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listen to many female electracoustic artists that were excluded from his-tory

https://arteacta.cz/regardless/index.html

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How close can you get to a major third in an equal-tempered scale with N notes? Here I mean a so-called 'just' major third: a frequency ratio of 5/4.

If you graph how close you can get, you see three 'strands' of dots.

Can you figure out why?

(I haven't drawn the results for low because for some the errors are huge. But N = 24 does no better and no worse than N = 12, or for that matter N = 3.)

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Errors in Best Approximation to 5/4 in N-tone Equal Temperament

For each N from 24 to 200, the integer m making 2^{m/N} closest to 5/4 is found, and the absolute error |2^{m/N} - 5/4| is plotted.  The resulting dots fall into three 'strands', depending on N mod 3.
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Open Culture (Official)openculture@toot.community
2026-02-19

Herbie Hancock Explains the Big Lesson He Learned From Miles Davis: Every Mistake in Music, as in Life, Is an Opportunity

openculture.com/2026/02/herbie

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European minimalism with a touch of Bill Evans, a masterpiece of a sadly often overlooked composer.

youtube.com/watch?v=Zjy5TjR3D1c

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earthlingappassionato
2026-02-19

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A regional train passes a railroad crossing between flooded fields in Nidderau-Eichen, near Frankfurt

Photograph: Michael Probst/AP





A regional train passes a railroad crossing between flooded road & fields.
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2026-02-19

Now Jazz Now Book Reviewed

Source: Burning Ambulance. Now, Coley and Moore (via the latter’s Ecstatic Peace publishing imprint), with help from Swedish saxophonist and fellow record collector — he calls himself a “diskaholic” — Mats Gustafsson, have put together the book Now Jazz Now: 100 Essential Free Jazz & Improvisation Recordings 1960-1980. Neneh Cherry (stepdaughter of trumpeter Don Cherry) and saxophonist Joe McPhee also contribute.

avantmusicnews.com/2026/02/19/

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Happy birthday, Nicolaus Copernicus! Today, we celebrate the scientist who reshaped our view of the universe, and whose name stands for Europe’s commitment to understanding our planet through open, trusted data provided by the Copernicus services, including #CopernicusAtmosphere & #CopernicusClimate.

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György Kurtág cumple hoy 100 años

youtu.be/WiqCwQ8nJhY

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European minimalism with a touch of Bill Evans, a masterpiece of a sadly often overlooked composer.

youtube.com/watch?v=Zjy5TjR3D1c

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The Public Domain Reviewpublicdomainrev
2026-02-18

This unique self-portrait, also known as “view from the left eye”, is the creation of Austrian physicist and philosopher Ernst Mach (famous for his work on supersonic fluid mechanics), who was born in 1838. Read more about the image here: publicdomainreview.org/collect

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@cstross

You've got me on "furby organ".
That's so stupid, it's awesome!😆

Also Sam's funny.👍

youtube.com/watch?v=GYLBjScgb7o

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Dr. Dani Sanchezanalgesicsleep
2026-02-18

And finally, here’s James Brown with “Say it Loud, I’m Black and Proud” live on “Soul Train” in 1973 (youtu.be/dx_FoUA729E?si=kYgkF1). The song would go on to become an unofficial anthem of the Black Power movement

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Sarah Jamie Lewissarahjamielewis
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Programming, writing, math, art are all ways I use to structure my thoughts and to test and cement my understanding.

The idea that these domains are limited by how fast I might type, or sketch are fantastical.

In all cases my ability is fundamentally limited by my understanding of the subject before me.

As soon as I understand something, actually know it, then capturing it's essence in code, in prose, through theorems or in medium cannot be a chore, because it must already be done.

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