia)

Lukáš (Czech Republic)

Lucas (Denmark)

Ludvig, Lui, Luukas (Estonia)

Luka, Luukas, Säde, Satu (Finland)

Luc (France)

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Loukas, Luke, Marinos (Greece)

Lukács (Hungary)

Luca (Italy)

Lūkass, Rolands, Ronalds (Latvia)

Kęsmina, Liubartas, Lukas (Lithuania)

Kjersti, Kjerstin (Norway)

Julian, Łukasz, René (Poland)

Lukáš (Slovakia)

Lucas (Spain)

Lukas (Sweden)

Luke (Ukraine)

Blaine, Blair, Blane, Luca, Lucas, Lukas, Luke, Wynn, Wynton (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 291 of 2022; 74 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 2 of week 42 of 2022

Celtic Tree Calendar: Gort (Ivy) [Day 18 of 28]

Chinese: Month 9 (Júyuè), Day 23 (Jia-Chen)

Chinese Year of the: Tiger (until January 22, 2023)

Hebrew: 23 Tishri 5783

Islamic: 22 Rabi I 1444

J Cal: 21 Shù; Sixday [21 of 30]

Julian: 5 October 2022

Moon: 41%: Waning Crescent

Positivist: 11 Descartes (11th Month) [Vauvenargues]

Runic Half Month: Wyn (Joy) [Day 8 of 15]

Season: Autumn (Day 26 of 90)

Zodiac: Libra (Day 24 of 30)

[brookstonalmanac]

Holidays 10.18

Holidays

Alaska Day

Anti-Slavery Day (UK)

BBC Day

Boost Your Brain Day

Clean Water Act Day

Developmental Language Disorder Awareness Day

Dia de la Raza Daay (Colombia)

Festival of Poetic Terrorism

Flora Duffy Olympic Commemoration (Bermuda)

Hard Boiled Guy and B-Girl Day

Heroes’ and Forefathers Day (British Virgin Islands)

Information Overload Awareness Day

International Legging Day

International Necktie Day

Kati Bihu (Assam, India)

King Look Under Your Mattress’s Unique Hiding Display

Mason/Dixon Line Day

Moby Dick Day

National Comic Strip Appreciation Day

National Day of Prayer (Zambia)

National Exascale Day

National Put a Shoe on Your Head Day

National Speak Up for Victims of Sexual Abuse Day

National Statistics Day (Japan)

Necktie Day (Croatia)

Newspaper Comic Strip Appreciation Day

No Beard Day

Old Farmers Day

Persons Day (Canada)

Procession of the Lord of Miracles (Peru)

Rocky Horror Picture Show Day (L.A., California)

Watch a Squirrel Day

World Menopause Day

World Vasectomy Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Chocolate Cupcake Day

Meatloaf Appreciation Day

3rd Tuesday in October

National Pharmacy Technician Day [3rd Tuesday]

Pay Back a Friend Day [3rd Tuesday]

Independence Days

Azerbaijan (from the USSR, 1991)

Feast Days

Doburoku Matsuri (Sake Festival; Shirahigetawara Shrine, Japan) [Day 2]

Irony Day (Pastafarian)

Julian Sabas (Christian; Saint)

Justus (a.k.a. Justin) of Beauvais (Christian; Saint)

Luke the Evangelist (Christian; Saint) [brewers] *

Monan (Christian; Saint)

Pandrosos (Greek all-refreshing Goddess)

Peter of Alcantara (Christian; Saint)

Richelieu Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Simhat Torah (begins at sundown; Judaism) [23 Tishrei]

Shemini Atzeret (Day 2; Judaism)

Swiss Cheese (Muppetism)

Vauvenargues (Positivist; Saint)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Sensho (先勝 Japan) [Good luck in the morning, bad luck in the afternoon.]

Premieres

Battlestar Galactica (TV Series; 2004)

Chet Baker Big Band, by Chet Baker (Album; 1956)

Cowboy Bebop (Japanese Anime Series; 1998)

Howard’s End, by E.M. Forster (Novel; 1910)

How I Won the War (Film; 1967)

Jojo Rabbit (Film; 2019)

La Bamba, by Ritchie Valens (Song; 1958)

Moby-Dick (Novel; 1851)

Roseanne (TV Series; 1988)

Symphony No. 3, by Aaron Copland (Symphony; 1946)

12 Years a Slave (Film; 2013)

West Side Story (Film; 1961)

What a Wonderful World, by Louis Armstrong (Song; 1967)

The Yellow Kid (Comic Strip; 18896)

Zombieland: Double Tap (Film; 2019)

Today’s Name Days

Lukas (Austria)

Zlata, Zlatan, Zlatka, Zlatko, Zlatomir (Bulgaria)

Flavijan, Justus, Luka, Lukša (Croatia)

Lukáš (Czech Republic)

Lucas (Denmark)

Ludvig, Lui, Luukas (Estonia)

Luka, Luukas, Säde, Satu (Finland)

Luc (France)

Gwenn, Justus, Lukas, Viviana (Germany)

Loukas, Luke, Marinos (Greece)

Lukács (Hungary)

Luca (Italy)

Lūkass, Rolands, Ronalds (Latvia)

Kęsmina, Liubartas, Lukas (Lithuania)

Kjersti, Kjerstin (Norway)

Julian, Łukasz, René (Poland)

Lukáš (Slovakia)

Lucas (Spain)

Lukas (Sweden)

Luke (Ukraine)

Blaine, Blair, Blane, Luca, Lucas, Lukas, Luke, Wynn, Wynton (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 291 of 2022; 74 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 2 of week 42 of 2022

Celtic Tree Calendar: Gort (Ivy) [Day 18 of 28]

Chinese: Month 9 (Júyuè), Day 23 (Jia-Chen)

Chinese Year of the: Tiger (until January 22, 2023)

Hebrew: 23 Tishri 5783

Islamic: 22 Rabi I 1444

J Cal: 21 Shù; Sixday [21 of 30]

Julian: 5 October 2022

Moon: 41%: Waning Crescent

Positivist: 11 Descartes (11th Month) [Vauvenargues]

Runic Half Month: Wyn (Joy) [Day 8 of 15]

Season: Autumn (Day 26 of 90)

Zodiac: Libra (Day 24 of 30)

[boozerman]

FAVORITE APOCALYPTIC MOVIES in no particular order

WORLD WAR Z (2013) dir. Marc Forster

MAD MAX FURY ROAD (2015) dir. George Miller

CHILDREN OF MEN (2006) dir. Alfonso Cuarón

THE ROAD (2009) dir. John Hillcoat

28 DAYS LATER (2002) dir. Danny Boyle

THE BOOK OF ELI (2010) dir. Hughes Brothers

SNOWPIERCER (2013) dir. Bong Joon-ho

EDGE OF TOMORROW (2014) dir. Doug Liman

A QUIET PLACE (2018) dir. John Krasinski

THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW (2004) dir. Roland Emmerich

[pressmost]

Ardagger - Frühstücksnews - Mittwoch, 5.6.2024

(c) Roland Forster Sehr geehrte Gemeindebürgerin! Sehr geehrter Gemeindebürger! Das Hochwasser in der Au hat in der Nacht von gestern auf heute den Höchststand erreicht. Bereits heute im Lauf des Mittwoch sollte die Donau langsam wieder in ihr ursprüngliches Bett zurückkehren und dann in den kommenden Tagen nach und nach auch wieder das Augebiet freigeben. Es wird allerdings doch länger dauern,…

[derangedrhythms]

'Passion' for @aahaaxel

"Passion will not be commanded. It is no genie to grant us three wishes when we let it loose. It commands us and very rarely in the way we would choose."

"In between freezing and melting. In between love and despair. In between fear and sex, passion is."

"Passion is not so much an emotion as a destiny."

"Passion does not take disappointment well."

"Love, they say, enslaves and passion is a demon..."

— Jeanette Winterson, from 'The Passion'

"Amorous passion is a delirium…"

"…to hide a passion totally (or even to hide, more simply, its excess) is inconceivable: not because the human subject is too weak, but because passion is in essence made to be seen…"

— Roland Barthes, from ‘A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments’, tr. Richard Howard

"Passion should believe itself irresistible. It should forget civility and consideration and all the other curses of a refined nature. Above all, it should never ask for leave where there is a right of way."

— E. M. Forster, from 'A Room with a View'

"Passion is not well bred."

— Jeanette Winterson, from 'Written on the Body'

"I’ve come to such a state of passion that anything I might write now would burn up the paper."

— Henry Miller, from ‘A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller 1932-1953′

"...reason is and ought only to be the slave of the passions..."

— David Hume, from 'A Treatise of Human Nature'

"Oh the infernal color of my passions."

— Alejandra Pizarnik, Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962–1972; Uncollected Poems (1962–1972) from ‘[…] of the Silence’, tr. Yvette Siegert

"...my passions were never far from madness..."

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, from ‘The Sorrows of Young Werther’ tr. David Constantine

"…in you alone I have found the same swelling of enthusiasm, the same quick rising of the blood, the fullness, the fullness…"

— Anaïs Nin, from ‘A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller 1932-1953′

"Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is not about feeling good. It is about endurance. Like patience, passion comes from the same Latin root: pati. It does not mean to flow with exuberance. It means to suffer."

— Mark Z. Danielewski, from 'House of Leaves'

"Did we not – did you not flame, and I catch fire?"

— A. S. Byatt, from 'Possession'

"What will become of you in the rage of this passion without an end?"

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, from ‘The Sorrows of Young Werther’ tr. David Constantine

"...I prefer devouring passions."

— E. M. Cioran, from 'On the Heights of Despair', tr. Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston

[nellygwyn]

BOOK RECS

Okay, so lots of people wanted this and so, I am compiling a list of my favourite books (both fiction and non-fiction), books that I recommend you read as soon as humanly possible. In the meantime, I’ll be pinning this post to the top of my blog (once I work out how to do that lmao) so it will be accessible for old and new followers. I’m going to order this list thematically, I think, just to keep everything tidy and orderly. Of course, a lot of this list will consist of historical fiction and historical non-fiction because that’s what I read primarily and thus, that’s where my bias is, but I promise to try and spice it up just a little bit. 

Favourite fiction books of all time:

The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock // Imogen Hermes Gowar

Sense and Sensibility // Jane Austen

Slammerkin // Emma Donoghue 

Remarkable Creatures // Tracy Chevalier

Life Mask // Emma Donoghue

His Dark Materials // Philip Pullman (this includes the follow-up series The Book of Dust)

Emma // Jane Austen

The Miniaturist // Jessie Burton

Girl, Woman, Other // Bernadine Evaristo 

Jane Eyre // Charlotte Brontë

Persuasion // Jane Austen

Girl with a Pearl Earring // Tracy Chevalier

The Silent Companions // Laura Purcell

Tess of the d’Urbervilles // Thomas Hardy

Northanger Abbey // Jane Austen

The Chronicles of Narnia // C.S. Lewis

Pride and Prejudice // Jane Austen

Goodnight, Mr Tom // Michelle Magorian

The French Lieutenant’s Woman // John Fowles 

The Butcher’s Hook // Janet Ellis 

Mansfield Park // Jane Austen

The All Souls Trilogy // Deborah Harkness

The Railway Children // Edith Nesbit

Favourite non-fiction books of all time

Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman // Robert Massie

Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King // Antonia Fraser

Madame de Pompadour // Nancy Mitford

The First Iron Lady: A Life of Caroline of Ansbach // Matthew Dennison 

Black and British: A Forgotten History // David Olusoga

Courtiers: The Secret History of the Georgian Court // Lucy Worsley 

Young and Damned and Fair: The Life of Katherine Howard, the Fifth Wife of Henry VIII // Gareth Russell

King Charles II // Antonia Fraser

Casanova’s Women // Judith Summers

Marie Antoinette: The Journey // Antonia Fraser

Mrs. Jordan’s Profession: The Story of a Great Actress and a Future King // Claire Tomalin

Jane Austen at Home // Lucy Worsley

Mudlarking: Lost and Found on the River Thames // Lara Maiklem

The Last Royal Rebel: The Life and Death of James, Duke of Monmouth // Anna Keay

The Marlboroughs: John and Sarah Churchill // Christopher Hibbert

Nell Gwynn: A Biography // Charles Beauclerk

Jurassic Mary: Mary Anning and the Primeval Monsters // Patricia Pierce

Georgian London: Into the Streets // Lucy Inglis

The Prince Who Would Be King: The Life and Death of Henry Stuart // Sarah Fraser

Wedlock: How Georgian Britain’s Worst Husband Met His Match // Wendy Moore

Dead Famous: An Unexpected History of Celebrity from the Stone Age to the Silver Screen // Greg Jenner

Victorians Undone: Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum // Kathryn Hughes

Crown of Blood: The Deadly Inheritance of Lady Jane Grey // Nicola Tallis

Favourite books about the history of sex and/or sex work

The Origins of Sex: A History of First Sexual Revolution // Faramerz Dabhoiwala 

Erotic Exchanges: The World of Elite Prostitution in Eighteenth-Century Paris // Nina Kushner

Peg Plunkett: Memoirs of a Whore // Julie Peakman

Courtesans // Katie Hickman

The Other Victorians: A Study of Sexuality and Pornography in mid-Nineteenth Century England

Madams, Bawds, and Brothel Keepers // Fergus Linnane

The Secret History of Georgian London: How the Wages of Sin Shaped the Capital // Dan Cruickshank 

A Curious History of Sex // Kate Lister

Sex and Punishment: 4000 Years of Judging Desire // Eric Berkowitz

Queen of the Courtesans: Fanny Murray // Barbara White

Rent Boys: A History from Ancient Times to Present // Michael Hone

Celeste // Roland Perry

Sex and the Gender Revolution // Randolph Trumbach

The Pleasure’s All Mine: A History of Perverse Sex // Julie Peakman

LGBT+ fiction I love*

The Confessions of the Fox // Jordy Rosenberg 

As Meat Loves Salt // Maria Mccann

Bone China // Laura Purcell

Brideshead Revisited // Evelyn Waugh

The Confessions of Frannie Langton // Sara Collins

The Intoxicating Mr Lavelle // Neil Blackmore

Orlando // Virginia Woolf

Tipping the Velvet // Sarah Waters

She Rises // Kate Worsley

The Mercies // Kiran Millwood Hargrave

Oranges are Not the Only Fruit // Jeanette Winterson

Maurice // E.M Forster

Frankisstein: A Love Story // Jeanette Winterson

If I Was Your Girl // Meredith Russo 

The Well of Loneliness // Radclyffe Hall 

* fyi, Life Mask and Girl, Woman, Other are also LGBT+ fiction

Classics I haven’t already mentioned (including children’s classics)

Far From the Madding Crowd // Thomas Hardy 

I Capture the Castle // Dodie Smith 

Vanity Fair // William Makepeace Thackeray 

Wuthering Heights // Emily Brontë

The Blazing World // Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle

Murder on the Orient Express // Agatha Christie 

Great Expectations // Charles Dickens

North and South // Elizabeth Gaskell

Evelina // Frances Burney

Death on the Nile // Agatha Christie

The Monk // Matthew Lewis

Frankenstein // Mary Shelley

Vilette // Charlotte Brontë

The Mayor of Casterbridge // Thomas Hardy

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall // Anne Brontë

Vile Bodies // Evelyn Waugh

Beloved // Toni Morrison 

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd // Agatha Christie

The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling // Henry Fielding

A Room With a View // E.M. Forster

Silas Marner // George Eliot 

Jude the Obscure // Thomas Hardy

My Man Jeeves // P.G. Wodehouse

Lady Audley’s Secret // Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Middlemarch // George Eliot

Little Women // Louisa May Alcott

Children of the New Forest // Frederick Marryat

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings // Maya Angelou 

Rebecca // Daphne du Maurier

Alice in Wonderland // Lewis Carroll

The Wind in the Willows // Kenneth Grahame

Anna Karenina // Leo Tolstoy

Howard’s End // E.M. Forster

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 // Sue Townsend

Even more fiction recommendations

The Darling Strumpet // Gillian Bagwell

The Wolf Hall trilogy // Hilary Mantel

The Illumination of Ursula Flight // Anne-Marie Crowhurst

Queenie // Candace Carty-Williams

Forever Amber // Kathleen Winsor

The Corset // Laura Purcell

Love in Colour // Bolu Babalola

Artemisia // Alexandra Lapierre

Blackberry and Wild Rose // Sonia Velton

The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories // Angela Carter

The Languedoc trilogy // Kate Mosse

Longbourn // Jo Baker

A Skinful of Shadows // Frances Hardinge

The Black Moth // Georgette Heyer

The Far Pavilions // M.M Kaye

The Essex Serpent // Sarah Perry

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo // Taylor Jenkins Reid

Cavalier Queen // Fiona Mountain 

The Winter Palace // Eva Stachniak

Friday’s Child // Georgette Heyer

Falling Angels // Tracy Chevalier

Little // Edward Carey

Chocolat // Joanne Harris 

The Watchmaker of Filigree Street // Natasha Pulley 

My Sister, the Serial Killer // Oyinkan Braithwaite

The Convenient Marriage // Georgette Heyer

Katie Mulholland // Catherine Cookson

Restoration // Rose Tremain

Meat Market // Juno Dawson

Lady on the Coin // Margaret Campbell Bowes

In the Company of the Courtesan // Sarah Dunant

The Crimson Petal and the White // Michel Faber

A Place of Greater Safety // Hilary Mantel 

The Little Shop of Found Things // Paula Brackston

The Improbability of Love // Hannah Rothschild

The Murder Most Unladylike series // Robin Stevens

Dark Angels // Karleen Koen

The Words in My Hand // Guinevere Glasfurd

Time’s Convert // Deborah Harkness

The Collector // John Fowles

Vivaldi’s Virgins // Barbara Quick

The Foundling // Stacey Halls

The Phantom Tree // Nicola Cornick

The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle // Stuart Turton

Golden Hill // Francis Spufford

Assorted non-fiction not yet mentioned

The Dinosaur Hunters: A True Story of Scientific Rivalry and the Discovery of the Prehistoric World // Deborah Cadbury

The Beauty and the Terror: An Alternative History to the Italian Renaissance // Catherine Fletcher

All the King's Women: Love, Sex, and Politics in the life of Charles II // Derek Jackson

Mozart’s Women // Jane Glover

Scandalous Liaisons: Charles II and His Court // R.E. Pritchard

Matilda: Queen, Empress, Warrior // Catherine Hanley 

Black Tudors // Miranda Kaufman 

To Catch a King: Charles II's Great Escape // Charles Spencer

1666: Plague, War and Hellfire // Rebecca Rideal

Henrietta Maria: Charles I's Indomitable Queen // Alison Plowden

Catherine of Braganza: Charles II's Restoration Queen // Sarah-Beth Watkins

Four Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses // Helen Rappaport

Aristocrats: Caroline, Emily, Louisa and Sarah Lennox, 1740-1832 // Stella Tillyard 

The Fortunes of Francis Barber: The True Story of the Jamaican Slave who Became Samuel Johnson’s Heir // Michael Bundock

Black London: Life Before Emancipation // Gretchen Gerzina

In These Times: Living in Britain Through Napoleon’s Wars, 1793-1815

The King’s Mistress: Scandal, Intrigue and the True Story of the Woman who Stole the Heart of George I // Claudia Gold

Perdita: The Life of Mary Robinson // Paula Byrne

The Gentleman’s Daughter: Women’s Lives in Georgian England // Amanda Vickery

Terms and Conditions: Life in Girls’ Boarding School, 1939-1979 // Ysenda Maxtone Graham 

Fanny Burney: A Biography // Claire Harman

Aphra Behn: A Secret Life // Janet Todd

The Imperial Harem: Women and the Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire // Leslie Peirce

The Fall of the House of Byron // Emily Brand

The Favourite: Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough // Ophelia Field

Night-Walking: A Nocturnal History of London // Matthew Beaumont, Will Self

Jane Austen: A Life // Claire Tomalin

Beloved Emma: The Life of Emma, Lady Hamilton // Flora Fraser

Sentimental Murder: Love and Madness in the 18th Century // John Brewer

Henrietta Howard: King’s Mistress, Queen’s Servant // Tracy Borman

City of Beasts: How Animals Shaped Georgian London // Tom Almeroth-Williams

Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion // Anne Somerset 

Charlotte Brontë: A Life // Claire Harman 

Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe // Anthony Summers

Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day // Peter Ackroyd 

Elizabeth I and Her Circle // Susan Doran

African Europeans: An Untold History // Olivette Otele 

Young Romantics: The Shelleys, Byron, and Other Tangled Lives // Daisy Hay

How to Create the Perfect Wife // Wendy Moore

The Sphinx: The Life of Gladys Deacon, Duchess of Marlborough // Hugo Vickers

The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn // Eric Ives

Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy // Barbara Ehrenreich

A is for Arsenic: The Poisons of Agatha Christie // Kathryn Harkup 

Mistresses: Sex and Scandal at the Court of Charles II // Linda Porter

Female Husbands: A Trans History // Jen Manion

Ladies in Waiting: From the Tudors to the Present Day // Anne Somerset

Ghostland: In Search of a Haunted Country // Edward Parnell 

A Cheesemonger’s History of the British Isles // Ned Palmer

The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister’s Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine // Lindsey Fitzharris

Medieval Woman: Village Life in the Middle Ages // Ann Baer

The Husband Hunters: Social Climbing in London and New York // Anne de Courcy

The Voices of Nîmes: Women, Sex, and Marriage in Reformation Languedoc // Suzannah Lipscomb

The Daughters of the Winter Queen // Nancy Goldstone

Mad and Bad: Real Heroines of the Regency // Bea Koch

Bess of Hardwick // Mary S. Lovell

The Royal Art of Poison // Eleanor Herman 

The Strangest Family: The Private Lives of George III, Queen Charlotte, and the Hanoverians // Janice Hadlow

Palaces of Pleasure: From Music Halls to the Seaside to Football; How the Victorians Invented Mass Entertainment // Lee Jackson

Favourite books about current social/political issues (?? for lack of a better term)

Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power // Lola Olufemi

Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Worker Rights // Molly Smith, Juno Mac

Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race // Reni Eddo-Lodge

Trans Britain: Our Journey from the Shadows // Christine Burns

Me, Not You: The Trouble with Mainstream Feminism // Alison Phipps

Trans Like Me: A Journey For All Of Us // C.N Lester

Brit(Ish): On Race, Identity, and Belonging // Afua Hirsch 

The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence, and Cultural Restitution // Dan Hicks

Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls: A Handbook for Unapologetic Living // Jes M. Baker

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women White Feminists Forgot // Mikki Kendall

Denial: Holocaust History on Trial // Deborah Lipstadt

Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape // Jessica Valenti, Jaclyn Friedman

Don’t Touch My Hair // Emma Dabiri

Sister Outsider // Audre Lorde 

Unicorn: The Memoir of a Muslim Drag Queen // Amrou Al-Kadhi

Trans Power // Juno Roche

Breathe: A Letter to My Sons // Imani Perry

The Windrush Betrayal: Exposing the Hostile Environment // Amelia Gentleman

Happy Fat: Taking Up Space in a World That Wants to Shrink You // Sofie Hagen

Diaries, memoirs & letters

The Diary of a Young Girl // Anne Frank

Renia’s Diary: A Young Girl’s Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust // Renia Spiegel 

Writing Home // Alan Bennett

The Diary of Samuel Pepys // Samuel Pepys

Histoire de Ma Vie // Giacomo Casanova

Toast: The Story of a Boy’s Hunger // Nigel Slater

London Journal, 1762-1763 // James Boswell

The Diary of a Bookseller // Shaun Blythell 

Jane Austen’s Letters // edited by Deidre la Faye

H is for Hawk // Helen Mcdonald 

The Salt Path // Raynor Winn

The Glitter and the Gold // Consuelo Vanderbilt, Duchess of Marlborough

Journals and Letters // Fanny Burney

Educated // Tara Westover

Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading // Lucy Mangan

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? // Jeanette Winterson

A Dutiful Boy // Mohsin Zaidi

Secrets and Lies: The Trials of Christine Keeler // Christine Keeler

800 Years of Women’s Letters // edited by Olga Kenyon

Istanbul // Orhan Pamuk

Henry and June // Anaïs Nin

Historical romance (this is a short list because I’m still fairly new to this genre)

The Bridgerton series // Julia Quinn

One Good Earl Deserves a Lover // Sarah Mclean

Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake // Sarah Mclean

The Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics // Olivia Waite

That Could Be Enough // Alyssa Cole

Unveiled // Courtney Milan

The Craft of Love // EE Ottoman

The Maiden Lane series // Elizabeth Hoyt

An Extraordinary Union // Alyssa Cole

Slightly Dangerous // Mary Balogh

Dangerous Alliance: An Austentacious Romance // Jennieke Cohen

A Fashionable Indulgence // KJ Charles

[taunuswolf]

MEINE VORBILDER, IDOLE, HELDEN ODER MENSCHEN, DIE ICH SEHR SCHÄTZE

Natürlich ist diese Liste nicht vollständig. Sicherlich könnte ich sie um viele Persönlichkeiten erweitern. Besonders bei Künstlern, Schriftstellern, Musikern und Schauspielern kämen sicherlich noch viel mehr bewundernswerte Menschen zusammen, die mein Leben mitbegleitet haben. Bei den eher unbekannten Namen habe ich die Funktion in Klammern daneben geschrieben. Einige Namen sind Legendengestalten oder biblische Figuren, zum Beispiel Heilige (HL). Menschen, die ich zum Beispiel während meiner Zeit als Redakteur oder anderwärtig persönlich kennen gelernt habe, sind zum Beispiel auf der Tumblr-Seite fett gekennzeichnet. Unter der Rubrik (Vormärz) versteht man die frühen Akteure der Demokratiebewegung, die leider nicht zum Zug kamen und stattdessen einem autokratischen System weichen mussten, die als Pseudodemokratie bis heute anhält. Im Klartext: Deutschland verträgt keine echte Opposition.  

A: Jeanne d´Arc, Hannah Arendt, Ernst Moritz Arndt, Bettine von Arnim, AC/DC, Johann Valentin Andreae (Rosenkreuzer), Alexandra (Sängerin), König Arthus, Adele, Hirsi Ali, Charles Aznavour,    

B: Hugo Ball (Schriftsteller), Marianne Bachmeier (Mutter Courage), Sebastian Bach, Gottfried von Bouillon (Kreuzritter), Friedrich Barbarossa, Clemens von Brentano (Dichter), G.L. von Blücher, F.W. von Bülow (Preußische Generäle der Befreiungskriege), Hildegard von Bingen, Beatles, Carl Ludwig Börne (1848ziger), Robert Blum (1848-Rebell), Ludwig van Beethoven, Arnold Böcklin, Max Brodt, David Bowie, Thomas Bernhard, Wilhelm Busch, James Baldwin, M. A. Bakunin (Anarchist), Boetius (Philosoph), Buena vista social Club, Josef Beuys, Samuel Beckett, Sebastian Brandt (Humanist)        

C: Cicero, Paul Celan, Carl von Clausewitz (Oberst Befreiungskriege), Leonard Cohen, M. Caravaggio, John Cassavetes (Regis.), Karl August von Cohausen (Archäologe), Charlotte Corday (Rebellin 1790), Robert Crumb, Eric Clapton, Lowis Corinth, Joe Cocker, N.S. Chruschtschow, Sean Connery.        

D: Denis Diderot (Aufklärer), Albrecht Dürer, Bob Dylan, Carl Theodor von Dalberg (Aufklärer), Dante, Dido (Sängerin), Alexander Dubcek, Doors,    

E: Max Ernst, Hl. Elisabeth, Enya, Eisbrecher (Band), Michael Ende, Umberto Ecco, Joseph von Eichendorff,    

F: Gottfried Fichte, Ernst Fuchs, Friedrich der Große, Georg Forster, Caspar David Friedrich, Fleetwood Mac,  

G: Theo van Gogh, Franzisko de Goya, Gottfried Grabbe, Che Guevara, Siddharta Gautama, Karoline von Günderode (Dichterin), Georges I. Gurdjief (Mystiker), Matthias Grünewald, Artemisia Gentileschi (Malerin), Gandalf, Brüder Grim, Grimmelshausen, Ralf Giordano (Journalist), Green Day (Band), Florian Geyer (Rebellenanführer), A.N. von Gneisenau (General Befreiungskriege), M.S. Gorbatschow.      

H: Hagen, Hermann Hesse, Peter Handke, Hölderlin, Heinrich Heine, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Gottfried Herder, Friedrich Hecker (1848-Rebell), Händel, Villard de Honnecourt (Gotik-Baumeister), Michel Houellebecq, Homer, Herodot, Klaus Heuser (BAB), Gorge Harrison, Andreas Hofer, Johnny Hallyday (Franz. Sänger), Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Werner Herzog, Elmar Hörig (Kultmoderator), Ulrich von Hutten (Humanist), Victor Hugo, Harro Harring (Vormärz),      

I: Jörg Immendorff, Henryk Ibsen, Isaias (Prophet),  

J. Jesus, Johannes der Täufer, Johannes der Evangelist, Jeremia (Prophet), C.G. Jung (Psychologe), Jennies Joplin, Friedrich Ludwig Jahn (Turnvater)

K: Karl Kraus, Theodor Körner, Franz Kafka, Frida Kahlo, Gustav Klimt, Charlotte von Kalb (Muse), Lee Krasner (Künstlerin), Rainhard Karl (Bergsteiger), Peter Keuer (Grünen-Gründer), Alfred Kubin,  

L: Lukas, John Lennon, David Lynch, Flake Lorenz, Andreas von Lichnowski (1848ziger), Cyprian Lelek (1848ziger), Georg C. Lichtenberg, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Lanzelot, M.V. Llosa (Schriftsteller), Annie Lenox, Königin Luise, Ludwig A.W. von Lützow (Befreiungskriege), M. Lafayette (Fr. Staatsmann und Aufklärer) Franz Liszt, Led Zeppelin, Hanns Lothar (Schauspieler)

M: HL. Maria, HL. Maria Magdalena, Marcus, Matthäus, Matthäus Merian, Maria Sybilla Merian, Amadeus Mozart, Bob Marley, Edward Munch, Claude Monet, Albertus Magnus (Scholastiker), Merlin, Alma Mahler-Werfel (Muse), Meister Eckard (Mystiker), Moody Blues.    

N: HL. Nikolaus, Novalis, V. Nabokov (Schriftsteller), Ningen Isu (Band), Nirvana, Agrippa von Nettesheim (Alchimist), Hannah Nagel (Künstlerin),    

O: Josef Maria Olbrich (Jugendstilbaumeister), Rudolf Otto (Religionswissenschaftler), Oomph (Band), Oasis, Mike Oldfield,  

P: Platon, Plotin, Pythagoras (Philosophen), Jean Paul, Plinius, Parzival, Tom Petty, Daniel Powter, Procol Harum, Pink Floyd,  

Q: Queen,

R:  Peter Paul Rubens, Rembrandt, Josef Roth, Ramstein, Philipp Otto Runge, Ludwig Richter, Rio Reiser, Ritter Roland, Rainer Maria Rilke, Erasmus von Rotterdam, Eric Rohmer, Ulrich Roski (Sänger), Rolling Stones, R.E.M. Lou Reed, Chris Rea, Petra Roth (Ex-OB Frankfurt/M)

S: Johann III Sobieski (polnischer König), Sunzi (chinesischer Philosoph), August Schöltis (Schriftsteller), Lou von Salome (Muse), B. Smetanar, Carlos Santana, Sappho (Dichterin), Schopenhauer, Helmut Schäfer (Staatsminister im Auswärtigen Amt) Sokrates, Egon Schiele, Madame de Stael, August Strindberg, Richard Strauss, Philipp Jacob Siebenpfeiffer (Vormärz), Helmut Schmidt, Subway to Sally (Band), Karl Ludwig Sand (Vormärz)    

T: B. Traven (Schriftsteller), A. P. Tschechov, Ivan Turgenjev, Ludwig Tieck (Romantiker), HL. Judas Thaddäus, Hermes Trismegistos (Philosoph), P.I. Tschaikowski, William Turner, Lars von Trier (Regisseur)  

U: Peter Ustinov, Ludwig Uhland, Siegfried Unseld (Verleger),

V: Luchino Visconti, Leonardo da Vinci, Velvet Underground, Vitruv, Vercingetorix, Francois Villon (Dichter), Walter von der Vogelweide, Robert Vogelmann (Menschenrechtsaktivist)    

W: Wim Wenders, Richard Wagner, Otto Wagner (Jugendstilbaumeister) Wagakki-Band, Sara Wagenknecht, Ludwig Wittgenstein (Philosoph), Georg August Wirth (Vormärz),

X: Xhol (Band)    

Y: Neil Young, Yvonne (Aktivistin der Gegenöffentlichkeit)

Z: Heinrich Zille, Carl Zuckmayer, Frank Zappa,  

[ouyangzizhensdad]

Can you recommend us some books?

My tastes in books terms of fiction have been pretty basic these past few years, since it was mostly the self-indulgent things I would read in-between academic stuff and non-fiction. It’s pretty much almost only older British novels in the public domain (which means you can find the ebooks for free online and on Amazon, don’t get caught paying for them) and historical novels but Make It Gay. 

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (and everything else she has written, I assume the fact that I am a Austen head). Also if you are into self-published P&P fanfics, do give Sophie Turner’s A Constant Love a try.

The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters (or in fact pretty much anything by Sarah Waters. I have a soft spot for Fingersmith, as one does)

The World Unseen by Shamin Sharif

Maurice by E.M. Forster

The Only Gold by Tamara Allen

Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell 

She sings of unhappy far-off things by Carea J. Werlinger

The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith

With regards to non-fiction, I’ll try to keep it short and include some variety of topics and styles:

The Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet:  Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene, editors: Anna Tsing, Elain Gan, Nils Bubandt and Heather Anne Swanson.

The presentation of self in everyday life by Erving Goffman (I particularly recommend this book for writers because it can help you think about characterisation differently) 

The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays by Mikhail Bakhtin

The Already Dead: The New Time of Politics, Culture, and Illness by Eric  Cazdyn 

Hunger by Roxanne Gay (warning though this book talks about very upsetting stuff that happened to the writer)

The Railway Journey: The Industrialization and Perception of Time and Space by Wolfgang Schivelbusch

Vicarious Language: Gender and Linguistic Modernity in Japan by Miyako Inoue

Land and Society in Britain, 1700-1914: Essays in Honour of F.M.L. Thompson, editors Negley Harte and Roland Quinault and  English Landed Society in the nineteenth century By F.M.L. Thompson (but since it was published in 1963 it might be difficult to find a copy)

Cosmologies of Credit: Transnational mobility and the politics of destination in China by Julie Y. Chu

We, the people of Europe?: Reflections of transnational citizenship, editor Étienne Balibar

Becoming Modern Women: Love & Female Identity in Prewar Japanese Literature & Culture by Suzuki Michiko

Fat Shame: Stigma and the Fat Body in America by Amy Erdman Farrell