Come on With the Rain, I've a Smile on My Face

A direct recording of Alexander Graham Bell’s voice

He sounds so amiable and kind-hearted.  One thing I find fascinating about this is that you can clearly hear Bell’s deliberate over-enunciation of several words, likely a practice taken up due to the fact that his wife was deaf and relied on lip-reading.

I wonder if Bell ever thought that anyone would be listening to his voice over a hundred years later.  He probably would have been astounded at the speed and ease with which we are able to circulate his recorded words.

Youth Lagoon - Raspberry Cane

If you haven’t listened to Youth Lagoon yet, press play NOW.  And if you have, you probably pressed play without me even having to tell you to do so.  Trevor Powers is the man behind the music, and behind every single one of these rich layers.  His ability to create a complex tapestry of sound while still getting a melody stuck in your head is uncanny.  This guy’s going places. 

Btw, the trippy visuals from 2001: A Space Odyssey fit the song perfectly.

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Alexander Chen spent an afternoon improvising melodies on viola, and recording them through Google Glass. This resulting song is composed completely from 8-second video loops, stitched together into a film. Chen says, “You can see  all the layers of the song, like a first-person orchestra.”

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Iron and Wine - Joy

This song is off of Iron and Wine’s new album, Ghost on Ghost, out next week.  I really love the new musical direction Sam Beam has taken with this album, and think he’s pulled off something truly great.  The video for this song is fantastic as well.  But when is stop-motion not fantastic? 

Listen to the whole album at: http://www.npr.org/2013/04/07/176046723/first-listen-iron-and-wine-ghost-on-ghost

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Stirring TED talk by Leslie Morgan Steiner, author of Crazy Love, on why domestic violence victims don’t leave and the psychological trap disguised as love that keeps the vicious cycle going.

This woman nailed every single phase of domestic violence.  I’d never heard it laid out step by step before, but found myself recognizing every one from my own past experience.  Like her, I was able to get out.  And like her, I am so grateful that I too will never again experience physical, emotional, or verbal abuse from a man who says he loves me.  Because this time I am actually loved.  This time, I got it right.

I only hope that my own experience with domestic violence will allow me to help women going through the same thing that I did.  I can’t believe that this happened to me for no reason.  There must be someone in my future who will need my help.  When the time comes, I hope I am able to help her break free.  Because NO ONE deserves to be abused in any way.  NO ONE.

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