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Cultural Comment “Dune” and the Delicate Art of Making Fictional Languages Play/Pause Button Pause Illustration by Vivek Thakker Save this storySave this story Save this storySave this story A trailer for Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune: Part Two” features the boy prophet Paul Atreides, played by Timothée Chalamet, yelling something foreign and uninterpretable to a horde of
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When the Cleveland Plain Dealer ran its story about the Cleveland Institute of Music faculty denouncing the school’s administration — see my last post — they hadn’t gotten CIM’s response. Hadn’t come in time. Now they have it, and it’s pathetic: “We are not going to go into detail about any personnel issues, but as
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As generative AI systems like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini become more advanced, they are increasingly being put to work. Startups and tech companies are building AI agents and ecosystems on top of the systems that can complete boring chores for you: think automatically making calendar bookings and potentially buying products. But as the tools
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Highlights of the video include the Bharatnatyam dance form becoming “the living canvas for seat belt and cabin baggage instructions”, with Kathakali and Mohiniyattam forms “eloquently expressing the prohibition of electronic gadgets and smoking on board” against a backdrop of the backwaters of Kerala. Safety jacket instructions are provided by Bihu dancers from Assam, while
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CHENGDU, China (AP) — For a few days in October 2023, the capital of the science fiction world was Chengdu, China. Fans traveled from around the world as Worldcon, sci-fi ’s biggest annual event, was held in the country for the first time. It was a rare moment when Chinese and international fans could get
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Artificial intelligence is already enabling stations to replicate the voices of on-air talent. Now a new Benztown product uses AI to craft “listener” audio for on-air use. The audio imaging company says its AI Listener Voice Generator is designed to aid with the challenges stations may have in collecting actual listener audio. While it raises
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View image in fullscreen Black artistry is woven into the fabric of country music. It belongs to everyone Rhiannon Giddens With Beyoncé becoming the first Black woman to top the US country charts, musician Rhiannon Giddens, who plays banjo and viola on Texas Hold ’Em, explains how capitalism and racism warped the genre What is
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View image in fullscreen ‘Russia’s Cartier-Bresson’: how Dmitry Markov captured beauty amidst the brutality of Putin’s regime The photographer, who has died aged 41, took the nation’s most vulnerable people as his subject, and his soulful images, shared on Instagram, earned him comparisons with the greats Waiting in a Russian police station after being arrested
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In August 2023, Manchester United had to make a decision. Should their talented winger, Mason Greenwood, play for the club again? More importantly for our purposes, fans faced a choice, too: would they accept him back? He had been out of the team since his arrest in January 2022, on suspicion of rape, assault and
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Thirty-one years after its founding, Other Minds, the brainchild of Charles Amirkhanian and Jim Newman, is still going strong as a presenter of experimental contemporary music with an emphasis on “the most original, eccentric, and underrepresented creative voices.” Here’s a presentation of Linda Bouchard and the Ensemble TriOcular+ performing three of her “Live Structures” pieces. 
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Benito Mussolini (left) and Gabriele D’Annunzio in 1924. Photo by Hulton-Deutsch Collection / CORBIS / Corbis via Getty Images Writers under despots,” says Simon Ings, “may have to take instruction, but they’re rarely out of a job.” Every regime requires a story to validate it, and a regime lacking the authority of tradition needs one
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Michael Volpe OBE Monday, February 12, 2024 As theatrical capabilities allow live performance to reflect extreme violence ever more effectively, Opera Holland Park founder Michael Volpe argues that it’s time for opera to follow the world of cinema and warn audiences about what they’re about to witness © Adobe Stock Don’t miss out on our
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The expanded museum in Old Towne Orange features California scene paintings and nine new exhibitions on view starting Friday. Arts patron and museum founder Mark Hilbert stands in front of the newly expanded Hillbert Museum of California Art in Orange featuring the restored “Pleasures Along the Beach” mosaic by Millard Sheets on the museum’s west-facing
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