The Irish rock band U2, known for the oftentimes sociopolitical and spiritual basis of their songs, released their seventh album, Achtung Baby in 1991. After being stung by criticism of their previous release, Rattle and Hum, which explored American roots music, U2 decided to reinvent themselves by using alternative and electronic sounds while incorporating darker, more introspective messages. The album begins with the highly dissonant and industrial, yet ground-setting “Zoo Station”, a song that
InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG), one of the world’s leading hotel companies, announces the opening of the new-build, 271-room Holiday Inn® New York City-Times Square hotel. Situated near Times Square and only a short distance from Madison Square Garden, New York Penn Station, Port Authority Bus Terminal, Jacob K. Javits Convention Center and Broadway theaters, this hotel is expected to become a top choice for business and leisure travelers visiting midtown Manhattan. Eric Lent, Vice President
The Countless Sounds Heard in a Day As a musician, I always related to sounds in terms of musical application. The only sounds I paid attention to were those involved in creating and performing music. Musical sounds were the most important to me. Well . . . actually, as a traveling musician, any troubling sounds my car made were almost as important. The only other sound I appreciated was silence - something I valued after six nights of rhythmic and melodic saturation and the babble of three
Intro: In Steven Connor’s ‘Ears Have Walls: On Hearing Art’ (2005) Connor presents us with the idea that sound art has either gone outside or has the capacity to bring the outside inside. Sound work makes us aware of the continuing emphasis upon division and partition that continues to exist even in the most radically revisable or polymorphous gallery space, because sound spreads and leaks, like odour. Unlike music, Sound Art usually does not require silence for its proper presentation. Containers
Introduction At the beginning of the industrial revolution in England during the mid-nineteenth century, the railroad was the most innovative mode of transportation known. The British Rail system was a forerunner in railroad technology, uses, and underground engineering. Though the rail system was extremely slow at first and prohibitively expensive to build and run, the British were not to be dissuaded in their pursuit of non-animal driven transportation. The most advanced mode of transportation
The Tsar Bomba By Rhys Younger It happened in the dark. It was the twenty-second of June 1941 and I was only six years of age however, I remember every single detail. My father had just tucked me into bed after a long day at the market, trying to sell some of our livestock. He whispered in my ear; “Sladkiye sny,Vlad.” ‘sweet dreams, Vlad’, then walked out of my small room, his boots knocking at the timber floor, making my bed vibrate. Soon after, when I was on the verge of falling asleep, a bright
MTV's Portrayal of Women I see the rattle and the hum of music television. Flash upon flash of sensory information lights the screen with sound bites, flashbulbs, sex and rock and roll. I am watching MTV in the semi-darkness of a friend's living room and it is easy for me to understand the attraction of this style of television. MTV is pure energy. It has vitality, powerful images, larger-than-life heroes, and the edginess that the best pop music always has. I find MTV strangely hypnotic
But Forster should not be lumped in with representative Edwardian literature or with cinematic bliss. In order to analyze the worth of Forster's literary contribution, our impressions of the films must be put aside so that the text's echo can rattle in our ears. And once the mediums are pried apart and banished to separate corners, a novel like A Passage to India stands alone and can be admired for its complex study of people who interact in an unfamiliar landscape, a landscape that